LEADER 04404nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910457712403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-7974-6 010 $a0-8014-6284-3 010 $a0-8014-6283-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801462832 035 $a(CKB)2550000000063171 035 $a(OCoLC)760279913 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10508785 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000564923 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11378583 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000564923 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10516560 035 $a(PQKB)11559058 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001495602 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138259 035 $a(OCoLC)966264874 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse51838 035 $a(DE-B1597)478624 035 $a(OCoLC)979954122 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801462832 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138259 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10508785 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL752083 035 $a(OCoLC)922998282 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000063171 100 $a20110425d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCultivating the masses$b[electronic resource] $emodern state practices and Soviet socialism, 1914-1939 /$fDavid L. Hoffmann 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-336-20797-3 311 $a0-8014-4629-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tList of Illustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Social Welfare -- $t2. Public Health -- $t3. Reproductive Policies -- $t4. Surveillance and Propaganda -- $t5. State Violence -- $tConclusion -- $tArchives Consulted -- $tIndex 330 $aUnder Stalin's leadership, the Soviet government carried out a massive number of deportations, incarcerations, and executions. Paradoxically, at the very moment that Soviet authorities were killing thousands of individuals, they were also engaged in an enormous pronatalist campaign to boost the population. Even as the number of repressions grew exponentially, Communist Party leaders enacted sweeping social welfare and public health measures to safeguard people's well-being. Extensive state surveillance of the population went hand in hand with literacy campaigns, political education, and efforts to instill in people an appreciation of high culture.In Cultivating the Masses, David L. Hoffmann examines the Party leadership's pursuit of these seemingly contradictory policies in order to grasp fully the character of the Stalinist regime, a regime intent on transforming the socioeconomic order and the very nature of its citizens. To analyze Soviet social policies, Hoffmann places them in an international comparative context. He explains Soviet technologies of social intervention as one particular constellation of modern state practices. These practices developed in conjunction with the ambitions of nineteenth-century European reformers to refashion society, and they subsequently prompted welfare programs, public health initiatives, and reproductive regulations in countries around the world.The mobilizational demands of World War I impelled political leaders to expand even further their efforts at population management, via economic controls, surveillance, propaganda, and state violence. Born at this moment of total war, the Soviet system institutionalized these wartime methods as permanent features of governance. Party leaders, whose dictatorship included no checks on state power, in turn attached interventionist practices to their ideological goal of building socialism. 606 $aPublic welfare$zSoviet Union 606 $aWelfare state$zSoviet Union 606 $aSocialism$zSoviet Union 607 $aSoviet Union$xSocial policy 607 $aSoviet Union$xSocial conditions$y1917-1945 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPublic welfare 615 0$aWelfare state 615 0$aSocialism 676 $a361.94709/041 700 $aHoffmann$b David L$g(David Lloyd),$f1961-$0516717 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910457712403321 996 $aCultivating the masses$9845468 997 $aUNINA