LEADER 03741nam 2200613 450 001 996248039703316 005 20230617042153.0 010 $a0-674-27330-3 024 7 $a10.4159/9780674273306 035 $a(CKB)1000000000548101 035 $a(dli)HEB05247 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000084932 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11112727 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084932 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10004104 035 $a(PQKB)11584477 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6796254 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6796254 035 $a(OCoLC)1154821150 035 $a(DE-B1597)613934 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674273306 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000548101 100 $a20220720d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTerror in my soul $eCommunist autobiographies on trial /$fIgal Halfin 210 1$aCambridge, Massachusetts :$cHarvard University Press,$d[2003] 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 344 p. )$cill. ; 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [285]-339) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER 1 Good and Evil in Communism --$tCHAPTER 2 A Voyage toward the Light --$tCHAPTER 3 The Bolshevik Discourse on the Psyche --$tCHAPTER 4 From a Weak Body to an Omnipotent Mind --$tCHAPTER 5 Looking into the Oppositionist Soul --$tEpilogue: Communism and Death --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the Bolsheviks enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers, and Party prophets to establish criteria for judging people. Self-inspection became a central Bolshevik practice. Communists were expected to write autobiographies in which they reconfigured their life experience in line with the demands of the Party. Halfin traces the intellectual contortions of this project. Initially, the Party denounced deviant Communists, especially the Trotskyists, as degenerate, but innocuous, souls; but in a chilling turn in the mid-1930s, the Party came to demonize the unreformed as virulent, malicious counterrevolutionaries. The insistence that the good society could not triumph unless every wicked individual was destroyed led to the increasing condemnation of Party members as helplessly flawed. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin gives us powerful new insight into the preconditions of the bloodbath that was the Great Purge. 410 0$aACLS Humanities E-Book (Series). 517 3 $aCommunist autobiographies on trial 606 $aPolitical purges$zSoviet Union 606 $aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1917-1936 607 $aSoviet Union$xPolitics and government$y1936-1953 615 0$aPolitical purges 615 0$aLanguage and languages$xPolitical aspects. 676 $a335.4301 700 $aHalfin$b Igal$0897463 712 02$aAmerican Council of Learned Societies. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996248039703316 996 $aTerror in my soul$92835264 997 $aUNISA