Stalinist society, 1928-1953 [[electronic resource] /] / Mark Edele

• Autore: Edele Mark
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Disciplina: 947.0842
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union Social conditions; Soviet Union History 1925-1953
• Classificazione: 7,41
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; Part I; 1. A Stalinist Life; Part II; 2. Forces of Destruction; 3. Patterns of Chaos; 4. Family Chronicles; 5. Limping Behemoth; 6. Apocalypse, Dialectics, and the Weather; 7. 'Thank you, Comrade Stalin!'; 8. Economy of Scarcity, Economy of Favours; Part III; 9. Politics of History; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Stalinist Society offers a fresh analytical overview of the complex social formation ruled over by Stalin and his henchmen from the late 1920's to the early 1950's. Drawing on declassified archival materials, interviews with former Soviet citizens, old and new memoirs, and personal diaries, as well as the best of sixty years of scholarship, this book offers a non-reductionist account of social upheaval and social cohesion in a society marred by violence. Combining the perspectives from above and from below, the book integrates recent writing on everyday life, culture and entertainment, ideology
• Titolo autorizzato: Stalinist society, 1928-1953
• ISBN: 1-283-22291-4; 9786613222916; 0-19-161593-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910789756503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford histories.