TY  - GEN
T1  - Stalinism as a way of life : a narrative in documents
T2  - Annals of Communism.
A2  - Siegelbaum, Lewis H.
A2  - Sokolov, A. K. (Andreĭ Konstantinovich), 1941-2015
A2  - Kosheleva, L.
A2  - Zhuravlev, S. V. (Sergeĭ Vladimirovich)
A2  - Hoisington, Thomas H.
A2  - Shabad, Steven
LA  - English
LA  - Russian
PP  - New Haven, Conn.
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn347358203
AB  - What was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period. The book contains 157 documents -- mostly letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected from recently opened Soviet archives, these previously unknown documents illuminate in new ways both the complex social roots of Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic decade of Soviet history. Accompanied by introductory and linking commentary the documents are organized around such themes as the impact of terror on the citizenry, the childhood experience, the countryside after collectivization, and the role of cadres that were directed to "decide everything". In their own words, peasants and workers, intellectuals and the uneducated, adults and children, men and women, Russians and people from other national groups tell their stories. Their writings reveal how individual lives influenced -- and were affected by -- the larger events of Soviet history
OP  - 460
CN  - DK267 .S69386 2000eb
SN  - 0300128592
SN  - 9780300128598
SN  - 1281721719
SN  - 9781281721716
SN  - 9786611721718
SN  - 6611721711
SN  - 0300084803
SN  - 9780300084801
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953.
KW  - Stalin, Joseph, : 1878-1953
KW  - Soviet Union : History : 1925-1953 : Sources.
KW  - URSS : Histoire : 1925-1953 : Sources.
KW  - HISTORY.
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Stalinisme.
KW  - Maatschappij.
KW  - Estalinismo.
KW  - História da rússia : Século 20.
KW  - Socialismo.
KW  - Comunismo.
KW  - Ditadores (biografia histórica) : Rússia.
KW  - 1925-1953
KW  - Sources
KW  - History
ER  -