Life in Stalin's Soviet Union /

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Description:	xi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Manners and customs. Religion. Social conditions. Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953. Soviet Union -- Social conditions. Soviet Union -- Social life and customs -- 1917-1970. Soviet Union -- Religion. Soviet Union. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13317408

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Other authors / contributors:	Boterbloem, Kees, 1962- editor.
ISBN:	9781474285520 147428552X 9781474285513 1474285511
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-236) and index.
Summary:	"Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens. Split into three parts which focus on 'Food, Health and Leisure', the 'Lived Experience' and 'Religion and Ideology', the book is comprised of chapters covering a range of important subjects, including: food, health and housing, sex and gender, education, religion (Christianity, Islam and Judaism), sport and leisure, festivals. There is detailed analysis of urban and rural life, as well as explorations of life in the gulag, life as a peasant, life in the military and what it was like to be disabled in Stalin's Russia. The book also engages with the wider Soviet Union wherever possible to ensure the most in-depth discussion of life, in all its minutiae, under Stalin. This is a vitally important book for any student of Stalin's Russia keen to know more about the human history of this complex period of dictatorship."--

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin
2. Food Consumption, Diet, and Famines
3. The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life
4. On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s
5. The Gulag under Stalin
6. Private Ivan's Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin's Red Army during the "Great Patriotic War"
7. The History of Disability during Stalinism
8. Gender and Sexuality
9. The Educational Experience in Stalin's Russia, 1931-45
10. A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student
11. Soviet People's Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State
12. The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers
Further Reading
Index

Similar Items