Description
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned life into a nightmare, and of how ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic at this time, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast society into turmoil.
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/11/2000
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.12w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780195050011
ISBN10: 0195050010
BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia | General
Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 05/11/2000
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.12w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780195050011
ISBN10: 0195050010
BISAC Categories:
- History | Russia | General
About the Author
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches modern Russian history at the University of Chicago. A former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and a co-editor of The Journal of Modern History, she is also the author of The Russian Revolution, Stalin's Peasants, and many other books and articles about Russia. She lives in Chicago.
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