Description: Everyday Stalinism : Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s, Paperback by Petrov, Victor; Quinn, Riley, ISBN 1912128101, ISBN-13 9781912128105, Brand New, Free shipping in the US How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the 'deserving poor’ can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole. By positioning the state both as a provider and as a relief agency, Fitzpatrick establishes it as not so much a prison (the metaphor favoured by many of her predecessors), but more the agency that made possible a way of life. Fitzpatrick’s real claim to originality, however, is to look at the relationship between the all-powerful totalitarian government and its own people from both sides – and to demonstrate that the Soviet people were not totally devoid of either agency or resources. Rather, they successfully developed practices that helped them to navigate everyday life at a time of considerable danger and multiple shortages. For many, Fitzpatrick shows, becoming an informer and reporting fellow citizens – even family and friends – to the state was a successful survival strategy. Fitzpatrick's work is noted mainly as an example of the critical thinking skill of reasoning; she marshals evidence and arguments to deliver a highly persuasive revisionist description of everyday life in Soviet time. However, her book has been criticized for the way in which it deals with possible counter-arguments, not least the charge that many of the interviewees on whose experiences she bases much of her analysis were not typical products of the Soviet system.
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Book Title: Everyday Stalinism : Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet
Number of Pages: 92 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Everyday Stalinism : Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Publisher: Macat International The Limited
Subject: Economic Conditions, General, Customs & Traditions
Item Height: 0.2 in
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 4 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Social Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Length: 7.8 in
Author: Riley Quinn, Victor Petrov
Series: The Macat Library
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
