Introduction; Part I. The Politics Of Soviet History: 1. Gorbachev and
history Pierre Broue; Part II. Social Change And Cultural Policy: 2.
Revolutionary lives: public identities in Pravda during the 1920s Jeffrey
Brooks; 3. Entertainment or enlightenment?: popular cinema in Soviet
society, 1921-1931 Denise Youngblood; 4. The centre and the periphery:
cultural and social geography in the mass culture of the 1930s James van
Gelderen; Part III. Politics, Industry and Shopfloor Relations: 5. The
crisis of productivity in the New Economic Policy: rationalization drives
and shop floor responses in Soviet cotton mills, 1924-1929 Chris Ward; 6.
The politics of industrial efficiency during NEP: the 1926 rezhim ekonomiki
campaign in Moscow John Hatch; 7. The Moscow party and the socialist
offensive: activists and workers, 1928-1931 Catherine Merridale; 8. The
demise of the shock brigades, 1931-1936 John Russell; 9. Reassessing the
history of Soviet workers: opportunities to criticise and participate in
decision-making, 1935-1941 Robert W. Thurston; Part IV. The Political
Elite: From the 1930s to the 1990s: 10. Portrait of a changing elite: CPSU
Central Committee members, 1939-1990 Evan Mawdsley; Index.
