Igal Halfin

Red Autobiographies

Initiating the Bolshevik Self

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Produktbeschreibung

In "Red Autobiographies," Igal Halfin reads admission records to Soviet Communist party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a central arena of the Soviet revolution's drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on archival sources -- many of which are no longer as freely accessible as they were during the heydays of the Soviet "archival bonanza" -- in provincial party archives in Leningrad, Smolensk, and Tomsk. But the principle merit of this study is Halfin's masterful handling and interpretation of the sources. As such, the study serves as a popular "short course" on Halfin's seminal contributions to the historiographies of Russia, Communism, and modern subjectivity. Igal Halfin is a professor of modern history in Tel Aviv University.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 331g
• ISBN-13: 9780295991122
• ISBN-10: 0295991127
• Artikelnr.: 32727978

Autorenporträt

Igal Halfin is a professor of modern history in Tel Aviv University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Party Admissions in Paranoid Times
2. Workers Toward the Light
3. Peasant Enrollment
4. The Intelligentsia
Conclusion
Appendix: The Case of Fiodor Fiodorovich Raskol'nikov: Bolshevick
Authobiographies Across the 1917 Divide