Life in Stalin's Soviet Union (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Boterbloem, Kees

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474285506
• Artikelnr.: 57091825

Autorenporträt

Kees Boterbloem is Professor of History at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author of nine books on Russian, Soviet and World History, including A History of Russia and Its Empire (2nd edition, 2018), The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 (2004) and Life and Death under Stalin (1999). He was, from 2008 to 2018, editor of the journal The Historian.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction
Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida
USA) 1. The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin
Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida
USA) 2. Food Consumption
Diet and Famines
Elena Osokina (University of South Carolina
USA) 3. The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life
Heather Dehaan (Binghamton University
USA) 4. On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s
David Shearer (University of Delaware
USA) 5. The Gulag under Stalin
Golfo Alexopoulos (University of South Florida
USA) 6. Private Ivan's Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin's Red Army during the "Great Patriotic War"
Kenneth Slepyan (Transylvania University
USA) 7. The History of Disability during Stalinism
Frances Bernstein (Drew University
USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality
Amy Randall (Santa Clara University
USA) 9. The Educational Experience in Stalin's Russia
1931-1945
Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama
USA) 10. A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student
Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky
USA) 11. Soviet People's Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State
James Heinzen (Rowan University
USA) 12. The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers
Gregory Freeze (Brandeis University
USA) Index