Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union

✍ Scribed by Kees Boterbloem (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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:
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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Illustrations
Contributors
Introduction
1 The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin
2 Food Consumption, Diet, and Famines
3 The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life
4 On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s
5 The Gulag under Stalin
6 Private Ivan’s Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin’s Red Army during the “Great Patriotic War”
7 The History of Disability during Stalinism
8 Gender and Sexuality
9 The Educational Experience in Stalin’s Russia, 1931–45
10 A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student
11 Soviet People’s Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State
12 The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers
Further Reading
Index