Building Socialism: The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921-1941

ISBN-13: 9781009218863 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Germany) Kokosalakis Yiannis (Universitat Bielefeld

Opis

Provides the first detailed examination of rank-and-file communist party activism as an element of governance in the Soviet system.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations and Russian terms; Introduction: the Communist Party in Leninist theory, Soviet practice and historical scholarship; 1. Building a workers' party; 2. Which way to socialism? NEP and the struggle for power; 3. Laying the foundations: the rank-and-file and rapid industrialisation; 4. Marxism and clean canteens: cultural activism between ideology and practice; 5. Democratisation and repression; 6. Party activism on the road to war; 7. Conclusion: the vanguard concept as a promising category for historical research; Bibliography.