The Soviet Passport: The History, Nature and Uses of the Internal Passport in the USSR

ISBN-13: 9781509543182 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 455 str.

Albert Baiburin; Stephen Dalziel

Recenzje

"The Soviet passport's antiphonal role, as both technique of oppressive state control and as a positive sign of equal rights and status for citizens, gave it extraordinary importance in everyday life and made it a quasi-sacred object. Thoroughly researched, vividly written and moving, this book is essential reading for an understanding of changing citizenship regimes in Russia."Caroline Humphrey, University of Cambridge"In this meticulously researched and powerfully argued book, Albert Baiburin mines the history of the Soviet passport as both an instrument of social engineering and control and a totem of individual experience and cultural creativity. The result is an innovative and fascinating account of the Soviet experiment."Daniel Beer, Royal Holloway, University of London"For Soviet citizens, the passport was a crucial possession that both enabled and restricted them. Albert Baiburin's exhaustive and lively account, fluently translated by Stephen Dalziel, shows why passports were so central to the maintenance of the party dictatorship."Robert Service, University of Oxford"significantly advances our understanding of a crucial institution of Soviet governance"H-Soz-Kult"scintillating, panoramic history-cum-ethnography of the Soviet passport. Filled with surprising insights and details, it now appears in Stephen Dalziel's superb and lavishly illustrated translation."Times Literary Supplement"thoughtful, deeply researched and fluently translated"History Today

Spis treści

List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Foreword by Catriona Kelly Preface Introduction PART I: THE HISTORY OF THE SOVIET PASSPORT SYSTEM Chapter 1: The Formation of 'the Passport Portrait' in Russia Chapter 2: Fifteen Passport-less Years Chapter 3: The Introduction of the Passport System in the USSR (1932-1936) General Situation The Official Version of the Introduction of Passports Organizational Work Issuing Passports 'Legal Excesses' The Second Phase of the Introduction of Passports The Consequences of the Introduction of Passports Chapter 4: Passport Regimes and Passport Reforms Passport Regimes The Hundred-and-First Kilometre The Propiska Registering Natural Population Changes Maintaining the Passport Regime Statutes on Passports and Instructions for Passport Work in 1940 and 1953 Reform Projects of the 1960s The 1974 Statute From the Soviet to the Russian Passport System Part II: THE PASSPORT AS A BUREAUCRATIC DEVICE Chapter 1: The Passport Template and the Individual's Basic Information The Passport Template 'Surname, Name, Patronymic' 'Place and Date of Birth' 'Ethnic Origin' 'The Personal Signature' 'Social Status' 'Liability for Military Service' Chapter 2: The Notes and Properties of the Passport 'Who Issued the Passport' 'On the Basis of Which Documents is the Passport Issued' 'People listed in the holder's passport' The Photograph Special Observations Observations about the Propiska Part III: WHAT THE PASSPORT WAS IN PRACTICE: THE EVIDENCE IN DOCUMENTS AND MEMOIRS Chapter 1: Receiving a Passport The Right to a Passport Defining Ethnicity Taking the Passport Photograph How do I sign? The Passport Desk and the Pasportistka Receiving the Passport Chapter 2: Life With - and Without - the Passport Look After It; Should You Carry It With You? The Document Check Changing One's Name A 'Clean' Passport Marriages of Convenience Lost! What it Meant to be Without Your Passport Refusing to Have a Passport 'The Most Important Document' and Why it was Needed Conclusion Appendix: Interview Details Glossary Bibliography Notes Index

O autorze

Albert Baiburin is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the European University at St Petersburg