Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades Celebrations in the Time of Stalin Karen Petrone
A lively investigation of the official and unofficial meanings of Stalinist celebrations.
"An impressive and highly readable book that... casts a clear and disturbing light on the relationship of Stalinist mythology, state power, popular participation, and the unending complexities of social and cultural survival mechanisms and daily life." --Richard Stites
In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, public celebrations flourished while Stalinist repression intensified. What explains this...
Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades Celebrations in the Time of Stalin Karen Petrone
A lively investigation of the official and unoff...
Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilization of men and women in twentieth century European and Asian mass dictatorships and colonial empires, examining both mobilization 'from above' and self-empowerment 'from below'.
Unique in comparative scope, this volume brings together global scholarship on gender. Thirteen international experts explore the gendered mobilizatio...
Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was the subject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotism during the interwar period. Using memoirs, literature, films, military histories, and archival materials, Petrone reconstructs Soviet ideas regarding the motivations for fighting, the justification for killing, the nature of the enemy, and the qualities of a hero. She reveals how some of these ideas undermined Soviet notions of military honor and patriotism...
Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War w...
This volume in the Pages from History series explores the history of the Soviet Union from the eve of World War II through its collapse and the years of transition from socialism to capitalism. The Soviet Union and Russia, 1939-2015: A History in Documents not only details the political chronology of changes in Soviet leadership, but also devotes significant attention to the social, economic, and cultural dimensions of everyday Soviet life. It highlights actions and decisions of the Soviet leadership while addressing popular initiatives and responses that shaped the...
This volume in the Pages from History series explores the history of the Soviet Union from the eve of World War II through its collap...
