Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195050011)

Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned life into a nightmare, and of how ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic at this time, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast society into turmoil.

Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick
ISBN-10: 0195050010
ISBN-13: 9780195050011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/11/2000
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.12w x 0.60d