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- English
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Following the Russian Revolution, the cultural and political landscape of Russia was strewn with contradictions. The dictatorship, censorship and repression of the Communist party existed alongside private enterprise, the black market and open debates on Socialism.
In Russian Society and politics 1921-1929 Vladimir Brovkin offers a comprehensive cultural, political, economic and social history of developments in Russia in the 1920's.
By examining the contrast between Bolshevik propaganda claims and social reality, the author explains how Communist representations were variously received and resisted by workers, peasants, students, women, teachers and party officials. He presents a picture of cultural diversity and rejection of Communist constraints through many means including unauthorised protest, religion, jazz music and poetry.
In Russian Society and Politics 1921-1929 Vladimir Brovkin argues that these trends, if left unchecked, endangered the Communist Party's monopoly on political power. The Stalinist revolution can thus be seen as a pre-emptive strike against this independent and vibrant society as well as a product of Stalin's personality and communist ideology.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: REVOLUTIONARY IDENTITY
- CHAPTER 1: EXTRACTING SOCIALLY ALIEN ELEMENTS
- CHAPTER 2: THE CULTURE OF THE NEW ELITE 1921–5: ASCETIC KNIGHTS AND DRINKING PALS
- CHAPTER 3: BOLSHEVIK ACTIONS AND PEASANTS’ REACTIONS, 1921–5: FACE THE VILLAGE, FACE DEFEAT
- CHAPTER 4: PROPAGANDA AND POPULAR BELIEF
- CHAPTER 5: THE KOMSOMOL AND YOUTH: A TRANSMISSION BELT THAT SNAPPED
- CHAPTER 6: WOMEN: FALSE PROMISES, DASHED HOPES, AND THE PRETENSE OF EMANCIPATION
- CHAPTER 7: TOWARDS SHOWDOWN IN THE COUNTRYSIDE, 1926–8
- CHAPTER 8: THE PROLETARIAT AGAINST THE VANGUARD
- CHAPTER 9: THE BOLSHEVIK OLD GUARD AND THE UPSTARTS, 1924–9: DOWN AND OUT AND UP AND COMING
- CHAPTER 10: CONCLUSION
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY