Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens. Split into three parts which focus on 'Food, Health and Leisure', the 'Lived Experience' and 'Religion and Ideology', the book is comprised of chapters covering a range of important subjects, including: * Food * Health and Housing * Sex and Gender * Education * Religion (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) * Sport and Leisure * Festivals There is detailed analysis of urban and rural life, as well as explorations of life in the…mehr
Life in Stalin's Soviet Union is a collaborative work in which some of the leading scholars in the field shed light on various aspects of daily life for Soviet citizens. Split into three parts which focus on 'Food, Health and Leisure', the 'Lived Experience' and 'Religion and Ideology', the book is comprised of chapters covering a range of important subjects, including: * Food * Health and Housing * Sex and Gender * Education * Religion (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) * Sport and Leisure * Festivals There is detailed analysis of urban and rural life, as well as explorations of life in the gulag, life as a peasant, life in the military and what it was like to be disabled in Stalin's Russia. The book also engages with the wider Soviet Union wherever possible to ensure the most in-depth discussion of life, in all its minutiae, under Stalin. This is a vitally important book for any student of Stalin's Russia keen to know more about the human history of this complex period of dictatorship.
Kees Boterbloem is Professor of History at the University of South Florida, USA. He is the author of nine books on Russian, Soviet and World History, including A History of Russia and Its Empire (2nd edition, 2018), The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov, 1896-1948 (2004) and Life and Death under Stalin (1999). He was, from 2008 to 2018, editor of the journal The Historian.
Inhaltsangabe
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida USA) 1. The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida USA) 2. Food Consumption Diet and Famines Elena Osokina (University of South Carolina USA) 3. The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life Heather Dehaan (Binghamton University USA) 4. On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s David Shearer (University of Delaware USA) 5. The Gulag under Stalin Golfo Alexopoulos (University of South Florida USA) 6. Private Ivan's Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin's Red Army during the "Great Patriotic War" Kenneth Slepyan (Transylvania University USA) 7. The History of Disability during Stalinism Frances Bernstein (Drew University USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality Amy Randall (Santa Clara University USA) 9. The Educational Experience in Stalin's Russia 1931-1945 Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama USA) 10. A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky USA) 11. Soviet People's Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State James Heinzen (Rowan University USA) 12. The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers Gregory Freeze (Brandeis University USA) Index
List of Illustrations List of Contributors Introduction Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida USA) 1. The End of the Russian Peasants under Stalin Kees Boterbloem (University of South Florida USA) 2. Food Consumption Diet and Famines Elena Osokina (University of South Carolina USA) 3. The Cities: Urbanization and Modern Life Heather Dehaan (Binghamton University USA) 4. On the Margins: Social Dislocation and Criminality in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to the 1950s David Shearer (University of Delaware USA) 5. The Gulag under Stalin Golfo Alexopoulos (University of South Florida USA) 6. Private Ivan's Life and Fate: Daily Life in Stalin's Red Army during the "Great Patriotic War" Kenneth Slepyan (Transylvania University USA) 7. The History of Disability during Stalinism Frances Bernstein (Drew University USA) 8. Gender and Sexuality Amy Randall (Santa Clara University USA) 9. The Educational Experience in Stalin's Russia 1931-1945 Larry E. Holmes (University of South Alabama USA) 10. A Year of Celebrations in the Life of a Soviet Student Karen Petrone (University of Kentucky USA) 11. Soviet People's Informal Interactions with Officials of the Stalin-Era Party-State James Heinzen (Rowan University USA) 12. The Religious Front: Militant Atheists and Militant Believers Gregory Freeze (Brandeis University USA) Index
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