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Book SynopsisHow Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.
Trade ReviewOct 2008
* Slavonic & East European Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction Christina Kiaer and Eric Naiman
1. The Two Faces of Anastasia: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Identity in Stalinist Everyday Life Sheila Fitzpatrick
2. Visual Pleasure in Stalinist Cinema: Ivan Pyr'ev's The Party Card Lilya Kaganovsky
3. Terror of Intimacy: Family Politics in the 1930s Soviet Union Cynthia Hooper
4. Fear on Stage: Afinogenov, Stanislavsky, and the Making of Stalinist Theater Boris Wolfson
5. "NEP Without Nepmen!" Soviet Advertising and the Transition to Socialism Randi Cox
6. Panic, Potency, and the Crisis of Nervousness in the 1920s Frances L. Bernstein
7. Delivered from Capitalism: Nostalgia, Alienation, and the Future of Reproduction in Tret'iakov's I Want a Child! Christina Kiaer
8. "The Withering of Private Life": Walter Benjamin in Moscow Evgenii Bershtein
9. When Private Home Meets Public Workplace: Service, Space, and the Urban Domestic in 1920s Russia Rebecca Spagnolo
10. Shaping the "Future Race": Regulating the Daily Life of Children in Early Soviet Russia Catriona Kelly
11. The Diary as Initiation and Rebirth: Reading Everyday Documents of the Early Soviet Era Natalia Kozlova
Contributors
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