Anguish, anger, and folkways in Soviet Russia /
"Anguish, Anger, and Folkways in Soviet Russia offers original perspectives on the politics of everyday life in the Soviet Union by closely examining the coping mechanisms individuals and leaders alike developed as they grappled with the political, social, and intellectual challenges the system...
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Pittsburgh, Pa. :
University of Pittsburgh Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Series in Russian and East European studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : a conservative agenda
- Part one. Anguish. The omnipresent conspiracy : imageries of politics and social relations in the 1930s
- Catching spies, trapping the system
- Between the catastrophe and the promised land : public mood, popular hopes, elite fears, and mass terror
- Part two. Anger. From revolution to daily routine : endemic violence, suspicious youth, angry Bolsheviks
- Citizens between indignation and resignation : loyalty and lost hope
- Rebels
- Part three. Folkways. Breaking step, enjoying carnival : unorthodox folklore
- Exploring frontiers : entrepreneurship, continuities, and changes
- Virtuous girls building a sinful world : misadventures of modernity, limits of the thinkable, and the politics of folkways
- Epilogue : dilemmas of history.
