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Everyday Stalinism

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

Everyday Stalinism

By Victor Petrov, Riley Quinn

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About the book

How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the `deserving poor' can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole. By positioning the state both as a provider and as a relief agency, Fitzpatrick establishes it as not so much a prison (the metaphor favoured by many of her predecessors), but more the agency that made ...Show more

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9781912128105

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Macat International Limited

Published year

2017

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1

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Everyday Stalinism

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