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LIFE HAS BECOME MORE JOYOUS, COMRADES
CELEBRATIONS IN THE TIME OF STALIN |
| By: |
Karen Petrone |
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Book |
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£31.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0253337682 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780253337689 |
| Publisher: |
INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 November, 2000 |
| Series: |
Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Description: |
Offers an investigation of the official and unofficial meanings of Stalinist celebrations. |
| Synopsis: |
Life Has Become More Joyous, ComradesCelebrations in the Time of StalinKaren PetroneA lively investigation of the official and unofficial meanings of Stalinist celebrations.An impressive and highly readable book that... casts a clear and disturbing light on the relationship of Stalinist mythology, state power, popular participation, and the unending complexities of social and cultural survival mechanisms and daily life." -Richard StitesIn the Soviet Union in the 1930s, public celebrations flourished while Stalinist repression intensified. What explains this coincidence of terror and celebration? Using popular media and drawing extensively on documents from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, Karen Petrone demonstrates that to dismiss Soviet celebrations as mere diversion is to lose a valuable opportunity for understanding how the Soviet system operated. As the state attempted to mobilize citizens to participate in the project to create New Soviet men and women, celebration culture became more than a means to distract a population suffering from poverty and deprivation. The planning and execution of celebrations reflected the Soviet intelligentsia's efforts to bring social and cultural enlightenment to the people. Physical culture demonstrations, celebrations of Arctic and aviation exploits, the Pushkin Centennial of 1937 and the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution, and the celebration of New Year's Day were opportunities for the Soviet leadership to fuse traditional prerevolutionary values and practices with socialist ideology in an effort to educate its citizens and build support for the state and its policies. However, official celebrations were often appropriated by citizens for purposes that were unanticipated and unsanctioned by the state. Through celebrations, Soviet citizens created hybrid identities and defined their places in the emerging Stalinist hierarchy, allowing them to uphold the Soviet order while arrests |
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US |
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Indiana University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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