Writing the Stalin Era Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography
by Alexopoulos, Golfo; Hessler, Julie; Tomoff, KirilFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-12-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
This volume highlights the work and legacy of the famed Soviet historian Sheila Fitzpatrick by bringing together outstanding historical work on the Stalin era. Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, it offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.
Author Biography
Golfo Alexopoulos is an Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida, and the author of Stalin’s Outcasts: Aliens, Citizens, and the Soviet State, 1927-1936.
Julie Hessler is an Associate Professor of History at University of Oregon. Her publications include A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953 and Robert O. Paxton and Julie Hessler, Europe in the Twentieth Century (fifth edition).
Kiril Tomoff is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, and author of several articles on Soviet cultural life in the Stalin era and of Creative Union: The Professional Organization of Soviet Composers, 1939-1953.
Table of Contents
PART I: SHEILA FITZPATRICK AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY * Writing Russia: The Work of Sheila Fitzpatrick-- Ronald Suny * Sheila Fitzpatrick: An Interpretive Essay-- Julie Hessler * The Two Faces of Tatiana Matveevna-- Yuri Slezkine * PART II: EXAMINING THE SOVIET PAST: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND THE STATE * Military Occupation and Social Unrest: Daily Life in Russian Poland at the Start of the WWI-- Joshua A. Sanborn * Seeing Like a Soviet State: Settlement of Nomadic Kazakhs, 1928-34-- Matthew Payne * Counter-Narratives of Soviet Life: Kulak Special Settlers in the First Person—Lynne Viola * Gender, Marriage, and Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union--Mie Nakachi * Collective Action in Soviet Society: The Case of War Veterans--Mark Edele * Shostakovich et al. and The Iron Curtain: Intellectual Property and the Development of a Soviet Strategy of Cultural Confrontation, 1948-1949-- Kiril Tomoff * A Torture Memo: Reading Violence in the Gulag--Golfo Alexopoulos * Stalin, Khrushchev, and the Spaceman-- Jim Andrews * PART III: REMINISCENCES * Peter Nicholls * David Fitzpatrick * Barbara Gillam * Efim Pivovar * Jerry Hough * Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozlov * Leora Auslander *Alison Edwards * Katerina Clark * Kiril Tomoff
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