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David L. Hoffmann - Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941 - 9780801440892 - V9780801440892
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Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941

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Description for Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941 Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 3JJG; HBJD; JHMC; JPFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 480.

Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky—and many later commentators—this apparent embrace of bourgeois values marked a betrayal of the October Revolution and a retreat from socialism. In the first book to address these developments fully, David L. Hoffmann argues that, far from reversing direction, the Stalinist leadership remained committed to remaking both individuals and society—and used selected elements of traditional culture to bolster the socialist order. Melding original archival research with new scholarship in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801440892
SKU
V9780801440892
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About David L. Hoffmann
David L. Hoffmann is Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929–1941, coeditor of Russian Modernity: Politics, Knowledge, Practices, and editor of Stalinism: The Essential Readings.

Reviews for Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941
Hoffmann... argues that campaigns for literacy, sobriety, personal hygiene and 'cultured speech' helped promote an aspect of social transformation that coexisted with the forced labor camps and mayhem. Drawing on original archival research, he documents a less well-known movement that involved reproduction incentives in the face of plummeting birth rates during the 1930s, which ironically coincided with earlier efforts for ... Read more

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