Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades
Subtitle: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr
Published: December 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780253214010
Subjects: Customs & Traditions; Popular Culture - General; Social Science; Festivals; History; Holidays; Popular culture; Soviet Union; Sociology
First sentence: In January 1937, as the Soviet government staged the second Moscow show trial uncovering the supposed treason of "the Anti-Soviet Trotskyite Center," Soviet cadres had just finished celebrating the ratification of the new Stalin Constitution and organizing elki (New Year's trees) for children.