Being Soviet
Subtitle: identity, rumour, and everyday life under Stalin 1939-53
By: Timothy Johnston
Series: Oxford historical monographs
Publisher: Oxford Unievrsity Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780199604036
Subjects: Social conditions; Social life and customs; Civilization; Russian National characteristics; Relations
Description: 'Being Soviet' adopts a refreshing and innovative approach to the crucial years between 1939 and 1953 in the USSR. It examines how the language of Soviet identity evolved in this period, and how ordinary citizens responded to that shift.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-236) and index.
Table of contents: title: Being Soviet in the pre-war era. The liberator state? : the crisis of official Soviet identity during the Pact period 1939-1941; title: Being Soviet during the Great Patriotic War. Perfidious allies? : Britain, America, and official Soviet diplomatic identity 1941-1945 ; Patrons or predators? : foreign servicemen, technology, and art within official Soviet cultural identity, 1941-1945; title: Being Soviet in the post-war years. Panics, peace, and pacifism : official Soviet diplomatic identity in the late-Stalin years 1945-1953 ; Subversive styles? : official Soviet cultural identity in the late-Stalin years 1945-1953.