Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades
Subtitle: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780253337689
Subjects: Marxism & Communism; Political control & influence; Manners And Customs; History; History - General History; History: World; Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe); Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union; Holidays (non religious); Customs & Traditions; Popular Culture - General; Festivals; Holidays; Popular Culture; Soviet Union
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.