Victor Petrov An Analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: An Analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday StalinismCondition: NewSubtitle: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930sEAN: 9781912128105ISBN: 9781912128105Publisher: Macat International LimitedFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/15/2017Description: How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the ‘deserving poor’ can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole. By positioning the state both as a provider and as a relief agency, Fitzpatrick establishes it as not so much a prison (the metaphor favoured by many of her predecessors), but more the agency that made possible a way of life. Fitzpatrick’s real claim to originality, however, is to look at the relationship between the all-powerful totalitarian government and its own people from both sides – and to demonstrate that the Soviet people were not totally devoid of either agency or resources. Rather, they successfully developed practices that helped them to navigate everyday life at a time of considerable danger and multiple shortages. For many, Fitzpatrick shows, becoming an informer and reporting fellow citizens – even family and friends – to the state was a successful survival strategy. Fitzpatrick's work is noted mainly as an example of the critical thinking skill of reasoning; she marshals evidence and arguments to deliver a highly persuasive revisionist description of everyday life in Soviet time. However, her book has been criticized for the way in which it deals with possible counter-arguments, not least the charge that many of the interviewees on whose experiences she bases much of her analysis were not typical products of the Soviet system.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Weight: 114gAuthor: Victor PetrovGenre: HistoryTopic: Philosophy & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Children's Learning & EducationBook Series: Macat LibraryRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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