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Tear off the masks! : identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia / by Sheila Fitzpatrick.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [(c)2005.]Description: 1 online resource (xii, 332 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400843732
  • 1400843731
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HN523
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Contents:
Becoming Soviet -- The Bolshevik invention of class -- Class identities in NEP society -- Class and Soslovie -- Lives under fire -- The two faces of Anastasia -- Story of a peasant striver -- Women's lives -- Supplicants and citizens -- Patrons and clients -- Signals from below -- Wives' tales -- The world of Ostap Bender -- The con man as Jew -- Becoming post-Soviet.
Summary: Russia in the 20th century experienced two massive socio-political upheavals, in 1917 and again in 1991. This book examines the ways in which Russians created, discarded and disguised identities that would either advance their interests or place them at risk in the wake of these revolutions.
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Online Book G. Allen Fleece Library Online Non-fiction HN523 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available ocn558444086

Russia in the 20th century experienced two massive socio-political upheavals, in 1917 and again in 1991. This book examines the ways in which Russians created, discarded and disguised identities that would either advance their interests or place them at risk in the wake of these revolutions.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Becoming Soviet -- The Bolshevik invention of class -- Class identities in NEP society -- Class and Soslovie -- Lives under fire -- The two faces of Anastasia -- Story of a peasant striver -- Women's lives -- Supplicants and citizens -- Patrons and clients -- Signals from below -- Wives' tales -- The world of Ostap Bender -- The con man as Jew -- Becoming post-Soviet.

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