Tear off the masks! : identity and imposture in twentieth-century Russia /
Russia in the 20th century experienced two massive socio-political upheavals, in 1917 & again in 1991. This book examines the ways in which Russians created, discarded & disguised identities that would either advance their interests or place them at risk in the wake of these revolutions.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2005.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.