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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fitzpatrick, Sheila (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.