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Performing Justice : Agitation Trials in Early Soviet Russia /

"In reconstructing the history of the so-called agitation trials and placing them in a rich social context, Elizabeth A. Wood makes a major contribution to rethinking the first decade of Soviet history. Her book traces the arc by which a regime's campaign to educate the masses through ente...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wood, Elizabeth A., 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A question of origins
  • Experimental trials in the Red Army, 1919-20
  • The trial of Lenin
  • Teaching politics through trials, 1921-23
  • The culture of everyday life, 1922-24
  • Melodrama in the service of science
  • The trial of the new woman
  • The crisis in the clubs and the erosion of the public sphere
  • Shaming the boys who smoke cigarettes
  • Fiction becomes indistinguishable from reality, 1928-33.