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

Author: Fitzpatrick, Sheila
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2005]
Copyright Date: ©2005
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 332 pages)

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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 & 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.

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9781400843732
1400843731
069111353X (alk. paper)
9780691113531 (alk. paper)
0691122458 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780691122458 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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