ISBN:
9781501709388
,
1501709380
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 254 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Bernstein, Seth Raised under Stalin
DDC:
305.2350947084
Keywords:
Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi History
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Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi
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1925-1953
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Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi History
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Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi History
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Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi
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Socialism and youth History
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Soviet Union
;
Youth History
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Soviet Union
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Youth History
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Socialism and youth History
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Socialism and youth History
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Youth History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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HISTORY ; Europe ; Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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Socialism and youth
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Youth
;
History
;
Soviet Union History
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1925-1953
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Soviet Union
;
Soviet Union History 1925-1953
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Soviet Union History 1925-1953
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Soviet Union
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Electronic books History
Abstract:
In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin's regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war. Informed by declassified materials from post-Soviet archives, as well as films, memoirs, and diaries by and about youth, Raised under Stalin explains the divided status of youth for the Bolsheviks: they were the "new people" who would someday build communism, the potential soldiers who would defend the USSR, and the hooligans who might undermine it from within. Bernstein explains how, although Soviet revolutionary youth culture began as the preserve of proletarian activists, the Komsomol transformed under Stalin to become a mass organization of moral education; youth became the targets of state repression even as Stalin's regime offered them the opportunity to participate in political culture. Raised under Stalin follows Stalinist youth into their ultimate test, World War II. Even as the war against Germany decimated the ranks of Young Communists, Bernstein finds evidence that it cemented Stalinist youth culture as a core part of socialism
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 05, 2018)
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501709388
URL:
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