| Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression Contributor(s): Goldman, Wendy Z. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521866146 ISBN-13: 9780521866149 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2007 Annotation: Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the ?Great Terror, ? a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. In the unions and the factories, repression was accompanied by a mass campaign for democracy. Party leaders urged workers to criticize and remove corrupt and negligent officials. Workers, shop foremen, local Party members, and union leaders adopted the slogans of repression and used them, often against each other, to redress long-standing grievances. Using new, formerly secret archival sources, Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia shows how ordinary people moved in clear stages toward madness and self-destruction. Wendy Z. Goldman is a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge, 1993), winner of the Berkshire Conference Book Award, as well as Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (Cambridge, 2002). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union - History | Social History - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 947.084 |
| LCCN: 2006037701 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.3" W x 9.19" (0.93 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Russia - Chronological Period - 1950's |
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| Publisher Description: Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia is the first book devoted exclusively to popular participation in the "Great Terror," a period in which millions of people were arrested, interrogated, shot, and sent to labor camps. In the unions and the factories, repression was accompanied by a mass campaign for democracy. Party leaders urged workers to criticize and remove corrupt and negligent officials. Workers, shop foremen, local Party members, and union leaders adopted the slogans of repression and used them, often against each other, to redress long-standing grievances. Using new, formerly secret archival sources, Terror and Democracy in Stalin's Russia shows how ordinary people moved in clear stages toward madness and self-destruction. Wendy Z. Goldman is a professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. She is author of Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 (Cambridge, 1993), winner of the Berkshire Conference Book Award, as well as Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (Cambridge, 2002). |
Contributor Bio(s): Goldman, Wendy Z.: - Wendy Z. Goldman is the author of Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917 1936 (Cambridge, 1993), winner of the Berkshire Conference Book Award, as well as Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (Cambridge, 2002). She has published numerous articles on Soviet social and political life and serves as the director of an exchange between Carnegie Mellon University and Russian State University for the Humanities. She has received grants from the Social Science Research Council, the International Research and Exchanges Board, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Council for East European and Eurasian Research. She has served on the editorial boards of Social Science History, Gender and History, and International Labor and Working Class History. |