Writing the Stalin Era: Sheila Fitzpatrick and Soviet Historiography

by G. Alexopoulos (Editor), J. Hessler (Editor), K. Tomoff (Editor)

Overview

Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230105492
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	02/10/2011
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	246
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

GOLFO ALEXOPOLOUS Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and a fellow at the Hoover Institute, USA.

KIRIL TOMOFF Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside, USA.

JULIE HESSLER Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon USA.

Table of Contents

PART I: SHEILA FITZPATRICK AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY Writing Russia: The Work of Sheila Fitzpatrick; R.Suny Sheila Fitzpatrick: An Interpretive Essay; J.Hessler The Two Faces of Tatiana Matveevna;  Y.Slezkine PART II: EXAMINING THE SOVIET PAST: CULTURE, IDENTITY, AND THE STATE Military Occupation and Social Unrest: Daily Life in Russian Poland at the Start of the WWI; J.A.Sanborn Seeing Like a Soviet State: Settlement of Nomadic Kazakhs, 1928-34; M.Payne Counter-Narratives of Soviet Life: Kulak Special Settlers in the First Person; L.Viola Gender, Marriage, and Reproduction in the Postwar Soviet Union; M.Nakachi Collective Action in Soviet Society: The Case of War Veterans; M.Edele Shostakovich et al. and The Iron Curtain : Intellectual Property and the Development of a Soviet Strategy of Cultural Confrontation, 1948-1949; K.Tomoff A Torture Memo: Reading Violence in the Gulag; G.Alexopoulos Stalin, Khrushchev, and the Spaceman; J.Andrews PART III: REMINISCENCES Peter Nicholls David Fitzpatrick Barbara Gillam Jerry Hough Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kozlov Leora Auslander Alison Edwards Katerina Clark Kiril Tomoff

Editorial Reviews

"This well-deserved tribute to a great historian is a fascinating read for any specialist of the USSR we have learned so much from her" - Cahiers du Monde Russe

"Sheila Fitzpatrick has indeed helped to shape generations of historians of twentieth century Russia in their understanding of Soviet politics, the evolution of the Russian revolution, the inner workings of Stalinism, and lately the dynamics of everyday forms of resistance under Stalinism. She has taken risks with arguments and types of arguments, but most of her main postulates - about social support for the Stalin regime and its contribution to the longevity and relative stability of the Soviet state; about the factions within the cultural worlds and the politics of Soviet bureaucracy - have held up and entered the mainstream of research and teaching about the Soviet period. I think it is inconceivable today for anyone to seriously prepare graduate students in the field without a thorough exposure to Fitzpatrick's contributions." - Mark Von Hagen, Professor of History and Director, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University

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