Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin - Wendy Z. Goldman
The Social Dynamics of Repression
KORTE INHOUD
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 an...
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2007Uitgever: Cambridge University Press288 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0521685095ISBN-13: 9780521685092Koop dit boek tweedehands
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2007, paperback, fair copy with pencilmarkings [Auteur: Goldman, Wendy Z. (Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania)] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Cambridge University Press] [Jaar: 2007] [Titel: Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin / The Social Dynamics of Repression]
