Inventing the Enemy
Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. By 1937, every workplace was convulsed by hyper-vigilance, intense suspicion and the hunt for hidden enemies. Communist Party leaders strongly encou… Celý popis ↓
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Inventing the Enemy
Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. By 1937, every workplace was convulsed by hyper-vigilance, intense suspicion and the hunt for hidden enemies. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret police and local authorities with accusations.
People confronted hideous dilemmas. Spouses, co-workers, friends and relatives disavowed and denounced each other. Forced to lie to protect loved ones, they struggled to reconcile political imperatives and personal loyalties.
Workplaces were turned into snake pits. The strategies that people used to protect themselves - naming names, pre-emptive denunciations, and shifting blame - all helped to spread the terror. Inventing the Enemy, a history of the terror in five Moscow factories, explores personal relationships and individual behaviour within a pervasive political culture of 'enemy hunting'.
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- Výrobca
- Cambridge University Press
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