Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents Siegelbaum Lewis H.
Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents Siegelbaum Lewis H. "Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . that we don't want to be on the kolkhoz…
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Stalinism as a Way of Life: A Narrative in Documents Siegelbaum Lewis H.
"Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . that we don't want to be on the kolkhoz collective farm], we work and work, and there's nothing to eat. Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven't heard this. . .
How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? Really, how can we live?"--a farmer's letter, 1936, from Stalinism as a Way of LifeWhat was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? This unique book provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period.
The book contains 157 documents--mostly letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected