Red Autobiographies - Initiating the Bolshevik Self

Informationen zum Autor Igal Halfin Klappentext In "Red Autobiographies," Igal Halfin reads admission records to Soviet Communist party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a central arena of the Soviet revolution's drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on archival sources -- many of which are no longer as freely accessible as they were during the heydays of the Soviet "archival bonanza" -- in provincial party archives in Leningrad, Smolensk, and Tomsk. But the principle merit of this study is Halfin's masterful handling and interpretation of the sources. As such, the study serves as a popular "short course" on Halfin's seminal contributions to the historiographies of Russia, Communism, and modern subjectivity. Igal Halfin is a professor of modern history in Tel Aviv University. Zusammenfassung Studies admission records to Soviet Communist party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Party Admissions in Paranoid Times 2. Workers Toward the Light 3. Peasant Enrollment 4. The Intelligentsia Conclusion Appendix: The Case of Fiodor Fiodorovich Raskol'nikov: Bolshevick Authobiographies Across the 1917 Divide

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• Authors: Igal Halfin
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.04.2011
• EAN: 9780295991122
• ISBN: 978-0-295-99112-2
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia; Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia; Donald W. Treadgold Studies on
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies