Inventing the Enemy - Denunciation and Terror in Stalin''s Russia

Informationen zum Autor Wendy Z. Goldman is Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University. She has contributed articles to numerous edited collections and journals, including Slavic Review and the American Historical Review. She is also the author of several books, including Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy in Social Life, 1917–1936 (Cambridge University Press, 1993). Klappentext Explores the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror, revealing the terrible dilemmas people confronted in their struggles to survive. Zusammenfassung Stalin's terror shaped the lives and behaviour of people in every Soviet workplace! with Communist Party leaders strongly encouraging ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy'. This book examines the terror in Moscow's factories! revealing the terrible dilemmas people confronted in their struggles to survive. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The terror: a short political primer; 2. Comrades and coworkers; 3. Family secrets; 4. Love, loyalty, and betrayal; 5. The final paroxysm; Conclusion.

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• Authors: Wendy Z. Goldman, Wendy Z. (Carnegie Mellon University Goldman, Goldman Wendy Z.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521191968
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19196-8
• No. of pages: 332
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Russia, European History, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, HISTORY / Russia / General