Living the Revolution - Urban Communes & Soviet Socialism, 1917-1932

Zusatztext Living the Revolution will be of particular interest to historians of the NEP and the early Stalin era! and it will work well in both undergraduate Soviet history courses and graduate seminars ... historians of housing and consumption in the post-Stalin decades should also read this book to understand how tensions between ideology and everyday life in late socialism were shaped by the earliest attempts to live the Revolution. Informationen zum Autor Andy Willimott is Lecturer in Modern Russian/Soviet History at the University of Reading. A graduate of the School of History at UEA, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the UCL School of Slavonic & East European Studies between 2012 and 2015, he currently lives in London and is a frequent visitor to Moscow and St. Petersburg. Klappentext A pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist in the wake of the October Revolution, exploring how young radicals banded together in 'urban communes'; at first an experimental lifestyle choice for a handful of young socialists, but growing into a cultural phenomenon espoused by tens of thousands of youths by the end of the 1920s. Zusammenfassung A pioneering insight into the world of the early Soviet activist in the wake of the October Revolution, exploring how young radicals banded together in 'urban communes'; at first an experimental lifestyle choice for a handful of young socialists, but growing into a cultural phenomenon espoused by tens of thousands of youths by the end of the 1920s.

Product details

• Authors: Andy Willimott, Andy (Lecturer in Modern Russian/soviet Willimott, Willimott Andy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9780198725824
• ISBN: 978-0-19-872582-4
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ; Oxford Studies in Modern European History; Oxford Studies in Modern Europ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, Social and cultural history, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Urban communities, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era