Acknowledgments
Introduction
Milestones
Stories
A Note on Class
1. The Party is Always Right
Revolutionary Warriors
Stalin's Signals
Bureaucrats and Bosses
A Girl with Character
2. Hard Times
Shortages
Miseries of Urban Life
Shopping as a Survival Skill
Contacts and Connections
3. Palaces on Monday
Building a New World
Heroes
The Remaking of Man
Mastering Culture
4. The Magic Tablecloth
Images of Abundance
Privilege
Marks of Status
Patrons and Clients
5. Insulted and Injured
Outcasts
Deportation and Exile
Renouncing the Past
Wearing the Mask
6. Family Problems
Absconding Husbands
The Abortion Law
The Wives Moment
7. Conversations and Listeners
Listening In
Writing to the Government
Public Talk
Talking Back
8. A Time of Troubles
The Year of 1937
Scapegoats and "The Usual Suspects"
Spreading the Plague
Living Through the Great Purges
Concluson
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Sheila Fitzpatrick teaches modern Russian history at the University of Chicago. A former President of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, and a co-editor of The Journal of Modern History, she is also the author of The Russian Revolution, Stalin's Peasants, and many other books and articles about Russia. She lives in Chicago.
"Fitzpatrick makes subtle use of the press and of police reports
that assist in giving us one of the most comprehensive accounts of
what it meant to live in Stalin's Russia in the 1930s."--Kirkus
Reviews
"A fine work--engrossing, well written, superbly documented, and
much needed to boot....[The book's sources] make absolutely
fascinating reading....An assiduous scholar, Professor Fitzpatrick
seems to have scrutinized every relevant scrap of paper. Her
explication is a model of balance and judiciousness....Individual
memoirs apart, most histories of this period were written from the
top--that is, showing how the policies were shaped and implemented,
rather than
how they were perceived and experienced by their subjects. It is
the latter...that constitutes the major distinction of
Fitzpatrick's book."--Abraham Brumberg, The Nation
"The author's rich materials challenge readers to build their own
model of Stalin's people, their complicity and resistance."--Wilson
Quarterly
"A most welcome addition to the literature on Stalin's
Russia....Fitzpatrick has used the entire range of sources
available, from familiar memoirs and postwar interview material to
contemporary research and an array of archival information....The
book is a major contribution to understanding this extraordinary
period. Its lucid prose and the inherent interest of its subject
matter should make it accessible to undergraduates, as well as to
more specialized
readers."--CHOICE
"One of the most influential historians of the Soviet period
describes what it was like to live under Stalin in the 1930s--the
frantic, heroic, tragic decade of collectivization, forced-draft
industrialization, and purges, when ordinary Russians struggled to
a find a wearable pair of shoes and lined up in subzero weather at
two o'clock in the morning in the hope of getting 16 grams of
bread....They were years of unimaginable hardship and brutality but
also of
idealism, a surreal melange that [Fitzpatrick] captures with
admirable matter-of-factness."--Foreign Affairs
"A fine crossover book for both upperlevel and introductory
courses....Well written."--Roger W. Haughey, Georgetown
University
"Everyday Stalinism should prove invaluable for any course on
Soviet history. Knowing how a nation's people actually lived,
thought, and felt is essential to any real understanding of the
past. On this, Fitzpatrick--who has done more than any other
scholar to make the complexities of the social history of the
Stalin years come alive--delivers as no one else can."--John
McCannon, Norwich University
"Casts new light on a hitherto neglected facet of Stalinism: the
everyday life of ordinary citizens in the major urban and
industrial centers of the USSR... It is a 'fun read' that offers
many insights to specialists and students alike."--American
Historical Review
"Fitzpatrick makes subtle use of the press and of police reports that assist in giving us one of the most comprehensive accounts of what it meant to live in Stalin's Russia in the 1930s."--Kirkus Reviews "A fine work--engrossing, well written, superbly documented, and much needed to boot....[The book's sources] make absolutely fascinating reading....An assiduous scholar, Professor Fitzpatrick seems to have scrutinized every relevant scrap of paper. Her explication is a model of balance and judiciousness....Individual memoirs apart, most histories of this period were written from the top--that is, showing how the policies were shaped and implemented, rather than how they were perceived and experienced by their subjects. It is the latter...that constitutes the major distinction of Fitzpatrick's book."--Abraham Brumberg, The Nation "The author's rich materials challenge readers to build their own model of Stalin's people, their complicity and resistance."--Wilson Quarterly "A most welcome addition to the literature on Stalin's Russia....Fitzpatrick has used the entire range of sources available, from familiar memoirs and postwar interview material to contemporary research and an array of archival information....The book is a major contribution to understanding this extraordinary period. Its lucid prose and the inherent interest of its subject matter should make it accessible to undergraduates, as well as to more specialized readers."--CHOICE "One of the most influential historians of the Soviet period describes what it was like to live under Stalin in the 1930s--the frantic, heroic, tragic decade of collectivization, forced-draft industrialization, and purges, when ordinary Russians struggled to a find a wearable pair of shoes and lined up in subzero weather at two o'clock in the morning in the hope of getting 16 grams of bread....They were years of unimaginable hardship and brutality but also of idealism, a surreal melange that [Fitzpatrick] captures with admirable matter-of-factness."--Foreign Affairs "A fine crossover book for both upperlevel and introductory courses....Well written."--Roger W. Haughey, Georgetown University "Everyday Stalinism should prove invaluable for any course on Soviet history. Knowing how a nation's people actually lived, thought, and felt is essential to any real understanding of the past. On this, Fitzpatrick--who has done more than any other scholar to make the complexities of the social history of the Stalin years come alive--delivers as no one else can."--John McCannon, Norwich University "Casts new light on a hitherto neglected facet of Stalinism: the everyday life of ordinary citizens in the major urban and industrial centers of the USSR... It is a 'fun read' that offers many insights to specialists and students alike."--American Historical Review
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