An Analysis of Sheila Fitzpatrick's Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

by Riley Quinn and Victor Petrov

How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the 'deserving poor' can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole. By positioning the state both as a provider and as a relief agency, Fitzpatrick establishes it as not so much a prison (the metaphor favoured by many...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1912128101
• ISBN13: 9781912128105
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Macat Library
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.1" x 7.8"