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 | A History of Russia: Since 1855, Volume II Product# 460683808 Selling for $66.33 "This is the second volume of a two-volume text that focuses on three main topics: the struggle for and against political authority, the expansion and contraction of Russia and its dealings with non-Russian nationalities and foreign powers, and the life and culture of the Russian people. This approach contributes to the book's stress on the continuities in Russian history from its beginnings to the mid 1990's. The text provides a balanced and comprehensive coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual history. Distinctions - A two-volume format, with the material on Late Imperial Russia appearing in both volumes. - Incorporates the latest scholarly findings and briefly mentions scholarly controversies. - A clear overview stressing main themes is offered at the beginning of each historical period and the beginning of each chapter. - Chapters are organized in a chronological/topical manner and written in a clear style interweaving narrative and analysis. - Offers greater treatment of such topics as nationalities issues, political opposition" |
 | Everyday Stalinism; Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s Product# 460765900 Selling for $19.95 "Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick shows how living conditions and day-to-day practices changed dramatically with 'Stalin's Revolution' at the beginning of the 1930s. It was a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned life into a nightmare, and of the ways ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic to this society, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast this society into turmoil. Drawing on extensive research in Soviet archives only recently opened to historians, Everyday Stalinism is a true and compelling story about ordinary people trying to live normal lives under extraordinary circumstances." |
| Everyday Stalinism; Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s Product# 460768094 Selling for $19.95 "Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick shows how living conditions and day-to-day practices changed dramatically with 'Stalin's Revolution' at the beginning of the 1930s. It was a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the regime's promises of future socialist abundance rang hollowly. We read of a government bureaucracy that often turned life into a nightmare, and of the ways ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic to this society, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast this society into turmoil. Drawing on extensive research in Soviet archives only recently opened to historians, Everyday Stalinism is a true and compelling story about ordinary people trying to live normal lives under extraordinary circumstances." |