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Subject(s)

• Soviet Union—Social conditions [Browse]
• Soviet Union—Social policy [Browse]
• Stalin, Joseph 1878-1953 [Browse]

Related name

Furst, Juliane, 1973- [Browse]

Series

BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 29 [More in this series]

Notes

Includes index.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction : late Stalinist society : history, policies and people
• When the war was over
• Population, politics and reproduction : late Stalinism and its legacy
• The bitter legacy of the "Great Patriotic War" : Red Army disabled soldiers under late Stalinism
• Subversive tales? : war rumours in the Soviet Union 1945-47
• Barracks, queues and private plots : post-war urban and rural landscapes
• Standard of living versus quality of life : struggling with the urban environment in Russia during the early years of post-war reconstruction
• "Into the grey zone" : sham peasants and the limits of the kolkhoz order in the post-war Russian village, 1945-1953
• The corrupted state : war and the rise of the second economy
• A "campaign spasm" : graft and the limits of the "campaign" against bribery after the Great Patriotic War
• A darker "big deal" : concealing party crimes in the post-Second World War era
• New generations : identity between the yesterday of war and the possibilities of tomorrow
• More than just Stalinists : the political sentiments of victors, 1945-1953
• Children's lives after Zoia's death : order, emotions, and heroism in children's lives and literature in the post-war Soviet Union
• The importance of being stylish : youth, culture and identity in late Stalinism
• Post-war spaces : reconstructing a new world
• "Where should we resettle the comrades next?" : the adjudication of housing claims and the construction of the post-war order
• The Moscow Gorky Street in late Stalinism : space, history, and Lebenswelten
• Conclusion : Late Stalinism in historical perspective.

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ISBN

• 0415374766 (hbk.)
• 0203969685 (ebk.)

LCCN

2006002961

OCLC

63472571

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