Sheila Fitzpatrick, ed. Stalinism: New Directions.

CONTENTS

Introduction / SHEILA FITZPATRICK

PART I

Social identities

Introduction

1 – Ascribing class: the construction of social identity in Soviet Russia / SHEILA FITZPATRICK

2 – «Us against them»: social identity in Soviet Russia, 1934-41 / SARAH DAVIES

PART II

Private and public practices

Introduction

3 – Fashioning the Stalinist soul: the diary of Stepan Podlubnyi, 1931-9 / JOCHEN HELLBECK

4 – Denunciation and its functions in Soviet governance: from the archive of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1944-53 / VLADIMIR A. KOZLOV

5 – Games of Stalinist democracy: ideological discussions in Soviet sciences 1947-52 / ALEXEI KOJEVNIKOV

PART III

Consumption and civilization

Introduction

6 – Cultured trade: the Stalinist turn towards consumerism / JULIE HESSLER

7 – The concept of kul’turnost’: notes on the Stalinist civilizing process / VADIM VOLKOV

8 – «Dear comrade, you ask what we need»: socialist paternalism and Soviet rural «notables» in the mid-1930s / LEWIS H. SIEGELBAUM

PART IV

Varieties of terror

Introduction

9 – The purging of local cliques in the Urals region, 1936-7 / JAMES R. HARRIS

10 – «Socially harmful elements» and the Great Terror / PAUL HAGENLOH

PART V

Nationality as a status

Introduction

11 – The Soviet Union as a communal apartment, or how a socialist state promoted ethnic particularism / YURI SLEZKINE

12 – Modernization or neo-traditionalism? Ascribed nationality and Soviet primordialism / TERRY MARTIN

Further reading