Full name: Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s

Author: Sheila Fitzpatrick Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195050011 0195050010

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 depicts 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 how ordinary citizens tried to circumvent it. We also read of the secret police, whose constant surveillance was endemic at this time, and the waves of terror, like the Great Purges of 1937, which periodically cast society into turmoil. Similar books: The Harvest of Sorrow by Robert Conquest The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine The Whisperers by Orlando Figes Lenin's Tomb by David Remnick The Forsaken by Tim Tzouliadis A History of Modern Russia by Robert Service Down with Big Brother by Michael Dobbs The Great Terror by Robert Conquest Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin by George F. Kennan The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick Moscow, 1937 by Karl Schlogel The Shadow of the Winter Palace by Edward Crankshaw Lenin's Private War by Lesley Chamberlain The Unquiet Ghost by Adam Hochschild Russia by Robert Service Fire and Fury by Michael Wolff America by Dinesh D'Souza Unfreedom of the Press by Mark R. Levin A Warning by Anonymous