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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s | Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s | Sheila Fitzpatrick

Started reading this today and it's actually very interesting and easy to read! #amreading #books #Stalinism #history #russianhistory #historyminor #schoolread

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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s | Sheila Fitzpatrick

The Communists‘ sense of mission and intellectual superiority was far too great to allow them to be swayed by mere majority opinion. In this, they were like all other revolutionaries, for what revolutionary worth his salt has ever conceded that “the people‘s will” is something different from the mission he has undertaken to carry out on the people‘s behalf?

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