Research Catalog

Title

Raised under Stalin : young communists and the defense of socialism / Seth Bernstein.

Author

Bernstein, Seth

Publication

• Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
• ©2017

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Details

Description

xi, 254 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin's regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war. Informed by declassified materials from post-Soviet archives, as well as films, memoirs, and diaries by and about youth, Raised under Stalin explains the divided status of youth for the Bolsheviks: they were the 'new people' who would someday build communism, the potential soldiers who would defend the USSR, and the hooligans who might undermine it from within. Bernstein explains how, although Soviet revolutionary youth culture began as the preserve of proletarian activists, the Komsomol transformed under Stalin to become a mass organization of moral education; youth became the targets of state repression even as Stalin's regime offered them the opportunity to participate in political culture. Raised under Stalin follows Stalinist youth into their ultimate test, World War II. Even as the war against Germany decimated the ranks of Young Communists, Bernstein finds evidence that it cemented Stalinist youth culture as a core part of socialism." -- Provided by the publisher.

Subject

• Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi > History
• Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi
• 1925-1953
• Socialism and youth > Soviet Union > History
• Youth > Soviet Union > History
• Socialism and youth
• Youth
• Soviet Union > History > 1925-1953
• Soviet Union

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.

Contents

Youth in the Stalin revolution -- Cultural revolution from above -- Class dismissed? -- The great terror as a moral panic -- The rehabilitation of youth -- A mass youth organization -- Paramilitary training on the eve -- Youth at war.

Call Number

JFE 18-917

ISBN

• 9781501709883
• 1501709887

LCCN

2017004652

OCLC

971333729

Author

Bernstein, Seth, author.

Title

Raised under Stalin : young communists and the defense of socialism / Seth Bernstein.

Publisher

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-249) and index.

Chronological Term

1925-1953

Other Form:

Online version: Bernstein, Seth. Raised under Stalin. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 9781501712029 (DLC) 2017005181

Research Call Number

JFE 18-917