Abstract
Introduction Part I. The Politics Of Soviet History: 1. Gorbachev and history Pierre Broue Part II. Social Change And Cultural Policy: 2. Revolutionary lives: public identities in Pravda during the 1920s Jeffrey Brooks 3. Entertainment or enlightenment?: popular cinema in Soviet society, 1921-1931 Denise Youngblood 4. The centre and the periphery: cultural and social geography in the mass culture of the 1930s James van Gelderen Part III. Politics, Industry and Shopfloor Relations: 5. The crisis of productivity in the New Economic Policy: rationalization drives and shop floor responses in Soviet cotton mills, 1924-1929 Chris Ward 6. The politics of industrial efficiency during NEP: the 1926 rezhim ekonomiki campaign in Moscow John Hatch 7. The Moscow party and the socialist offensive: activists and workers, 1928-1931 Catherine Merridale 8. The demise of the shock brigades, 1931-1936 John Russell 9. Reassessing the history of Soviet workers: opportunities to criticise and participate in decision-making, 1935-1941 Robert W. Thurston Part IV. The Political Elite: From the 1930s to the 1990s: 10. Portrait of a changing elite: CPSU Central Committee members, 1939-1990 Evan Mawdsley Index.
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