By L. Siegelbaum
This attention-grabbing ebook argues that during Russia the family among tradition and kingdom, artwork and existence, commodity and trash, usually diverged from primary Western eu or American models of modernity. The essays convey how private and non-private overlapped and formed one another, growing new views on contributors and society within the Soviet Union.
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Kondrashin, “Patriotizm krest’ianstva,” Voina i obshchestvo 1941–5 (Moscow: Nauka, 2004), vol. 2, 50–77; and V. F. Zima, Mentalitet narodov Rossii v voine 1941–1945 godov (Moscow: Institut rossiiskoi istorii, 2004). I am indebted to Jean Levesque for calling my attention to these sources.
56 (Fall 1999), 78–92. For Trotsky’s complaint along these 20 / lewis h. siegelbaum 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. lines see Leon Trotsky, Problems of Everyday Life (New York: Pathfinder, 1973), 302–305. Natalia Lebina, Povsednevnaia zhizn’ sovetskogo goroda: Normy i anomalii, 1920–1930 gody (St. Petersburg: Zhurnal “Neva,” 1999), 254. , Timo Vihavainen (St. Petersburg: Zhurnal “Neva,” 2000), 299–316. David Crowley and Susan E. , Socialist Spaces: Sites of Everyday Life in the Eastern Bloc (Oxford: Berg, 2002), 13.
18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 2004. I am thinking in particular of Jürgen Habermas’ bourgeois public sphere and feminist critiques of the ideology of separate spheres. I am indebted to Glennys Young for this insight. Stephen Lovell, Summerfolk: A History of the Dacha, 1710–2000 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), 160–161. Elena A. Osokina, “Economic Disobedience under Stalin,” in Contending with Stalinism: Soviet Power & Popular Resistance in the 1930s, ed. Lynne Viola (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002), 170–200 (quotation on 192).
