Red Autobiographies

Initiating the Bolshevik Self

von Igal Halfin

224 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a central arena of the Soviet revolution's drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on sources-many of which are no longer as freely accessible as they were during the heyday of the Soviet "archival bonanza" - in provincial party archives in Leningrad, Smolensk, and Tomsk. Its principal merit is Halfin's masterful handling and interpretation of those sources. The study also serves as a popular "short course" on Halfin's seminal contributions to the historiographies of Russia, communism, and modern subjectivity.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Geschichte anderer geografischer Gruppierungen
• ISBN: 9780295991122
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 04.02.2011
• Größe: 228 x 151 mm
• Verlag: University of Washington Press