Tear Off the Masks! : : Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia / / Sheila Fitzpatrick.

When revolutions happen, they change the rules of everyday life--both the codified rules concerning the social and legal classifications of citizens and the unwritten rules about how individuals present themselves to others. This occurred in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which laid...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2005]
©2005
Year of Publication:2005
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Becoming Soviet
  • PART I. Class Identities
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Bolshevik Invention Of
  • CHAPTER THREE. Class Identities In NEP Society
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Class and Soslovie
  • PART II. Lives
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Lives under Fire
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Two Faces of Anastasia
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Story of a Peasant Striver
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. Women's Lives
  • PART III. Appeals
  • CHAPTER NINE. Supplicants and Citizens
  • CHAPTER TEN. Patrons and Clients
  • PART IV. Denunciations
  • CHAPTER ELEVEN. Signals from Below
  • CHAPTER TWELVE. Wives' Tales
  • PART V. Impostures
  • CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The World of Ostap Bender
  • CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Con Man as Jew
  • Afterword
  • CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Becoming Post-Soviet
  • Suggested Further Reading
  • Index