Russia in the Era of NEP Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture [Paperback]

... a comprehensive look at an enigmatic era... Choice

This provocative collection of essays certainly takes some of the polish off Soviet socialisms golden age. Journal of Interdisciplinary History

The authors and editors of this splendid volume deserve great praise. Their work moves the field of Soviet history several large steps forward. Slavic Review

Lenin's New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays examine the social and cultural dimensions of NEP in urban and rural Russia in the years before Stalin and rapid industrialization.

Preface

I. Introduction: NEP Russia as a Transitional Society
William G. Rosenberg
II. The Problem of Class Identity in NEP Society
Sheila Fitzpatrick
III. Class and Consciousness in a Socialist Society: Workers in the Printing Trades during NEP
Diane P. Koenker
IV. Labor Conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925
John B. Hatch
V. Workers Artels and Soviet Production Relations
Hiroaki Kuromiya
VI. Private Trade and Traders during NEP
R.E. Johnson
VII. Family Life in Moscow during NEP
VIII. Working-Class Women and the Withering Away of the Family: Popular Responses to Family Policy
Wendy Z. Goldman
IX. Razmychka? Urban Unemployment and Peasant In-migration as Sources of Social Conflict
Douglas R. Weiner
X. Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: From Defending the Revolution to Building Socialism
Mark von Hagen
XI. Policing the NEP Countryside
Neil Weissman
XII. Insoluble Conflicts: Villiage Life Between Revolution and Collectivization
Helmut Altrichter
XIII. The Quiet Revolution in Soviet Intellectual Life
Katrina Clark
XIV. The Press and Its Message: Images of America in the 1920s and 1930s
Jeffrey Brooks
XV. Popular LiteraturelÓQ