Russia in the era of NEP : explorations in Soviet society and culture / edited by Sheila Fitzpatrick, Alexander Rabinowitch, and Richard Stites.

Contributor(s): Fitzpatrick, Sheila, 1941- [ditor.] | Rabinowitch, Alexander, 1934- [editor.] | Stites, Richard, 1931-2010 [editor.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1991 ©1991Description: viii, 344 pages ; 24 cmISBN: 025320657x (paperback)Subject(s): Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1917-1936 | Soviet Union -- Intellectual life -- 1917-1970 | Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1917-1928LOC classification: DK266 .R82 1991
Contents:
Introduction : NEP Russia as a "transitional" society /William G. Rosenberg -- The problem of class identity in NEP society / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Class and consciousness in a socialist society : workers in the printing trades during NEP / Diane P. Koenker -- Labor conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925 / John B. Hatch -- Workers' artels and Soviet production relations / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Private trade and traders during NEP / Alan Ball -- Family life in Moscow during NEP / R.E. Johnson -- Working-class women and the "withering away" of the family : popular responses to family policy / Wendy Z. Goldman -- "Razmychka?" : urban employment and peasant in-migration as sources of social conflict / Douglas R. Weiner -- Soldiers in the proletarian dictatorship : from defending the revolution to building socialism / Mark von Hagen -- Policing the NEP countryside / Neil Weissman. Insoluble conflicts : village life between revolution and collectivization / Helmut Altrichter -- The "quiet revolution" in Soviet intellectual life / Katerina Clark -- The press and its message : images of America in the 1920s and 1930s / Jeffrey Brooks -- Popular literature of the 1920s : Russian peasants as readers / Régine Robin -- Popular song in the NEP era / Robert A. Rothstein -- Bolshevik ritual building in the 1920s / Richard Stites --Conclusion : understanding NEP society and culture in the light of new research / William G. Rosenberg.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-330) and index.

Introduction : NEP Russia as a "transitional" society /William G. Rosenberg -- The problem of class identity in NEP society / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Class and consciousness in a socialist society : workers in the printing trades during NEP / Diane P. Koenker -- Labor conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925 / John B. Hatch -- Workers' artels and Soviet production relations / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Private trade and traders during NEP / Alan Ball -- Family life in Moscow during NEP / R.E. Johnson -- Working-class women and the "withering away" of the family : popular responses to family policy / Wendy Z. Goldman -- "Razmychka?" : urban employment and peasant in-migration as sources of social conflict / Douglas R. Weiner -- Soldiers in the proletarian dictatorship : from defending the revolution to building socialism / Mark von Hagen -- Policing the NEP countryside / Neil Weissman. Insoluble conflicts : village life between revolution and collectivization / Helmut Altrichter -- The "quiet revolution" in Soviet intellectual life / Katerina Clark -- The press and its message : images of America in the 1920s and 1930s / Jeffrey Brooks -- Popular literature of the 1920s : Russian peasants as readers / Régine Robin -- Popular song in the NEP era / Robert A. Rothstein -- Bolshevik ritual building in the 1920s / Richard Stites --Conclusion : understanding NEP society and culture in the light of new research / William G. Rosenberg.