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Building Socialism : The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921-1941 by Yiannis Kokosalakis (2023, Hardcover)
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"By placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the Bolshevik rank-and-file was an army of activists made up of ordinary people.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009218867
ISBN-139781009218863
eBay Product ID (ePID)9058366210
Product Key Features
Book TitleBuilding Socialism : the Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921-1941
Number of Pages330 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEconomic History, Europe / General
Publication Year2023
IllustratorYes
GenreBusiness & Economics, History
AuthorYiannis Kokosalakis
Book SeriesNew Studies in European History Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2022-053366
Dewey Edition23/eng/20221103
Dewey Decimal338.947
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments; List of abbreviations and Russian terms; Introduction: the Communist Party in Leninist theory, Soviet practice and historical scholarship; 1. Building a workers' party; 2. Which way to socialism? NEP and the struggle for power; 3. Laying the foundations: the rank-and-file and rapid industrialisation; 4. Marxism and clean canteens: cultural activism between ideology and practice; 5. Democratisation and repression; 6. Party activism on the road to war; 7. Conclusion: the vanguard concept as a promising category for historical research; Bibliography.
SynopsisBy placing the party grassroots at the centre of its focus, Building Socialism presents an original account of the formative first two decades of the Soviet system. Assembled in a large network of primary party organisations (PPO), the Bolshevik rank-and-file was an army of activists made up of ordinary people. While far removed from the levers of power, they were nevertheless charged with promoting the Party's programme of revolutionary social transformation in their workplaces, neighbourhoods, and households. Their regular meetings, conferences and campaigns have generated a voluminous source base. This rich material provides a unique view of the practical manifestation of the Party's revolutionary mission and forms the basis of this insightful new narrative of how the Soviet republic functioned in the period from the end of the Russian Civil War in 1921 to its invasion by Nazi Germany in 1941., Provides the first detailed examination of rank-and-file communist party activism as an element of governance in the Soviet system, offering an empirical account of the bottom level of the apparatus of the Soviet Communist Party in its formative years.
LC Classification NumberHC335.2.K595 2023
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