Publication Date
1995
Abstract
In place of what actually existed -a still industrializing country with very many workers living in privation, a peasantry in a new enserfment, a huge caste of slave laborers in concentration camps, a priviledged service nobility living in relative luxury minus security of tenure, a similarly insecure court circle at the top functioning at the pleasure of a new tsar-autocrat, a heavily terrorized society honeycombed with police informers, in which an overheard careless word or anecdote was a potential ticket to hell -Stalinist culture depicted a democratic Soviet Russia whose nonantagonistic classes of workers and peasants and intelligentsia "stratum" lived in amity, a socialist Russia moving toward the further stage of full communism under an adored Stalin's leadership.
Disciplines
Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures
Recommended Citation
Fletcher '95, Mark Thomas, "The Duality of Soviet Culture: Manufactured and Organic Cultures" (1995). Honors Projects. 1.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/russian_honproj/1