Inventing the enemy : denunciation and terror in Stalin's Russia /

Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret polic...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Goldman, Wendy Z.
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Zusammenfassung:
Inventing the Enemy uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behaviour of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to 'unmask the hidden enemy' and people responded by flooding the secret police and local authorities with accusations. By 1937, every workplace was convulsed by hyper-vigilance, intense suspicion and the hunt for hidden enemies. Spouses, co-workers, friends and relatives disavowed and denounced each other. People confronted hideous dilemmas. Forced to lie to protect loved ones, they struggled to reconcile political imperatives and personal loyalties. Workplaces were turned into snake pits. The strategies that people used to protect themselves - naming names, pre-emptive denunciations, and shifting blame - all helped to spread the terror. Inventing the Enemy, a history of the terror in five Moscow factories, explores personal relationships and individual behaviour within a pervasive political culture of 'enemy hunting'.
Umfang:
1 online resource (x, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Anmerkungen:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9786613298485
9781107213951
1107213959
9781283298483
1283298481
9781139122979
1139122975
9780511994906
0511994907
9781139117234
1139117238
9781139127899
1139127896
9781139112871
1139112872
9781139115063
1139115065
9781139124577
Schlagworte:
Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za > Purges > History.
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