Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, And Everyday Life Under Stalin 1939-1953 - Plot & Excerpts
Kudoiukina, and V. A. Nevozhin, eds., Rossiia i Zapad: Formirovanie vneshne-Introduction xxviioutside world has largely been assessed in terms of the respective roles of Marxist-Leninism, Russian nationalism, or realpolitik within foreign policy thinking. This approach has spawned a series of compound and sometimes confusing terms such as: ‘the revolutionary imperial para- digm’; ‘multiethnic imperialism and socialist messianism’; ‘the hostile isolationist tendency’; or ‘a commingling Soviet Socialism and Russian nationalism’.38 This book takes a different approach, focusing on the roles of status, hierarchy, and patronage within Official Soviet Identity. Marxism and nationalism mattered in the later Stalin years but a more anthropological approach offers a fresh perspective on the Soviet experience.Soviet identity was constructed in relation to a number of different states in this era. Chapter 1 evaluates the place of Germany, the Western powers, and the newly acquired borderlands within the Soviet imagina- tion.
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