Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self

Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self
ISBN-10
0295991127
ISBN-13
9780295991122
Category
Psychology / General
Pages
197
Language
English
Published
2011
Publisher
Herbert J. Ellison Center for Russian, East European, and Central Asian Studies, University of Washington
Author
Igal Halfin

Description

In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records to Soviet Communist party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a central arena of the Soviet revolution's drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on archival sources -- many of which are no longer as freely accessible as they were during the heydays of the Soviet "archival bonanza" -- in provincial party archives in Leningrad, Smolensk, and Tomsk. But the principle merit of this study is Halfin's masterful handling and interpretation of the sources. As such, the study serves as a popular "short course" on Halfin's seminal contributions to the historiographies of Russia, Communism, and modern subjectivity.

Igal Halfin is a professor of modern history in Tel Aviv University.

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