| Description |
1 online resource (x, 284 pages) |
| Series |
New studies in European history |
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New studies in European history.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations and Russian Terms -- Introduction: The Communist Party in Leninist Theory, Soviet Practice and Historical Scholarship -- I.1 Methodological Leninism: Studying the Communist Rank-and-File -- 1 Building a Workers' Party -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Tenth Party Congress: Challenges and Responses -- 1.3 Party Building and the Formation of Grassroots Institutions -- 1.4 Party Democracy and the Left Opposition -- 1.5 Conclusion |
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2 Which Way to Socialism?: NEP and the Struggle for Power -- 2.1 Ambiguous Recovery -- 2.2 The Zinoviev Opposition: A Leningrad Mutiny -- 2.3 Rejuvenating the Party Organisation -- 2.4 Testing the Organisation -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Laying the Foundations: The Rank-and-File and Rapid Industrialisation -- 3.1 The First FYP in Soviet Industry -- 3.2 Party Activism and Managerial Authority on the Factory Floor -- 3.3 No Right Deviation -- 3.4 Edinonachalie and Bacchanalian Counter-Planning -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4 Marxism and Clean Canteens: Cultural Activism between Ideology and Practice |
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4.1 An Attempt at Cultural Revolution -- 4.2 Not So Great a Retreat -- 4.3 Conclusion -- 5 Democratisation and Repression -- 5.1 Management and Labour in the Second FYP -- 5.2 Another Purge -- 5.3 Vigilance and Verification -- 5.4 Party Revival, State Violence -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6 Party Activism on the Road to War -- 6.1 Democratisation, Party Building and the Winding Down of Repression -- 6.2 The Eighteenth Congress and New Party Rules -- 6.3 Discipline, Control and Edinonachalie in the Third FYP -- 6.4 Conclusion |
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Conclusion: The Vanguard Concept As a Promising Category for Historical Research -- Bibliography -- Archival Collections (Fondy) -- Published Sources and Secondary Literature -- Index |
| Summary |
"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. 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 18, 2023) |
| Subject |
Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Kommunisticheskai︠a︡ partii︠a︡ Sovetskogo Soi︠u︡za fast |
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Industrial organization -- Soviet Union -- History
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Industrial policy -- Soviet Union -- History
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Economic policy
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Industrial organization
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Industrial policy
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Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1928-1932.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125734
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Soviet Union -- Economic policy -- 1938-1942.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125736
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| Subject |
Soviet Union
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022053367 |
| ISBN |
9781009218870 |
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1009218875 |
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9781009218887 |
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1009218883 |
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