New Directions in Soviet History

• Introduction; Part I. The Politics Of Soviet History: 1. Gorbachev and history Pierre Broue; Part II. Social Change And Cultural Policy: 2. Revolutionary lives: public identities in Pravda during the 1920s Jeffrey Brooks; 3. Entertainment or enlightenment?: popular cinema in Soviet society, 1921–1931 Denise Youngblood; 4. The centre and the periphery: cultural and social geography in the mass culture of the 1930s James van Gelderen; Part III. Politics, Industry and Shopfloor Relations: 5. The crisis of productivity in the New Economic Policy: rationalization drives and shop floor responses in Soviet cotton mills, 1924–1929 Chris Ward; 6. The politics of industrial efficiency during NEP: the 1926 rezhim ekonomiki campaign in Moscow John Hatch; 7. The Moscow party and the socialist offensive: activists and workers, 1928–1931 Catherine Merridale; 8. The demise of the shock brigades, 1931–1936 John Russell; 9. Reassessing the history of Soviet workers: opportunities to criticise and participate in decision-making, 1935–1941 Robert W. Thurston; Part IV. The Political Elite: From the 1930s to the 1990s: 10. Portrait of a changing elite: CPSU Central Committee members, 1939–1990 Evan Mawdsley; Index.

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