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Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)   

Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin (Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies)


Karen Petrone

Hardcover. Indiana University Press 2000-11-01.
ISBN 9780253337689
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A lively analysis and social history of celebration, Life Has Become More Joyous Comrades focuses on the the social structures and practices of Stalin's Soviet Union. The work analyzes how Soviet and Party leaders of the 1930s used celebrations to promote legitimacy and authority and explores ways in which these celebrations allowed Soviet citizens to express alternative, even subversive, viewpoints.



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