Tear Off The Masks!

Tear Off The Masks!

Cover/Jacket Design byPamela Lewis Schnitter
PublisherPrinceton University Press
Cover Art byIulii Ganf
FormatTrade Paperback
LanguageEnglish
LocationUnited States
Copyright2005
This Edition Published2005
Pages / Fontxii + 332 pages / Sabon
Library of Congress Classification NumberHN523.F58 2005
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number2004058652
ISBN0-691-12245-8
EAN 590000
Printer's Key10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
ChaptersList of Illustrations, ix Preface and Acknowledgments, xi Introduction, 1 Chapter 1 - Becoming Soviet, 3 Part I. Class Identities, 27 Chapter 2 - The Bolshevik Invention of Class, 29 Chapter 3 - Class Identities in NEP Society, 51 Chapter 4 - Class and Soslovie, 71 Part II. Lives, 89 Chapter 5 - Lives under Fire, 91 Chapter 6 - The Two Faces of Anastasia, 102 Chapter 7 - Story of a Peasant Striver, 114 Chapter 8 - Women's Lives, 125 Part III. Appeals, 153 Chapter 9 - Supplicants and Citizens, 155 Chapter 10 - Patrons and Clients, 182 Part IV. Denunciations, 203 Chapter 11 - Signals from Below, 205 Chapter 12 - Wives' Tales, 240 Part V. Impostures, 263 Chapter 13 - The World of Ostap Bender Chapter 14 - The Con Man as Jew Afterword, 301 Chapter 15 - Becoming Post-Soviet, 303 Selected Further Reading, 319 Index, 323
Notescopyright 2005 by Princeton University Press. from the Princeton Paperbacks catalog. Full title: Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia Cover illustration "On Vigilance" is a drawing by Iulii Ganf; from Krokodil, no. 14, 1937.
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