947.084 SOC Social and Cultural History of the Soviet Union : the Lenin and Stalin Years / ed., introd. author W. G. Rosenberg. - New York ; London : Garland Publishing, Inc., 1992. - 519 p. - (Articles on Russian and Soviet History, 1500 - 1991 / gen. ed. A. Dallin ; vol. VI). - Includes bibliographical references. - ISBN 0-8153-0563-X. - Текст : непосредственный.
The Lenin and Stalin Years : part II Gill, Graeme. The Mainsprings of Peasant Action in 1917 / G. J. Gill Rosenberg, William. Russian Labor and Bolshevik Power after October / W. G. Rosenberg Koenker, Diane. Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War / D. Koenker Lih, Lars. Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism / L. T. Lih Ball, Alan. Lenin and the Question of Private Trade in Soviet Russia / A. Ball Culture, Ideology, Technology : part II Joravsky, David. Soviet Ideology / D. Joravsky McClelland, James. Utopianism versus Revolutionary Heroism in Bolshevik Policy : the Proletarian Culture Debate / J. C. McClelland Tumarkin, Nina. Religion, Bolshevism, and the Origins of the Lenin Cult / N. Tumarkin Bailes, Kendall. The Politics of Technology : Stalin and Technocratic Thinking among Soviet Engineers / K. E. Bailes Fitzpatrick, Sheila. The "Soft" Line on Culture and Its Enemies : Soviet Cultural Policy, 1922 - 1927 / S. Fitzpatrick Dunham, Vera. The Uses of Stalinist Literary Debris / V. S. Dunham Joravsky, David. The Stalinist Mentality and the Higher Learning / D. Joravsky Kuromiya, Hiroaki. The Crisis of Proletarian Identity in the Soviet Factory, 1928 - 1929 / H. Kuromiya Lewin, M. The Immediate Background of Soviet Collectivization / M. Lewin Lewin, M. Society and the Stalinist State in the Period of the Five Year Plans / M. Lewin Hunter, Holland. The Overambitious First Soviet Five-Year Plan / H. Hunter Dalrymple, Dana. The Soviet Famine of 1932 - 1934 / D. G. Dalrymple Kuromiya, Hiroaki. "Edinonachalie" and the Soviet Industrial Manager, 1928 - 1937 / H. Kuromiya Gender and Family : part III Clements, Barbara Evans. Baba and Bolshevik : Russian Women and Revolutionary Change / B. E. Clements Lapidus, Gail Warshofsky. Sexual Equality in Soviet Policy : a Developmental Perspective / G. W. Lapidus Farnsworth, Beatrice Brodsky. Bolshevism, the Woman Question, and Aleksandra Kollontai / B. B. Farnsworth Gray, Francine du Plessix. The Russian Heroine : Gender, Sexuality, and Freedom / F. du P. Gray
Introduction: "Although the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917 with broad support from Russia's industrial workforce, no amount of rhetoric could obscure the fact that history's first proletarian dictatorship was established in a largely peasant country. With the exception of a bare handful of urban centers, Russian society and culture were overwhelmingly agrarian. The country s economy also rested almost entirely on agricultural production. Disaffected and impoverished workers and peasant-soldiers joined the Bolsheviks' cause in 1917 ready to believe that Lenin's party held the promise of better times to come, that a communist revolution could catapult a "backward" Russia, materially inferior to the capitalist West, into a leading role in world development. The last would be first as the new Soviet state rode the crest of history and led the way to world revolution. Most early Bolshevik leaders understood the daunting nature of their task. Those who did not were constantly reminded by political opponents, who seized every practical opportunity to insist the Bolshevik project was utopian, demagogic, and doomed to fail, especially when revolutions in Western Europe did not materialize as expected. The party in turn placed its hopes on a radical transformation of the economy, believing with other Marxist parties at the time that a socialist "base" would inevitably create a socialist social and cultural "superstructure and overwhelm the pervasive "bourgeois" residues of the past. The more their goals seemed threatened, the more party leaders like Lenin and Stalin were prepared to use whatever force was necessary to assure history behaved itself and their version of socialism survived. Fierce debates over whether the whole Bolshevik project was historically "premature," on the one hand, or little more than ideological camouflage for a commonplace grab for power, on the other, thus began to rage well before the dictatorship consolidated its power. They have carried on to this day. Serious and conscientious socialist theorists from Iulii Martov to Roy Medvedev have argued that changing cultures and social relations are an integral part of socialist transformation as a whole, and could not be forced with police-state measures without damaging irreparably the objectives, values, and ultimate possibilities of socialist construction. Others have insisted that a "proletarian dictatorship" in an agrarian country could only mean the self-styled iron rule of an ideologically..."
