How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.
Acknowledgments
IntroductionChristina Kiaer and Eric Naiman
1. The Two Faces of Anastasia: Narratives and Counter-Narratives of
Identity in Stalinist Everyday LifeSheila Fitzpatrick
2. Visual Pleasure in Stalinist Cinema: Ivan Pyr'ev's The Party
CardLilya Kaganovsky
3. Terror of Intimacy: Family Politics in the 1930s Soviet
UnionCynthia Hooper
4. Fear on Stage: Afinogenov, Stanislavsky, and the Making of
Stalinist TheaterBoris Wolfson
5. "NEP Without Nepmen!" Soviet Advertising and the Transition to
SocialismRandi Cox
6. Panic, Potency, and the Crisis of Nervousness in the
1920sFrances L. Bernstein
7. Delivered from Capitalism: Nostalgia, Alienation, and the Future
of Reproduction in Tret'iakov's I Want a Child!Christina Kiaer
8. "The Withering of Private Life": Walter Benjamin in
MoscowEvgenii Bershtein
9. When Private Home Meets Public Workplace: Service, Space, and
the Urban Domestic in 1920s RussiaRebecca Spagnolo
10. Shaping the "Future Race": Regulating the Daily Life of
Children in Early Soviet RussiaCatriona Kelly
11. The Diary as Initiation and Rebirth: Reading Everyday Documents
of the Early Soviet EraNatalia Kozlova
Contributors
Index
Christina Kiaer is Associate Professor of Art History at
Columbia University and author of Imagine No Possessions: The
Socialist Objects of Russian Constructivism.
Eric Naiman is Associate Professor of Russian and Comparative
Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and author of
Sex in Public: The Incarnation of Early Soviet Ideology.
"Oct 2008"—Slavonic & East European Review
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