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Everyday Life in Early Soviet Russia
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How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.

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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
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About the Author

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.

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"Oct 2008"—Slavonic & East European Review

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