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Paperback. Condition: Like New. 2nd EDITION. Second Edition, First Printing. Published by Yale University Press, 2004. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. black, red & gilt decorative 1/2 cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. very fine cond. mint cond. looks new. like new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in very fine cond. as new. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). xvii+460p. 29 b&w photo illustrations. notes on transliteration and terminology. a note on the documents. glossary and abbreviations. notes. index of documents. general index. russian history. communism.stalinism. russian revolution. ~ "Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth . Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven't heard this . that we don't want to be on the kolkhoz [ collective farm], we work and work, and there's nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?"~a farmer's letter, 1936, from Stalinism as a Way of Life. What was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book provides English~speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle~Stalinist period. The book contains 157 documents~mostly letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected from recently opened Soviet archives, these previously unknown documents illuminate in new ways both the complex social roots of Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic decade of Soviet history. Accompanied by introductory and linking commentary, the documents are organized around such themes as the impact of terror on the citizenry, the childhood experience, the countryside after collectivization, and the role of cadres that were directed to "decide everything." In their own words, peasants and workers, intellectuals and the uneducated, adults and children, men and women, Russians and people from other national groups tell their stories. Their writings reveal how individual lives influenced~and were affected bythe larger events of Soviet history. …