Russia in the Era of NEP

"... a comprehensive look at an enigmatic era... " --Choice

"This provocative collection of essays certainly takes some of the polish off Soviet socialism's golden age." --Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"The authors and editors of this splendid volume deserve great praise. Their work moves the field of Soviet history several large steps forward." --Slavic Review

Lenin's New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays examine the social and cultural dimensions of NEP in urban and rural Russia in the years before Stalin and rapid industrialization.

Lenin's New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays examine the social and cultural dimensions of NEP in urban and rural Russia in the years before Stalin and rapid industrialization.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-330) and index.

Preface

I. Introduction: NEP Russia as a Transitional Society

William G. Rosenberg

II. The Problem of Class Identity in NEP Society

Sheila Fitzpatrick

III. Class and Consciousness in a Socialist Society: Workers in the Printing Trades during NEP

Diane P. Koenker

IV. Labor Conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925

John B. Hatch

V. Workers' Artels and Soviet Production Relations

Hiroaki Kuromiya

VI. Private Trade and Traders during NEP

R.E. Johnson

VII. Family Life in Moscow during NEP

VIII. Working-Class Women and the Withering Away of the Family: Popular Responses to Family Policy

Wendy Z. Goldman

IX. Razmychka? Urban Unemployment and Peasant In-migration as Sources of Social Conflict

Douglas R. Weiner

X. Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: From Defending the Revolution to Building Socialism

Mark von Hagen

XI. Policing the NEP Countryside

Neil Weissman

XII. Insoluble Conflicts: Villiage Life Between Revolution and Collectivization

Helmut Altrichter

XIII. The Quiet Revolution in Soviet Intellectual Life

Katrina Clark

XIV. The Press and Its Message: Images of America in the 1920s and 1930s

Jeffrey Brooks

XV. Popular Literature of the 1920s: Russian Peasants as Readers

Regine Robin

XVI. Popular Song in the NEP Era

Robert A. Rothstein

XVII. Bolshevik Ritual Building in the 1920s

Richard Stites

XVIII. Conclusion: Understanding NEP Society and Culture in the Light of New Research

William G. Rosenberg

Selected Bibliography

Lori A. Citti

Contributors

Index