9780295991122 : red-autobiographies-halfin

Paperback / softback

224 Pages

$30.00 USD

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	February 4, 2011
ISBN-13	9780295991122
Language	English
Pages	224
Height	6.00 Inches (US)
Width	9.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.8 Pounds (US)
List Price	$30.00 USD
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Red Autobiographies

Name: Red Autobiographies
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Author: Igal Halfin
ISBN: 9780295991122

Initiating the Bolshevik Self

By Igal Halfin

University of Washington Press

In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a central arena of the Soviet revolution's drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on sources-many of which are no longer as freely accessible as they were during the heyday of the Soviet "archival bonanza" - in provincial party archives in Leningrad, Smolensk, and Tomsk. Its principal merit is Halfin's masterful handling and interpretation of those sources. The study also serves as a popular "short course" on Halfin's seminal contributions to the historiographies of Russia, communism, and modern subjectivity.

About the Author

Igal Halfin is a professor of modern history in Tel Aviv University.

Review

". . . Halfin's first-rate readings of this material makes for very compelling reading."—Auri C. Berg, Canadian Slavonic Papers, March-June 2012

"Using as his main source autobiographies written by people who wanted to join the Bolshevik party during the initial postrevolutionary years, Halfin demonstrates how these Bosheviks-to-be learned to narrate their lives in the language of the new political regime."—Serguei Oushakine, The Russian Review, June 2012

". . . [Halfin] consistently provides analytically rich, theoretically challenging and inspiring works. To dismiss his penetrating and creative revisionism is to suffer from a more intellectually debilitating form of myopia."—Sean Guillory, The NEP Era: Soviet Russia 1921-1928, 2011

Publisher	University of Washington Press
Series	Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
BISAC Subject Headings	HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union (9 Titles)
BIC Subject Headings	European history (346 Titles)

Format	Paperback / softback
Published	February 4, 2011
ISBN-13	9780295991122
Language	English
Pages	224
Height	6.00 Inches (US)
Width	9.00 Inches (US)
Unit weight	.8 Pounds (US)
List Price	$30.00 USD
ONIX	v2.1 Reference