Raised under Stalin : young communists and the defense of socialism

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Label

Raised under Stalin : young communists and the defense of socialism

Title remainder

young communists and the defense of socialism

Statement of responsibility

Seth Bernstein

Creator

• Bernstein, Seth

Author

• Bernstein, Seth

Subject

• History
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
• Socialism and youth
• Socialism and youth -- Soviet Union -- History
• Soviet Union
• 1925-1953
• Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi
• Vsesoi︠u︡znyĭ leninskiĭ kommunisticheskiĭ soi︠u︡z molodezhi -- History
• Youth
• Youth -- Soviet Union -- History
• Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
• HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin's regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war. Informed by declassified materials from post-Soviet archives, as well as films, memoirs, and diaries by and about youth, Raised under Stalin explains the divided status of youth for the Bolsheviks: they were the "new people" who would someday build communism, the potential soldiers who would defend the USSR, and the hooligans who might undermine it from within. Bernstein explains how, although Soviet revolutionary youth culture began as the preserve of proletarian activists, the Komsomol transformed under Stalin to become a mass organization of moral education; youth became the targets of state repression even as Stalin's regime offered them the opportunity to participate in political culture. Raised under Stalin follows Stalinist youth into their ultimate test, World War II. Even as the war against Germany decimated the ranks of Young Communists, Bernstein finds evidence that it cemented Stalinist youth culture as a core part of socialism

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

305.2350947084

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

HQ799.R9

LC item number

B385 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography