Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
by
Victor Petrov, Riley Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the Communist state as a provider of goods for the ‘deserving poor’ can be seen as a powerful metaphor for understanding Soviet life as a whole....