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Living the revolution : urban communes and Soviet socialism, 1917-1932 / Andy Willimott.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford studies in modern European historyPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Description: viii, 203p. ; 25cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0198725825
  • 9780198725824
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.76094709041 WIL 22
LOC classification:
  • HM758 .W54 2017
Contents:
List of illustrations -- Acronyms in archival citations -- A note on names and transliteration. Introduction: making their revolution -- Revolutionary beginnings -- Socialism in one dormitory: student communes -- Socialism in one apartment: Byt communes -- Socialism in one factory: production communes -- Early Stalinism and the urban communes -- Conclusion: the commune is dead, vive le communard! -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: This book offers a pioneers insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book is a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. The book illuminates the thoughts and aspirations of individual activists as the idea of the urban commune grew from an experimental form of living, limited to a handful of participants in Petrograd and Moscow, into a cultural phenomenon that saw tens of thousands of youths form their own domestic united of socialist living by the end of the 1920s.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-189) and index (pages [191]-203)

List of illustrations -- Acronyms in archival citations -- A note on names and transliteration. Introduction: making their revolution -- Revolutionary beginnings -- Socialism in one dormitory: student communes -- Socialism in one apartment: Byt communes -- Socialism in one factory: production communes -- Early Stalinism and the urban communes -- Conclusion: the commune is dead, vive le communard! -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book offers a pioneers insight into the world of the early Soviet activist. At the heart of this book is a cast of fiery-eyed, bed-headed youths determined to be the change they wanted to see in the world. The book illuminates the thoughts and aspirations of individual activists as the idea of the urban commune grew from an experimental form of living, limited to a handful of participants in Petrograd and Moscow, into a cultural phenomenon that saw tens of thousands of youths form their own domestic united of socialist living by the end of the 1920s.

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