Siegelbaum Lewis. Soviet State and Society between Revolutions, 1918-1929

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 0521369878; ISBN13: 978-0521369879 — (Cambridge Russian Paperbacks. Book 8)This is the first book to analyze the relationship between the Soviet state and society from the October Revolution of 1917 to the revolution under Stalin of the late 1920s and early 1930s. Professor Lewis Siegelbaum explores the evolution of the ruling Communist Party and its New Economic Policy and the changing fortunes of industrial workers, peasants, and the scientific and cultural intelligentsia. He demonstrates how these different actors sought to appropriate the promise of the 1917 Revolution for their own purposes, highlights the compromises they made, and explains why in the late 1920s these compromises started to break down.Preface and acknowledgments
Russian terms and abbreviationsBequeathals of the revolution, 1918-1920The dictatorship of the proletariat - theorization and realization
The "ruling" proletariat
The awkward peasants
The intelligentsia and significant "others"
Conclusion: deconstructing "War Communism"The crisis of 1920-1921The perils of retreat and recoveryThe peasants in triumph
Cooperative socialism?
The accursed nepmeri
Workers and industrial recovery
The intelligentsia in limbo
The in-gathering of nations
Rises and falls within the partyLiving with NEPAgrarian debates
The marriage law debate: the gendering of class and the classing of gender
Religion, anti-religion and double faith
Industrialization debates
Making workers productiveDangers and opportunitiesThe countryside in crisis
The crisis of the working class
The crisis of the intelligentsia
Epilogue and conclusion