Yiannis Kokosalakis

Building Socialism

The Communist Party and the Making of the Soviet System, 1921-1941

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides the first detailed examination of rank-and-file communist party activism as an element of governance in the Soviet system, offering an empirical account of the bottom level of the apparatus of the Soviet Communist Party in its formative years.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009218849
• ISBN-10: 1009218840
• Artikelnr.: 72880398

Autorenporträt

Yiannis Kokosalakis is a Research Fellow in the Faculty of History, Philosophy and Theology at Bielefeld University. His research focuses on the history of the socialist states of the twentieth century and the experience of revolutionary movements in government and has published a number of articles on Soviet labour relations, ideological instruction, and political reform. He has held a European Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship and received a National University of Ireland Early Career Award for his work.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations and Russian terms
Introduction: the Communist Party in Leninist theory, Soviet practice and historical scholarship
1. Building a workers' party
2. Which way to socialism? NEP and the struggle for power
3. Laying the foundations: the rank-and-file and rapid industrialisation
4. Marxism and clean canteens: cultural activism between ideology and practice
5. Democratisation and repression
6. Party activism on the road to war
7. Conclusion: the vanguard concept as a promising category for historical research
Bibliography.