Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self
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Igal Halfin (Author)
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In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a central arena of the Soviet revolution's drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on sources-many of which are no longer as freely accessible as they were during the heyday of the Soviet "archival bonanza" - in provincial party archives in Leningrad, Smolensk, and Tomsk. Its principal merit is Halfin's masterful handling and interpretation of those sources. The study also serves as a popular "short course" on Halfin's seminal contributions to the historiographies of Russia, communism, and modern subjectivity.
About the Author
Igal Halfin is a professor of modern history in Tel Aviv University.
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- Contributor: Igal Halfin
- Imprint: University of Washington Press
- ISBN13: 9780295991122
- Number of Pages: 224
- Packaged Dimensions: 229x152mm
- Packaged Weight: 363
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: University of Washington Press
- Release Date: 2011-02-04
- Series: Donald W. Treadgold Studies on Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Igal Halfin is a professor of modern history in Tel Aviv University.
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