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  title info:
    title: Inventing the enemy
    sub title: denunciation and terror in Stalin's Russia
  name:
    name part: Goldman, Wendy Z.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 320 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: "Ordinary people and the Stalinist terror uses stories of personal relationships to explore the behavior of ordinary people during Stalin's terror. Communist Party leaders targeted specific groups for arrest, but also strongly encouraged ordinary citizens and party members to "unmask the hidden enemy." People responded by flooding the secret police and local authorities with accusations. By 1937, every work place was convulsed by hyper-vigilance, intense suspicion, and the hunt for hidden enemies. Spouses, coworkers, friends, and relatives disavowed and denounced each other. People confronted hideous dilemmas. Forced to lie to protect loved ones, they struggled to reconcile political imperatives and personal loyalties. Work places were turned into snake pits. The strategies that people used to protect themselves--naming names, preemptive denunciations, and shifting blame--all helped to spread the terror. A history of the terror in five Moscow factories [that] explores personal relationships and individual behavior within a pervasive political culture of "enemy hunting.""--Provided by publisher.
  abstract: "This book explores the behavior of ordinary people during Stalin's terror, revealing the terrible dilemmas people confronted in their struggles to survive"--Provided by publisher.
  table of contents: The terror : a short political primer -- Comrades and coworkers -- Family secrets -- Love, loyalty, and betrayal -- The final paroxysm -- Conclusion.
  note: Wendy Z. Goldman.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-ur---
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1936-1953
  subject:
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: Social conditions
    temporal: 1917-1945
  subject:
    topic: Political purges
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Political culture
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: State-sponsored terrorism
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kommunisticheskai͡a partii͡a Sovetskogo Soi͡uza
    topic: Purges
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Working class
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Interpersonal relations
    geographic: Soviet Union
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Factories
    geographic: Russia (Federation)
    geographic: Moscow
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Moscow (Russia)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century
  classification: DK268.4 .G65 2011
  classification: 947.084/2
  classification: HIS037070
  identifier: 9780521191968 (hardback)
  identifier: 0521191963 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780521145626 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0521145627 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2011002164
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 110114
    record change date: 20151202142621.0
    record identifier: in00002709450