States of anxiety : scarcity and loss in revolutionary Russia /
"What were the effects of scarcity and loss in Russia between 1914 and 1922: scarcities of necessary goods as well as their accompanying insecurities and anxieties, unimaginable loss in the carnage of war as well as its physical, socioeconomic, and psychological displacements? And why has the v...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "What were the effects of scarcity and loss in Russia between 1914 and 1922: scarcities of necessary goods as well as their accompanying insecurities and anxieties, unimaginable loss in the carnage of war as well as its physical, socioeconomic, and psychological displacements? And why has the vast literature on revolutionary Russia largely ignored the importance of these effects? Based on archival and other contemporary sources, this study attempts to answer these questions by “putting the Russian revolution in its place,” examining the period by contextualizing the grave issues of scarcity and loss that each successive regime was forced to address. In the process, it focuses not on the well-known efforts of the individuals and parties that sought to shape Russia's historical future, although these are duly referenced, but on the locations and nature of power in terms of their ability to manage the determining effects of scarcity and loss that increasingly defined the material and emotional deprivations of revolutionary Russia as a whole. The emphasis throughout is on the continuity of these underlying processes through radically different regimes during Russia's “long world war” from 1914 to 1922. A brief concluding epilogue suggests their continuation in various ways throughout the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods, as well as perestroika and its aftermath. States of Anxiety is thus written to further inform general readers about this seminal historical moment as well as to stimulate scholars to reconsider the ways the Great Stories of Russia's revolution, as well as others, have largely been told"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197610183 0197610188 9780197610176 019761017X 0197610161 9780197610169 |