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The first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin, this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The Stalinist state understood citizenship as practice, with participation in a set of political rituals and public display of certain "civic emotions" serving as the marker of a person's inclusion in the political world. The state's relations with its citizens were structured by rituals of celebration, thanking, and hatred-rites that required both political awareness and a demonstrable emotional response. Soviet functionaries transmitted this obligation to ordinary citizens through the mechanisms of communal authority (workplace committees, volunteer agitators, and other forms of peer pressure) as much as through brutal state coercion. Yet, the population also often imbued these ceremonies-elections, state holidays, parades, mass rallies, subscriptions to state bonds-with different meanings: as a popular fete, an occasion to get together after work, a chance to purchase goods not available on other days, and even as an opportunity to indulge in some drinking. The people also understood these political rituals as moments of negotiation whereby citizens fulfilling their

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Plný název: Stalin's Citizens
• Autor: Serhy Yekelchyk
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 288
• EAN: 9780199378449
• ISBN: 0199378444
• ID: 02616872
• Nakladatelství: Oxford University Press Inc
• Hmotnost: 514 g
• Rozměry: 236 × 165 × 24 mm
• Datum vydání: 11. September 2014

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