One Day We Will Live Without Fear : Everyday Lives Under the Soviet Police State.

By:

Harrison, Mark

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780817919184

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: One Day We Will Live Without FearDDC classification:

363.20947000000001

LOC classification:

HV8224 .H377 2016

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Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- CHAPTER ONE: The Mill -- CHAPTER TWO: Truth Hurts -- CHAPTER THREE: Heretics -- CHAPTER FOUR: The Mafia -- CHAPTER FIVE: You Have Been Warned -- CHAPTER SIX: A Grand Tour -- CHAPTER SEVEN: One Day We Will Live without Fear -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Fact and Fantasy in Soviet Records -- Endnotes -- References -- Index.

Summary: What was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule. The author outlines the seven principles on which that police state operated during its history, from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and illustrates them throughout the book. Well-known people appear in the stories, but the central characters are those who will have been remembered only within their families: a budding artist, an engineer, a pensioner, a government office worker, a teacher, a group of tourists. Those tales, based on historical records, shine a light on the many tragic, funny, and bizarre aspects of Soviet life.

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What was life in the Soviet Union really like? Through a series of true stories, One Day We Will Live Without Fear describes what people's day-to-day life was like under the regime of the Soviet police state. Drawing on events from the 1930s through the 1970s, Mark Harrison shows how, by accident or design, people became entangled in the workings of Soviet rule. The author outlines the seven principles on which that police state operated during its history, from the Bolshevik revolution of 1917 to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and illustrates them throughout the book. Well-known people appear in the stories, but the central characters are those who will have been remembered only within their families: a budding artist, an engineer, a pensioner, a government office worker, a teacher, a group of tourists. Those tales, based on historical records, shine a light on the many tragic, funny, and bizarre aspects of Soviet life.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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