Russia in the era of NEP : explorations in Soviet society and culturebySheila FitzpatrickAlexander RabinowitchRichard Stites

Introduction : NEP Russia as a "transitional" society / William G. Rosenberg -- The problem of class identity in NEP society / Sheila Fitzpatrick -- Class and consciousness in a socialist society : workers in the printing trades during NEP / Diane P. Koenker -- Labor conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925 / John B. Hatch -- Workers' artels and Soviet production relations / Hiroaki Kuromiya -- Private trade and traders during NEP / Alan Ball -- Family life in Moscow during NEP / R.E. Johnson -- Working-class women and the "withering away" of the family : popular responses to family policy / Wendy Z. Goldman -- "Razmychka?" : urban employment and peasant in-migration as sources of social conflict / Douglas R. Weiner -- Soldiers in the proletarian dictatorship : from defending the revolution to building socialism / Mark von Hagen -- Policing the NEP countryside / Neil Weissman., Insoluble conflicts : village life between revolution and collectivization / Helmut Altrichter -- The "quiet revolution" in Soviet intellectual life / Katerina Clark -- The press and its message : images of America in the 1920s and 1930s / Jeffrey Brooks -- Popular literature of the 1920s : Russian peasants as readers / Régine Robin -- Popular song in the NEP era / Robert A. Rothstein -- Bolshevik ritual building in the 1920s / Richard Stites -- Conclusion : understanding NEP society and culture in the light of new research / William G. Rosenberg.

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"... a comprehensive look at an enigmatic era... " -- Choice

"This provocative collection of essays certainly takes some of the polish off Soviet socialism's golden age." -- Journal of Interdisciplinary History

"The authors and editors of this splendid volume deserve great praise. Their work moves the field of Soviet history several large steps forward." -- Slavic Review

Lenin's New Economic Policy of the 1920s, although a relatively free and open potential alternative to Soviet communism, was also a time of extreme tension, as Russian society and culture were rocked by the forces of resistance and change. These essays examine the social and cultural dimensions of NEP in urban and rural Russia in the years before Stalin and rapid industrialization.