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Author:   Diane P. Koenker
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Cornell University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9780801443084

ISBN 10:   0801443083
Pages:   360
Publication Date:   09 June 2005
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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In this beautifully crafted and deeply researched book, Diane P. Koenker explores with characteristic subtlety the social world of Soviet printers, reconstructing their responses to the drama of revolution and socialist modernization. In the richest study to date of the meanings of class in the Soviet Union, she reveals the complexity of printers' identities, engaging with issues of production, consumption, 'participatory dictatorship, ' gender, generation, language and culture. It is a wonderful achievement. Steve Smith, University of Essex

In a compelling and erudite exploration of the multiplicity of printers' voices and identities, Diane P. Koenker examines the ways in which printers fashioned a masculine working-class culture that co-opted some elements of the proletarian ideal but rejected others as they sought to preserve their individualism, boisterous behavior, and quest for material security. The focus on workers' everyday resistance to and negotiation with the regime challenges traditional understandings of NEP and the so-called 'Great Turn' in significant ways. -Christine D. Worobec, Presidential Research Professor and Professor of Russian History, Northern Illinois University

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Diane P. Koenker is Professor of History at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Republic of Labor: Russian Printers and Soviet Socialism, 1918-1930 and Club Red: Vacation Travel and the Soviet Dream, and is the coeditor of Turizm: The Russian and East European Tourist under Capitalism and Socialism, all from Cornell.

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