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OverviewThe 'Cominternians' who staffed the Communist International in Moscow from its establishment in 1919 to its dissolution in 1943 led transnational lives and formed a cosmopolitan but closed and privileged world. The book tells of their experience in the Soviet Union through the decades of hope and terror. Full Product DetailsAuthor: B. StuderPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 3.067kg ISBN: 9781349506248ISBN 10: 1349506249 Pages: 227 Publication Date: 01 January 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Bolshevik Model 2. The New Woman 3. In Stalin's Moscow 4. Soviet Party Practices 5. Becoming a 'Real Bolshevik' 6. The Party and the Private 7. From Comrades to Spies 8. Epilogue Bibliography IndexReviewsThis book presents a concentrated and engaging collection of historian Brigitte Studer's research on international communism and its pivotal centre between the wars ... . This book must surely be recommended to anyone interested in the Comintern, and will soon be seen as a standard reference work by both established scholars and future students of international communism and the Comintern. (Fredrik Petersson, International Review of Social History, Vol. 61, April, 2016) This book presents a concentrated and engaging collection of historian Brigitte Studer's research on international communism and its pivotal centre between the wars ... . This book must surely be recommended to anyone interested in the Comintern, and will soon be seen as a standard reference work by both established scholars and future students of international communism and the Comintern. (Fredrik Petersson, International Review of Social History, Vol. 61, April, 2016) Brigitte Studer emphasizes the importance of Soviet autobiographical practices in the lives of international communists. ... chapters could easily be assigned to advanced undergraduates as standalone essays. The book provides a brief, accessible, and engaging English-language survey of Studer's theoretically sophisticated body of work on international communism and Soviet subjectivity. (Lisa A. Kirschenbaum, Slavic Review, 2016) Author InformationBrigitte Studer is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Bern, Switzerland, specialising in the histories of communism, Stalinism and gender. She has published widely on the Comintern, on political and cultural interactions between European communism and the Soviet Union, on gender and communism, and on communist subjectivities. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |