Terror in My Soul

Terror in My Soul

Einband:
Fester Einband
EAN:
9780674010321
Untertitel:
Communist Autobiographies on Trial
Genre:
Politikwissenschaft
Autor:
Igal Halfin
Herausgeber:
Harvard University Press
Anzahl Seiten:
366
Erscheinungsdatum:
30.07.2003
ISBN:
978-0-674-01032-1

Autorentext
Igal Halfin is Associate Professor of History at Tel Aviv University.

Klappentext
In this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the Bolsheviks enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers, and Party prophets to establish criteria for judging people. Self-inspection became a central Bolshevik practice. Communists were expected to write autobiographies in which they reconfigured their life experience in line with the demands of the Party. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin gives us powerful new insight into the preconditions of the bloodbath that was the Great Purge.


Zusammenfassung
Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin provides new insight into the preconditions of the Great Purge.

Inhalt
Preface Introduction 1. Good and Evil in Communism 2. A Voyage toward the Light 3. The Bolshevik Discourse on the Psyche 4. From a Weak Body to an Omnipotent Mind 5. Looking into the Oppositionist Soul Epilogue: Communism and Death Notes Index


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