Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades by Karen Petrone - 9780253337689

Life Has Become More Joyous, ComradesCelebrations in the Time of Stalin\nAuthor(s): Karen Petrone\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253337689, 978-0253337689\nSynopsis\nLife Has Become More Joyous, Comrades\n Celebrations in the Time of Stalin\n Karen Petrone\n A lively investigation of the official and unofficial meanings of Stalinist celebrations.\n \""An impressive and highly readable book that . . . casts a clear and disturbing light on the relationship of Stalinist mythology, state power, popular participation, and the unending complexities of social and cultural survival mechanisms and daily life.\"" Richard Stites\n In the Soviet Union in the 1930s, public celebrations flourished while Stalinist repression intensified. What explains this coincidence of terror and celebration? Using popular media and drawing extensively on documents from previously inaccessible Soviet archives, Karen Petrone demor