Russia in the Era of NEP: Explorations in Soviet Society and Culture: No. 657

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Contents Preface I. Introduction: NEP Russia as a “Transitional” Society II. The Problem of Class Identity in NEP Society III. Class and Consciousness in a Socialist Society: Workers in the Printing Trades during NEP IV. Labor Conflict in Moscow, 1921-1925 V. Workers’ Artels and Soviet Production Relations VI. Private Trade and Traders during NEP VII. Family Life in Moscow during NEP VIII. Working-Class Women and the “Withering Away” of the Family: Popular Responses to Family Policy IX. “Razmychka?” Urban Unemployment and Peasant In-migration as Sources of Social Conflict X. Soldiers in the Proletarian Dictatorship: From Defending the Revolution to Building Socialism XI. Policing the NEP Countryside XII. Insoluble Conflicts: Village Life between Revolution and Collectivization XIII. The “Quiet Revolution” in Soviet Intellectual Life XIV. The Press and Its Message: Images of America in the 1920s and 1930s XV. Popular Literature of the 1920s: Russian Peasants as Readers XVI. Popular Song in the NEP Era XVII. Bolshevik Ritual Building in the 1920s XVIII. Conclusion: Understanding NEP Society and Culture in the Light of New Research