TY - BOOK AU - Raleigh,Donald J. TI - Experiencing Russia's Civil War: Politics, Society, and Revolutionary Culture in Saratov, 1917-1922 SN - 9781400843749 AV - DK265.8.S37 U1 - 947/.460841 21 PY - 2021///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union KW - bisacsh KW - ABC of Communism KW - Atkarsk KW - Balashov KW - Black Hundreds KW - Bolsheviks KW - Capitalism KW - Center-periphery relations KW - Dashkovtsy KW - Ivanovo-Voznesensk KW - Jews KW - Kalmyks KW - Kamyshin KW - Khvalynsk KW - Mensheviks KW - absenteeism KW - abuse of power KW - anarchists KW - anti-bourgeois attitudes KW - bourgeoisie KW - bureaucratic centralism KW - censorship KW - centralization KW - coercion KW - colonialism KW - counterrevolution KW - demobilization KW - democracy KW - deurbanization KW - economic conditions KW - elections KW - factionalism KW - food brigades KW - foreigners KW - frontoviki KW - garrison KW - goods exchange KW - gubispolkom KW - gubkom KW - harvest KW - hidden transcripts KW - hostages KW - ideology KW - industrial production KW - kulaks KW - labor exchange KW - land redistribution KW - living conditions KW - lower classes KW - mass discontent KW - mass spectacles KW - militarization KW - mobilizations N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Glossary and Abbreviations Used in Archival Citations --; Introduction: Experiencing Russia's Civil War --; Part One POLITICS --; 1. Revolution on the Volga --; 2. Languages of Power: How the Saratov Bolsheviks Imagined Their Enemies --; 3. The Rise and Fall of the Saratov "Republic" --; 4. Cadres Resolve All: The Communists in Power --; 5. Co-optation amid Repression: The Revolutionary Communists and Other Socialist Parties in Saratov Province --; Part Two SOCIETY AND REVOLUTIONARY CULTURE --; 6. A Community in Disarray, a Community in the Making --; 7. The Cultural Practices of Provincial Communism --; 8. Narratives of Self and Other Saratov's Bourgeoisie --; 9. Not Seeing Like a State The Red Guard Assault on Capital --; 10. Peasants in a Workers' Revolution --; 11. "Given His Class Position, a Worker Can Be Nothing but a Communist" --; 12. A Provincial Kronstadt, Another Tambov? --; Conclusion --; Bibliographical Essay --; Index; restricted access N2 - This book is the only comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, Donald Raleigh is the first historian to fully show how the experience of civil war embedded itself into both the people's and the state's outlook and behavior. He demonstrates how and why the programs and ideals that had propelled the Bolsheviks into power were so quickly lost and the repressive Soviet party-state was born.Experiencing Russia's Civil War is based on exhaustive use of previously classified local and central archives. It is also bold and ambitious in its breadth of thematic coverage, dealing with all aspects of the war experience from institutional evolution and demographics to survival strategies. Complicating our understanding of this formative period, Raleigh provides compelling evidence that many features of the Soviet system that we associate with the Stalin era were already adumbrated and practiced by the early 1920s, as Bolshevism became closed to real alternatives. Raleigh interprets this as the consequence of a complex dynamic shaped by Russia's political tradition and culture, Bolshevik ideology, and dire political, economic, and military crises starting with World War I and strongly reinforced by the indelible, mythologized experience of survival in the Civil War.Fluidly written, replete with new information, and always engaged with important questions, this is history finely wrought UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400843749?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400843749 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400843749/original ER -