Everyday Stalinism

[ChrisD(RJ)]

I haven't read _Everyday Stalinism_ -- you may very well be right 
about it overall, though I don't see any reproach in the particular 
quotation on which you comment.  I'm sure parallels existed between 
American and Soviet shop floors, but you can't learn about lives of 
Soviet citizens by reading _Manufacturing Consent_.  I'm intrigued by 
what appears to be a new interest in everyday life of Soviet citizens 
in all periods of Soviet history, written by scholars with 
wide-ranging political persuasions.
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Yoshie
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It's because Russia, which many paople wrote off a few years ago, is
currently resurgent. It's also increasingly obvious that the collapse of the
USSR was a Very, Very Bad Thing.