Everyday Stalinism

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Joshie quotes:
> Sheila Fitzpatrick, _Everyday Stalinism -- Ordinary Life In 
> Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930's_: 
> <http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-505000-2> & 
> <http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-505001-0>.
> 
> Sheila Fitzpatrick: 
> <http://history.uchicago.edu/faculty/fitzpatrick.html>
>
> jobs. As Fitzpatrick points out, this gambling mentality was the 
> antithesis of the official mentality stressing rational planning. 
> Outwardly obedient, Homo sovieticus retained a degree of skepticism. 
> "Homo sovieticus was a string-puller, an operator, a time-server, a 
> freeloader, a mouther of slogans, and much more. But above all, he 
> was a survivor" (p. 227).

Such a passage written by an American writer is in the same class as a
Nazi hack reproaching Soviets for their anti-semitism or labor camps.  
For the gambling games Homo americanus  play at work see Michael
Burawoy, _Manufacturing Consent_.

Wojtek