Red Autobiographies

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University of Washington Press

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491_9780295991122

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In Red Autobiographies, Igal Halfin reads admission records of the Soviet Communist Party cells in the 1920s for what they reveal about the politics of self-representation in Bolshevik political culture. He identifies ways of speaking about oneself as a central arena of the Soviet revolutions drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on sources-many of which are no longer as freely accessible as they were during the heyday of the Soviet archival bonanza - in provincial party archives in Leningrad, Smolensk, and Tomsk. Its principal merit is Halfins masterful handling and interpretation of those sources. The study also serves as a popular short course on Halfins seminal contributions to the historiographies of Russia, communism, and modern subjectivity.

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