What is it about?
SETH BERNSTEIN INVESTIGATES THE DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE Stalinist regime and Soviet youth in the period from 1920 until the end of World War II. He describes how Stalin, assisted by youth organisations and activists, established a union-wide Soviet youth culture and identity. His book explains the changing attitudes and policies towards young people at a time when the Soviet Union faced internal challenges and external enemies and the threat of war
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Why is it important?
The work seeks to explain how an authoritarian regime has historically used youth movements to help create pro-regime citizens.
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This a very useful and well-written study, perhaps the most up-to-date analysis on the topic of Soviet socialisation and youth movements.
Dr Sevket Akyildiz
SOAS University of London
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This page is a summary of: Raised Under Stalin. Young Communists and the Defence of Socialism, Europe Asia Studies, March 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09668136.2019.1593621.
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