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Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self
by
Igal Halfin
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 revolution's drive for discovering, changing, and perfecting the self. The study is based on
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224 pages
Published
February 4th 2011
by University of Washington Press
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A pretty good book from Igal Halfin. This book takes autobiographies written by applicants to the Bolshevik Party during the 1920s as its main field of sources. The results of Halfin's investigations are quite interesting as they reveal new facets to our understanding of the Bolsheviks' worldview, and in particular the way that individuals could narrativise their diverse pasts in a manner which attempted to demomstrate a willful siding with the objective processes of history, i.e. the Party. The
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