Anxious Life: Shortages and Losses in Revolutionary Russia
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Anxious Life: Shortages and Losses in Revolutionary Russia
29.99 €
The shortages, deprivations, and losses experienced by the Russian population between 1914 and 1921—during the acute phase of internal crisis, political conflict, and the "long world war"—were catastrophic. Shortages of materials and foodstuffs caused problems with market exchange, prices and inflation, production and distribution, and generally destabilized the state's entire fiscal policy. But the shortages also had an emotional side: the economic crisis intensified discussions about justice, sacrifice, and social differences, linking them to concerns related to "food insecurity" and fears regarding the well-being of families and society.
Using archival documents and primary sources, W. Rosenberg offers a look at how first the tsarist, and then the liberal democratic and Bolshevik regimes unsuccessfully struggled with the forms and consequences of shortages. According to the book's author, studying the emotional aspects that obscure the real consequences of famine and human loss, deciphering historical emotions, and paying attention to the descriptive languages that give coherence to events and feelings contribute to a better understanding of the social and cultural foundations of revolutionary upheavals.
William Rosenberg is a historian and professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, USA.
Using archival documents and primary sources, W. Rosenberg offers a look at how first the tsarist, and then the liberal democratic and Bolshevik regimes unsuccessfully struggled with the forms and consequences of shortages. According to the book's author, studying the emotional aspects that obscure the real consequences of famine and human loss, deciphering historical emotions, and paying attention to the descriptive languages that give coherence to events and feelings contribute to a better understanding of the social and cultural foundations of revolutionary upheavals.
William Rosenberg is a historian and professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Michigan, USA.
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