Tear off the Masks! Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia

Abstract

List of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER ONE: Becoming Soviet 3 PART I. Class Identities 27 CHAPTER TWO: The Bolshevik Invention of Class 29 CHAPTER THREE: Class Identities in NEP Society 51 CHAPTER FOUR: Class and Soslovie 71 PART II. Lives 89 CHAPTER FIVE: Lives under Fire 91 CHAPTER SIX: The Two Faces of Anastasia 102 CHAPTER SEVEN: Story of a Peasant Striver 114 CHAPTER EIGHT: Women's Lives 125 PART III. Appeals 153 CHAPTER NINE: Supplicants and Citizens 155 CHAPTER TEN: Patrons and Clients 182 PART IV. Denunciations 203 CHAPTER ELEVEN: Signals from Below 205 CHAPTER TWELVE: Wives' Tales 240 PART V. Impostures 263 CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The World of Ostap Bender 265 CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Con Man as Jew 282 AFTERWORD 301 CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Becoming Post-Soviet 303 Selected Further reading 319 Index 323