Introduction SHEILA FITZPATRICK

PART I Social identities
Introduction to Part I

1 Ascribing class: the construction of social identity in Soviet Russia SHEILA FITZPATRICK
2 "Us against them": social identity in Soviet Russia. 1934-41 SARAH DAVIES

PART II Private and public practices
Introduction to Part II

3 Fashioning the Stalinist soul: the diary of Stepan Podlubnyi. 1931-9 JOCHEN HELLBECK
4 Denunciation and its functions in Soviet governance: from the archive of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1944-53 VLADIMIR A. KOZLOV
5 Games of Stalinist democracy: ideological discussions in Soviet sciences 1947-52 ALEXEI KOJEVNIKOV

PART III Consumption and civilization
Introduction to Part III

6 Cultured trade: the Stalinist turn towards consumerism JULIE HESSLER
7 The concept of kuVturnost': notes on the Stalinist civilizing process VADIM VOLKOV
8 "Dear comrade, you ask what we need": socialist paternalism and Soviet rural "notables" in the mid-1930s LEWIS H. SIEGELBAUM

PART IV Varieties of terror
Introduction to Part IV

9 The purging of local cliques in the Urals region. 1936-7 JAMES R. HARRIS
10 "Socially harmful elements" and the Great Terror PAUL HAGENLOH

PART V Nationality as a status
Introduction to Part V

11 The Soviet Union as a communal apartment, or how a socialist state promoted ethnic particularism YURI SLEZKINE
12 Modernization or neo-traditionalism? Ascribed nationality and Soviet primordialism TERRY MARTIN
Further reading
Index