Thank you, comrade Stalin!: Soviet public culture from revolution to Cold War

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments xi Prologue xii One The Monopoly of the Printed Word: From Persuasion to Compulsion 3 Two The First Decade: From Class War to Socialist Building 19 Three The Performance Begins 54 Four The Economy of the Gift: Thank You, Comrade for a Happy Childhood 83 Five Literature and the Arts: An Ode to Stalin 106 Six Honor and Dishonor 126 Seven Many Wars, One Victory 159 Eight The Theft of the War 195 Epilogue Renewal, Stagnation, and Collapse 233 Notes 249 Index 307