001479346 000__ 04871nam\a22008175i\4500 001479346 001__ 1479346 001479346 003__ DE-B1597 001479346 005__ 20231026035022.0 001479346 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001479346 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001479346 008__ 221201t20032003mau\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001479346 020__ $$a9780674273306 001479346 0247_ $$a10.4159/9780674273306$$2doi 001479346 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)613934 001479346 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1294426012 001479346 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001479346 0410_ $$aeng 001479346 044__ $$amau$$cUS-MA 001479346 050_4 $$aDK267 001479346 072_7 $$aHIS032000$$2bisacsh 001479346 08204 $$a335.43 01$$221 001479346 1001_ $$aHalfin, Igal, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001479346 24510 $$aTerror in My Soul :$$bCommunist Autobiographies on Trial /$$cIgal Halfin. 001479346 264_1 $$aCambridge, MA : $$bHarvard University Press, $$c[2003] 001479346 264_4 $$c©2003 001479346 300__ $$a1 online resource (366 p.) 001479346 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001479346 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001479346 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001479346 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001479346 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tIntroduction -- $$tCHAPTER 1 Good and Evil in Communism -- $$tCHAPTER 2 A Voyage toward the Light -- $$tCHAPTER 3 The Bolshevik Discourse on the Psyche -- $$tCHAPTER 4 From a Weak Body to an Omnipotent Mind -- $$tCHAPTER 5 Looking into the Oppositionist Soul -- $$tEpilogue: Communism and Death -- $$tNotes -- $$tIndex 001479346 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001479346 520__ $$aIn this innovative and revelatory work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the Bolsheviks enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers, and Party prophets to establish criteria for judging people. Self-inspection became a central Bolshevik practice. Communists were expected to write autobiographies in which they reconfigured their life experience in line with the demands of the Party. Halfin traces the intellectual contortions of this project. Initially, the Party denounced deviant Communists, especially the Trotskyists, as degenerate, but innocuous, souls; but in a chilling turn in the mid-1930s, the Party came to demonize the unreformed as virulent, malicious counterrevolutionaries. The insistence that the good society could not triumph unless every wicked individual was destroyed led to the increasing condemnation of Party members as helplessly flawed. Combining the analysis of autobiography with the study of Communist psychology and sociology and the politics of Bolshevik self-fashioning, Halfin gives us powerful new insight into the preconditions of the bloodbath that was the Great Purge. 001479346 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001479346 546__ $$aIn English. 001479346 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) 001479346 650_0 $$aLanguage and languages$$xPolitical aspects. 001479346 650_0 $$aPolitical purges$$zSoviet Union. 001479346 650_7 $$aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.$$2bisacsh 001479346 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001479346 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$z9783110442212 001479346 77308 $$iTitle is part of eBook package:$$dDe Gruyter$$tHarvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$z9783110442205 001479346 852__ $$bebk 001479346 85640 $$3De Gruyter$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674273306$$zOnline Access 001479346 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1479346$$pGLOBAL_SET 001479346 912__ $$a978-3-11-044220-5 Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013$$c2000$$d2013 001479346 912__ $$a978-3-11-044221-2 HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999$$c1893$$d1999 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_BACKALL 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_CL_HICS 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_EBACKALL 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_EBKALL 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_ECL_HICS 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_EEBKALL 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_ESSHALL 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_PPALL 001479346 912__ $$aEBA_SSHALL 001479346 912__ $$aGBV-deGruyter-alles 001479346 912__ $$aPDA11SSHE 001479346 912__ $$aPDA13ENGE 001479346 912__ $$aPDA17SSHEE 001479346 912__ $$aPDA5EBK 001479346 980__ $$aBIB 001479346 980__ $$aEBOOK 001479346 982__ $$aEbook 001479346 983__ $$aOnline