Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades

Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies--Alexander Rabinowitch and William G. Rosenberg, editorsContentsInterpreting Soviet CelebrationsPart 1: Soviet Popular Culture and Mass MobilizationParading the Nation: Demonstrations and the Construction of Soviet IdentitiesImagining the Motherland: The Celebration of Soviet Aviation and Polar ExploitsFir Trees and Carnivals: The Celebration of Soviet New Year's DayPart 2: The Intelligentsia and Soviet EnlightenmentA Double-edged Discourse on Freedom: The Pushkin Centennial of 1937Anniversary of Turmoil: The Twentieth Anniversary of the October RevolutionCelebrating Civic Participation: The Stalin Constitution and Elections as Rituals of DemocracyCelebrations and Power