Wilson Center Experts
David Hoffman
Research Grant
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
Affiliation:
Associate Professor, Ohio State University
Wilson Center Project(s):
The Search for Order in Stalinist Society: Definitions of Morality and Respectability, 1929 - 1941
Term:
Mar 01, 1997
Jul 01, 1997
Project Summary
the turn away from revolutionary values in the Soviet Union during the 1930s sociological origins of this shift in official culture, with emphasis upon the new elite that emerged in this period and its reasons for conforming to traditional definitions of morality and respectability political and disciplinary functions of traditional values in the Soviet context Soviet elite during 1930s;