Tear Off the Masks!: Identity and Imposture in Twentieth-Century Russia

by Sheila Fitzpatrick

Book Overview

When revolutions happen, they change the rules of everyday life--both the codified rules concerning the social and legal classifications of citizens and the unwritten rules about how individuals present themselves to others. This occurred in Russia after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which laid the foundations of the Soviet state, and again in 1991, when that state collapsed. Tear Off the Masks! is about the remaking of identities in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122458
• ISBN13: 9780691122458
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"