List of Figures and Table

A Note on Conventions

Terms and Acronyms

Introduction: Mobilization, Populism, and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity

1. Tsarist and Early Soviet Society's Weak Sense of National Identity

Part One: 1931-1941

2. Mobilizing Stalinist Society in the Early to Mid-1930s

3. The Emergence of Russocentric Etatism

4. Ideology in the Prewar Classroom

5. Popularizing State Ideology through Mass Culture

6. The Popular Reception of National Bolshevism on the Eve of War

Part Two: 1941-1945

7. Wartime Stalinist Ideology and Its Discontents

8. Ideological Education on the Home Front

9. Wartime Mass Culture and Propaganda

10. Popular Engagement with the Official Line during the War

Part Three: 1945-1953

11. Soviet Ideology during the Zhdanovshchina and High Stalinism

12. Public and Party Education during the Early Postwar Period

13. Postwar Soviet Mass Culture

14. The Popular Reception of Ideology during Stalin's Last Decade

Conclusion: National Bolshevism and a Modern Russian National Identity

Appendix: Civic History Textbook Development, 1934-1955

Notes

Index

David Brandenberger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond.