Power and possession in the Russian Revolution / (Record no. 244592)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780691205540
Qualifying information (hardback)
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency PMML
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 323.460947
Item number R4
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name O'Donnell, Anne,
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Power and possession in the Russian Revolution /
Statement of responsibility, etc Anne O'Donnell.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Jersey :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Princeton University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2024
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xix, 370 p. ;
Other physical details illustrations, portraits ;
Dimensions 25 cm.
490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Histories of economic life
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references (pages 287- 346) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introduction. An infinity of treasures -- Prologue. Municipal socialism -- Making space for revolution : sorting people and spaces in the revolutionary city -- Movable people, immovable things : the redistribution of household goods -- Accounting for socialism : inventories of the built environment -- The wealth of the whole nation : searching for value at Gokhran -- Return and revolution's end.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "Most histories of economic life explore how markets are built. This book looks instead at how they have been dismantled. Soon after the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia, they began the process of transforming the economy, and indeed all of society, in accordance with communist ideology. Asserting their authority and creating a Soviet republic involved confiscating property and demolishing existing systems of exchanging goods. At a national level, industries like transport and banking were brought under state control. At the local level, everything from apartments to personal possessions were subject to seizure. In analyzing the confiscation of property and its redistribution, historian Anne O'Donnell focuses on the lived experience of revolution, drawing upon archival sources such as popular petitions, neighborhood meeting transcripts, audits of state agencies, and testimony in court cases. Telling the stories of both people who were dispossessed and the bureaucrats who inventoried and managed the property that now belonged to the state, O'Donnell reveals the making of an illiberal state, arguing that Soviet statecraft was built upon imperfect attempts to install new forms of valuation consistent with communist principles through chaotic property seizures. The work also offers a novel look at the everyday life of revolutionary Russia"--
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc "A history that reframes the Bolsheviks' unprecedented attempts to abolish private property after the revolutions of 1917 The revolutions of 1917 swept away not only Russia's governing authority but also the property order on which it stood. The upheaval sparked waves of dispossession that rapidly moved beyond the seizure of factories and farms from industrialists and landowners, envisioned by Bolshevik revolutionaries, to penetrate the bedrock of social life: the spaces where people lived. In Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution, Anne O'Donnell reimagines the Bolsheviks' unprecedented effort to eradicate private property and to create a new political economy-socialism-to replace it.O'Donnell's account captures the story of property in reverse, showing how the bonds connecting people to their things were broken and how new ways of knowing things, valuing them, and possessing them coalesced amid the political ferment and economic disarray of the Revolution. O'Donnell reminds us that Russia's postrevolutionary confiscation of property, like many other episodes of mass dispossession in the twentieth century, largely escaped traditional forms of record keeping. She repairs this omission, drawing on sources that chronicle the lived experience of upheaval-popular petitions, apartment inspections, internal audits of revolutionary institutions, and records of the political police-to reconstruct an archive of dispossession. The result is an unusually intimate history of the Bolsheviks' attempts to conquer people and things.The Bolsheviks' reimagining of property not only changed peoples' lives and destinies, it formed the foundation of a new type of state-one that eschewed the defense of private property rights in favor of an enduring but enigmatic new domain: socialist state property"--
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Right of property
Geographic subdivision Soviet Union.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Eviction
Geographic subdivision Soviet Union.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Government ownership
Geographic subdivision Soviet Union.
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Economic History
650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Socialism
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Soviet Union
General subdivision Economic conditions
Chronological subdivision 1917-1945.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Soviet Union
General subdivision History
Chronological subdivision Revolution, 1917-1921
901 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT, ACCESSION NO.
a 192438
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
Item type Book
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Cost, replacement price Koha item type
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