I: Introduction Whether it comes to the fiction I write or the non-fiction that I read or the ideas I embody or even the people I tend to associate with folks who live “on the margins” are usually the most fascinating to me. The individuals who have taken a look at society and concluded something…
Here’s a chapter that looks at the work structure of the collective farms and how peasants resisted that sort of work. So there’s a bit more terms of anti-work to discuss here, let’s get into it! Early on in this chapter, Fitzpatrick mentions the use of ironic language on the part of peasants as Soviets…
When you’re learning about the USSR in school it’s a lot different from when you’re reading about it in a book. I know that seems fairly obvious but sometimes it just hits you that schools skimp out on the smaller details…and sometimes for good reason. There was actually time when I questioned to one extent…