title: Seeing like a Starving State: The Soviet Political Economy of Death in the Blockade of Leningrad
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metadata.value: Hass, J. K.
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Lomagin, N. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-11-08T18:56:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-11-08T18:56:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-06
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metadata.value: Hass J. K., Lomagin N. A. ‘Seeing like a Starving State: The Soviet Political Economy of Death in the Blockade of Leningrad’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 2, 2021, pp. 324–338.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.202
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/33490
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metadata.value: State elites and officials “see” their polities and societies through ideological and symbolic lenses
  that shape what they seek and perceive as they devise policies. But what happens to that sight and vision during
  moments of challenge and duress, and with what effect on policies? This article uses the example of the Blockade
  of Leningrad to begin an exploration of this subject. The pre-war Soviet state and Communist Party had a “double
  vision”, seeing Soviet society as an object for utopian plans and projects (a “high modernist” vision), and as an
  amorphous source of constant potential risk (e. g. counter-revolution). Extreme duress and challenges to survival
  from the Blockade challenged both facets of this double vision. What began to emerge was a more pragmatic
  vision centered on maintaining state authority and political order. We use state perception of and policies towards
  death and, as an extension, defending (civilian) life. Brief explorations of how state elites and officials perceived
  death, disposal labor (coping with corpses), and life (mothers) reveals a more realistic pragmatism, less deferent
  to ideology, beginning to emerge. We conclude that this points to a possible “Blockade Bolshevism” as a shifting
  formula of rule and possibilities of a “NEP reboot” lost to high Stalinism after the war.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: blockade
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: World War II
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: food
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rationing
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Seeing like a Starving State: The Soviet Political Economy of Death in the Blockade of Leningrad
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metadata.value: Article
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