The Revolution in Society and Culture, 1917–28

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2026
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Abstract
This chapter examines how the Bolsheviks attempt to reconstruct Soviet society and culture after 1917 through revolutionary policies targeting elites, labour, education, morality, and national identity. It describes the destruction of the gentry, bourgeoisie, clergy, and independent intelligentsia while explaining changing relations between peasants, workers, and the communist state during the implementation of the New Economic Policy (NEP). The chapter also analyses campaigns for literacy, proletarian morality, and the creation of the Soviet New Person through cultural reform, discipline, and collectivist ideals. It further discusses women's emancipation, changing sexual norms, antireligious policies, and Soviet nationality programmes that encouraged cultural diversity while suppressing political nationalism. Finally, the chapter explores literature and the arts as revolutionary instruments that promoted experimentation, ideological transformation, and social modernization while revealing tensions between creative freedom, state authority, and ordinary Soviet experience after the revolution.
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Authors Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, Mark D. Steinberg
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0034
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https://doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780197875070.003.0034
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