Terror and Democracy in the Soviet Union

Wendy Goldman has researched and written about the Soviet Union for almost 40 years. And her topics have been wide ranging– women, feminism, revolution, labor, political violence, war and survival. But if there is one throughline in her work, it is social history. Goldman is primarily concerned with the experience of working people. Their life worlds. Their trials and tribulations. Their agency in the construction of the Soviet system. Warts and all. The Eurasian Knot spoke to Wendy Goldman in her office at Carnegie Mellon University to hear about her experience as a historian, a woman, and a social historian and how this has shaped her understanding of Soviet socialism, politics, and history.

Guest:

Wendy Goldman is Wendy Goldman, Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of History, is a social and political historian of Russia. She’s the author of several books on Soviet history. Her most recent work (with Donald Filtzer) is Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II published by Oxford University Press.

Books discussed in this episode:

Women, State, and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936.

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia. 

Terror and Democracy in the Age of Stalin: The Social Dynamics of Repression.

Inventing the Enemy: Denunciation and Terror in Stalin’s Russia.

Fortress Dark and Stern: The Soviet Home Front during World War II.

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