@article{113776,
  author = {Serguei Alex. Oushakine},
  title = {A review of Igal Halfin{\textquoteright}s "Red Autobiographies: Initiating the Bolshevik Self." Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2011.},
  abstract = { Autobiographies{\textemdash}like the confessions from the Great Purges scrutinized in Halfin{\textquoteright}s previous study{\textemdash}provide the historian with yet another angle to explore {\textquotedblleft}a unique, richly elaborated system of meanings{\textquotedblright} that was the Bolshevik self. This dictates the overall structure of the book. The three main chapters outline (somewhat) different paths from darkness to light{\textemdash}{\textquotedblleft}the Bolshevik conversion{\textquotedblright}{\textemdash}that were available to and were eventually mustered by the representatives of three respective groups (workers, peasants, and the intelligentsia). In each case, admission to the party was a lesson of learning {\textquotedblleft}a set of stratagems for describing and classifying people.{\textquotedblright} },
  year = {2011},
  journal = {The Russian Review},
  volume = {71},
  pages = {525-526},
  language = {eng},
}