Brandon M. Schechter

The Stuff of Soldiers

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  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Once the state ceased to promise existential and spiritual change with any credibility, it was left only with stuff.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    For the first three decades of Soviet power, mobilization had been the ethos that kept the project going,
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    After all, they were reduced to the same set of objects, their everyday lives made uniform in the most literal sense.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    As they returned home, soldiers couldn’t help but speak a language that borrowed heavily from official Soviet discourse. The experience of the war could unify and standardize as no prior event.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Much of what they had seen undermined Soviet claims, but the horrors the enemy had committed, the end result of the war, and the sacrifices Red Army soldiers had made created significant overlaps between how the government and soldiers understood the cataclysm they had weathered.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    The state was constantly reacting to the ways in which soldiers and commanders undermined its authority, often forced to compromise and acknowledge the limits of its power.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    What they did with government issue items demonstrated a great deal of agency.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    Making peasants more urban had been part of the Soviet project from the very beginning. The army provided an urban space in which to mold soldiers, exposing them to propaganda, the wider world of the Soviet Union, and even foreign capitals.
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    subjected to a specific form of urbanization and modernization in the ranks of the Red Army
  • Jan Nohas quoted3 years ago
    The war transformed people.
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