The Cultural Revolution signaled the "Great Break" that promised to generate a new Soviet society. The Communist Party set out to revolutionize Soviet culture. They attacked the old intelligentsia, smashed established hierarchies and sought to create a new socialist man. A few years later, the revolutionaries had built a bureaucracy, the workers and peasants had achieved social mobility, and Stalin was declaring that ‘life had become more joyous.’
Join us as we explore how the Soviet Union progressed from an experimental and unstable revolutionary state to establishing the foundations of a global superpower.
This is Life Has Become More Joyous, the story of how cultural revolution became Stalinist civilization.
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