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Casey Elgin Fitzpatrick, Sheila. Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. The book I chose to read showcases the daily life and challenges to those living in large cities after Stalin's rise to power. The main point of this book was to explain life for the point of view of the poor urbanities of the 1930s. Describing the economic crisis, overcrowding, and general fear experienced by lower class during this time, this book does an excellent job of showing how policy works at the common level. An interesting point shown by this book was that while many feared the system many were corrupted by the party and its politics, supporting and in turn benefiting from, the party. Instead of a Stalin bashing historical piece, as is typical, this work focuses less on big politics and more on the intrigues of the...

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