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Military masculinity and postwar recovery in the Soviet Union

norms in Central Asia. The chapters in this volume offer masterful syntheses of research conducted by each author over the course of years. Together, they weave a tapestry of everyday experiences, with each interlocking piece illuminating a different aspect of life under Stalin. A common thread running through this book’s chapters is the question of how ordinary people endured Stalinism. The authors of this volume collectively explore how Soviet citizens secured necessary resources, survived extended periods of violence, and more generally lived their lives during this turbulent moment in history. They did so by resisting, innovating, and, as DeHaan notes, by simply “making do” (69). In his chapter on interactions between Soviet citizens and state officials, James Heinzen shows how the Soviet state inadvertently incentivized informal arrangements and corruption among local officials. This made “wheeling and dealing” (197), as Heinzen puts it, a crucial skill for Soviet citizens under Stalin. Life in Stalin’s Soviet Union is written for a general, non-specialist readership. Endnotes are kept to a minimum, Russian terminology is translated, and authors avoid jargon. The volume also includes two bibliographies, one comprising English-language primary source collections and the other listing key texts in the scholarly literature on the Stalin era. These features make the volume especially useful to students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.