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Феномен советской туфты: опыт одного исторического расследования
Phenomenon of Soviet "tufta": Experience of one historical investigation

Author(s): V. A. Ivanov
Subject(s): History
Published by: Издательство Исторического факультета СПбГУ
Keywords: statehood; “tufta”; party nomenclature; corruption; poverty; begging; sponging

Summary/Abstract: The article covers the broad problem – the idea of social exclusiveness of Soviet statehood, that existed mostly due to the sacralization of Soviet “tufta” (lies, falsifi cations, imitations, made by State). The visibility of a good-working social system was made by masking the corruption, begging, poverty and other similar social phenomena.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 15
  • Page Range: 104-117
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian