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1989
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Sheila Fitzpatrick, « L'identité de classe dans la société de la NEP », Annales (documents), ID : 10.3406/ahess.1989.283592
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Class Identity in NEP Society. For the Bolsheviks, being Marxists, class was the basis of social analysis and the conceptual tool with which to understand the political balance of forces. They were obsessed by class in the 1920's, and imposed this preoccupation on Soviet citizens. Paradoxically, however, a great many of those citizens had no firm class identity: they had become declasses as a result of the upheavals caused by revolution and civil war, the shattering of the old class structure, the expropriation of the old elites, and the rapid upward mobility of many lower-class Bolshevik supporters. Full class identification during NEP thus requires two readings of an individual's class position: before 1917 and after. Since there were material advantages in being classified "proletarian ", and disadvantages to being labelled "bourgeois" (or "kulak"), Soviet citizens often disguised their social origins, and invented or revised personal histories to enhance the class image they wished to project.
