Research report 2023 - Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Work as prime necessity? An emotional and cultural history of work in the late Soviet Union, 1960-1980
Authors
Oberländer, Alexandra
Departments
Forschungsbereich Geschichte der Gefühle
Summary
For the Communist Party, work was the “first necessity of life” and at the same time duty, it was fulfilment and the path to communism. But what did the people who had to do the work, day after day, actually think of it?