1. The Struggle to Become the New Soviet Citizen
Leon Trotsky claimed, "Man will make it his purpose to master his own feelings, to raise his instincts to the height of consciousto create a higher social biologic type a superman.... Dumb, with bursting brain she saw only blood which boiled and bubbled like the moving sea"(Gladkov 165). ... Slow and traumatic, this transition from the old Soviet citizen to the New Soviet citizen is not merely a choice; it is a journey, and this journey requires tremendous sacrifice, as Gladkov points out. ... The old Dasha, Gleb describes, was bountiful with motherly love. ...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate