Abstract
This
essay looks at Mukhamet Shayakhmetov’s, a Kazakh headteacher in the 50s and
60s, memoir through the lens of James C Scott’s Everyday Forms of Resistance.
In using Scott’s argument, the essay reveals the subconscious tools and
strategies employed by the working class in a struggle against the powerful
bureaucracy of the Soviet Union. Even among ideologues, whose perspective of
post-war Stalin policies contrasted greatly with common Western conceptions,
forms of resistance were employed so subtle as to be almost unrecognizable.
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