Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism
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Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism
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Author : Olga Velikanova
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-05-15
Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism written by Olga Velikanova and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-15 with History categories.
This book is the first full-length study of the Soviet Constitution of 1936, exploring Soviet citizens’ views of constitutional democratic principles and their problematic relationship to the reality of Stalinism. Drawing on archival materials, the book offers an insight into the mass political culture of the mid-1930s in the USSR and thus contributes to wider research on Russian political culture. Popular comments about the constitution show how liberal, democratic and conciliatory discourse co-existed in society with illiberal, confrontational and intolerant views. The study also covers the government’s goals for the constitution’s revision and the national discussion, and its disappointment with the results. Outcomes of the discussion convinced Stalin that society was not sufficiently Sovietized. Stalin's re-evaluation of society's condition is a new element in the historical picture explaining why politics shifted from the relaxation of 1933-36 to the Great Terror, and why repressions expanded from former oppositionists to the officials and finally to the wider population.
Propaganda State In Crisis
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Author : David Brandenberger
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2012-01-31
Propaganda State In Crisis written by David Brandenberger and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-31 with History categories.
The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party propagandists were repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to promote a coherent sense of "Soviet" identity during the interwar years. This book investigates this failure to mobilize society along communist lines by probing the secrets of the party's ideological establishment and indoctrinational system. An exposé of systemic failure within Stalin's ideological establishment, Propaganda State in Crisis ultimately rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and 1941.
Soviet Realities
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Author : Walter Laqueur
language : en
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Release Date : 1990-01-01
Soviet Realities written by Walter Laqueur and has been published by Transaction Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01-01 with History categories.
In this, the third volume of collected essays by one of the most eminent students of East and West Europe, Walter Laqueur reveals a particularly deft touch at weaving the cultural and the political into a seamless whole. His familiarity with Soviet life and the Russian language gives him a unique insider's position in examining the Soviet Union and its remarkable changes in the decade of the 1980s. In chapters on glasnost and its limits to the Soviet Union in the 1990s, the reader is given a careful perspective on continuities as well as discontinuities in Soviet politics. And in studies of Nikolai Skoblin, Julian Semynov-with whom his western counterpart, John Le Carre is compared in a fine coupling-we are given a sense of the darker side of things Soviet. Soviet Realities reveals Laqueur's appreciation of the painful dialectic inherent in the grand sweet of Soviet life: underneath the faade of an imposed monolith are the continuing struggles between Left and Right, reformers and renegades, terrorists and legalists. And in his opening chapter, the author links these disparate strands together in a modest and self-critical appraisal. This is a volume deserving of an audience far beyond "Kremlinologists" or specialists in foreign affairs. In its sense of the Soviet whole, it will be of interest to all citizens concerned with the present and future of Soviet-American relations. Walter Laqueur is chairman of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, and also co-director of the Wiener Library of Contemporary History in London. He is the author of almost twenty books and ten times that number of serious articles. They cover major themes of our times: terrorism, political movements, ideological trends, and cultural forms. He is, in short, a unique figure.
Essays On Revolutionary Culture And Stalinism
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Author : John W. Strong
language : en
Publisher: Columbus, Ohio : Slavica Publishers
Release Date : 1990
Essays On Revolutionary Culture And Stalinism written by John W. Strong and has been published by Columbus, Ohio : Slavica Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Political Science categories.
Mass Culture In Soviet Russia
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Author : James Von Geldern
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1995
Mass Culture In Soviet Russia written by James Von Geldern and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Offers an array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, and folklore to offer a look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. This work focuses on the entertainment genres that both shaped and reflected the social, political, and personal values of the regime and the masses.
National Bolshevism
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Author : David Brandenberger
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2002
National Bolshevism written by David Brandenberger and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
During the 1930s, Stalin and his entourage rehabilitated famous names from the Russian national past in a propaganda campaign designed to mobilize Soviet society for the coming war. In a provocative study, David Brandenberger traces this populist "national Bolshevism" into the 1950s, highlighting the catalytic effect that it had on Russian national identity formation.
Soviet Politics And Political Science
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Author : Archie Brown
language : en
Publisher: [London] : Macmillan
Release Date : 1974
Soviet Politics And Political Science written by Archie Brown and has been published by [London] : Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Political science categories.
Raised Under Stalin
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Author : Seth Bernstein
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Raised Under Stalin written by Seth Bernstein and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with History categories.
Youth in the Stalin revolution -- Cultural revolution from above -- Class dismissed? -- The great terror as a moral panic -- The rehabilitation of youth -- A mass youth organization -- Paramilitary training on the eve -- Youth at war
The Landscape Of Stalinism
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Author : Evgeny Dobrenko
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2011-11-15
The Landscape Of Stalinism written by Evgeny Dobrenko and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with Art categories.
This wide-ranging cultural history explores the expression of Bolshevik Party ideology through the lens of landscape, or, more broadly, space. Portrayed in visual images and words, the landscape played a vital role in expressing and promoting ideology in the former Soviet Union during the Stalin years, especially in the 1930s. At the time, the iconoclasm of the immediate postrevolutionary years had given way to nation building and a conscious attempt to create a new Soviet �culture.� In painting, architecture, literature, cinema, and song, images of landscape were enlisted to help mold the masses into joyful, hardworking citizens of a state with a radiant, utopian future -- all under the fatherly guidance of Joseph Stalin. From backgrounds in history, art history, literary studies, and philosophy, the contributors show how Soviet space was sanctified, coded, and �sold� as an ideological product. They explore the ways in which producers of various art forms used space to express what Katerina Clark calls �a cartography of power� -- an organization of the entire country into �a hierarchy of spheres of relative sacredness,� with Moscow at the center. The theme of center versus periphery figures prominently in many of the essays, and the periphery is shown often to be paradoxically central. Examining representations of space in objects as diverse as postage stamps, a hikers� magazine, advertisements, and the Soviet musical, the authors show how cultural producers attempted to naturalize ideological space, to make it an unquestioned part of the worldview. Whether focusing on the new or the centuries-old, whether exploring a built cityscape, a film documentary, or the painting Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin, the authors offer a consistently fascinating journey through the landscape of the Soviet ideological imagination. Not all features of Soviet space were entirely novel, and several of the essayists assert continuities with the prerevolutionary past. One example is the importance of the mother image in mass songs of the Stalin period; another is the "boundless longing" inspired in the Russian character by the burden of living amid vast empty spaces. But whether focusing on the new or the centuries-old, whether exploring a built cityscape, a film documentary, or the painting Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin, the authors offer a consistently fascinating journey through the landscape of the Soviet ideological imagination.
Everyday Stalinism
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Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1999-03-04
Everyday Stalinism written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-04 with History categories.
Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.