Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism
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Author |
: Olga Velikanova |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2018-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783319784434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3319784439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism by : Olga Velikanova
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.
Author |
: Seth Bernstein |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 2017-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501712029 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501712020 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Raised under Stalin by : Seth Bernstein
In Raised under Stalin, Seth Bernstein shows how Stalin’s regime provided young people with opportunities as members of the Young Communist League or Komsomol even as it surrounded them with violence, shaping socialist youth culture and socialism more broadly through the threat and experience of war. Informed by declassified materials from post-Soviet archives, as well as films, memoirs, and diaries by and about youth, Raised under Stalin explains the divided status of youth for the Bolsheviks: they were the "new people" who would someday build communism, the potential soldiers who would defend the USSR, and the hooligans who might undermine it from within. Bernstein explains how, although Soviet revolutionary youth culture began as the preserve of proletarian activists, the Komsomol transformed under Stalin to become a mass organization of moral education; youth became the targets of state repression even as Stalin’s regime offered them the opportunity to participate in political culture. Raised under Stalin follows Stalinist youth into their ultimate test, World War II. Even as the war against Germany decimated the ranks of Young Communists, Bernstein finds evidence that it cemented Stalinist youth culture as a core part of socialism.
Author |
: James Von Geldern |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 548 |
Release |
: 1995-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253209692 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253209696 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mass Culture in Soviet Russia by : James Von Geldern
This anthology offers a rich array of documents, short fiction, poems, songs, plays, movie scripts, comic routines, and folklore to offer a close look at the mass culture that was consumed by millions in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1953. Both state-sponsored cultural forms and the unofficial culture that flourished beneath the surface are represented. The focus is on the entertainment genres that both shaped and reflected the social, political, and personal values of the regime and the masses. The period covered encompasses the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the mixed economy and culture of the 1920s, the tightly controlled Stalinist 1930s, the looser atmosphere of the Great Patriotic War, and the postwar era ending with the death of Stalin. Much of the material appears here in English for the first time. A companion 45-minute audio tape (ISBN 0-253-32911-6) features contemporaneous performances of fifteen popular songs of the time, with such favorites as "Bublichki," "The Blue Kerchief," and "Katyusha." Russian texts of the songs are included in the book.
Author |
: David Brandenberger |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 404 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674009061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674009066 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis National Bolshevism by : David Brandenberger
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.
Author |
: James Von Geldern |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 552 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253328934 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253328939 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mass Culture in Soviet Russia by : James Von Geldern
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.
Author |
: David L. Hoffmann |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2018-08-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501725678 |
ISBN-13 |
: 150172567X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stalinist Values by : David L. Hoffmann
Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky—and many later commentators—this apparent embrace of bourgeois values marked a betrayal of the October Revolution and a retreat from socialism. In the first book to address these developments fully, David L. Hoffmann argues that, far from reversing direction, the Stalinist leadership remained committed to remaking both individuals and society—and used selected elements of traditional culture to bolster the socialist order. Melding original archival research with new scholarship in the field, Hoffmann describes Soviet cultural and behavioral norms in such areas as leisure activities, social hygiene, family life, and sexuality. He demonstrates that the Soviet state's campaign to effect social improvement by intervening in the lives of its citizens was not unique but echoed the efforts of other European governments, both fascist and liberal, in the interwar period. Indeed, in Europe, America, and Stalin's Russia, governments sought to inculcate many of the same values—from order and efficiency to sobriety and literacy. For Hoffmann, what remains distinctive about the Soviet case is the collectivist orientation of official culture and the degree of coercion the state applied to pursue its goals.
Author |
: David Brandenberger |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 373 |
Release |
: 2012-01-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300155372 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300155379 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Propaganda State in Crisis by : David Brandenberger
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.
Author |
: Matthew E. LENOE |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674040083 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674040082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Closer to the Masses by : Matthew E. LENOE
In this provocative book, Matthew Lenoe traces the origins of Stalinist mass culture to newspaper journalism in the late 1920s. In examining the transformation of Soviet newspapers during the New Economic Policy and the First Five Year Plan, Lenoe tells a dramatic story of purges, political intrigues, and social upheaval. Under pressure from the party leadership to mobilize society for the monumental task of industrialization, journalists shaped a master narrative for Soviet history and helped create a Bolshevik identity for millions of new communists. Everyday labor became an epic battle to modernize the USSR, a fight not only against imperialists from outside, but against shirkers and saboteurs within. Soviet newspapermen mobilized party activists by providing them with an identity as warrior heroes battling for socialism. Yet within the framework of propaganda directives, the rank-and-file journalists improvised in ways that ultimately contributed to the creation of a culture. The images and metaphors crafted by Soviet journalists became the core of Stalinist culture in the mid-1930s, and influenced the development of socialist realism. Deeply researched and lucidly written, this book is a major contribution to the literature on Soviet culture and society.
Author |
: John W. Strong |
Publisher |
: Columbus, Ohio : Slavica Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 1990 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015021978286 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism by : John W. Strong
Author |
: David Lloyd Hoffmann |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 268 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0801488214 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780801488214 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stalinist Values by : David Lloyd Hoffmann
Melding original archival research with new scholarship in the field, Hoffman describes Soviet culture and behavioral norms in such areas as leisure activities, social hygiene, family life and sexuality.