Pietro A. Shakarian, Europe-Asia Studies 2025 P. 1–21
Veteran Soviet statesman Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan (1895–1978) is best known as a master of international diplomacy and culinary policy. Less well-known is the fact that Mikoyan served as the Kremlin’s leading authority on nationality matters under Nikita Khrushchev (1894–1971). A native son of Sanahin, Armenia, Mikoyan believed that the ethnic diversity of the USSR was ...
Added: January 16, 2025
Abelyuk E., Русская литература 2025 № 4 С. 217–225
This article analyzes the documentary and literary sources of the renowned play Ten Days that Shook the World. It looks into the poetics of the play which manifests the special features of the dramaturgy of the 1920s–1930s, including the experience of collective authorship. The previously unpublished archival data are used. The term «dramaturgical experience» is ...
Added: November 3, 2024
Shakarian P. A., Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2025.
Veteran Soviet statesman and longtime Politburo member Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan is perhaps best remembered in both the West and the post-Soviet space as a master political survivor who weathered every Soviet leader from Lenin to Brezhnev. Less well known is the pivotal role that Mikoyan played in dismantling and rejecting the Stalinist legacy and guiding ...
Added: September 18, 2024
Latyshev A., Уральский исторический вестник 2024 № 3(84) С. 134–141
The article analyzes the frontline diaries of the Soviet general during the Second World War A. I. Yeryomenko. It aims at providing a critical review of this text as a historical source. A comparison is made of the complete 2013 edition of the diary with the partial 1994 edition, and a conclusion is drawn about ...
Added: September 9, 2024
Kozlov D., Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 2012 Т. 4 № 2 С. 115–122
В статье на материале Архангельской областия анализируются механизмы социализации советеской молодежи 1950-1960-х гг. как через вовлечение в официально одобряемые практики Комсомола, так и через альтернативные практики и среды. ...
Added: December 19, 2023
Shakarian P. A., Peripheral Histories 2021
Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw represented a major period of historical change for the Soviet Union, a period that included significant reform to the country’s nationality policy. In this regard, Soviet Armenian statesman, Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, a close Khrushchev ally, played an indispensable role in shaping and defining the nationality policy during the crucial years following the ...
Added: November 1, 2022
Platonova E., Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 2021 Т. 13 № 3 С. 183–186
Рецензия на книгу специалистки по истории советского и европейского искусства и дизайна Юлии Карповой "Comradely Objects: Design and Material Culture in Soviet Russia, 1960s-80s" (Manchester University Press, 2020) ...
Added: December 6, 2021
Зубков К. Ю., Новое литературное обозрение, 2021.
В 1856 году известный археолог и историк Алексей Сергеевич Уваров обратился к членам Академии наук с необычным предложением: он хотел почтить память своего недавноскончавшегося отца, бывшего министра народного просвещения С.С. Уварова, учредив специальную премию, которая должна была ежегодно вручаться от имени Академии за лучшую пьесу и за лучшее исследование по истории. Академики с благодарностью приняли ...
Added: July 21, 2021
Cherkaev, Xenia A., Ab imperio 2014 No. 4 P. 365–85
This essay criticizes Alexander Etkind's book, Warped Mourning: Stories of the Undead in the Land of the Unburied, for analyzing consequences of repressed histories while itself neglecting important historical facts: like the fact of Stalin's post-1956 omission from public discourse. I show that Etkind's texts rely on such factual omissions to denounce the “criminal state” ...
Added: September 12, 2020
Davidson A. B., Новая и новейшая история 2019 № 2 С. 139–149
The author has analysed the processes and events which led to the Khrushchev's thaw. To a large extent this analysis is based on his own recoolctions of that era. ...
Added: November 30, 2019
Kozlov D., Pro et Contra 2014 № 3-4 С. 164–172
Review on collective volume "The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture in 1950s and 1960s" edited by Denis Kozlov and Eleanory Gilbuurd (Toronto, 2013). ...
Added: September 15, 2019
Kozlov D., Вестник Московского городского педагогического университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2013 Т. 11 № 1 С. 57–69
Transformation of the Soviet youth conception in Russian emigrant press in 1950–1960s is presented in this article. The author traces the transition from the view on the post-war So-viet generation as the potential revolutionary force to the variety of the youth classification and the analysis of different forms of its actions. ...
Added: September 14, 2019
Kozlov D., Детские чтения 2016 Т. 10 № 2 С. 88–104
The article is analyzing interpretations of novella “Respublika Shkid” (1927) by Grigoriy Belykh and L. Panteleev. Author notes that discussion on this book did not separate from consideration of pedagogical experience described in it. Critics paid most of their attention to Viktor Soroka-Rosinskiy, the head of the School named after Dostoevsky. In 1920–1930s debates on ...
Added: September 14, 2019
Kozlov D., Социология власти 2017 Т. 2 № 29 С. 153–177
Independent social life of the “Thaw” period is examined less then dissidents’ resistance or mass public actions of Perestroika. Appealing to the 1950–1960s independent initiatives and protest actions allow us to keep track of changes in the dialogue between authorities and the society in postwar USSR. The article demonstrates that ideas and images connected with ...
Added: September 13, 2019