Zaretsky Y., Новое литературное обозрение 2019 Т. 157 № 3 С. 107-127
В статье рассматривается массовая практика составления делопроизводственных автобио- графий советскими людьми. Особое внимание уделяется конкретным социальным обстоятель- ствам, определявшим структуру и содержание этих рассказов, и их изменениям, обусловлен- ным изменениями политики и идеологии Со- ветского государства. Рассматриваются также стратегии составления автобиографий отдель- ными авторами и прослеживаются параллели между практикой их написания и практикой христианской исповеди. ...
Added: May 1, 2019
Zelenina G., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2012 № 3-4 (30) С. 60-85
Based on the extensive collection of interviews with Soviet, mostly Ukrainian, Jews born before World War II, the essay examines changes in their reading experience and reading priorities from Bible-centered religious booklore to kulturnost’ of Soviet intelligentsia. ...
Added: February 24, 2013
Brandenberger D. L., Amosova A., Pivovarov N., Europe-Asia Studies 2019 Vol. 71 No. 6 P. 951-971
This essay focuses on the career of N. V. Solov’ev, a prominent Stalin-era official and little-known victim of the
1949 Leningrad Affair. When treated as a case study, Solov’ev’s life and times illustrate a variety of important
things about Stalinism as a whole. Most obviously, Solov’ev’s rapid ascent into the party nomenklatura during
the interwar years exemplifies the ...
Added: July 13, 2020
Zaretsky Y., Неприкосновенный запас. Дебаты о политике и культуре 2017 Т. 113 № 3 С. 258-273
В статье анализируются автобиографические свидетельства о Московском университете протестантского пастора, исполнявшего в нем обязанности профессора всеобщей истории с 1782-го по1793 год. Большая часть этих свидетельств, представляющих несомненный интерес, связана с университетскими масонами. Можно ли доверять рассказанному профессором Вигандом? На этот вопрос в статье ищется ответ. ...
Added: June 21, 2017
Karpenkina Y., Soviet and Post Soviet Review 2021 Т. 48 № 3 С. 345-366
In 1939-1941, the Soviet policy in the new western borderlands was based on the need to transform quickly the annexed territories into a safe and invulnerable border. Thus, having expanded its territories to the west, the Soviet government was in no hurry to eliminate the old border outposts. On the contrary, the previously existing Polish-Soviet ...
Added: July 2, 2021
David-Fox M., М. : Новое литературное обозрение, 2020
В книге «Пересекая границы» американский историк М. Дэвид-Фокс анализирует подходы и теории, наиболее характерные для западных исследований советской истории в последние десятилетия, выступая с их критикой и предлагая новые трактовки с транснациональных позиций. Как полагает Дэвид-Фокс, советская история формировалась в диалоге поверх границ советского союза. Переосмысляя понятия модерности, идеологии и трансформации культуры, он уходит от ...
Added: March 25, 2020
Levinson K., DAMALS - Das Magazin für Geschichte 2015 No. 12 P. 72-76
The article analyzes the causes of the Cheljuskin desaster of 1934 and for Stalin's decision to transform the calamity into a great propaganda event. ...
Added: March 16, 2017
Slavica Publishers, 2021
This volume investigates how the revolutionary events of 1917–21 shaped biographies both in Russia and Western Europe and how people tried to make sense of the political developments during these years in self-testimonies like diaries and memoirs. What was the impact of individuals on the course of the revolution? What do we know about the ...
Added: June 20, 2021
Goncharova G. D., / Высшая школа экономики. Серия WP20 "Философия и исследования культуры". 2013.
Period of single sex education in the Soviet school history was short - only 11 years (1943-54). Nevertheless, it has left a significant mark not only in the educational system, but in culture as well. This reform has reflected more general processes, first of all, those which were related to the rethink of the official ...
Added: January 10, 2014
Platonova E., Gender and History 2021
The current article aims to discuss the conversations around men’s clothing and appearance in Leningrad during the 1950s-1970s. In the early 1950s, fashion became an important ideological issue. The policy of isolationism of late Stalinism alongside with the rising of youth subculture stiliagi produced the emergence of formal and informal mechanisms and regimes of regulation ...
Added: October 31, 2020
Катцер Н., Социологическое обозрение 2018 Т. 17 № 2 С. 155-172
The article by a well-known German researcher of Soviet sports is devoted to the problem of the structural interconnection between the corporeal practices of modernity (i. e., sports) with its novel social conditions. First, it considers the theoretical and historical aspects of the creation of a sporting culture process in the everyday life of modernity. ...
Added: July 3, 2018
Оренбург : ОГПУ, 2010
Сборник статей, посвященный 65-летию Победы СССР в Великой Отечественной войне ...
Added: February 16, 2014
Estraikh G., Acta Poloniae Historica 2021 Vol. 123 P. 289-307
Soviet ideological overseers did not consider the Warsaw Ghetto uprising an utterly taboo topic. However, on their general scale of notable events of the Second World War, the uprising belonged to the category of relatively minor episodes, worth mentioning mainly in the context of 'more important' themes, such as the presence of former Nazis in ...
Added: September 8, 2021
Viola L. A., Journal of Modern History 2018 Vol. 90 No. 2 P. 498-500
Review of books:
The Soviet Gulag: Evidence, Interpretation, and Comparison. Edited by Michael David-Fox. Pitt Series in Russian and East European Studies. Edited by Jonathan Harris. Kritika Historical Studies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016.
The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, 1953–1964. By Jeffrey S. Hardy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. ...
Added: January 22, 2021
Kochetkova E., Russian History 2019 Vol. 46 No. 1 P. 29-52
This article examines the nature of Soviet consumption and technological development through the history of milk and milk packaging between the 1950s and 1970s. Based on published and archival materials, the paper focuses on the role that milk played in Soviet nutrition and the role that packaging played in Soviet consumption. The article also examines ...
Added: January 8, 2019
Budnitskii O., Ab Imperio 2015 № 4 С. 213-236
The article examines the fate of Polish Jews who found themselves under the Soviet rule after the USSR incorporated Eastern Poland in 1939. The articles investigates, on the one hand, Soviet policies towards new citizens, methods of their Sovietizations, and, on the other hand, the fight against "foreign elements," including deportations. The starting point for ...
Added: April 12, 2016
Grafova M. A., Государство, религия, церковь в России и за рубежом 2020 № 4 С. 229-264
The paper studies attitudes of the Soviet authorities and broader society towards the problem of abortion during the New Economic Policy in the 1920s. The communist ideologists promoted ideas strikingly different from the those of the population who still shared traditional values based on religious ethics. Even for religiously indifferent people,
the Orthodox tradition would provide ...
Added: October 8, 2020
Brandenberger D. L., New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011
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. ...
Added: April 10, 2020
М. : РОССПЭН, 2012
За 1938–1953 годы «Краткий курс истории ВКП(б)» издавался 301 раз в количестве 42 816 тыс. экз. на 67 языках. Первая часть настоящего издания посвящена истории текста всемирно известного учебника. Главной темой этого сборника документов является отношение И. В. Сталина к истории партии, его взгляды на отбор источников, на объекты изучения, на роль личности в истории. ...
Added: April 24, 2020
Eklof B., Saburova T., Slavonic and East European Review 2018 Vol. 96 No. 1 P. 67-93
Russian Populists of the 1870s generation who remained in the country after 1917 struggled to find a place in the new society but also to defend their legacy as genuine revolutionaries who had pursued a different path from that of the Bolsheviks. Working collaboratively with others of his generation, many of whom were now members ...
Added: October 22, 2016
Ilyin A., Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4: История. Регионоведение. Международные отношения 2020 Т. 25 № 2 С. 93-102
Introduction. Jubilee histories of the Soviet and Russian universities (higher education institutions) draw scholars’ attention as tools for the construction of traditions and search for a usable past. Historians scrutinize primary the past of universities as it is depicted in historical texts, but as a rule, these texts also treat the present and future of ...
Added: June 16, 2020
Kouprianov A. V., Историко-биологические исследования 2009 Т. 1 № 1 С. 177-179
Рецензия на книгу Солнцевой М. П. Воспоминания о времени культа личности в биологии. СПб.: Политехника-сервис, 2009. — 116 с: ил. ISBN 978-5-904030-20-9. «Воспоминания....» написаны очевидцем событий, происходивших в биологии в 1940 1970-х годах в Советском Союзе. Затрагиваются трагические моменты жизни академика Н. И. Вавилова, события, приведшие к сессии ВАСХНИЛ 1948 года, итоги сессии, тяжелые годы борьбы ...
Added: April 15, 2013
Международный Мемориал, 2020
In the exhibition "Bromberg's Violin. Anti-Jewish campaigns in the USSR" were presented little-studied documentary material, numerous archival documents, unique museum artifacts and rare printed publications. This book includes many of these materials, as well as articles on the history of Soviet Jewry. ...
Added: October 16, 2020
Arkhangelsky A. N., Лученко К., Сорокина Т., М. : Время, 2018
Книга родилась из видеопроекта, частично размещенного на просветительском ресурсе "Арзамас". Интервью оформлены как монологи; это сборник рассказов о том, как люди решили стать свободными. Вопреки всесильной системе. Вопреки тотальной эпохе. Большинство из них стали моральным примером. Кто-то не смог удержать высоту, но осмыслил ошибку и честно о ней рассказал. Единицы предали своих товарищей и отказались ...
Added: December 22, 2017