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Illusions of Influence and the Mystique of Power: The Fellow-Travelers and Stalin as Philosopher-King
Ch. 1. P. 25-40.
David-Fox M.
This chapter is based on an examination of the writings of the leading fellow-travelers of the 1930s and archival study of their Soviet visits. At its center is the web of concrete ties binding them to Soviet intel- lectual mediators and cultural institutions. It will make several inter- locking arguments that address longstanding debates about Western intellectuals and communism.
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Budapest : Central European University Press, 2019
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Added: December 21, 2016
Starkov A., Soviet and Post Soviet Review 2021 Т. 48 № 1 С. 3-33
The outbreak of the Great Patriotic War led to an unprecedented evacuation of the Soviet population to the East as well as a significant growth of social conflicts. Consequently, open manifestations of anti-Semitism increased greatly, which were often connected with defeatism and anti-Soviet moods. This article analyzes the reasons for this phenomenon and is based ...
Added: October 5, 2020
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Novikova L., Journal of Contemporary History 2020 Vol. 55 No. 4 P. 745-763
From 1941 to 1945 thousands of British and American sailors came to the northern Soviet ports of Arkhangel’sk and Molotovsk with Lend-Lease convoys. On the shore they made many casual contacts with local residents, in particular with Soviet women. These contacts came under close scrutiny of the Soviet authorities who tried to limit the alleged ...
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Harshman D. R., Journal of Contemporary History 2019 Vol. 54 No. 1
Seth Bernstein has produced a valuable institutional history of the Soviet youth organization, the Komsomol. By tracing the Komsomol from its origin after the October Revolution, through the years of high Stalinism in the 1930s and World War II, and into the immediate post-war period, Bernstein argues that the group went from being an iconoclastic ...
Added: December 17, 2018
David-Fox M., Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015
Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared ...
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Korolev A., , in : 21世纪周恩来研究的新视角[New Look at Zhou Enlai Studies in the 21st Century]. : Beijing: Central Literature Publishing House, 2009. P. 1019-1027.
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Added: February 3, 2013
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David-Fox M., Canadian-American Slavic Studies 2018 Vol. 52 P. 75-86
Bolshevik Millenarianism as Academic Blockbuster ...
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Kluczewska K., Korneev O., Europe-Asia Studies 2022 Vol. 74 No. 2 P. 194-218
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This article will examine the course of the factional struggle between Yugoslav communists that developed behind the frontlines of Spain in 1938 and investigate the involvement of foreign communists in their dispute. I will attempt to contextualize the struggles inside the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) within broader power dynamics of the Comintern during the ...
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Added: September 25, 2018
Bernstein S., Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 2017
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 ...
Added: June 9, 2017
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Added: September 25, 2013
Gouarné I., Kirtchik O. I., Europe-Asia Studies 2022 Vol. 74 No. 4 P. 545-568
This paper contributes to the studies of governmentalities of the late 20th century which are predominantly focused on the raise and on various national careers of neoliberal ideas and policy prescriptions, and have only rarely taken into account another powerful trend related to proliferation of information technologies. To complement available research on the role of computer ...
Added: October 17, 2019
Kurlyandtseva A., Искусствознание 2019 № 2 С. 206-229
On April 14, 1965, The New York Times reported on the upcoming solo exhibition of Pavel Korin in New York - “the first solo exhibition of an official Soviet artist in the United States, organized as part of a cultural agreement”. This article is focused on the issue of the background of the organization of this ...
Added: September 24, 2019
Orlov I. B., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2014. No. WP BRP 50/HUM/2014.
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Added: April 29, 2014
Gorizontov L., Вестник архивиста 2013 № 4 С. 184-191
A choice between Russian Non-Black Earth and Virgin Soil regions in the context of agricultural development of the Soviet Union was discussing virtually during the whole post-war period. The controversy dealing with the regional priorities assumed a sharp political character and demonstrated the traditional perception of center and periphery of the country. New sources - ...
Added: November 15, 2013
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Melnik D. V., Ananyin O. I., , in : Populating No Man's Land. Economic Concepts of Ownership under Communism. : Lexington Books - The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2018. P. 231-260.
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Added: August 31, 2018
De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2019
Despite increasing scholarship on the cultural Cold War, focus has been persistently been fixed on superpowers and their actions, missing the important role played by individuals and organizations all over Europe during the Cold War years.
This volume focuses on cultural diplomacy and artistic interaction between Eastern and Western Europe after 1945. It aims at providing ...
Added: September 7, 2019
Uspensky P., Новый мир 2023 № 3 С. 190-193
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Added: September 25, 2023
Dorchester : Ashgate, 2013
In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this 'last empire', the idea of empire is still alive and well, its language and concepts feeding into public debate and academic research. Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international group ...
Added: October 26, 2013