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Stalin’s Master Narrative: a Critical Edition of the Short Course on the History of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
New Haven :
Yale University Press, 2019.
Academic editor: Brandenberger D. L., М. Зеленов
The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR—a hegemonic statement on history, politics, and Marxism-Leninism that scripted Soviet society for a generation. This study exposes the enormous role that Stalin played in the development of this all-important text, as well as the unparalleled influence that he wielded over the Soviet historical imagination.
Priority areas:
humanitarian
Language:
English

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A major contribution to the growing literature on Soviet nationality policy. David Brandenberger frames his study with a large and important question: the generation of a Russian/Soviet national identity during the Stalinist years. He tells the important story of the production of a more nationalist world view and how it was received, moving from elites ...
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In 1929, Joseph Stalin, having already achieved dictatorial power over the vast Soviet Empire, formally ordered the systematic conversion of the world’s largest peasant economy into “socialist modernity,” otherwise known as collectivization, regardless of the cost.
What it cost, and what Stalin ruthlessly enacted, transformed the country and its ruler in profound and enduring ways. Building ...
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В 1930-е годы И. В. Сталин и его окружение, озабоченные мобилизацией советского общества для грядущей войны, организовали пропагандистскую кампанию по «реабилитации» прославленных деятелей русского прошлого. В своем исследовании Д. Л. Бранденбергер прослеживает историю популистской руссоцентристской идеологии в период 1930-х – середины 1950-х годов, доказывая, что эта мобилизационная политика вопреки намерения ее творцов стала катализатором формирования ...
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Американский историк Д.Л.Бранденбергер рассматривает развитие пропаганды, политпросвещения и мобилизационных усилий партийного руководства в СССР 1930-х гг. с точки зрения их разработки, доведения до аудитории и массового восприятия. Автор доказывает, что советская власть в те годы оказалась в тисках глубочайшего идеологического кризиса, от которого так до конца и не оправилась.
Книга предназначена для специалистов по истории и ...
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Viola L. A., Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2020 Vol. 34 No. 3 P. 393–408
Following the German invasion of the USSR on June 22, 1941, murderous violence against local Jews broke out in many localities of the territories it had occupied in the wake of the 1939 Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact. In particular, organizers demanded revenge for the recent Stalinist repressions and deportations. Participants claimed that the “Jewish Soviet state,” ...
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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. ...
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Viola L. A., Journal of Modern History 2018 Vol. 90 No. 2 P. 498–500
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The Gulag after Stalin: Redefining Punishment in Khrushchev’s Soviet Union, 1953–1964. By Jeffrey S. Hardy. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. ...
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Zatravkin S., Vishlenkova E. A., European Education 2020 Vol. 52 No. 3 P. 257–270
Utilizing the minutes of preparations of a manuscript textbook on the history of medicine (1948-1953), the authors reconstruct how it was decided to depict the history of world and Russian medicine; in so doing sacralizing the Soviet state and wildly overstating its care for the health of Soviet people. The archival documents allowed the authors ...
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Medushevsky A. N., Российская история 2010 № 6 С. 3–29
The author represented Stalinism as a model of social constructivism, analyzed basic features of this type of dictatorship. New trends in Russian and international historiography of the problem are under consideration. ...
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Kabatskov A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2013 № 3 С. 27–33
The article reviews social context of repressions during the Great Purge. The main focus is made on the specific features of terror's events, specifically - on the interpretation of social ties as a basis of "counter-revolutionary organizations". This interpretation turned prisoners' relationships with neighbors, colleagues and personal friends into acts of conspiracy. The author proves ...
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Budnitskii O., Российская история 2019 № 3 С. 100–124
Immediately after the start of the Great Patriotic War, the Stalinist state undertook a purge of the country from suspicious elements, reminiscent in a number of parameters of the Great Terror: arrests took place throughout the country, certain categories of the population were repressed. Among them were believers, the repressions against whom were extremely cruel. ...
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№7 выпуск бюллетеня Германского исторического института в Москве состоит из статей, отобранных и написанных по результатам конференции "Конструируя "советское"?", проходившей в Европейском университете в Санкт-Петербуге 20-21 апреля 2012 года. ...
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