Beyond Stalinism

Author : Ronald J. Hill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135193904

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First Published in 1992. The present collection of essays brings together the concepts of change and development, by using the concept of evolution to explore various forms of change in the communist and 'post-communist' world. The author's experience of living in the provinces of the Soviet Union later persuaded them of the inappropriateness of at least a rigid application of the concept of totalitarianism. This title will also satiate the further interest of the interaction between 'capitalism' (or liberal democracy) and 'communism', particularly the impact of capitalism's technical innovations on some of communism's basic principles of rule.

Author : Boris Groys
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781844678099

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The Total Art of Stalinism by Boris Groys Pdf

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists’ goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.

Author : Michael Geyer,Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521897969

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Beyond Totalitarianism by Michael Geyer,Sheila Fitzpatrick Pdf

These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. They offer a new understanding of the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.

Author : Lynne Viola
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501717291

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Contending with Stalinism by Lynne Viola Pdf

Resistance has become an important and controversial analytical category for the study of Stalinism. The opening of Soviet archives allows historians an unprecedented look at the fabric of state and society in the 1930s. Researchers long spellbound by myths of Russian fatalism and submission as well as by the very real powers of the Stalinist state are startled by the dimensions of popular resistance under Stalin.Narratives of such resistance are inherently interesting, yet the topic is also significant because it sheds light on its historical surroundings. Contending with Stalinism employs the idea of resistance as a tool to explore what otherwise would remain opaque features of the social, cultural, and political history of the 1930s. In the process, the authors reveal a semi-autonomous world residing within and beyond the official world of Stalinism. Resistance ranged across a spectrum from violent strikes to the passive resistance that was a virtual way of life for millions and took many forms, from foot dragging and negligence to feigned ignorance and false compliance. Contending with Stalinism also highlights the problematic nature of resistance as an analytical category and stresses the ambiguous nature of the phenomenon. The topics addressed include working-class strikes, peasant rebellions, black-market crimes, official corruption, and homosexual and ethnic subcultures.

Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Andrei Sokolov
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300128598

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Stalinism As a Way of Life by Lewis H. Siegelbaum,Andrei Sokolov Pdf

"Maybe some people are shy about writing, but I will write the real truth. . . . Is it really possible that people at the newspaper haven't heard this. . . that we don't want to be on the kolkhoz [collective farm], we work and work, and there's nothing to eat. Really, how can we live?"-a farmer's letter, 1936, from Stalinism as a Way of Life What was life like for ordinary Russian citizens in the 1930s? How did they feel about socialism and the acts committed in its name? This unique book provides English-speaking readers with the responses of those who experienced firsthand the events of the middle-Stalinist period. The book contains 157 documents-mostly letters to authorities from Soviet citizens, but also reports compiled by the secret police and Communist Party functionaries, internal government and party memoranda, and correspondence among party officials. Selected from recently opened Soviet archives, these previously unknown documents illuminate in new ways both the complex social roots of Stalinism and the texture of daily life during a highly traumatic decade of Soviet history. Accompanied by introductory and linking commentary, the documents are organized around such themes as the impact of terror on the citizenry, the childhood experience, the countryside after collectivization, and the role of cadres that were directed to "decide everything." In their own words, peasants and workers, intellectuals and the uneducated, adults and children, men and women, Russians and people from other national groups tell their stories. Their writings reveal how individual lives influenced-and were affected by-the larger events of Soviet history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1316099776

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Beyond Totalitarianism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan Wood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 0415307325

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Stalin and Stalinism by Alan Wood Pdf

'Stalin and Stalinism' examines Stalin's ambiguous personal and political legacy, his achievements and his crimes - all the subject of major reappraisal both in the West and in the former Soviet Union.

Author : Boris Groys
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781781689721

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The Total Art of Stalinism by Boris Groys Pdf

From the ruins of communism, Boris Groys emerges to provoke our interest in the aesthetic goals pursued with such catastrophic consequences by its founders. Interpreting totalitarian art and literature in the context of cultural history, this brilliant essay likens totalitarian aims to the modernists' goal of producing world-transformative art. In this new edition, Groys revisits the debate that the book has stimulated since its first publication.

Author : James Ryan,Susan Grant
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350122932

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Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism by James Ryan,Susan Grant Pdf

This thought-provoking collection of essays analyses the complex, multi-faceted, and even contradictory nature of Stalinism and its representations. Stalinism was an extraordinarily repressive and violent political model, and yet it was led by ideologues committed to a vision of socialism and international harmony. The essays in this volume stress the complex, multi-faceted, and often contradictory nature of Stalin, Stalinism, and Stalinist-style leadership, and. explore the complex picture that emerges. Broadly speaking, three important areas of debate are examined, united by a focus on political leadership: * The key controversies surrounding Stalin's leadership role * A reconsideration of Stalin and the Cold War * New perspectives on the cult of personality Revisioning Stalin and Stalinism is a crucial volume for all students and scholars of Stalin's Russia and Cold War Europe.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780415152341

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Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Pdf

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Doubravka Olšáková
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785332531

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In the Name of the Great Work by Doubravka Olšáková Pdf

Beginning in 1948, the Soviet Union launched a series of wildly ambitious projects to implement Joseph Stalin’s vision of a total “transformation of nature.” Intended to increase agricultural yields dramatically, this utopian impulse quickly spread to the newly communist states of Eastern Europe, captivating political elites and war-fatigued publics alike. By the time of Stalin’s death, however, these attempts at “transformation”—which relied upon ideologically corrupted and pseudoscientific theories—had proven a spectacular failure. This richly detailed volume follows the history of such projects in three communist states—Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia—and explores their varied, but largely disastrous, consequences.

Author : George R. Urban
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : WISC:89015452691

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Stalinism by George R. Urban Pdf

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Author : Alter L. Litvin,John L. H. Keep
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0415351081

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Stalinism by Alter L. Litvin,John L. H. Keep Pdf

This volume, the fruit of co operation between a British and Russian historian, seeks to review comparatively the progress made in recent years, largely thanks to the opening of the Russian archives, in enlarging our understanding of Stalin and

Author : Robert C. Tucker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351488266

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Stalinism by Robert C. Tucker Pdf

In the years since Stalin's death, his profound influence upon the historical development of Communism has remained elusive and in need of interpretation. Stalinism, as his system has become known, is a phenomenon which embraced all facets of political and social life. While its effect upon the Soviet Union and other nations today is far less than it was while Stalin lived, it is by no means dead.In this landmark volume some of the world's foremost scholars of the subject, in a concerted group inquiry, present their interpretations of Stalinism and its influence on all areas of comparative Communist studies from history and politics to economics, sociology, and literary scholarship. The studies contained in this volume are an outgrowth of a conference on Stalinism held in Bellagio, Italy, sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies.In his major contribution to this book, Leszek Kolakowski calls Stalinism "a unified state organism facing atom-like individuals." This extraordinary volume, augmented by a revealing new introduction by the editor, Robert C. Tucker, can be seen as amplifying that remark nearly a half century after the death of Joseph Stalin himself.Contributors to this work are: Wlodzimierz Brus, Katerina Clark, Stephen F. Cohen, Alexander Erlich, Leszek Kolakowski, Moshe Lewin, Robert H. McNeal, Mihailo Markovic, Roy A. Medvedev, T. H. Rigby, Robert Sharlet, and H. Gordon Skilling. Robert C. Tucker's principle work on Stalin has been described by George F. Kennan as "the most significant single contribution made to date, anywhere, to the history of Soviet power."

Author : Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev
Publisher : New York : Knopf
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002223892

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Let History Judge: the Origins and Consequences of Stalinism by Roy Aleksandrovich Medvedev Pdf

The most comprehensive investigation of Stalinism and political developments in the Soviet Union from 1922-1953, this is an extensively revised version of a classic. Medvedev has included more than one hundred new interviews, unpublished memoirs, and archives from survivors of Stalin's death camps -- with distinguished Soviet literary, cultural, and political figures including the late Alexander Twardovsky, Ilja Ehrenburg, Konstantin Simonov, Yuri Trifono, Mikhail Romm and many others.