Screening Soviet Nationalities

Author : Oksana Sarkisova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786730404

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Screening Soviet Nationalities by Oksana Sarkisova Pdf

Filmmakers in the early decades of the Soviet Union sought to create a cinematic map of the new state by portraying its land and peoples on screen. Such films created blueprints of the Soviet domain's scenic, cultural and ethnographic perimeters and brought together - in many ways disparate - nations under one umbrella. Categorised as kulturfilms, they served as experimental grounds for developing the cinematic formulae of a multiethnic, multinational Soviet identity. Screening Soviet Nationalities examines the non-fictional representations of Soviet borderlands from the Far North to the Northern Caucasus and Central Asia between 1925-1940. Beginning with Dziga Vertov and his vision of the Soviet space as a unified, multinational mosaic, Oksana Sarkisova rediscovers films by Vladimir Erofeev, Vladimir Shneiderov, Alexander Litvinov, Mikhail Slutskii, Amo Bek-Nazarov, Mikhail Kalatozov, Roman Karmen and other filmmakers who helped construct an image of Soviet ethnic diversity and left behind a lasting visual legacy.The book contributes to our understanding of changing ethnographic conventions of representation, looks at studies of diversity despite the homogenising ambitions of the Soviet project, and reexamines methods of blending reality and fiction as part of both ideological and educational agendas. Using a wealth of unexplored archival evidence from the Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive (RGAKFD) as well as the Gosfilmofond state film archive, Sarkisova examines constructions of exoticism, backwardness and Soviet-driven modernity through these remarkable and underexplored historical travelogues.

Author : Alexander J. Motyl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 023107512X

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Thinking Theoretically About Soviet Nationalities by Alexander J. Motyl Pdf

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Author : Edward Allworth
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036862394

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The Nationality Question in Soviet Central Asia by Edward Allworth Pdf

Author : Rudolf Schlesinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Minorities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004880659

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The Nationalities Problem and Soviet Administration by Rudolf Schlesinger Pdf

Author : Alexander J. Motyl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Minorities
ISBN : 0231517378

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Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities by Alexander J. Motyl Pdf

Author : Mark Beissinger,Lubomyr Hajda
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0813376890

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The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society by Mark Beissinger,Lubomyr Hajda Pdf

Author : S. Enders Wimbush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 0415042771

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Soviet Nationalities in Strategic Perspective by S. Enders Wimbush Pdf

Author : Charlie Keil,Rob King
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 825 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190496692

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The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema by Charlie Keil,Rob King Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Silent Cinema is a collection of new scholarship that investigates the first decades of motion-picture history from diverse perspectives and methodologies. Featuring over thirty essays by leading scholars in the field, the Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of cinema's earliest years while also illuminating how cinema derived strength from competing cultural forms, becoming in the process the most influential mass medium of the early twentieth century.

Author : Rossen Djagalov
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228002017

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From Internationalism to Postcolonialism by Rossen Djagalov Pdf

Would there have been a Third World without the Second? Perhaps, but it would have looked very different. Although most histories of these geopolitical blocs and their constituent societies and cultures are written in reference to the West, the interdependence of the Second World in the East and the Third World is evident not only from a common nomenclature but also from their near-simultaneous disappearance around 1990. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism addresses this historical blind spot by recounting the story of two Cold War-era cultural formations that claimed to represent the Third World project in literature and cinema: the Afro-Asian Writers Association (1958-1991) and the Tashkent Festival for African, Asian, and Latin American Film (1968-1988). The inclusion of writers and filmmakers from the Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia and extensive Soviet support aligned these organizations with Soviet internationalism. While these cultural alliances between the Second and the Third World never achieved their stated aim - the literary and cinematic independence from the West of these societies from the West - they did forge what Ngugi wa Thiong'o called "the links that bind us," along which now-canonical postcolonial authors, texts, and films could circulate across the non-Western world until the end of the Cold War. In the process of this historical reconstruction, From Internationalism to Postcolonialism inverts the traditional relationship between Soviet and postcolonial studies: rather than studying the (post-)Soviet experience through the lens of postcolonial theory, it documents the multiple ways in which that theory and its attendant literary and cinematic production have been shaped by the Soviet experience.

Author : Christine E. Evans,Lars Lundgren
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262546904

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No Heavenly Bodies by Christine E. Evans,Lars Lundgren Pdf

The compelling and little-known history of satellite communications that reveals the Soviet and Eastern European roles in the development of its infrastructure. Taking its title from Hannah Arendt’s description of artificial earth satellites, No Heavenly Bodies explores the history of the first two decades of satellite communications. Christine E. Evans and Lars Lundgren trace how satellite communications infrastructure was imagined, negotiated, and built across the Earth’s surface, including across the Iron Curtain. While the United States’ and European countries’ roles in satellite communications are well documented, Evans and Lundgren delve deep into the role the Soviet Union and other socialist countries played in shaping the infrastructure of satellite communications technology in its first two decades. Departing from the Cold War binary and the competitive framework that has animated much of space historiography and telecommunications history, No Heavenly Bodies focuses instead on interaction, cooperation, and mutual influence across the Cold War divide. Evans and Lundgren describe the expansion of satellite communications networks as a process of negotiation and interaction, rather than a simple contest of technological and geopolitical prowess. In so doing, they make visible the significant overlaps, shared imaginaries, points of contact and exchange, and negotiated settlements that determined the shape of satellite communications in its formative decades.

Author : Kari Aga Myklebost,Jens Petter Nielsen,Andrei Rogatchevski
Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644693858

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The Russian Revolutions of 1917 by Kari Aga Myklebost,Jens Petter Nielsen,Andrei Rogatchevski Pdf

The year 2017 saw a multitude of conferences and exhibitions devoted to the centenary of the Russian Revolutions, both in Russia and in other parts of the world. The commemoration of this event would be incomplete without an exploration of its Northern dimension; in October 2017, UiT The Arctic University of Norway hosted the conference The Russian Revolutions of 1917: The Northern Impact and Beyond. Norway and Russia are both northern states, and the two countries have a common border in the High North. Some articles in this volume, based on the conference proceedings, investigate the impact of the Russian Revolution in Norway and Sweden, while others deal with the High North, e.g. the Revolution and Civil War in Northern Russia and the radicalization of the workers’ movement of Northern Norway; some are also devoted to representations of the Russian Revolution at exhibitions and on the big screen.

Author : Lilya Kaganovsky,Scott MacKenzie,Anna Westerstahl Stenport
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253040312

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Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos by Lilya Kaganovsky,Scott MacKenzie,Anna Westerstahl Stenport Pdf

Beginning with Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922), the majority of films that have been made in, about, and by filmmakers from the Arctic region have been documentary cinema. Focused on a hostile environment that few people visit, these documentaries have heavily shaped ideas about the contemporary global Far North. In Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos, contributors from a variety of scholarly and artistic backgrounds come together to provide a comprehensive study of Arctic documentary cinemas from a transnational perspective. This book offers a thorough analysis of the concept of the Arctic as it is represented in documentary filmmaking, while challenging the notion of "The Arctic" as a homogenous entity that obscures the environmental, historical, geographic, political, and cultural differences that characterize the region. By examining how the Arctic is imagined, understood, and appropriated in documentary work, the contributors argue that such films are key in contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological, and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic, from early cinema to the present. Understanding the role of these films becomes all the more urgent in the present day, as conversations around resource extraction, climate change, and sovereignty take center stage in the Arctic’s representation.

Author : Claire Shaw,Anna Toropova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350271272

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Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc by Claire Shaw,Anna Toropova Pdf

The project to create a 'New Man' and 'New Woman' initiated in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc constituted one of the most extensive efforts to remake human psychophysiology in modern history. Playing on the different meanings of the word 'technology' - as practice, knowledge and artefact - this edited volume brings together scholarship from across a range of fields to shed light on the ways in which socialist regimes in the Soviet bloc and Eastern Europe sought to transform and revolutionise human capacities. From external, state-driven techniques of social control and bodily management, through institutional practices of transformation, to strategies of self-fashioning, Technologies of Mind and Body in the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc probes how individuals and collectives engaged with - or resisted - the transformative imperatives of the Soviet experiment. The volume's broad scope covers topics including the theory and practice of revolutionary embodiment; the practice of expert knowledge and disciplinary power in psychotherapy and criminology; the representation and transformation of ideal bodies through mass media and culture; and the place of disabled bodies in the context of socialist transformational experiments. The book brings the history of human 're-making' and the history of Soviet and Eastern Bloc socialism into conversation in a way that will have broad and lasting resonance.

Author : Yulia Gradskova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319991993

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Soviet Politics of Emancipation of Ethnic Minority Woman by Yulia Gradskova Pdf

This book provides a new perspective through a closer look on “Other”, i.e. ethnic minority women defined by the Soviet documents as natsionalka. Applying decolonial theory and critical race and whiteness studies, the book analyzes archive documents, early Soviet films and mass publications in order to explore how the “emancipation” and “culturalization” of women of “culturally backward nations” was practiced and presented for the mass Soviet audience. Whilst the special focus of the book lies in the region between the Volga and the Urals (and Muslim women of the Central Eurasia), the Soviet emancipation practices are presented in the broader context of gendered politics of modernization in the beginning of the 20th century. The analysis of the Soviet documents of the 1920s-1930s not only subverts the Soviet story on “generous help” with emancipation of natsionalka through uncovering its imperial/colonial aspects, but also makes an important contribution to the studies of imperial domination and colonial politics. This book is addressed to all interested in Russian and Eurasian studies and in decolonial approach to gender history.

Author : Birgit Beumers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781118412763

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A Companion to Russian Cinema by Birgit Beumers Pdf

A Companion to Russian Cinema provides an exhaustive and carefully organised guide to the cinema of pre-Revolutionary Russia, of the Soviet era, as well as post-Soviet Russian cinema, edited by one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies. The most up-to-date and thorough coverage of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet cinema, which also effectively fills gaps in the existing scholarship in the field This is the first volume on Russian cinema to explore specifically the history of movie theatres, studios, and educational institutions The editor is one of the most established and knowledgeable scholars in Russian cinema studies, and contributions come from leading experts in the field of Russian Studies, Film Studies and Visual Culture Chapters consider the arts of scriptwriting, sound, production design, costumes and cinematography Provides five portraits of key figures in Soviet and Russia film history, whose works have been somewhat neglected