Soviet Internationalism After Stalin

Author : Tobias Rupprecht
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cold War
ISBN : 1316359093

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Soviet Internationalism After Stalin by Tobias Rupprecht Pdf

The Soviet Union is often presented as a largely isolated and idiosyncratic state. Soviet Internationalism after Stalin challenges this view by telling the story of Soviet and Latin American intellectuals, students, political figures and artists, and their encounters with the 'other' from the 1950s through the 1980s. In this first multi-archival study of Soviet relations with Latin America, Tobias Rupprecht reveals that, for people in the Second and Third Worlds, the Cold War meant not only confrontation with an ideological enemy, but also increased interconnectedness with distant world regions. He shows that the Soviet Union looked quite different from a southern rather than a western point of view and also charts the impact of the new internationalism on the Soviet Union itself in terms of popular perceptions of the USSR's place in the world and its political, scientific, intellectual and cultural reintegration into the global community.

Author : Patryk Babiracki,Austin Jersild
Publisher : Springer
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319325705

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Socialist Internationalism in the Cold War by Patryk Babiracki,Austin Jersild Pdf

This volume examines how numerous international transfers, circulations, and exchanges shaped the world of socialism during the Cold War. Over the course of half a century, the Soviets shaped politics, values and material culture throughout the vast space of Eurasia, and foreign forces in turn often influenced Soviet policies and society. The result was the distinct and interconnected world of socialism, or the Socialist Second World. Drawing on previously unavailable archival sources and cutting-edge insights from “New Cold War” and transnational histories, the twelve contributors to this volume focus on diverse cultural and social forms of this global socialist exchange: the cults of communist leaders, literature, cinema, television, music, architecture, youth festivals, and cultural diplomacy. The book’s contributors seek to understand the forces that enabled and impeded the cultural consolidation of the Socialist Second World. The efforts of those who created this world, and the limitations on what they could do, remain key to understanding both the outcomes of the Cold War and a recent legacy that continues to shape lives, cultures and policies in post-communist states today.

Author : Tobias Rupprecht
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107102880

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Soviet Internationalism after Stalin by Tobias Rupprecht Pdf

The first multi-archive-based study of Soviet relations with Latin America from the 1950s through the 1980s.

Author : Merle Kling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Communism
ISBN : WISC:89094309713

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The Soviet Theory of Internationalism by Merle Kling Pdf

Author : David J. Dallin
Publisher : Philadelphia : Lippincott, 1961 [c1960]
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015008275383

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Soviet Foreign Policy After Stalin by David J. Dallin Pdf

Well organized appraisal based on carefully researched Soviet sources.

Author : Oscar Sanchez-Sibony
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107040250

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Red Globalization by Oscar Sanchez-Sibony Pdf

An important rereading of the Cold War as an economic struggle shaped by the global economy.

Author : Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400843923

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Thank You, Comrade Stalin! by Jeffrey Brooks Pdf

Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state that slogans like these appeared routinely in newspapers, on posters, and in government proclamations. In this penetrating historical study, Jeffrey Brooks draws on years of research into the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers--including Pravda, Isvestiia, and the army paper Red Star--to explain the origins, the nature, and the effects of this unrelenting idealization of the state, the Communist Party, and the leader. Brooks shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture--a form of political performance that became its own reality and excluded other forms of public reflection. He presents and explains scores of self-congratulatory newspaper articles, including tales of Stalin's supposed achievements and virtue, accounts of the country's allegedly dynamic economy, and warnings about the decadence and cruelty of the capitalist West. Brooks pays particular attention to the role of the press in the reconstruction of the Soviet cultural system to meet the Nazi threat during World War II and in the transformation of national identity from its early revolutionary internationalism to the ideology of the Cold War. He concludes that the country's one-sided public discourse and the pervasive idea that citizens owed the leader gratitude for the "gifts" of goods and services led ultimately to the inability of late Soviet Communism to diagnose its own ills, prepare alternative policies, and adjust to new realities. The first historical work to explore the close relationship between language and the implementation of the Stalinist-Leninist program, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! is a compelling account of Soviet public culture as reflected through the country's press.

Author : Rossen Djagalov
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228002024

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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. From Internationalism to Postcolonialism recounts the story of two Cold War-era cultural formations that claimed to represent the Third World project in literature and cinema, and offers a compelling genealogy of contemporary postcolonial studies.

Author : Karl D. Qualls
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487518295

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Stalin's Niños by Karl D. Qualls Pdf

Stalin’s Niños examines how the Soviet Union raised and educated nearly three thousand child refugees of the Spanish Civil War. An analysis of the archival record and numerous letters, oral histories, and memoirs uncovers a little-known story that describes the Soviet transformation of children into future builders of communism and reveals the educational techniques shared with other modern states. Classroom education taught patriotism for the two homelands and the importance of emulating Spanish and Soviet heroes, scientists, soldiers, and artists. Extra-curricular clubs and activities reinforced classroom experiences and helped discipline the mind, body, and behaviours. Adult mentors, like the heroes studied in the classroom, provided models to emulate and became the tangible expression of the ideal Spaniard and Soviet. The Basque and Spanish children thus were transformed into hybrid Hispano-Soviets fully engaged with their native language, culture, and traditions while also imbued with Russian language and culture and Soviet ideals of hard work, comradery, internationalism, and sacrifice for ideals and others. Throughout their fourteen-year existence and even during the horrific relocation to the Soviet interior during the Second World War, the twenty-two Soviet boarding schools designed specifically for the Spanish refugee children – and better provisioned than those for Soviet children – transformed displaced niños into Red Army heroes, award-winning Soviet athletes and artists, successful educators and workers, and in some cases valuable resources helping to rebuild Cuba after the revolution. Stalin’s Niños also sheds new light on the education of non-Russian Soviet and international students and the process of constructing a supranational Soviet identity.

Author : Michele Di Donato,Mathieu Fulla
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350247925

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Leftist Internationalisms by Michele Di Donato,Mathieu Fulla Pdf

This volume offers a new perspective on the political history of the socialist, communist and alternative political Lefts, focusing on the role of networks and transnational connections. Embedding the history of left-wing internationalism into a new political history approach, it accounts for global and transnational turns in the study of left-wing politics. The essays in this collection study a range of examples of international engagement and transnational cooperation in which left-wing actors were involved, and explore how these interactions shaped the globalization of politics throughout the 20th century. In taking a multi-archival and methodological approach, this book challenges two conventional views - that the left gradually abandoned its original international to focus exclusively on the national framework, and that internationalism survived merely as a rhetorical device. Instead, this collection highlights how different currents of the Left developed their own versions of internationalism in order to adapt to the transformation of politics in the interdependent 20th-century world. Demonstrating the importance of political convergence, alliance-formation, network construction and knowledge circulation within and between the socialist and communist movements, it shows that the influence of internationalism is central to understanding the foreign policy of various left-wing parties and movements.

Author : Evgeny Dobrenko,Natalia Jonsson-Skradol
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783086993

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Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures under Stalin by Evgeny Dobrenko,Natalia Jonsson-Skradol Pdf

Socialist Realism in Central and Eastern European Literatures' is the first published work to offer a variety of alternative perspectives on the literary and cultural Sovietization of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II and emphasize the dialogic relationship between the ‘centre’ and the ‘satellites’ instead of the traditional top-down approach. The introduction of the Soviet cultural model was not quite the smooth endeavour that it was made to look in retrospect; rather, it was always a work in progress, often born out of a give-andtake with the local authorities, intellectuals and interest groups. Relying on archival resources, the authors examine one of the most controversial attempts at a cultural unification in Europe by providing an overview with a focus on specific case-studies, an analysis of distinct particularities with attention to the patterns of negotiation and adaptation that were being developed in the process.

Author : Jonathan Brunstedt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498753

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The Soviet Myth of World War II by Jonathan Brunstedt Pdf

Provides a bold new interpretation of the origins and development of World War II's remembrance in the USSR.

Author : Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,José Pedro Monteiro
Publisher : Springer
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319606934

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Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World by Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo,José Pedro Monteiro Pdf

This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts. Bringing together scholars from diverse theoretical, methodological and geographical backgrounds, the book explores an array of fundamental actors, institutions and processes that have decisively shaped contemporary history and the present. Among other crucial topics, it considers the expansion in the number and scope of activities of international organizations and its impact on formal and informal imperial polities, as well as the propagation of developmentalist ethos and discourses, relating them to major historical processes such as the growing institutionalization of international scrutiny in the interwar years or, later, the emerging global Cold War.

Author : Louis Howard Porter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197656303

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Reds in Blue by Louis Howard Porter Pdf

Before Josef Stalin's death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organizations. Although it had helped found the United Nations, it refused to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and other major agencies beyond the Security Council and General Assembly, casting them as foreign meddlers. Under new leadership, the USSR joined UNESCO and a slew of international organizations for the first time, including the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization. As a result, it enabled Soviet diplomats, scholars, teachers, and even some blue-collar workers to participate in global discussions on topics ranging from their professional specialties to worldwide problems. Reds in Blue investigates Soviet relations with one of the most prominent of these organizations, UNESCO, to present a novel way of thinking about the role of the United Nations in the Soviet experience of the Cold War. Drawing on unused archival material from the former USSR and elsewhere, the book examines the forgotten stories of Soviet citizens who contributed to the nuts-and-bolts operations and lesser-known activities of world governance. These unexamined dimensions of everyday participation in the UN's bureaucracy, conferences, publications, and technical assistance show the body's importance for a group of Soviet "one-worlders," who used the UN to imagine and work for a better world amidst the realities of the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev governments sought to use their participation as a means of spreading Soviet influence within Western-dominated international organizations but discovered that this required risk-taking and a degree of openness for which the Soviet leadership and domestic institutions were often unprepared. Moving beyond debates over the successes and failures of UN diplomatic activities, Reds in Blue offers fresh perspectives on how Soviet citizens became citizens of the world and advocated for opening up Soviet society in ways that transcended Cold War categories without abandoning a sense of loyalty to their homeland. In doing so, it recaptures a space where East and West worked together towards a future without international conflict in the years before détente.

Author : Gurminder K. Bhambra,John Narayan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317335726

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European Cosmopolitanism by Gurminder K. Bhambra,John Narayan Pdf

This book provides a fresh examination of the cosmopolitan project of post-war Europe from a variety of perspectives. It explores the ways in which European cosmopolitanism can be theorized differently if we take into account histories which have rarely been at the forefront of such understandings. It also uses neglected historical resources to draw out new and unexpected entanglements and connections between understandings of European cosmopolitanism both in Europe and elsewhere. The final part of the book places European cosmopolitanism in tension with contemporary postcolonial configurations around diaspora, migration, and austerity. Overall, it seeks to draw attention to the ways in which Europe’s posited others have always been very much a part of Europe’s colonial histories and its postcolonial present.