Stalin Era Intellectuals

Author : Vesa Oittinen,Elina Viljanen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000785654

Get Book

Stalin Era Intellectuals by Vesa Oittinen,Elina Viljanen Pdf

This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era. The authors question how we should consider certain intellectual achievements which took place despite the pressure of Stalinism, and how best to recognise and describe such achievements. The chapters in this book offer suggestions for new interpretations on Soviet philosophy of science and humanities, linguistics, philosophy, musicology, literature and mathematics from the point of view of general cultural theory. In this way, they challenge the received image of the Stalin-era humanities which reduces them into mere propaganda. Intended for scholars of Russian and Soviet studies, this book will dispel many received views about the character of Stalinism and Soviet culture. Chapters 1, 2, 4, 6, 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400861132

Get Book

Soviet Intellectuals and Political Power by Vladimir Shlapentokh Pdf

In this unprecedented work on the status and role of intellectuals in Soviet political life, a former Soviet sociologist maps out the delicate, often paradoxical, ties between the political regime and the creative thinkers who play a major part in the movement toward modernization. Beginning with Stalin, Vladimir Shlapentokh explores the mutual need and antagonism that have existed between political leaders and intellectuals. What emerges is a fascinating portrayal of the Soviet intellectual network since the 1950s, which touches on such topics as the role of literature and film in political opposition, levels of opposition (open, legal, and private), and the spread of paranoia as fueled by the KGB. Throughout he shows how the intellectual communityusually a cohesive, liberal grouphas fared under Khrushchev's cautious tolerance, Brezhnev's repressions, and now Gorbachev's Glasnost. Shlapentokh maintains, however, that under Glasnost freer speech has revealed a more pronounced divergence between liberal and conservative thinkers, and has allowed for open conservative opposition to the reformatory measures of Gorbachev and the liberals. He argues that one of the strongest checks on reform is the growing presence of Russophilism--a movement supporting Russian nationalism and Stalin's concept of socialism--among the political elite and the masses. Although the role of the liberal intellectuals in the late 1980s was less prominent than it was in the 1960s, Shlapentokh asserts that they remain the major agent of modernization in the Soviet Union, as well as in other socialist countries. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William L. O'Neill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000159899

Get Book

A Better World by William L. O'Neill Pdf

This book chronicles the struggle among non-Communist leftists and liberals over American relations with the Soviet Union from 1939 through the 1950s. Few now care as passionately and as violently as people did then about Soviet-American relations. It was a time when friends became enemies, and others forged strange alliances, all in the name of commitments that today seem remote. A Better World evokes those times and their choices, and explains why these long-ago battles still arouse such deep feelings today - and should.Americans who were pro-Soviet without being members of the Communist party - 'progressives' as they called themselves - had a large emotional investment in the Soviet Union. From 1935 to 1939 literally millions joined the 'Popular Front' of pro-Soviet organizations. O'Neill takes us through the shock of the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939, through the revival of the Popular Front spurred by government and business support after Russia entered the war against Hitler. He traces the isolation of the anti-Stalinists, the rise and fall of Henry Wallace, and the eclipse of progressivism. And he explores the shifting allegiances of intellectuals as they struggled, often with each other, to influence the course of public debate, with long-lasting consequences for American intellect, culture, and morals.As O'Neill observes in his introduction, 'More than any of my other books A Better World inspired correspondents to send me probing or reflective letters.' It was this response, along with the extraordinary critical debate spurred by initial publication of this volume, that makes the book's continuing importance clear. The dream of achieving a better world through radical violence never dies, and the willingness of apologists to cling to utopian visions persists. As long as it does, the lessons of this book need to be available to us.

Author : Benjamin Tromly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107656024

Get Book

Making the Soviet Intelligentsia by Benjamin Tromly Pdf

Making the Soviet Intelligentsia explores the formation of educated elites in Russian and Ukrainian universities during the early Cold War. In the postwar period, universities emerged as training grounds for the military-industrial complex, showcases of Soviet cultural and economic accomplishments and valued tools in international cultural diplomacy. However, these fêted Soviet institutions also generated conflicts about the place of intellectuals and higher learning under socialism. Disruptive party initiatives in higher education - from the xenophobia and anti-Semitic campaigns of late Stalinism to the rewriting of history and the opening of the USSR to the outside world under Khrushchev - encouraged students and professors to interpret their commitments as intellectuals in the Soviet system in varied and sometimes contradictory ways. In the process, the social construct of intelligentsia took on divisive social, political and national meanings for educated society in the postwar Soviet state.

Author : Vladimir Tismaneanu,Bogdan C. Iacob
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789633863046

Get Book

Ideological Storms by Vladimir Tismaneanu,Bogdan C. Iacob Pdf

This volume gathers authors who wrote important works in the fields of the history of ideologies, the comparative study of dictatorships, and intellectual history. The book is a state of the art reassessment and analysis of the ideological commitments of intellectuals and their relationships with dictatorships during the twentieth century. The contributions focus on turning points or moments of breakage as well as on the continuities. Though its focus is on an East–West comparison in Europe, there are texts also dealing with Latin America, China, and the Middle East giving the book a global outlook. The first part of the book deals with intellectuals' involvement with communist regimes or parties; the second looks at the persistence of utopianism in the trajectory of intellectuals who had been associated earlier in their lives with either communism or fascism; the third tackles intellectuals' role in national imaginations from either the left or the right; and, the fourth ties late twentieth century phenomena to current phenomena such as the persistence of anti-Semitism in the West, the slow erosion of the values upon which the EU is built, the quagmire in Iraq, and China's rise in the post-Cold War era. The collection provides a comprehensive big-picture of intellectual genealogies and dictatorial developments.

Author : Anthony Kemp-Welch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Intellectuals
ISBN : OCLC:263626012

Get Book

Stalin and the Literary Intelligentsia, 1928-39 by Anthony Kemp-Welch Pdf

Author : Erik van Ree
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135786045

Get Book

The Political Thought of Joseph Stalin by Erik van Ree Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the political thought of Joseph Stalin. Making full use of the documentation that has recently become available, including Stalin's private library with his handwritten margin notes, the book provides many insights on Stalin, and also on western and Russian Marxist intellectual traditions. Overall, the book argues that Stalin's political thought is not primarily indebted to the Russian autocratic tradition, but belongs to a tradition of revolutionary patriotism that stretches back through revolutionary Marxism to Jacobin thought in the French Revolution. It makes interesting comparisons between Stalin, Lenin, Bukharin and Trotsky, and explains a great deal about the mindset of those brought up in the Stalinist era, and about the era's many key problems, including the industrial revolution from above, socialist cultural policy, Soviet treatment of nationalities, pre-war and Cold War foreign policy, and the purges.

Author : Li͡udmila Alekseeva,Paul Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0822959119

Get Book

The Thaw Generation by Li͡udmila Alekseeva,Paul Goldberg Pdf

The Thaw Generation offers an insider's look at the Soviet dissident movement--the intellectuals who, during the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, dared to challenge an oppressive system and demand the rights guaranteed by the Soviet constitution. Fired from their jobs, hunted by the KGB, “tried,” and imprisoned, Alexeyeva and other activists including Andrei Sakharov, Yuri Orlov, Yuli Daniel, and Andrei Sinyavsky, through their dedication and their personal and professional sacrifices, focused international attention on the issue of human rights in the USSR.

Author : Michael Kenny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015032515499

Get Book

The First New Left by Michael Kenny Pdf

In the late 1950s, Stuart Hall, Edward Thompson and Raymond Williams among others, came together as part of a promising new political formation, the New Left. The six years of the group's formal existence represents one of the richest and most exciting periods in the intellectual history of the left in Britain. This short period saw the beginning of many future theoretical developments in radical politics, and the founder members of the New Left are now associated with groundbreaking work in history, culture and politics.

Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195050004

Get Book

Everyday Stalinism by Sheila Fitzpatrick Pdf

Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, this college professor illuminates the ways that Soviet city-dwellers coped with this world, examining such diverse activities as shopping, landing a job, and other acts.

Author : David L. Hoffmann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107007086

Get Book

The Stalinist Era by David L. Hoffmann Pdf

Placing Stalinism in its international context, The Stalinist Era explains the origins and consequences of Soviet state intervention and violence.

Author : Robert D. English
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0231110596

Get Book

Russia and the Idea of the West by Robert D. English Pdf

In most analyses of the Cold War's end the ideological aspects of Gorbachev's "new thinking" are treated largely as incidental to the broader considerations of power. English demonstrates that Gorbachev's foreign policy was the result of an intellectual revolution. He analyzes the rise of a liberal policy-academic elite and its impact on the Cold War's end.

Author : G. Alexopoulos,J. Hessler,K. Tomoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230116429

Get Book

Writing the Stalin Era by G. Alexopoulos,J. Hessler,K. Tomoff Pdf

Covering topics such as the Soviet monopoly over information and communication, violence in the gulags, and gender relations after World War II, this festschrift volume highlights the work and legacy of Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a cross-section of some of the best work being done on a critical period of Russia and the Soviet Union.

Author : Katerina Clark
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674062894

Get Book

Moscow, the Fourth Rome by Katerina Clark Pdf

In the early sixteenth century, the monk Filofei proclaimed Moscow the "Third Rome." By the 1930s, intellectuals and artists all over the world thought of Moscow as a mecca of secular enlightenment. In Moscow, the Fourth Rome, Katerina Clark shows how Soviet officials and intellectuals, in seeking to capture the imagination of leftist and anti-fascist intellectuals throughout the world, sought to establish their capital as the cosmopolitan center of a post-Christian confederation and to rebuild it to become a beacon for the rest of the world. Clark provides an interpretative cultural history of the city during the crucial 1930s, the decade of the Great Purge. She draws on the work of intellectuals such as Sergei Eisenstein, Sergei Tretiakov, Mikhail Koltsov, and Ilya Ehrenburg to shed light on the singular Zeitgeist of that most Stalinist of periods. In her account, the decade emerges as an important moment in the prehistory of key concepts in literary and cultural studies today-transnationalism, cosmopolitanism, and world literature. By bringing to light neglected antecedents, she provides a new polemical and political context for understanding canonical works of writers such as Brecht, Benjamin, Lukacs, and Bakhtin. Moscow, the Fourth Rome breaches the intellectual iron curtain that has circumscribed cultural histories of Stalinist Russia, by broadening the framework to include considerable interaction with Western intellectuals and trends. Its integration of the understudied international dimension into the interpretation of Soviet culture remedies misunderstandings of the world-historical significance of Moscow under Stalin.

Author : Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 836 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780393806

Get Book

Revelations from the Russian Archives by Diane P. Koenker,Library of Congress Pdf