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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Stalin"”.
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Porous Empire: Foreign Visitors And The Post-Stalin Soviet State
… institutions, all shaped during the isolationist Stalin period, struggled to accommodate their practices to millions of visitors with material expectations and assumed legal rights radically unlike those of Soviet citizens. While much recent Soviet historiography focuses on the ways in which the …
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The struggle for succession, 1921-1925 : Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
… masters of the Kremlin. The tactics which Joseph Stalin used with such success against Trotsky, first to silence and then to reduce him to complete helplessness, he used against Lenin, the moment the latter fell sick in 1922. People on the outside long regarded the attack on Trotsky as the work of …
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Allegory and Metaphor: Soviet Productions of Shakespeare in the Post -Stalin Era
… prison of Denmark into the ""iron curtain"" of Stalinist Russia. Konstantin Zubov's Macbeth at the Moscow Maly Theatre (1955) dealt with the responsibility of a leader to his people and, conversely, the role of a people when the leader has been compromised. Three productions of Richard III---the …
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A Chinese exploration of Sino-Soviet relations since the death of Stalin, 1953-1989.
The dramatic phenomenon which appeared soon after Stalin's death in March 1953 in the Communist world was the strengthening of friendship and co-operation between the two largest socialist countries - the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. The most important reason was that the Soviet …
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The Individual after Stalin: Fedor Abramov, Russian Intellectuals, and the Revitalization of Soviet Socialism, 1953-1962
… socialism in the first decade after Joseph Stalin's death. My departure point is the idea that the Soviet experiment was about the creation not only of a new socio-economic system, but also of a New Man. According to the logic of Soviet socialism, it was the New Man who would usher in the …
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Arte e sangue: analisi e approfondimento delle passioni artistiche che Mussolini, Stalin, Hitler e Mao svilupparono nella loro gioventù
Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, Josif Stalin y Mao Zedong son cuatro figuras históricas que sin duda marcaron la historia del siglo XX. Sus biografías tienen algo en común: todos mostraron, aunque en distintas etapas de su vida, una inclinación por el arte o la literatura. Mussolini era novelista y …
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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
… on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, Georgians enjoyed special status among Soviet nations thanks to Georgia’s prestige as the place of Stalin’s birth. However, Georgians’ advanced sense of their national …
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On the Creation of Gods: Lenin’s Image in Stalin’s Cult of Personality
… presence of Vladimir Lenin’s image in Joseph Stalin’s cult of personality in the postwar era, long after the General Secretary no longer had to rely on his predecessor’s image or persona to legitimize his power over the Soviet Union. While the presence of Lenin’s image in the Stalin cult …
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They throw pebbles in our garden: Women and consumerism in the Soviet Union from Lenin to Khrushchev
… inception, the nascent Lenin era, the autocratic Stalin era and it culminates with a focus on the Khrushchev regime. My work demonstrates that although the Khrushchev era sought to ameliorate women's double burden of work and domestic care, significant gains, in the form of economic independence …
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The Gulag and Soviet Society in Western Siberia, 1929-1953
… examines the history of forced labour during the Stalin era in Western Siberia, or present-day Novosibirsk, Tomsk and Kemerovo Provinces. The region was a key site of Stalin-era repression, as it was home to numerous Gulag camps including Siblag, one of the longest lasting and most economically …
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Sergei Kirov and the Struggle for Soviet Power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918
… subsequently became an important supporter of Stalin and a member of the ruling Politburo, lends additional interest to the course of the revolution in the Terek Region.
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Harry S Truman, the politics of Yalta, and the domestic origins of the Truman Doctrine
… in the development of Cold War tensions. Both Stalin and Truman abandoned accommodationism in favor of a more aggressive foreign policy approach. U.S. activity in the Mediterranean, Iran, Europe, and Southeast Asia clearly indicated that lines of containment had been drawn. Most historians …
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One man's wickedness : malignant narcissism and major blunders in international relations
… relations. Examples include Saddam, Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, Mao, and Nasser. Seventeen hypotheses are presented on malignant narcissism, exploring its relationships to cognition, domestic political systems, and blunders in international relations. The hypotheses are illustrated with …
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Reforming The Cold War State: Economic Thought, Internationalization, And The Politics Of Soviet Reform, 1955-1985.
… military-industrial competition envisioned by Stalin to Khrushchev’s “peaceful socioeconomic competition of the two systems,” economics began to tackle the challenge of transforming the Soviet economy from one focused on mobilization and production to one that could deliver well-being and …
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A reinterpretation of the Yalta Conference with particular emphasis on the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt
… of all the conferences of Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill. At Yalta the basic decisions were made regarding what these leaders intended to do with the world that would be in their hands as a result of their nations’ defeat of Germany and Japan. Thus, what was decided at Yalta is …
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The mathematical-statistical methodology of the contemporary Soviet family budget survey
… socio-economic statistics, originating in the Stalin period, and the bureaucratic inertia of the Central Statistical Administration.
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"In the Scale of Nature Each Seed is Important." Social Transformation, Food, and the Siege of Leningrad, 1941-1942
… the outbreak of the war in the summer of 1941, Stalinist social engineering policies had eroded previously normalized social connections and networks. At the height of the Terror, it became beneficial and advantageous for Soviet citizens to cut off many of their social relationships that had …
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Fighters for New Life: Doctors, Medicine, and Modernity in Soviet Central Asia, 1925-1953
… in Central Asia from the mid-1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, using this subject to explore the tensions and contradictions of Soviet socialism in the region. Previous studies have demonstrated how Soviet rule in Central Asia could appear simultaneously as a form of empire, reifying …
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Bodies at war : National Security in American controversies over animal & human experimentation from WWI to the War on Terror
… of foreign enemies from the Kaiser and Hitler to Stalin and Al-Qaeda. Further, this study explores how these efforts have intersected with issues of gender, slavery, and the pathologizing of political dissent, as well as campaigns for the absolute freedom of research, the functioning of Nazism and …
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Parade Square : discursive surface of post-socialist Warsaw
… site of a monumental skyscraper commissioned by Stalin, called the Palace of Culture and Science. Today, having been used as a parking lot for the past quarter of a century, Parade Square is about to be reconfigured again, this time by the neo-liberal economic forces. This thesis positions the …
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