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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Stalin era"”.
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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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They throw pebbles in our garden: Women and consumerism in the Soviet Union from Lenin to Khrushchev
… Union from its 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 …
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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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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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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
… instead illuminates the material and economic operations that fueled and sometimes confounded socialism, and connects them to global patterns of economic growth. The dissertation draws on archival and library sources from Dushanbe, Moscow, and North America to make three major scholarly …
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When a Pound Weighed a Ton: The Cotton Scandal and Uzbek National Consciousness
During the reign of Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Soviet Union, corruption was hardly uncommon. Even by the standards of the era, the web of illegal activity that developed in the Uzbek S.S.R. was astonishing. Sharaf Rashidov was the man largely held as responsible for bringing about …
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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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NAVIGATING ‘NATIONAL FORM’ AND ‘SOCIALIST CONTENT’ IN THE GREAT LEADER’S HOMELAND: GEORGIAN PAINTING AND NATIONAL POLITICS UNDER STALIN, 1921-39
This thesis examines the interaction of Georgian painting and national politics in the first two decades of Soviet power in Georgia, 1921-1939, focussing in particular on the period following the consolidation of Stalin’s power at the helm of the Communist Party in 1926-7. In the Stalin era, …