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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Stalinism"”.
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The Trauma of Stalinism Narrated in Varlam T. Shalamov's Kolymskie Rasskazy : Missiological Implications for Contemporary Russia
<p>Stalinism and the punitive system of the Gulag left an indelible stamp on the entire social matrix of Russia. Because of the multidimensional and multigenerational nature of the trauma of Stalinism, Russian society retains the label of a traumatized culture. This dissertation explores the …
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Filosofický revizionismus v Československu mezi lety 1956-1968
… Union in 1956 and the Khrushchev's critique of Stalinism gave opportunity for critical approach in Marxist philosophy. Marxist humanism came with the turn to questions of man and his world and it refused the dehumanizing system of Stalinism. The campaign against revisionism was led in regimes of …
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The limits of perestroika
… the political-economic "structure" (termed "neo-Stalinism") of the Soviet Union. The study evaluates Gorbachev's policies and results. Though the internal reforms to date have r been politically bold, they have been modest and non-structural. Gorbachev's external reforms, primarily military …
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Deconstructing Kimilsungism: A Political and Ideological Analysis of the North Korean Regime
… rightist doctrines, including Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism, Maoism, fascism, and Nazism; and shares at least some similarities with all these established models. Rather than being a mere political model, the North Korean model is a political religion that incorporates traits of each of the …
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Terror in the Ostland: The Genesis of Nazi Collaboration, 1941-42
… sought revenge, security, and resistance against Stalinism. The Germans provided an opportunity to fight against the Soviet Union in 1941, entailing the mass murder of Eastern European and Soviet Jews with the mobile killing units of the Einsatzgruppen, in which Baltic citizens were highly …
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National Identities in the Context of the USSR's Westward Expansion: Visions of Poles and Ukrainians in Soviet Cinema, 1925-1941
… about the representation of nationalities under Stalinism, and argues that the films made to propagate Soviet territorial expansion between 1939 and 1941 contain a degree of celebration of Ukrainian folk culture in its western regions that exceeded what had been possible in the Russocentric …
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The measurement of unemployment in Europe with particular reference to Britain, France and Poland
… of state-formation with independence, Stalinism and the transition to a market economy, make it of particular comparative interest.
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"In passion and in hope:" The pilgrimage of an American radical, Martha Dodd Stern and family, 1933--1990
… Embassy Eyes (1939) showed fascism's evil and Stalinism's promise. Ambassador Dodd's Diary, edited with brother Bill Dodd (1905 to 1940), and her novels, Sowing the Wind (1945) and The Searching Light (1954) also dealt with the fascist menace. Working with her husband Alfred Stern (1890 to …
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Managing nature, constructing the state: the material foundation of Soviet Empire in Tajikistan, 1917-1937
… Second, I comment on the nature of Stalinism. This eponymous period is known for the centralization of power and planning in Moscow and the violent promotion of a modern, industrial society. My study of the operations of material economy in commodity chains spanning the USSR shows …
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The Expansion of the Mandarin Mind
… Mao’s dictatorship was deeply influenced by Stalinism as well as Marxism. However, despite assumptions about the advantages of openness to the world, most of the contacts cited above have not been beneficial. Buddhism created profound societal dislocation, the Yuan dynasty was maintained …
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The mirror and the square : a study of ideology within contemporary art systems with special reference to the American avant-garde in the period 1933-1953
… epitomised freedom in general. In this way, anti-Stalinism and the post-war liberal philosophy of individual freedom, coupled with a search for 'essences' and the 'universal', directed artists inward to the medium of art as relevant subject-matter. This dissertation argues that this identification …
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The Frankfurt School : the crisis of subjectivity and the problem of social change
… the struggle for a rational society (socialism). Stalinism and Fascism blocked the route to socialist democracy on an international scale.In the dialectic of hope and despair the Second World War can be understood as representing the great terminus of accumulated defeats of the working class …
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Velocidad, tecnología, sociedad y poder en la obra de Paul Virilio y en su crítica
… capacity of technology under the fascism, the Stalinism and the ultra-liberalism; we will study the conditions of 9 possibility of a “new politics” and a “new technology” using the singular phenomenological approach that makes his thought unique. Finally, we will review the main information and …
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The Rise of Insider Iconography: Visions of Soviet Turkmenia in Russian-Language Literature and Film, 1921-1935
… literature and film; how the rise of high Stalinism affected the production of texts about the region, redirecting responsibility for its representation to insider iconographers and those willing to pose as such; and how Platonov can be considered as both a practitioner and an articulate …
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The Polish community in Scotland
… the removal of many of the worst features of `Stalinism' in Poland after October, 1956, the defeat of the Hungarian Uprising convinced most exiled Poles that Poland would not be liberated either by a national revolt or by intervention by the Western democracies. In addition, many Poles in …
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Nichts ist vergessen, niemand ist vergessen? : Erinnerungskultur und kollektives Gedächtnis im heutigen Russland
Gleich dem Individuum benötigen Gesellschaften Vergangenheit in erster Linie zur Selbstdefinition. Eine feste Struktur gesellschaftlich geteilter Vergangenheitsreferenzen erzeugt ein überindividuelles kollektives Gedächtnis, das soziale Rollen und Identitäten determiniert. Was aber geschieht, wenn …
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"The ""right to be helped"": welfare policies and notions of rights at the margins of Soviet society, 1917-1950"
In this dissertation, I trace the course of ethically founded notions of rights in the Soviet experience from 1917 to 1950, focusing on the “right to be helped” as the entitlement to state assistance felt by four marginalized social groups. Through an analysis of the requests for help written by …
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