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Author : Joseph L. Nogee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Man, State, and Society in the Soviet Union written by Joseph L. Nogee and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raymond E. Zickel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1182 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Soviet Union written by Raymond E. Zickel and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernest Gellner
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9780631157878
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (578 download)
Download or read book State and Society in Soviet Thought written by Ernest Gellner and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1988 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lilya Kaganovsky
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822973430
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (734 download)
Download or read book How the Soviet Man was Unmade written by Lilya Kaganovsky and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stalinist Russia, the idealized Soviet man projected an image of strength, virility, and unyielding drive in his desire to build a powerful socialist state. In monuments, posters, and other tools of cultural production, he became the demigod of Communist ideology. But beneath the surface of this fantasy, between the lines of texts and in film, lurked another figure: the wounded body of the heroic invalid, the second version of Stalin's New Man. In How the Soviet Man Was Unmade, Lilya Kaganovsky exposes the paradox behind the myth of the indestructible Stalinist-era male. In her analysis of social-realist literature and cinema, she examines the recurring theme of the mutilated male body, which appears with startling frequency. Kaganovsky views this representation as a thinly veiled statement about the emasculated male condition during the Stalinist era. Because the communist state was "full of heroes," a man could only truly distinguish himself and attain hero status through bodily sacrifice-yet in his wounding, he was forever reminded that he would be limited in what he could achieve, and was expected to remain in a state of continued subservience to Stalin and the party. Kaganovsky provides an insightful reevaluation of classic works of the period, including the novels of Nikolai Ostrovskii (How Steel Was Tempered) and Boris Polevoi (A Story About a Real Man), and films such as Ivan Pyr'ev's The Party Card, Eduard Pentslin's The Fighter Pilots, and Mikhail Chiaureli's The Fall of Berlin, among others. The symbolism of wounding and dismemberment in these works acts as a fissure in the facade of Stalinist cultural production through which we can view the consequences of historic and political trauma.
Author : V. Lelchuk
Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
ISBN 13 : 9780898757613
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (576 download)
Download or read book A Short History of Soviet Society written by V. Lelchuk and published by University Press of the Pacific. This book was released on 2002-02-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When originally published in the Soviet Union in 1971, the publishers advertising read: In October 1917 the working people of Russia, guided by Lenin, accomplished a socialist revolution. The peoples of economically backward Russia where, before the revolution, all power had belonged to the tsar, the bourgeoisie and the landowners, and where the downtrodden and illiterate peasants constituted the bulk of the population, overthrew the power of the oppressors and started building their own state - the Soviet Union. Over fifty years have passed since then. In this short period the Soviet Union has become a powerful socialist country with an up-to-date industry and conquests in outer space to its credit; it has become a country that knows no class antagonisms, no exploitation of man, racial hatred or social inequality. This book abounds in facts, names and figures. But it is not intended as a textbook or reference book. It is a narrative about the Soviet people, their life, work and struggles, a narrative about the people who carried out the revolution and built a socialist society, who upheld their freedom and independence in the Second World War and are now building communism confident in their ultimate success.
Author : Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521369879
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (698 download)
Download or read book Soviet State and Society Between Revolutions, 1918-1929 written by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-08-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the ruling Communist Party and its New Economic Policy is explored in the first book to analyze the relationship between the Soviet state and society from 1917 through the early 1930s through the changing fortunes of its peoples.
Author : Veljko Vujačić
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107074088
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Nationalism, Myth, and the State in Russia and Serbia written by Veljko Vujačić and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the role of Russian and Serbian nationalism in dissolution of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in 1991.
Author : Oliver Bullough
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0465074979
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Last Man in Russia written by Oliver Bullough and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia is dying from within. Oligarchs and oil barons may still dominate international news coverage, but their prosperity masks a deep-rooted demographic tragedy. Faced with staggering population decline—and near-certain economic collapse—driven by toxic levels of alcohol abuse, Russia is also battling a deeper sickness: a spiritual one, born out of the country’s long totalitarian experiment. In The Last Man in Russia, award-winning journalist Oliver Bullough uses the tale of a lone priest to give life to this national crisis. Father Dmitry Dudko, a dissident Orthodox Christian, was thrown into a Stalinist labor camp for writing poetry. Undaunted, on his release in the mid-1950s he began to preach to congregations across Russia with little concern for his own safety. At a time when the Soviet government denied its subjects the prospect of advancement, and turned friend against friend and brother against brother, Dudko urged his followers to cling to hope. He maintained a circle of sacred trust at the heart of one of history’s most deceitful systems. But as Bullough reveals, this courageous group of believers was eventually shattered by a terrible act of betrayal—one that exposes the full extent of the Communist tragedy. Still, Dudko’s dream endures. Although most Russians have forgotten the man himself, the embers of hope that survived the darkness are once more beginning to burn. Leading readers from a churchyard in Moscow to the snow-blanketed ghost towns of rural Russia, and from the forgotten graves of Stalin’s victims to a rock festival in an old gulag camp, The Last Man in Russia is at once a travelogue, a sociological study, a biography, and a cri de coeur for a dying nation—one that, Bullough shows, might yet be saved.
Author : Francine Hirsch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455944
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Empire of Nations written by Francine Hirsch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, they set themselves the task of building socialism in the vast landscape of the former Russian Empire, a territory populated by hundreds of different peoples belonging to a multitude of linguistic, religious, and ethnic groups. Before 1917, the Bolsheviks had called for the national self-determination of all peoples and had condemned all forms of colonization as exploitative. After attaining power, however, they began to express concern that it would not be possible for Soviet Russia to survive without the cotton of Turkestan and the oil of the Caucasus. In an effort to reconcile their anti-imperialist position with their desire to hold on to as much territory as possible, the Bolsheviks integrated the national idea into the administrative-territorial structure of the new Soviet state. In Empire of Nations, Francine Hirsch examines the ways in which former imperial ethnographers and local elites provided the Bolsheviks with ethnographic knowledge that shaped the very formation of the new Soviet Union. The ethnographers—who drew inspiration from the Western European colonial context—produced all-union censuses, assisted government commissions charged with delimiting the USSR's internal borders, led expeditions to study "the human being as a productive force," and created ethnographic exhibits about the "Peoples of the USSR." In the 1930s, they would lead the Soviet campaign against Nazi race theories . Hirsch illuminates the pervasive tension between the colonial-economic and ethnographic definitions of Soviet territory; this tension informed Soviet social, economic, and administrative structures. A major contribution to the history of Russia and the Soviet Union, Empire of Nations also offers new insights into the connection between ethnography and empire.
Author : Melanie Ilič
Publisher : BASEES/Routledge Series on Rus
ISBN 13 : 9780415476492
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (764 download)
Download or read book Soviet State and Society Under Nikita Khrushchev written by Melanie Ilič and published by BASEES/Routledge Series on Rus. This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social and cultural impact of the 'thaw' in Cold War relations, decision-making and policy formation in the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev. With individual case studies exploring key aspects of Khrushchev's period of office, this title offers a fresh perspective on the Khrushchev era.
Author : Rebecca Reich
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1609092333
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (9 download)
Download or read book State of Madness written by Rebecca Reich and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-13 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What madness meant was a fiercely contested question in Soviet society. State of Madness examines the politically fraught collision between psychiatric and literary discourses in the years after Joseph Stalin's death. State psychiatrists deployed set narratives of mental illness to pathologize dissenting politics and art. Dissidents such as Aleksandr Vol'pin, Vladimir Bukovskii, and Semen Gluzman responded by highlighting a pernicious overlap between those narratives and their life stories. The state, they suggested in their own psychiatrically themed texts, had crafted an idealized view of reality that itself resembled a pathological work of art. In their unsanctioned poetry and prose, the writers Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Siniavskii, and Venedikt Erofeev similarly engaged with psychiatric discourse to probe where creativity ended and insanity began. Together, these dissenters cast themselves as psychiatrists to a sick society. By challenging psychiatry's right to declare them or what they wrote insane, dissenters exposed as a self-serving fiction the state's renewed claims to rationality and modernity in the post-Stalin years. They were, as they observed, like the child who breaks the spell of collective delusion in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Emperor's New Clothes." In a society where normality means insisting that the naked monarch is clothed, it is the truth-teller who is pathologized. Situating literature's encounter with psychiatry at the center of a wider struggle over authority and power, this bold interdisciplinary study will appeal to literary specialists; historians of culture, science, and medicine; and scholars and students of the Soviet Union and its legacy for Russia today.
Author : Britta Johnson
Publisher : Singapore Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Russians written by Britta Johnson and published by Singapore Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In RUSSIANS, Gregory Feifer explains the seeming paradoxes of Russian life by unraveling the nature of its people: what is it in their history, their desires, and their conception of themselves that makes them baffling to the West? Using the insights of his eight years as a journalist in Russia, Feifer corrects pervasive misconceptions about the country by showing that much of what appears inexplicable is actually logical when seen from the inside. He gets to the heart of why the world's leading energy producer continues to exasperate many in the international community. And he makes clear why President Vladimir Putin remains popular even as the gap widens between the super-rich and the great majority of poor. Drawing on his family history as well as formative experiences in Russia's past and illustrative workings of its culture, Feifer sheds much-needed light on the purposely hidden functioning of its society before, during and after communism. RUSSIANS is an...
Author : Vladimir Shlapentokh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9781563244728
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (447 download)
Download or read book A Normal Totalitarian Society written by Vladimir Shlapentokh and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2001 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes the ordinary functioning of the Soviet system from Stalin's death through the Soviet collapse and Russia's first post-Soviet decade. Without overlooking the USSR's repressive character, the author treats it as a "normal" system that employed socialist and nationalist ideologies.
Author : Wendy Z. Goldman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458160
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (581 download)
Download or read book Women, the State and Revolution written by Wendy Z. Goldman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-11-26 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on how women, peasants and orphans responded to Bolshevk attempts to remake the family, this text reveals how, by 1936, legislation designed to liberate women had given way to increasingly conservative solutions strengthening traditional family values.
Author : Benjamin Peters
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034182
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book How Not to Network a Nation written by Benjamin Peters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, despite thirty years of effort, Soviet attempts to build a national computer network were undone by socialists who seemed to behave like capitalists. Between 1959 and 1989, Soviet scientists and officials made numerous attempts to network their nation—to construct a nationwide computer network. None of these attempts succeeded, and the enterprise had been abandoned by the time the Soviet Union fell apart. Meanwhile, ARPANET, the American precursor to the Internet, went online in 1969. Why did the Soviet network, with top-level scientists and patriotic incentives, fail while the American network succeeded? In How Not to Network a Nation, Benjamin Peters reverses the usual cold war dualities and argues that the American ARPANET took shape thanks to well-managed state subsidies and collaborative research environments and the Soviet network projects stumbled because of unregulated competition among self-interested institutions, bureaucrats, and others. The capitalists behaved like socialists while the socialists behaved like capitalists. After examining the midcentury rise of cybernetics, the science of self-governing systems, and the emergence in the Soviet Union of economic cybernetics, Peters complicates this uneasy role reversal while chronicling the various Soviet attempts to build a “unified information network.” Drawing on previously unknown archival and historical materials, he focuses on the final, and most ambitious of these projects, the All-State Automated System of Management (OGAS), and its principal promoter, Viktor M. Glushkov. Peters describes the rise and fall of OGAS—its theoretical and practical reach, its vision of a national economy managed by network, the bureaucratic obstacles it encountered, and the institutional stalemate that killed it. Finally, he considers the implications of the Soviet experience for today's networked world.
Author : Sarah Ashwin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134609671
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)
Download or read book Gender, State and Society in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia written by Sarah Ashwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the few English language studies to focus on the male experiences, this book addresses the important questions raised by the rise and fall of the Soviet experiment in transforming gender relations. Issues covered include; * the paternal role * women as breadwinners * men's loss of status at work * changing gender roles in the press * the relationship between the sexual and gender revoloutions. Featuring an outstanding panel of Russian contributors, this collection is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Politics, Gender Studies and Russian Studies.
Author : Diane P. Koenker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780393803
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Revelations from the Russian Archives written by Diane P. Koenker and published by . This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
