Thank You, Comrade Stalin!

Thank You, Comrade Stalin!
Author: Jeffrey Brooks
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400843928

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Thank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state that slogans like these appeared routinely in newspapers, on posters, and in government proclamations. In this penetrating historical study, Jeffrey Brooks draws on years of research into the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers--including Pravda, Isvestiia, and the army paper Red Star--to explain the origins, the nature, and the effects of this unrelenting idealization of the state, the Communist Party, and the leader. Brooks shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture--a form of political performance that became its own reality and excluded other forms of public reflection. He presents and explains scores of self-congratulatory newspaper articles, including tales of Stalin's supposed achievements and virtue, accounts of the country's allegedly dynamic economy, and warnings about the decadence and cruelty of the capitalist West. Brooks pays particular attention to the role of the press in the reconstruction of the Soviet cultural system to meet the Nazi threat during World War II and in the transformation of national identity from its early revolutionary internationalism to the ideology of the Cold War. He concludes that the country's one-sided public discourse and the pervasive idea that citizens owed the leader gratitude for the "gifts" of goods and services led ultimately to the inability of late Soviet Communism to diagnose its own ills, prepare alternative policies, and adjust to new realities. The first historical work to explore the close relationship between language and the implementation of the Stalinist-Leninist program, Thank You, Comrade Stalin! is a compelling account of Soviet public culture as reflected through the country's press.

Breaking Stalin's Nose

Breaking Stalin's Nose
Author: Eugene Yelchin
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2011-09-27
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429949953

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A Newbery Honor Book. Sasha Zaichik has known the laws of the Soviet Young Pioneers since the age of six: The Young Pioneer is devoted to Comrade Stalin, the Communist Party, and Communism. A Young Pioneer is a reliable comrade and always acts according to conscience. A Young Pioneer has a right to criticize shortcomings. But now that it is finally time to join the Young Pioneers, the day Sasha has awaited for so long, everything seems to go awry. He breaks a classmate's glasses with a snowball. He accidentally damages a bust of Stalin in the school hallway. And worst of all, his father, the best Communist he knows, was arrested just last night. This moving story of a ten-year-old boy's world shattering is masterful in its simplicity, powerful in its message, and heartbreaking in its plausibility. One of Horn Book's Best Fiction Books of 2011

"Thank You, Comrade Stalin"

Author: Julia Bow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2008
Genre: Communism
ISBN:

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It's Only a Joke, Comrade!

It's Only a Joke, Comrade!
Author: Jonathan Waterlow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2018-06-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781999343408

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It's Only a Joke, Comrade! uncovers how ordinary people joked, coped, and struggled to adapt in Stalin's brave new world. It asks what it means to live under a dictatorship: How do people make sense of their lives? How do they talk about it? And whom can they trust to do so?

Small Comrades

Small Comrades
Author: Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2013-09-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1135723389

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Small Comrades is a fascinating examination of Soviet conceptions of childhood and the resulting policies directed toward children. Working on the assumption that cultural representations and self-representations are not entirely separable, this book probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. The book draws on work that has been done on Soviet schooling, and focuses specifically on the development of curricula and institutions, but it also examines the wider context of the relationship between the family and the state, and to the Bolshevik vision of the "children of October"

Comrade Pavlik

Comrade Pavlik
Author: Catriona Kelly
Publisher: Granta Books
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-04-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783780711

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It was September, 1932. Gerasimovka, Western Siberia. Two children are found dead in the forest outside a remote village. Both have been repeatedly stabbed and their bloody bodies are covered in sticky, crimson cranberry juice. Who committed these horrific murders has never been proved, but the elder boy, thirteen-year-old Pavlik Morozov, was quickly to become the most famous boy in Soviet history - statues of him were erected, biographies published, and children across the country were exhorted to emulate him. Catriona Kelly's aim is not to find out who really killed the boys, but rather to explore how Stalin's regime turned Pavlik into a hero designed to produce good Soviet citizens. Pavlik's story is intriguing and multi-layered: did he denounce his own father to the authorities? Was he murdered by members of his own family? Did he ever belong to the Pioneers, the Communist youth organization who claimed him as member No. 001? This is the first book in English on Pavlik's legend, using previously inaccessible local archives.

Stalin on China

Stalin on China
Author: Iosif Stalin
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 1977
Genre: China
ISBN:

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The Littlest Enemies

The Littlest Enemies
Author: Deborah Hoffman
Publisher: Slavica Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780893573669

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The Stalinist Era

The Stalinist Era
Author: David L. Hoffmann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2018-11-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107007089

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

Small Comrades

Small Comrades
Author: Lisa A. Kirschenbaum
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2001
Genre: Children
ISBN: 9780815339441

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Working on the assumption that cultural representations are not entirely separable, this study probes how the Soviet regime's representations structured teachers' observations of their pupils and often adults' recollections of their childhood. It offers some tentative answers to the questions, "What did children make of the Revolution?" and "What did the Revolution make of them?" This project emphasizes young children as the subjects of policies and politics in their own right. The book draws on work that has been done on Soviet schooling, and focuses specifically on the development of curricula and institutions, but it also examines the wider context of the relationship between the family and the state, and to Bolshevik vision of the "children of October".