Soviet Union (History)

Introduction to "Transnational Fordism. Ford Motor Company, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union in the Interwar Years"

by Stefan Johannes Link

Abstract, Table of Contents and Introduction to my dissertation on Transnational Fordism. Contact me if you would like to read the entire manuscript.

Symbols of Power in Rituals of Violence: The Personality Cult and Iconoclasm on the Soviet Empire’s Periphery (East Germany, 1945–61)

by Alexey Tikhomirov

published in: Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 13, Number 1, Winter 2012, pp. 47-88.

Written oral history: Dimensions of identity of Chukotka’s indigenous people in the works of Rytkheu

by Ivan Sablin

published in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, vol. 8, no. 1, 2012, pp. 27–41.

Through the examination of two autobiographic works of Chukchi writer, Rytkheu, this study demonstrates the research... more Through the examination of two autobiographic works of Chukchi writer, Rytkheu, this study demonstrates the research potential of indigenous literatures, offering a new perspective on the past and present of indigenous peoples. The study seeks to provide new interpretations of identity in Chukotka, the northeastern extremity of Asia, of the 1930s and 1940s and to contribute to the identity debate in indigenous studies. In the article identity is understood as a multidimensional whole, with the discussed dimensions being based on ethnicity, nationality, occupation and place of residence. The article pre-eminently addresses the identity of the coastal sea-mammal hunters of Chukotka.

Mapping indigenous Siberia: Spatial changes and ethnic realities, 1900–2010

by Ivan Sablin

co-authored with Maria Savelyeva, published in Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, pp. 77–110.

This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century... more This article discusses spatial changes in the ethnic territories of Native Siberians from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. A Geographic Information System (GIS) was developed to model and observe these changes. The GIS also features resource-oriented economic activities, major waterways and railroads. Analysis of the model, textual sources and statistical data made it possible to determine what factors constituted Siberia’s ethnographical pattern of the early twentieth century and led to its changes in the ensuing decades and what impact on the indigenous peoples these changes had. Four special maps showing Siberia in the 1900s–10s, 1930s–40s, 1970s–80s and 2000s–10s were produced from the GIS and are included in the article. The current legal status of the indigenous peoples’ territories was also examined. This article presents an interdisciplinary macroscale case study.

Entre superação do parlamentarismo e lutas sociais: a função do direito e as dinâmicas do poder na análise gramsciana do fascismo e do comunismo soviético

by Fabio Frosini

The Terrifying Mimicry of Samizdat

by Serguei Alex. Oushakine (Сергей Ушакин)

in Public Culture. Vol. 13, No. 2 (2001): 191-214.

Playing against the enemy: Raimundo Saporta and the first trip of Real Madrid CF´s basketball team to the Soviet Union

by Juan Antonio Simón Sanjurjo

Published in RICYDE International Journal of Sport Science

This article aims to address the role played by the sport in the Franco regime´s foreign policy during the sixties. In... more This article aims to address the role played by the sport in the Franco regime´s foreign policy during the sixties. In particular, we analyze the importance of Raimundo Saporta in the world of the sport, and specifically his influence in the basketball of the second half of XX century in the Spanish and international context, as well as in the sphere political and diplomatic. In addition, this work focuses on the study of the two matches played between Real Madrid CF and CSKA Moscow in the final of the European Cup of Basketball in 1963; and the protagonism of Saporta as negotiator, to secure that the Spanish authorities as much as the Soviet were granted the permission to play the eliminatory matches on two legs.

Увидеть союз иначе. Альтернативный проект объединения советских республик (1919 г.)

by Serhiy Hirik

This paper was presented at the conference "Constructing the Soviet? - 2012" (the European University at St.-Petersburg, April 20-21, 2012) and published in the collection of its materials). Конструируя "советское"? Политическое сознание, повседневные практики, новые идентичности. Материалы научной конференции студентов и аспирантов (20-21 апреля 2012 года, Санкт-Петербург). - СПб: Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2012. - С.33-38.

Annist, A. 2009. Outsourcing Culture: Establishing Heritage Hegemony by Funding Cultural Life in South Eastern Estonia

by Aet Annist

Published in Lietuvos etnologija: socialinės antropologijos ir etnologijos studijos. 2009, 9(18), 117–138.

The following article compares the Soviet and post-Soviet processes of hegemony creation. Based on long-term... more The following article compares the Soviet and post-Soviet processes of hegemony creation. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, I describe how in Estonia, where highly formalised cultural sphere was a norm already in the 19th century, Soviet cultural hegemony was never properly established. The Soviet system of blanket-funding unintentionally enabled the perseverance of nationalist cultural counter-hegemony. In contrast, the current system of project based funding is more effective in creating cultural hegemony. I provide ethnographic examples of how such new practices of governmentality are outsourcing the establishment of emblematic
hegemony of a small cultural group, Setos.

La Guerra fredda e "l'avanzata modernità socialista"

by Tobias Rupprecht

Contemporanea 1 (2012), pp.137-145

Review (and my samokritika): N. Pianciola, "Stalinismo di frontiera" [Frontier Stalinism. Agricultural colonisation, extermination of the nomads, and State-building in Central Asia (1905-1936)], Roma 2009

by Beatrice Penati

This is a much longer version of the review I wrote for Central Eurasian Reader.
I post it online for two reasons: first, because I think this is an important book that deserves to be known beyond the small circle of those who read Italian; second, because in my review for Central Eurasian Reader I misunderstood a passage (p. 486 top). The author pointed this out, and this is my way to do a thorough samokritika.

Under A Red Veil: Staging Afghan Emancipation in Moscow

by Timothy Nunan

Thomas Kühne, "Great Men and Large Numbers. Undertheorizing a History of Mass Killing," Contemporary European History 21,2 (2012), 133-143.

by Thomas Kühne

Review essay on Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands (2010) Review essay on Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands (2010)

Le bakhtinisme est un inhumanisme

by Yan Hamel

Il s'agit d'un compte rendu critique du livre Bakhtine démasqué de Bronkhart et Bota récemment paru chez Droz. Publié dans le dernier numéro de la revue @nalyses.

Simplificaciones ideológicas y resistencia campesina en la Rusia soviética

by amanda leal

ISNN:22504486

Rabochie i "rabochaya demokratiya: Borʹba v RKP(b) na rubezhe 1923-1924 godov.

by Alexander V. Reznik

published in Bulletin Nr. 6 of Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau

"...статьи глеба альберта и александра резника раскрывают потенциал исследования коммунистического движения на... more "...статьи глеба альберта и александра резника раскрывают потенциал исследования коммунистического движения на его социальной и географической периферии. исследуя внутрипартийный дискурс об интернационализме, альберт задается вопросом о его значении для мобилизации нижних партийных чинов в первые послереволюционные годы. резник обращается к изучению оппозиционных группировок внутри большевистской партии в первые годы НЭПа. оба исследователя ставят в центр изучения самопонимание и поведенческие практики низовых и локальных партийных кадров. тем самым авторы вносят свой вклад в понимание большевиков как социального движения, значение которого вовсе не ограничивалось пределами Москвы и Петрограда" (Катя Бруиш).

A Comparative Study-The Role of Economic Policies in Destruction of the USSR and Yugoslavia

by onurhan pehlivanoglu

Официальный советский антисемитизм послесталинского периода

by Andreas Umland

Pro et contra. 2002. Т. 7. № 2. С. 158-168.

"Suspending the Political: Late Soviet Artistic Experiments at the Margins of the State""

by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

Poetics Today, vol. 29, n. 4, 2008.

"A Parasite From Outer Space: How Sergei Kurekhin proved that Lenin was a mushroom"

by Alexei Yurchak Алексей Юрчак

Slavic Review, Spring 2011