Stalin and Stalinism

“Politische Führung in der Diktatur“ Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, 2-3/ 2010 (11 January 2010) 40-46.

by Jan C. Behrends

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.

The History of an Unfinished Project: The Dictionary “Russian Botanists” by Sergey Yu. Lipshits

by Anastasia Fedotova

Botanicheskiy zhurnal. 2012. Vol 97. № 3. P. 381-398. In Russian

The biographical and bibliographical dictionary ¨Russian botanists¨ by Sergey Yu. Lipshits was a unique bibliographic... more The biographical and bibliographical dictionary ¨Russian botanists¨ by Sergey Yu. Lipshits was a unique bibliographic project; it remains an essential guidebook for historians of biology in Russia. It contains biographical and full bibliographical entries for all botanists and other scholars engaged in botanical research in Russia in the 18th – mid-20th centuries. What makes the dictionary an invaluable resource for the history of botany (both social history and history of ideas) is the fact that it contains data not only on the leading scientists but on minor figures as well, even if the entries provide only a brief biographical account and a short outline of academic activities. However, only the first four volumes of the dictionary (up to the letter K) came out of print, and a few copies of the proofs for the fifth volume (the letters L-M) have been preserved. In this paper author made an attempt to describe on the basis of archival and published materials the sequence of the work progress, the difficulties that encountered S.Yu. Lipchitz and MOIP in process of publication, and how the publication was stopped by Department for Agitation and Propaganda of TsK VKP(b).

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)

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.

Simplificaciones ideológicas y resistencia campesina en la Rusia soviética

by amanda leal

ISNN:22504486

On the Vitality of Artificial, or Stalin's Rhetoric Revisited

by Gasan Gusejnov

Contribution for the conference
"Sots-Speak: Regimes of Language under Socialism"
Princeton, May 20-22, 2011
http://slavic.princeton.edu/events/news/detail.php?ID=2533

Большой голод на Украине в свете документов польской дипломатии и разведки

by Jan Jacek Bruski

Published in: 'Европа. Журнал Польского Института Международных Дел' 2006, T. 6, № 4 (21), с. 97-152.

The Evolution of Totalitarianism: From Stalin to Putin

by Tornike Metreveli

The Soviet Union is commonly cited as “totalitarian.” But just how totalitarian was the Soviet Union? The modern... more The Soviet Union is commonly cited as “totalitarian.” But just how totalitarian was the Soviet Union? The modern Russian Federation?

Review: Robert Gellately: Lenin, Stalin und Hitler. Drei Diktatoren, die Europa in den Abgrund führten. Bergisch-Gladbach, Lübbe 2009, 891 S.

by John Andreas Fuchs

In: Forum für osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte 2/2011, S. 185-188.

[Рец. на:] Partizan teroro auk atminimo knyga / Sud. P. Masilionis. Vilnius: Politika, 2011. 610 p.

by Alexander Dyukov

Дюков А.Р. [Рец. на:] Partizan teroro auk atminimo knyga / Sud. P. Masilionis. Vilnius: Politika, 2011. 610 p. // Журнал российских и восточноевропейских исторических исследований. 2011. № 2 (4). С. 176 - 178.

Инструкция Фронта литовских активистов «Указания по освобождению Литвы», март 1941 г.

by Alexander Dyukov

Инструкция Фронта литовских активистов «Указания по освобождению Литвы», март 1941 г.  (Lithuanian Activist Front’s “Instructions on Lithuania’s Liberation” of 24 March 1941) // Журнал российских и восточноевропейских исторических исследований. 2011. № 2 (4). С. 140 – 157.

От этнической высылки к депортации «опасного элемента»: литовские и советские депортационные акции в Литве, 1939 – 1941 гг.

by Alexander Dyukov

Дюков А.Р. От этнической высылки к депортации «опасного элемента»: литовские и советские депортационные акции в Литве, 1939 – 1941 гг. (From Ethnic Exile to Deportation of the ‘Dangerous Element’: Lithuanian and Soviet deportation actions in Lithuania, 1939-1941) // Журнал российских и восточноевропейских исторических исследований. 2011. № 2 (4). С. 101 – 106.

Sartre against Communism

by Ruud Welten

English version of book chapter from Zinvol Geweld English version of book chapter from Zinvol Geweld

The Influence of Soviet Authorities on Musical Style of Shostakovich 1917 - 1953 [in Polish]

by Adam Izdebski

Zeszyty Humanistyczne [Review of Arts and Humanities], 3 (2004) 147-169

The Creation of the Musicological Centre in Warsaw and its Role in enforcing Socialist Realism on Polish Music (1945-1952) [in Polish]

by Adam Izdebski

In: G. Bąbiak, J. Nalewajko (ed.), Trudny wiek XX [The troublesome 20th c.], Warsaw 2010, Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 90-117

Defying De-Stalinization: Albania’s 1956

by Elidor Mehilli

Journal of Cold War Studies, Fall 2011, Vol. 13, No. 4, Pages 4-56.

Drawing on recently declassified Albanian, Soviet, East German, and Western archival sources, as well as a rich... more Drawing on recently declassified Albanian, Soviet, East German, and Western archival sources, as well as a rich historiography on Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech and the Hungarian revolution of 1956, this article investigates the little-known events of 1956 in Albania. Rejecting de-Stalinization, the Albanian Communist leader Enver Hoxha was able to vindicate his position against Yugoslavia's brand of socialism abroad, fortify his rule at home, and claim more aid from Moscow, Beijing, and the Soviet bloc. This article discusses the Tirana Party Conference of April 1956, treating the Albanian Party of Labor (the Communist party) as an “information society.” The article assesses deliberations over security and ideology at the highest levels and demonstrates how tiny Albania came to embody, in exaggerated form, both the promises and the perils of socialist exchange, in addition to mirroring the profound inconsistencies of Khrushchev's de-Stalinization campaign.

The Stalin Cult between Center and Periphery: Structures of the Cult Community in the Empire of Socialism, 1949-1956 – the Case of GDR, in: Ennker B., Hein-Kircher H. (ed.), Der Führer im Europa des 20. Jahrhunderts, Marburg: Herder-Institut, 2010, pp.297-321.

by Alexey Tikhomirov

La Escritura Simbólica De La Realidad Social: El Ejemplo De La Constitución Estalinista De 1936

by Jose M. Faraldo

in: Cuadernos Constitucionales de la Cátedra Fadrique Furió Ceriol, n° 36-37, 2001, (Valencia), pp. 133-160

The simbolic writting of the social reality: the example of Stalin's constitution The simbolic writting of the social reality: the example of Stalin's constitution

Griffiths und Vertovs Wiege. Dziga Vertovs Film "Kolybel'naja" (1937)

by Natascha Drubek

In: Frauen und Film 1994, 54/55, 31-51

in Russian: Наташа ДРУБЕК-МАЙЕР. Колыбель Гриффита и Вертова. О “Колыбельной” Дзиги Вертова (1937). – Kinovedceskie zapiski 30/198

Сопоставляя гриффитовскую “Нетерпимость” и вертовскую ленту, немецкая исследовательница рассматривает первую как “начало модернистского киноискусства”, а вторую - как его завершение.

http://www.kinozapiski.ru/page/contents-4/

The Cradle of Griffith and Vertov. Dziga Vertov's Film "Kolybel'naja" / "Lullaby" (1937)
more The Cradle of Griffith and Vertov. Dziga Vertov's Film "Kolybel'naja" / "Lullaby" (1937)

Tags:
- about Vertov's Film about the new Soviet Woman, relating it to the image of L. Gish and the parcae at the cradle in Griffith's "Intolerance" (1916)
- Soviet motherhood
- co-authorship Elizaveta Svilova
- intertitles and écriture in film
- Vertov's rocking camera, inspired also by "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking" (Walt Whitman)
- Vertov's film "Tri geroini" / "Three Heroines" (1938) about women pilots