661 research outputs found
Letters: Stalin\u27s Orcs
No full textFollowing up on his article in Mythlore 29.1/2, the author summarizes a recent discovery that Josef Stalin once attempted to create a superior species of warrior by cross-breeding humans and apes
Letters to Stalin
No full textThis article examines selection procedures for common citizens’ letters to Stalin, and the practices of reacting to these letters. Letters to power in general and to Stalin in particular were one of the key channels of communication between state and society in the USSR. The author analyses the dynamics of letter‑writing (including the volume of letters), the bureaucratic mechanisms (including Stalin’s personal involvement), the contents of the letters (including changes in dominant themes), and some of the consequences of letter‑writing (for both the authors’ lives and wider Stalinist policy). The study is based on materials from Stalin’s personal archives and some documents of the Special Sector of the Central Committee (TsK) of the VKP(b).Cet article examine les procédures de sélection des lettres adressées à Stalin émanant de simples citoyens et la façon d’y réagir. En URSS, les lettres adressées au pouvoir en général et à Stalin en particulier représentaient l’un des moyens de communication importants entre l’État et la société. L’auteur analyse les dynamiques de la correspondance épistolaire (y compris le nombre de lettres), les mécanismes bureaucratiques (dont l’implication personnelle de Stalin), les contenus (dont les variations dans les thèmes dominants), et quelques‑unes des conséquences générées par la pratique de la correspondance (tant pour la vie des auteurs des lettres que pour la politique générale stalinienne). L’étude est basée sur des matériaux issus des archives personnelles de Stalin et quelques documents du Secteur spécial du Comité central (CK) du VKP(b)
The Stalin years a reader
No full textChristopher Read provides students with a clear route into the debate surrounding Stalin's Russia. The author traces the complex history of the Stalin years using documents from recently-opened Soviet archives
Stalin and the Fate of Europe
No full textNorman M. Naimark, Stalin and the Fate of Europe. The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty, Harvard University Press, août 2019, 368 p. Présentation de l'éditeur The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable—the acclaimed author of Stalin’s Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their own destinies. Was the division of Europe after World War II inevitable? In this powerful reassessment of the postwar order in Europe, Norman Naimark suggests that Joseph Stalin was far more ..
Stalin and Marxism: a research note
No full textThis article concerns the research done by the author in Stalin‘s private library. The notes made in the works of Marx, Engels and Lenin suggest that until the end of his life Stalin felt himself in general agreement with these "classics." The choice of books and the notes support the thesis that, despite his historical interest and his identification with some of the tsars as powerful rulers, Stalin always continued to consider himself a Marxist, and that he was uninterested in other systems of thought, including those of traditional Russia
El gorrión de Stalin. Historias. Revista de la Dirección de Estudios Históricos Num. 83 (2012) septiembre-diciembre
No full textSimon Sebag-Montefiore (1965) se ha dedicado a reconstruir y contar la vida y los tiempos de Stalin, por encima de su otra pasión: el siglo xviii ruso y sus autócratas. En español existen por el momento estos títulos: La corte del zar rojo (traducción de Teófilo de Lozoya Elzurdía, Crítica, 2004), Llamadme Stalin. La historia secreta de un revolucionario (traducción de Teófilo de Lozoya Elzurdía, Crítica, 2007, 2010), amén de su novela Sashenka (traducción de Máximo Sáez Escribano, Punto de Lectura, 2009, 2011). La hija de Stalin murió el pasado 22 de noviembre de 2011 en Richland, Wisconsin, bajo el nombre que asumió al casarse con un ciudadano estadounidense, Lana Peters. Esta nota se publicó el 3 de diciembre de 2011 en el Financial Times
Stalin´s Death and its Response at the Czechoslovak
No full textkatedra: KHI; přílohy: 1 CD; rozsah: 63 s.This thesis deals with the response of Stalin´s death in Czechoslovak public. In the introductory chapter the author analyzes the political situation in Czechoslovakia in the half of the 20th century. In the following sections the author assessed by means of analytical and comparative methods the Stalin personality, reaction to his death in the party press and literature and unrest associated with his death. In conclusion summarizes the lossons learned.Bakalářká práce se zabývá ohlasem Stalinovy smrti u československé veřejnosti. V úvodní kapitole autorka analyzuje politickou situaci v Československu v polovině 20. století. V následujících kapitolách pak hodnotí pomocí analytické a komparativní metody Stalinovu osobnost, reakce na jeho smrt ve stranickém tisku a v literatuře a nepokoje spojené s jeho úmrtím. V závěru práce shrnuje získané poznatky
School Girls in Classroom
No full textA classroom of teenaged girls in school uniform in a classroom. A photo of young Stalin on the wall behind them15.0 Life of Latvian childre
Phoenix Stalin: Political-social Analysis
No full textkatedra: KFL; přílohy: CD; rozsah: 64 s.This Bachelor Thesis looks at Vissarionovič Joseph Stalin as a phenomenonin world history. The aim of the work is to bring socio-political analysis based oncomparison of already existing written sources. To be more specific, on the basis ofCVs from the author Edvard Radzinsky, Alan Bullock, Walter Kerr, Václav Veber,Marcou Lilly and Robert C. Tucker. Due to different interpretation of the life stages acomparison of the individual authors is carried out and the differentiations oragreements between the authors is pointed.The Bachelor Thesis is divided into three main parts. The first part mentionsthe reason for the choice of diploma's subject and introduces the reader into itscontent. Furthermore, the main part - chronologically arranged chapters about the lifedevelopment of Vissarionovič Joseph Stalin from the perspective of authors. Theresult of this part leads to a comprehensive biography of J.V. Stalin. Last but not leasta confrontation of my own results and the authors? opinions is made in the last part.Bakalářská práce rozebírá Josefa Vissarionoviče Stalina jako fenoménsvětových dějin. Cílem práce je snaha podat sociálně-politický rozbor Stalina nazákladě komparace již napsaných zdrojů. A to konkrétně na základě životopisů odautorů Edvarda Radzinského, Alana Bullocka, Waltera Kerra, Václava Vebera, LillyMarcouové a Roberta C. Tuckera. Vzhledem k různé interpretaci jednotlivýchživotních etap provádím v bakalářské práci komparaci jednotlivých autorů aupozorňuji v závěru na rozdílnosti, či shody mezi jednotlivými autory.Bakalářská práce je rozdělena na tři hlavní části a to na úvod, kterýpojednává o důvodu volby tématu mé bakalářské práce a uvádí čtenáře do jejíhoobsahu. Dále pak na hlavní část - chronologicky řazené kapitoly o vývoji životaJosefa Vissarionoviče Stalina z pohledu autorů píšících o něm. Vzniká tak zevrubnýživotopis J. V. Stalina. Poslední částí je závěr, kde konfrontuji názory a závěryjednotlivých autorů s mým osobním pohledem na J. V. Stalina
Od utopii do post-utopii. Stalin i jego najlepsi uczniowie
No full textThe aim of the paper is the analysis of aesthetic theories of Russian Avant-garde and Post-avant-garde. The author claim that an essence of the avant-garde movement was the desire to form the world in accordance with an artistic project, which should have given a harmony and a beauty of the reality, but in fact was only a reflection of the will of power of soviets. In this perspective the Soviets and Soviet art, i.e. social realism were true successors of avant-garde and ones who continued its project instead of making it dead. The main thesis here is that social realism took over the avant-garde dream of a new world and made its own, what made avant-garde itself useless. The first part of the paper explores historical and personal connections between avant-garde artist and Soviet authorities, but also – basing mostly on reflections of Boris Groys – an ideological nexus between them. The second part is dedicated to social realism and its most perfect form of artwork – Stalin. The author claim that Stalin was not only the one who was presented in artworks of the Soviet era, but also the one who represented the most congenial social realism artwork itself. Stalin was, after Groys, the utopian “total artwork”, the one who was dreamed about and the one who was a dream itself. In the last part of the paper I consider the Russian art after Stalin’s death, i.e. so called soc-art and contemporary post-utopian movements represented by Ilja Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Alexander Melamid or Alexander Kosolapov. In the author’s opinion mentioned artists have turned over the utopian dream of a new world of Soviets and transformed it in the post-utopian dream of power.The aim of the paper is the analysis of aesthetic theories of Russian Avant-garde and Post-avant-garde. The author claim that an essence of the avant-garde movement was the desire to form the world in accordance with an artistic project, which should have given a harmony and a beauty of the reality, but in fact was only a reflection of the will of power of soviets. In this perspective the Soviets and Soviet art, i.e. social realism were true successors of avant-garde and ones who continued its project instead of making it dead. The main thesis here is that social realism took over the avant-garde dream of a new world and made its own, what made avant-garde itself useless. The first part of the paper explores historical and personal connections between avant-garde artist and Soviet authorities, but also – basing mostly on reflections of Boris Groys – an ideological nexus between them. The second part is dedicated to social realism and its most perfect form of artwork – Stalin. The author claim that Stalin was not only the one who was presented in artworks of the Soviet era, but also the one who represented the most congenial social realism artwork itself. Stalin was, after Groys, the utopian “total artwork”, the one who was dreamed about and the one who was a dream itself. In the last part of the paper I consider the Russian art after Stalin’s death, i.e. so called soc-art and contemporary post-utopian movements represented by Ilja Kabakov, Eric Bulatov, Alexander Melamid or Alexander Kosolapov. In the author’s opinion mentioned artists have turned over the utopian dream of a new world of Soviets and transformed it in the post-utopian dream of power
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