Thank You, Comrade Stalin! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thank You, Comrade Stalin! write by Jeffrey Brooks. This book was released on 2021-04-13. Thank You, Comrade Stalin! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breaking Stalin's Nose write by Eugene Yelchin. This book was released on 2011-09-27. Breaking Stalin's Nose available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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"
"Thank You, Comrade Stalin" - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook "Thank You, Comrade Stalin" write by Julia Bow. This book was released on 2008. "Thank You, Comrade Stalin" available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
It's Only a Joke, Comrade!
It's Only a Joke, Comrade! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook It's Only a Joke, Comrade! write by Jonathan Waterlow. This book was released on 2018-06-13. It's Only a Joke, Comrade! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Small Comrades write by Lisa A. Kirschenbaum. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Small Comrades available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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"
