"During the 1930s, Stalin and his entourage rehabilitated famous names from the Russian national past in a propaganda campaign designed to mobilize Soviet society for the coming war. Legendary heroes like Aleksandr Nevskii and epic events like the Battle of Borodino quickly ecli…
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The notion of nationalities, which was more or less foreign to Marx and Engels, was debated by their disciples and successors because they lived in an empire made up of multiple national groups. Time and again, national minorities commanded attention and clamored to be recognize…
"This book examines how the Russian Orthodox Church developed during the period of Gorbachev's rule in the Soviet Union, a period characterised by perestroika (reform) and glasnost (openness). It charts how official Soviet policy towards religion in general and the Russian Ortho…
The aim of this book is to provide a systematic analysis of the Soviet Union's major nationalities in light of the new developments under perestroika. It deals in detail with 20 of the 140 nationalities, and looks at how they have been affected by, and responded to glasnost.
"How did a socialist society, ostensibly committed to Marxist ideals of internationalism and global class struggle, reconcile itself to notions of patriotism, homeland, Russian ethnocentrism, and the glorification of war? In this provocative new history, Jonathan Brunstedt pursu…