"This collection explores the questions of whether, how, and why the histories of German Nazism and Soviet Communism could and should be situated within a single coherent narrative. The contributors examine ideology, terror, secular religion, museum exhibits, and denial in order…
"The first study of the everydayness of political life under Stalin, this book examines Soviet citizenship through common practices of expressing Soviet identity in the public space. The Stalinist state understood citizenship as practice, with participation in a set of political…
This political biography of Ana Pauker, Communist leader (1944-52) and Foreign Minister (1947-52) of Romania, is based on both archival documents and oral histories of participants and witnesses. It examines the conventional wisdom of Romanian Communist history, which consistent…
Stalin’s repression of Ukrainian Yiddish writers and intellectuals is the least studied dimension of the anti-Semitic campaigns of his final years. This dissertation explores the activity of Ukrainian Jewish intellectuals, the process of their repression and fabrication of cases…
Mikhail Bulgakov’s mystifying relationship with the Soviet government, and with Joseph Stalin in particular, has long been understood to be a result of the dictator’s aesthetic appreciation for the writer’s early work. In an era defined by Stalin’s Great Terror, Bulgakov escaped…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch »The medium is the message« gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch "The medium is the message" gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
Marshall McLuhans Ausspruch »The medium is the message« gilt in besonderer Weise für das Radio der Sowjetzeit. Indem es Inhalte einem massenhaften Publikum in akustischer Form vermittelt, wird das Radio zum revolutionären Medium, das bürgerliche Wissensformen der Buchkultur zugu…
