Cinema has long been recognised as the privileged bridge between Soviet ideologues & their mass public. Recent feminist-oriented work has drawn out the symbolic role of women in Soviet culture, but men too were expected to play their part. This is a study of masculinity in Stali…
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…
In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived political creation of St…
In his reexamination of the origins of the Stalinist state during the formative period of rapid industrialization in the late 1920s and early 1930s, David R. Shearer argues that a centralized state-controlled economic system was the consciously conceived political creation of St…
Stalins Gewaltherrschaft fielen Millionen Menschen zum Opfer. Sie verhungerten, verschwanden im "Archipel Gulag" oder wurden im Laufe der "Säuberungen" von Partei, Staatsapparat und Militär ermordet. In seinem berührenden Buch entwickelt Jörg Baberowski neue Perspektiven auf die…
The author relates the remarkable story of his pianist mother and her sister, child prodigies who escaped certain death when the Nazis invaded Ukraine, adopted new identities, and came under the protection of a Nazi commander who heard them play.
Unofficial jokes and anecdotes of the Stalin era -- The revolution, civil war and "war communism"--The new economic policy -- Stalin's revolution from above -- Collectivization -- Industrialization -- Everyday life -- The great terror -- Storm clouds gather -- The great patrioti…
