Stalin's usable past : a critical edition of the 1937 short history of the USSR
"At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the U.S.S.R. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the U.S.S.R amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History,...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Redwood City : Stanford University Press,
2024
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Stanford-Hoover Series on Authoritarianism
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| Schlagworte: | Textbooks Shestakov, A. V.-(Andreĭ Vasilʹevich),-1877-1941.-Kratkiĭ kurs istorii SSSR Stalin, Joseph,-1878-1953-Authorship-Collaboration Textbooks-Censorship-Soviet Union Russia-History-Textbooks Russia-History and criticism Soviet Union-History-Textbooks Soviet Union-History and criticism |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | "At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the U.S.S.R. Published shortly thereafter, the Short History of the U.S.S.R amounted to an ideological sea change. Stalin had literally rewritten Russo-Soviet History, breaking with two decades of Bolshevik propaganda that styled the 1917 Revolution as the start of a new era. In its place, he established a thousand-year pedigree for the Soviet state that stretched back through the Russian empire and Muscovy to the very dawn of Slavic civilization. Appearing in million-copy print runs through 1955, the Short History transformed how a generation of Soviet citizens were to understand the past, not only in public school and adult indoctrination courses, but on the printed page, the theatrical stage, and the silver screen. Stalin's Usable Past supplies a critical edition of the Short History that both analyzes the text and places it in historical context. By highlighting Stalin's precise redactions and embellishments, historian David Brandenberger reveals the scope of Stalin's personal involvement in the textbook's development, documenting in unprecedented detail his plans for the transformation of Soviet society's historical imagination"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (474 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781503638990 1503638995 9781503637863 1503637867 |