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History of the formation of the komsomol and its inclusion in the new Soviet Stalinist State

20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 --- Stalinism --- USSR --- Soviet Komsomol --- political youth

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Jan Gross describes the terrors of the Soviet occupation of the lands that made up eastern Poland between the two world wars: the Western Ukraine and Western Belorussia. His lucid analysis of the revolution that came to Poland from abroad is based on hundreds of first-hand accounts of the hardship, suffering, and social chaos that accompanied the Sovietization of this poorest section of a poverty-stricken country. Woven into the author's exploration of events from the Soviet's German-supported aggression against Poland in September of 1939 to Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, these testimonies not only illuminate his conclusions about the nature of totalitarianism but also make a powerful statement of their own. Those who endured the imposition of Soviet rule and mass deportations to forced resettlement, labor camps, and prisons of the Soviet Union are here allowed to speak for themselves, and they do so with grim effectiveness.

World War, 1939-1945 --- Wit-Rusland. --- Oekraïne. --- Polen (land) --- Sovjet-Unie. --- Western Ukraine. --- Soviet Union. --- Poland. --- Belarus. --- Poland --- Soviet Union --- Belarus --- Ukraine, Western --- Foreign relations --- History --- Association of Reserve Officers. --- Boundary Commission. --- Bund. --- Bureau of Documents. --- Communist party. --- Czerwony Sztandar. --- Germans. --- Great Depression. --- Gulag. --- Holocaust. --- Hoover Institution. --- Izvestia. --- Jews. --- Komintern. --- Komsomol. --- Lithuanians. --- Ministry of Information. --- National Assemblies. --- Poleshchuks. --- Soviet of Nationalities. --- Supreme Soviet. --- Ukrainians. --- Volksdeutsche. --- Wehrmacht. --- administration. --- communists. --- denunciations. --- depolonization. --- deportations. --- diplomatic relations. --- interrogation. --- kulaks. --- land distribution. --- landowners. --- local population. --- militia. --- mobilization. --- officers. --- passportization. --- pogroms. --- propaganda. --- registrations. --- revolution. --- spoiler state. --- teachers. --- totalitarianism. --- underground. --- village committees. --- voluntary associations. --- voters. --- workers.

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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.--Publisher description.

Journalism --- Popular culture --- Soviet Union. --- Soviet Union --- Civilization. --- ARCOS. --- Academy of Sciences. --- Baidich, Khristina. --- Baltic republics. --- Bolshevik Party. --- British Broadcasting Corporation. --- Chapayev. --- Decembrist rebellion. --- Doctor Zhivago. --- Dudintsev, Vladimir. --- Enlightenment. --- Eurasianism. --- Finland. --- First Congress of Soviet Writers. --- Genoa Conference. --- Great Depression. --- Jewish Antifascist Committee. --- Komsomol. --- Krestinskii. --- Kukryniksy. --- League of Nations. --- Leningrad blockade. --- Magnitogorsk. --- Nazi Germany. --- Pan-Slavism. --- Petrograd Telegraph Agency. --- active Soviet public. --- agenda setting. --- agriculture. --- anticosmopolitan campaign. --- antifascism. --- bureaucracy. --- canonization. --- citizenship. --- foreign opinion. --- global economy. --- holocaust. --- homeland. --- human interest stories. --- isolationism. --- liminal phase. --- mass newspapers. --- methodology. --- modernism. --- obituaries. --- orphans. --- passports. --- popular culture. --- religion. --- science fiction. --- self-denial.

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Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik "constitution"--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly prevented the Communist party from responding to the immense social changes that it had itself set in motion: although the Soviet political system initially had vast resources for transforming society, its ability to transform itself became severely limited.In Roeder's view, the problem was not that Soviet leaders did not attempt to change, but that their attempts were so often defeated by institutional resistance to reform. The leaders' successful efforts to stabilize the political system reduced its adaptability, and as the need for reform continued to mount, stability became a fatal flaw. Roeder's analysis of institutional constraints on political behavior represents a striking departure from the biographical approach common to other analyses of Soviet leadership, and provides a strong basis for comparison of the Soviet experience with constitutional transformation in other authoritarian polities.

Authoritarianism --- Constitutional history --- Soviet Union --- Politics and government. --- Administrative Organs Department. --- Bunce, Valerie. --- Cabinet of Ministers. --- Central Asian republics. --- Central Control Commission. --- Council of the Federation. --- Hosking, Geoffrey. --- Jones, Ellen. --- Kommunist. --- Komsomol. --- Ministry of State Farms. --- Organization Party Work Department. --- Orgburo. --- Politburo. --- Procuracy. --- Rush, Myron. --- Savinkin, Nikolai I. --- Socialist Revolutionary party. --- United Opposition. --- Willerton, John P. --- Zemtsov, Ilya. --- Zimyatin, Leonid. --- accountability. --- armed forces. --- balancing. --- clientelism. --- constitution. --- democratic centralism. --- disqualification of leaders. --- economic priorities. --- forced departicipation. --- generalist and specialist roles. --- great man theories. --- institutionalization. --- integrated electoral machine. --- learning theory. --- logrolling. --- loose coupling. --- military thought. --- normal politics. --- partisan analysis. --- political interests model. --- power and authority. --- regimes. --- revenue-seeking state. --- selectoral motivation. --- selectorate. --- sovnarkhozy. --- stagnation. --- unenfranchised participants. --- vice-president of the USSR.