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(Ebook) Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War by Jeffrey Brooks ISBN 9780691088679, 0691088675

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Authors:Jeffrey Brooks
Pages:344 pages.
Year:2001
Editon:Paperback
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Language:english
File Size:5.62 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780691088679, 0691088675
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(Ebook) Thank You, Comrade Stalin!: Soviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War by Jeffrey Brooks ISBN 9780691088679, 0691088675

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--includingPravda,Isvestiia, and the army paperRed 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.
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