The Thaw: Soviet Society and Culture during the 1950s and 1960s. Edited by Denis Kozlov and Eleonory Gilburd.Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013. Pp. xii+512. Can$80.00 (cloth).

2015 ◽  
Vol 87 (2) ◽  
pp. 504-505
Author(s):  
David L. Hoffmann
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Society ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The 1950S

Student construction squads: to the question of the movement origins

2018 ◽  
pp. 43-56
Author(s):  
O. L. Ryabchenko
Keyword(s):  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Voluntary Basis

The article deals with the illegitimacy of the identification of the mobilization campaigns of the 1920's and 1930's with the student construction movement of the 1950s-80s. It is noted that mobilizations were conducted compulsorily throughout the academic year, the students were suspended from classes for different terms, while student building units from the very beginning were formed on a voluntary basis for working during summer holidays. It is noted that the students work in the early Soviet society was not notable for enthusiasm and uplifting, since the cases of mass negative attitude towards it were recorded.

Defining the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-143
Author(s):  
Krista A. Goff
Keyword(s):  
Nation Building ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Territorial Disputes ◽  
Social Meaning ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Soviet Socialist Republic ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter provides an exploration of the afterlife of early Soviet nationality policies and wartime territorial disputes. It reviews historiographical debates about Soviet citizenship, the depth and social meaning of Khrushchev's Thaw, and post-Stalin Soviet society and governance. It also recounts the new leadership cohort led by Mirza Ibragimov, Imam Mustafayev, and Sadykh Ragimov that took charge of Azerbaijan after Joseph Stalin's death in 1953. The chapter describes how Ibragimov, Mustafayev, and Ragimov pursued a nationalizing course that contributed to their respective dismissals at the close of the decade. It incorporates nontitularminorities into the history of Azeri nation-building in the 1950s.

scholarly journals Leedu draama retseptsioon Eestis

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 221-240
Author(s):  
Anneli Saro
Keyword(s):  
Historical Development ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The 1960S

Eesti teatril on ajaloolises plaanis kõige tihedamad sidemed olnud saksa- ja venekeelse ning angloameerika kultuuriruumiga, kuid sidemed lõunapoolsete lähinaabritega on olnud üsna sporaadilised. Käesolev uurimus käsitleb Leedu draama vastuvõttu Eestis ja Eesti teatris. Artikli eesmärgiks on (1) anda statistiline ajalooline ülevaade Eestis ilmunud ja lavastatud Leedu näitekirjandusest ning (2) uurida Leedu draama retseptsiooni Eestis, tuginedes näidendite lähilugemisele, audio- ja videosalvestustele ja ilmunud kriitikale ning tõlgendades nimetatud allikaid Eesti kultuurikontekstist lähtuvalt.Abstract. Anneli Saro: Reception of Lithuanian drama in Estonia. The article has two aims: (1) to give a statistical overview of Lithuanian drama published and staged in Estonia, and (2) to investigate the reception of Lithuanian drama in Estonia, relying on close reading of the plays and analysis of audiovisual recordings and criticism, and interpreting the sources in the Estonian cultural context. The term “reception” here covers the creative work of translators, directors, actors, scenographers, etc., as well as diverse mental activities of readers and spectators. The first part of the article tackles the historical development of cultural relations between Estonia and Lithuania in the field of theatre, listing the Lithuanian plays published and staged in Estonia during different epochs and contextualizing the reception. In the second part, the plays of four influential playwrights are analyzed: works by Juozas Grušas, Kazys Saja, Justinas Marcinkevičius and Marius Ivaškevičius. There are approximately forty Lithuanian plays translated into Estonian, most of them by Mihkel Loodus. Twenty plays have been staged in professional theatres, and twenty have been published, although some are still in manuscript. There are three groups of plays translated into Estonian: (1) plays depicting Soviet society, staged in Estonia in the second half of the 1950s and in the first half of the 1960s, 2) plays depicting Lithuanian history, mostly published as books, and 3) existential plays that form the majority of Lithuanian drama in Estonian.Keywords: Lithuanian drama; Estonian theatre; reception; cultural relations between Estonia and Lithuania

Conclusion

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Barnes
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Political System ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
Warsaw Pact ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Labor Camps ◽  
The 1950S

This concluding chapter summarizes the preceding discussions, covering the Gulag's emergence as a mass social phenomenon in the 1920s to its collapse by the end of the 1950s. The system took a terrible toll on Soviet society, with victims numbering into the millions, and even those who survived often crushed by the experience. After Stalin, the Soviet state decisively moved away from the use of mass terror as a normal, permanent feature of the political system. However, it also engaged in numerous incidents of violence and political repression in its final thirty-five years, from the bloody suppression of uprisings within its borders and the countries of the Warsaw Pact, to the use of labor camps and psychoprisons to devastate the small but vocal human rights dissident movements of the Brezhnev years. Nonetheless, the Gulag never reemerged as the mammoth complex of its heyday.

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