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Revolution from Above
• “Stalinist revolution from above used destructive or repressive means for what was, both in intent and in reality, a constructive (as well as destructive) process....
• Stalinism as revolution from above was a state-building process, the construction of a powerful, highly centralized bureaucratic, military-industrial Soviet Russian state.”
Tucker," Stalinism as Revolution from Above,“ 78
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Revolution from Above“Stalinist revolution from above used destructive or repressive means
for what was, both in intent and in reality, a constructive (as well as destructive) process....
Stalinism as revolution from above was a state-building process, the construction of a powerful, highly centralized bureaucratic, military-industrial Soviet Russian state.”
Tucker," Stalinism as Revolution from Above,“ 78
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Mikhail Nesterov: The Soviet Constitution (1939)The Stalin Constitution is the final result of the
struggles and victories of the October Revolution. Long live the constitution of
victorious socialism & genuine democratism.
Revolution from Above
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Interpretations of Stalinism
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Interpretations of Stalinism
Really Totalitarianism - textbook definition
Personal autocracy
Heavy Bureaucracy
Oligarchy . . .
Sets the Soviet System(Lewin & Fitzpatrick 1980s)
Stalin's constitution is thehappiness of the Soviet people
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Children of the 1930s
“Thanks to Comrade Stalin for our happy childhood” • “Burdened with parents
too old to be trusted by the party, these children sometimes suffered when their parents suffered”
• The standards of their guardians were rigorous, but they were also difficult to enforce
http://www.soviethistory.org/index.php?page=subject&SubjectID=1936children&Year=1936&navi=byYear
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Alexander Rodchenko, 1936, Marching Across Red Square
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Traditional Values and Soviet Values • Glory to Hero Mother
Women with 10+ children awarded medals
Pilots of the 46 Taman female aviation regiment being briefed in the field
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"What have you done to grow a big crop of corn?"
"Women at the helm of harvester, at the wheel of the tractor"
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1936: Year of the Stakhanovite
• Shock Worker Movement
• Aleksei Stakhanov (31 y.o)• 102 tons of coal • 14x his quota
• Increase labor productivity
• Stakhanovite = Record setters
Mark Markov-Grinberg: Portrait of [Shockworker] Nikita Izotov (1934)
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Our Nobles (1935) Greetings to the best shock workers--heroes of socialist labor.This poster was mass printed for the bulletin boards of factories, which would place the portraits of their own local shock workers in the empty spaces.
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T. G. Gaponenko: To Mother for the Next Feeding (1935)