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Famine, Memory, and Politics in the Post-Soviet Space: Contrasting Echoes of Collectivization in Ukraine and Kazakhstan

Nationalities Papers, 2019
Stalin’s collectivization campaigns and the associated famine killed millions in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, yet the two countries commemorate the events quite differently.
J. Richter
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Cultural policy, Stalinism and the Communist International

International Journal of Cultural Policy, 2006
This article considers the intellectual and political career of Georg Lukacs as it falls within distinct periods of activity. It focuses on him as a communist, on his changing role within the Communist Party and the part he played in developing a cultural policy in the context of the Communist International tactic of Popular Front following the Seventh
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What Was Soviet and Ukrainian About Soviet Ukrainian Culture? Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo on the Soviet Stage

Nationalities Papers, 2019
In the Soviet Union theatre was an arena for cultural transformation. This article focuses on theatre director Les Kurbas’ 1929 production of playwright Mykola Kulish’s Myna Mazailo, a dark comedy about Ukrainianization, to show the construction of ...
Mayhill C. Fowler
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Being here and there: a case study of Muslim Meskhetians’ identity and belonging, formation and reconstruction in the United States

Caucasus survey, 2018
This study examines how relocation to the US influenced the identity maintenance of the Muslim Meskhetians. In 1944, as a result of Stalin’s social policy to clean the southern border of the Soviet Union of “undesirable peoples”, a Muslim population ...
Ekaterine Pirtskhalava
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Family History

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
Chapter 4 reviews how today’s Russian bourgeoisie traces its origins and character traits with reference to family history. The Soviet government pursued a policy of positive discrimination in favor of working-class and peasant families in order to form ...
Elisabeth Schimpfössl
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The Engineers of Children’s Fingers: Children’s Music, Soviet Internationalism, and the Problem of Ukraine’s National Instrument

Slavic Review: Interdisciplinary Quarterly of Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies
How can an icon of romantic Ukrainian nationalism be refashioned into a tool for building Soviet internationalism? This article tells the story of the bandura—the musical instrument constructed in the nineteenth century as an icon of romantic Ukrainian ...
M. Sonevytsky
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The Cultural Policy of Late Stalinism in the Focus of the Concept of Catching-Up Modernization

Bulletin of the State University of Education. Series: History and Political Sciences
Aim. To analyze the features of the cultural policy of late Stalinism as a mechanism for achieving the “moral and political unity” of Soviet society and mobilizing public consciousness through the prism of the concept of catching-up modernization.Methodology.
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Mass Repression and Political Loyalty: Evidence from Stalin’s ‘Terror by Hunger’

American Political Science Review, 2019
States use repression to enforce obedience, but repression—especially if it is violent, massive, and indiscriminate—often incites opposition. Why does repression have such disparate effects?
Arturas Rozenas, Y. Zhukov
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The Soviet Thaw and Cultural Diplomacy

, 2021
Mila Oiva, Hannu Salmi, Bruce Johnson
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Regenerative cultural policy: sustainable development, cultural relations, and social learning

The International Journal of Cultural Policy
This article examines the role of cultural policy in addressing global challenges through a regenerative framework and critiques the absence of a dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) for culture, which has marginalised the cultural sector’s ...
C. Figueira, Aimee R. Fullman
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