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A New Concept of “Kim Jong Un Partizan” Discourse and Authoritarian Durability in North Korea
ABSTRACT How does the North Korean regime secure elite loyalty without institutional transparency or material redistribution? While existing studies have examined the use of Partizan narratives under Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, this paper argues that Kim Jong Un introduces a significant discursive shift: the invention of “Kim Jong Un Partizans.” This ...
Sohee Hwang
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The dictator’s dilemma: to punish or to assist? Plan failures and interventions under Stalin [PDF]
A dictator issues an order, but the order is not carried out. The dictator does not know whether the order failed because the agent behaved opportunistically, or because his order contained some mistake.
Markevich, Andreĭ
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«Back to the Future»: Images of Modernization Reforms in the Collective Memory of Russian People
The article deals extensively replicated images of major structural reforms in the history of Russia (The government reforms of Peter I, the Great Reforms of Alexander II, the October Revolution, industrialization, Perestroika and market reforms of the ...
Vladimir Olegovich Beklyamishev
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Soviet «Founding Myth»: change of milestones in the 1930’s
The author debates with the concept of the Soviet ideological turn (mid-30's) as a simple means of pre-war mobilization (David Brandenberger). The paper argues that in the 1930’s the Bolsheviks refused to «national nihilism» and mouved to the national ...
Ihor Nemchynov
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RĂZBOIUL DIN COREEA, DIN PERSPECTIVA RELAȚIILOR SINO-SOVIETICE [PDF]
As several Soviet secret documents declassified in the 1990s show, the Korean War revealed the existence of tensions and discontent within the seemingly monolithic communist camp. The relationship between Moscow and the new Chinese communist power in the
ANA-MARIA IANCU
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Abstract How did World War II affect the nature and resilience of Soviet institutions and authority, especially in the extreme case of the Blockade of Leningrad? During the Blockade, Leningraders acted with great agency by engaging in the shadow trade of food and shadow talk for information and community in order to survive.
Jeffrey K. Hass, Nikita A. Lomagin
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Rilevanza di Trockij nella storia della rivoluzione russa e del comunismo, ragioni del conflitto personale, politico e ideologico con ...
CIGLIANO GIOVANNA
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Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism
“It is pertinent to ask to what extent certain cultural phenomena and intellectual currents from the Stalin era really were such unique features that can be branded as Stalinist…”. This is the question that motivated the anthology Stalin Era Intellectuals: Culture and Stalinism under review here.
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Utopia Remembers: The Soviet Past in the Imagined Communist Future
Abstract After a twenty‐five‐year hiatus, the reappearance of utopian literature in 1957 prompted Soviet literary watchdogs to corral the subgenre into an ideologically‐acceptable mold. A key requirement was for future generations to be depicted as reverently commemorating the past.
Antony Kalashnikov
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ABSTRACT Proposing the concept of a conservative revolutionary generally and using the examples of Gregor Mendel, Max Delbrück, and Eric Davidson, I fundamentally call into question Thomas Kuhn's ideas of scientific revolutions. I also highlight some problematic consequences of the increasing appreciation of Kuhn's work among scientists and show that ...
Ute Deichmann
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