Rodchenko and Stepanova’s album “Ten Years of Uzbekistan” was commissioned and produced in 1933, with the intent of producing a luxurious folio to commemorate the tenth-year anniversary of the Uzbek Socialist Soviet Republic. At the time, the Central Asian republic was considered “an exemplary space” for manifesting the Socialist goal.
Continue reading...Deciphering Stalin, the man and tyrant: Stephen Kotkin discusses the second volume of his series, “Stalin: Waiting for Hitler, 1929-1941”
Daria ProkhorovaThe shaping of Communist ideology in the midst of 20th-century geopolitics informed Stalin’s domestic policies as well as the Soviet Union’s role on the world stage.
Continue reading...Was the Russian Revolution a Failure?
Daria ProkhorovaSheila Fitzpatrick discusses multiple lenses through which to investigate the event 100 years later.
Continue reading...Taking Inventory of the New Regime
Daria ProkhorovaAnne O’Donnell discusses the challenges in taking inventory of property during the first years of Soviet socialism.
Continue reading...An Interdisciplinary Study of the Russian Revolution
Daria ProkhorovaTechnology, Ideology and Culture: Legacies of Soviet-African Relations
Daria ProkhorovaHistorians and anthropologists discuss the impacts and legacies of Soviet-African relations of the 20th century.
Continue reading...Society of Thieves. Protection of the Socialist Property under Stalin
Elena BorzenkovaStealing public property was a mechanism for coping with the Socialist realities
Continue reading...Reflecting on the 1917 Revolution: Yanni Kotsonis gives a lecture on doubts about the “Great Event”
Daria ProkhorovaYanni Kotsonis presents the question, Should we as historians be investing such meaning in the 1917 Revolution?
Continue reading...Boris Groys on the Russian quest for biopolitical utopias
Natasha BluthNarrating the Soviet Metropolis: Visual Culture, Underground Architectural Space, and the Moscow Metro
Heather JansonElidor Mëhilli explores Albanian filmmaking across the 1960s Sino-Soviet split
Natasha BluthAlbeit brief, Albania was for a short while held up by China as a model for socialism.
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