Comrades, Soviets, prisoners – lend me your ears! I come to bury Stalin, not to praise him! Stalin’s death on March 5th, 1953, brought about the new regime of Nikita Khrushchev, one of the heads of the Soviet Union. During the Twentieth Party Congress on February 25th 1956, Khrushchev, in bold manner, closed all doors … Continue reading Comrade Disney’s Soviet Tomorrowland… Akademgorodok →
Month: November 2018
Dr. Lysenko-Stien’s Monster
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One could say that the state of post-World War II Soviet Russia was a very ‘Big Deal.’ A term coined by Vera Dunham, writer of In Stalin’s Time: Middleclass Values in Soviet Fiction, describes the social and democratic shift of Soviet society from “sacrificial and “heroic”” mindsets to a culture based on meshchanstvo (bourgeois culture), … Continue reading Dr. Lysenko-Stien’s Monster →
