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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
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
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
Interpretations of Stalinism
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
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
Alexander Rodchenko, 1936, Marching Across Red Square
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
"What have you done to grow a big crop of corn?"
"Women at the helm of harvester, at the wheel of the tractor"
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)
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.
T. G. Gaponenko: To Mother for the Next Feeding (1935)