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"The party program of October 1961 included a new ideological formulation on the national question: the drawing together (sblizhenie) of Soviet nationalities would ultimately produce fusion (sliianie), resulting in a single Soviet identity."
An attempt that failed.
— May 21, 2023 12:22PM
An attempt that failed.
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May 22, 2023 11:03AM
Defunct – this is the shortest history of USSR.
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Vit wrote: "Defunct – this is the shortest history of USSR."True.
Sheila Fitzpatrick is the doyen of American Sovietologists. Please try her masterpiece, ORDINARY STALINISM.
I can't wait to read your review, Nika! <3
Julio wrote: "Sheila Fitzpatrick is the doyen of American Sovietologists. Please try her masterpiece, ORDINARY STALINISM."Thank you for the recommendation, Julio. Do you mean this book Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s?
I'll have to check it out.
Karen wrote: "I can't wait to read your review, Nika! <3"Thanks a lot for your encouraging comment, Karen! :)
Precisely that book, Nika. I meant EVERYDAY STALINISM. Fitzpatrick shows how terror and banality coexisted in 1930s Russia.
Julio wrote: "Precisely that book, Nika. I meant EVERYDAY STALINISM. Fitzpatrick shows how terror and banality coexisted in 1930s Russia."Thanks, Julio. Adding this book to my TBR.
