Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union, 1932-1939Oxford University Press, 9 abr 1998 - 256 páginas A work of refreshing originality and vivid appeal, Red Arctic tells the story of Stalinist Russia's massive campaign to explore and develop its Northern territories during the 1930s. Author John McCannon recounts the dramatic stories of the polar expeditions--conducted by foot, ship, and plane--that were the pride of Stalinist Russia, in order to expose the reality behind them: chaotic blunders, bureaucratic competition, and the eventual rise of the Gulag as the dominant force in the North. Red Arctic also traces the development of the polar-based popular culture of the decade, making use of memoirs, films, radio broadcasts, children's books, and cultural ephemera ranging from placards to postage stamps to show how Russia's "Arctic Myth" became an integral part of the overall socialist-realist aesthetic that animated Stalinist culture throughout the 1930s. |
Índice
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Footholds in the North The Russians in the Arctic 15001932 | 12 |
The Commissariat of Ice The Rise of Glavsevmorput 19321936 | 33 |
Days of Glory The Major Expeditions 19321939 | 59 |
From Victory To Victory The Myth of the Arctic in Soviet Culture | 81 |
Between Rhetoric and Reality Manufacturing the Arctic Myth | 110 |
Polestar Descending Glavsevmorput In Decline 19361939 | 145 |
CONCLUSION | 174 |
Notes | 182 |
Select Bibliography | 211 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Administration agency agency's aircraft airplane Archive Arctic heroes Arctic myth Arkhangelsk Arktiki Baidukov became began Bergavinov Bolshevik Call-Sign Camp Shmidt Cheliuskin Chkalov Chukchi cultural Dalstroi Detizdat economic exploits Five-Year Plan flight Folklore Glavsevmorput Gorky Gromov GULAG GUSMP heroic icebreaker idem Igarka Ivan Ivan Papanin Izvestiia Kara Kolyma Komseveroput Krenkel KSMP labor land Lenin Leningrad Levanevsky Magadan Mikhail mission Molodaia gvardiia Molokov Moscow Moscow and Leningrad native Siberians Nauka Nikolai NKVD North Pole Northeast Passage Northern Sea Route Obruchev OGIZ Otto Shmidt Papanin Papaninites Party People's Commissariat pilots polar aviation polar exploration polar heroes Politupravlenie popular Pravda propaganda purges RAEM realism regime region rescue RGAE RGAKFD rivers RTSKHIDNI rubles Russian Sergei ship Shirshov Shmidt Sibiriakov socialist socialist realism socialist-realist Soviet Arctic Soviet Union Sovnarkom SP-1 expedition SSSR Stalin Stalinist station tion took transport University Press Ushakov USSR USSR's Vladimir Vodopianov voyage Wrangel York Zemlia
Pasajes populares
Página 221 - Sheila Fitzpatrick, ed., Cultural Revolution in Russia, 1928-1931 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1978), pp. 41-77. 47. The reference is to Allen Kassof's influential article, "The Administered Society: Totalitarianism Without Terror,
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