LEADER 06692oam 22014174a 450 001 996248121103316 005 20230719200405.0 010 $a1-4008-4392-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400843923 035 $a(CKB)2660000000000161 035 $a(dli)HEB05222 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11929160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10376935 035 $a(PQKB)11062359 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6511730 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6511730 035 $a(OCoLC)1241446915 035 $a(OCoLC)778785220 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_83088 035 $a(DE-B1597)576644 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400843923 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000007272726 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000000161 100 $a20000207h20012000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmnummmmuuuu 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThank You, Comrade Stalin!$eSoviet Public Culture from Revolution to Cold War /$fJeffrey Brooks 205 $a1st paperback printing. 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2001, 2000. 210 4$dİ2001, 2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xx, 319 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-691-00411-0 311 $a0-691-08867-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe monopoly of the printed word: from persuasion to compulsion -- The first decade: from class war to socialist building -- The performance begins -- The economy of the gift: "thank you, comrade Stalin for a happy childhood" -- Literature and the arts: "an ode to Stalin" -- Honor and dishonor -- Many wars, one victory -- The theft of the war -- Renewal, stagnation, and collapse. 330 $aThank you, our Stalin, for a happy childhood." "Thank you, dear Marshal [Stalin], for our freedom, for our children's happiness, for life." Between the Russian Revolution and the Cold War, Soviet public culture was so dominated by the power of the state that slogans like these appeared routinely in newspapers, on posters, and in government proclamations. In this penetrating historical study, Jeffrey Brooks draws on years of research into the most influential and widely circulated Russian newspapers--including Pravda, Isvestiia, and the army paper Red Star--to explain the origins, the nature, and the effects of this unrelenting idealization of the state, the Communist Party, and the leader. Brooks shows how, beginning with Lenin, the Communists established a state monopoly of the media that absorbed literature, art, and science into a stylized and ritualistic public culture--a form of political performance that became its own reality and excluded other forms of public reflection. He presents and explains scores of self-congratulatory newspaper articles, including tales of Stalin's supposed achievements and virtue, accounts of the country's allegedly dynamic economy, and warnings about the decadence and cruelty of the capitalist West. Brooks pays particular attention to the role of the press in the reconstruction of the Soviet cultural system to meet the Nazi threat during World War II and in the transformation of national identity from its early revolutionary internationalism to the ideology of the Cold War. He concludes that the country's one-sided public discourse and the pervasive idea that citizens owed the leader gratitude for the "gifts" of goods and services led ultimately to the inability of late Soviet Communism to diagnose its own ills, prepare alternative policies, and adjust to new realities. 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