Journal article
‘Life as big as the ocean’: Bolshevik Biography and the problem of personality from late Stalinism to Late Socialism
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This article analyses the major changes in the publication and reception of Soviet biographies of Bolshevik heroes in the first two post-war decades, comparing the reforms undertaken by the two most important publishers of such biography, Molodaia gvardiia and Politizdat. The article argues that the 1950s and 1960s witnessed not just criticism of Bolshevik biographies' tendencies towards de-personalization and standardization, but also substantive reform to their writing, editing and reading,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Leverhulme Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Slavonic and East European Review Journal website
- Volume:
- 96
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 144-173
- Publication date:
- 2018-02-15
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-08-24
- EISSN:
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2222-4327
- ISSN:
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0037-6795
- Source identifiers:
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729374
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:729374
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uuid:7b59bfbe-b663-43cd-9513-7ce2dcafa1c9
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- pubs:729374
- Deposit date:
- 2017-09-20
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- © 2018 Polly Jones
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- This is the author accepted manuscript following peer review version of the article. The final version is available online from JSTOR at: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5699/slaveasteurorev2.96.1.0144
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