Stalin's Answer to the National Question: A Case Study on the Editing of the 1938 Short Course

Autor:	David Brandenberger, M. V. Zelenov
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies National Question Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Law Political science Ethnic group Cornerstone Nationality Short course Narrative Communism Period (music)
Zdroj:	Slavic Review. 73:859-880
ISSN:	2325-7784 0037-6779
DOI:	10.5612/slavicreview.73.4.859
Popis:	As a cornerstone of early Bolshevik propaganda, nationality policy allowed the revolutionary regime to cast the Soviet “experiment” as emancipatory in both ethnic and class terms. Paradoxically, much of the attention paid to the national question vanished from the party canon in 1938, for reasons that have never been fully explained. In this article we investigate this dramatic turnabout by examining how party historians and Iosif Stalin himself drafted what was to be the official narrative on nationality policy in the infamous Short Course on the History of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In so doing, we not only supply a new answer to the national question but also highlight a key new source for other investigations of the Stalin period.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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