Rehabilitating a Mythology: The Ukrainian SSR’s Foundational Myth After Stalin

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 366-378
Author(s):  
Markian Dobczansky
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Early History ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

AbstractThis article looks at the rehabilitation of the early history of the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR during the Thaw. It argues that the post-Stalin political moment offered the Ukrainian Party and academic establishments the opportunity to revalorize their republic’s founding narrative. In order to popularize this narrative, they produced publications on the revolution in Ukraine and early party history, rehabilitated Ukrainian Communists from the 1920s who had fallen victim to repressions, and constructed a set of monuments that embodied the new historical paradigm. These efforts aimed to de-Stalinize the country’s history as well as promote a Soviet Ukrainian patriotism that would make Ukrainians feel more integrated into the Soviet whole. Based on archival research, newspapers, and memoirs, the article suggests that rehabilitating this narrative was a strategy for the legitimization of the party within Ukraine.

Vanguard of the Revolution

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. James McAdams
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
North Korea ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

This book is a sweeping history of one of the most significant political institutions of the modern world. The communist party was a revolutionary idea long before its supporters came to power. The book argues that the rise and fall of communism can be understood only by taking into account the origins and evolution of this compelling idea. It shows how the leaders of parties in countries as diverse as the Soviet Union, China, Germany, Yugoslavia, Cuba, and North Korea adapted the original ideas of revolutionaries like Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin to profoundly different social and cultural settings. The book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand world communism and the captivating idea that gave it life.

Left-wing spectrum of the Czechoslovak political opposition in search of new solutions. The late 1980s to early 1990s

2021 ◽  
pp. 154-178
Author(s):  
Emil Vorachek ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
Transformational Model ◽  
History Of ◽  
Alternative Scenarios ◽  
The Revolution

The chapter is devoted to the history of the formation and activity of left-wing organizations in the Czechoslovak political opposition from the late 1980s to early 1990s. Those organizations were made up of diverse ideological currents from both inside and outside the ranks of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (СPCz). Attempts to develop alternative scenarios of social, political, and socio-economic changes in the country are examined. The left-wing had difficulties adaptating to the changing conditions provided by the leader of the revolution - the Civil Forum - towards the liberal transformational model. In general, during the period examined in the chapter, the forces of the left, for various reasons, failed to realize their vision for future development.

The Early History of the Russian Peasantry

1951 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Jerome Blum
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early History ◽  
Russian History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Primary Producer ◽  
Soviet Historiography ◽  
Current Standards ◽  
The Revolution

The agitation in mid-nineteenth-century Russia for the abolition of serfdom gave the first great stimulus to Russian scholarly interest in the history of the peasantry. The persistence of the land problem down to the Revolution and since then the Soviet preoccupation with the primary producer have kept alive this interest. As a result, a large number of studies of the agrarian history of their country, many of them works of high value, have been written by Russian scholars both before and since 1917. One of the most recent and most important contributions to the literature of this subject has been made by B. D. Grekov in his history of the peasantry from earliest times to the seventeenth century. Although its author remains carefully within the doctrinal limits imposed by the current standards of orthodoxy in Soviet historiography, his work is indispensable for the study not only of agrarian history but of all phases of early Russian history.

scholarly journals El Partido Comunista de Chile y la empresa periodística de El Siglo: apuntes sobre sus orígenes y desarrollo

2019 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Alfonso Salgado Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Early History ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Economic Perspective ◽  
History Of

En este artículo se analizan, desde una perspectiva económica, dos momentos importantes en la historia temprana del diario El Siglo, órgano oficial del Partido Comunista de Chile. En primer lugar, se examina la adquisición de una céntrica propiedad en Moneda 716 y el montaje de un eficiente taller de imprenta, en el cual se editó el periódico durante sus primeros años. En segundo lugar, se analiza la venta del inmueble y el desarme y traslado de la maquinaria de imprenta, una vez desatada la persecución anticomunista de Gabriel González Videla. No obstante las circunstancias caóticas que pusieron fin a la primera época del diario, el dinero de la venta de Moneda 716 le  permitió al Partido Comunista adquirir una nueva propiedad, en Lira 363, donde se rearmó el taller de imprenta –renombrado Imprenta Horizonte– y desde donde se comenzó a editar nuevamente El Siglo unos años después.The Communist Party in Chile and the Newspaper Company El Siglo: Notes on Its Origins and DevelopmentAbstractThis article analyzes, from an economic perspective, two important moments in the early history of the newspaper El Siglo, official newspaper of the Communist Party in Chile. It first looks at the acquisition of a centrally-located property at Moneda 716 and the construction of an efficient printing workshop where the newspaper was edited during its early years. In the second place, it analyzes the sale of the property and subsequent disassembly and transfer of the printer machinery once President Gabriel González Videla unleashed his anti-Communist persecution. Notwithstanding the chaotic circumstances that brought the newspaper’s early days to an end, the money from the sale of Moneda 716 allowed the Communist Party to purchase a new property located at Lira 363, where the printing workshop was reassembled –and renamed Imprenta Horizonte– and where El Siglo began to be edited again a few years later.Keywords: Communist Party, newspaper, press, printing

The Early History of the Communist Party of Great Britain, 1920–9

1958 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 41-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Pelling
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Labour Party ◽  
Early History ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Bolshevik Revolution ◽  
British Labour ◽  
History Of

THE Communist Party of Great Britain, like the Communist Parties of most other European countries, was founded shortly after the Russian Bolshevik revolution. It was unique among the Communist Parties of the major countries in being the result of an amalgamation of small revolutionary groups rather than a product of the schism of a large existing organization. The British Labour Party did not split as a result of the Russian revolution: the Communist Party grew up out of elements which for the most part had had a separate existence on the Labour Party's left wing.

scholarly journals Freedom of Speech under Militant Democracy: The History of Struggle against Separatism and Communism in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-24
Author(s):  
Yurii Barabash ◽  
Hryhorii Berchenko
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Active Process ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Territorial Integrity ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract The article is devoted to the experience of the application of a concept of militant democracy in modern Ukraine. This concept is relevant due to the prolonged domination of the communist totalitarian regime until 1991, and also in view of the encroachment on the principle of territorial integrity in 2014. It is argued that Ukraine, formally consolidating separate instruments of militant democracy at the level of the Constitution of Ukraine, almost did not apply such instruments until 2014. The active process of decommunization started in 2014, after the Revolution of Dignity; it was realised, in particular, in the declaration of lustration, as well as the banning of the two communist parties, but the most influential Communist Party remains officially not banned up till now. Also, the two parties, accused of infringement on territorial integrity, were banned in 2014. The issue of differentiation between aggressive words and aggressive actions of parties is analysed. It is argued that representatives of the parties, who during the twenty years of Ukrainian independence openly denied one of the key values of the constitutional order of Ukraine, its territorial integrity, became active participants of the temporary occupation.

Framing DNA

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Early History ◽  
Social Movement Theory ◽  
Wrongful Conviction ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Movement Theory ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common

The “innocence movement” has often been mentioned, but rarely explored in depth. In particular, scholars have yet to study the beginning of the movement thoroughly. This article explores the early history of the innocence movement, referred to as the “foundations” of the movement, suggesting that the common focus solely on DNA as the source of the movement is an overly narrow historical focus. Based on archival research and interviews with key movement participants, this article draws on social movement theory to better understand the roots of the innocence movement, including its organizational foundation, early leadership, and the identification of the “problem” of wrongful conviction as a cause worthy of collective action. These three developments re-framed DNA as a tool to seek justice through post-conviction exonerations, thus creating the foundation on which the innocence movement was built.

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