Protest for National Rights in the USSR: Characteristics and Consequences*

1980 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kowalewski
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Party Chief

The Soviet regime's contention that the nationalities problem has been solved can no longer be taken seriously. At his speech honoring the fiftieth anniversary of the formation of the Soviet Union on December 21, 1972, party chief Leonid Brezhnev claimed:By now … solving the nationalities problem, overcoming the backwardness of previously oppressed nations, is … habitual for the Soviet people. We must remember the scope and complexity of the accomplishments, in order to appreciate the wisdom … of the party, which took upon itself such a task — and accomplished it.

Philosophy in Russia

Philosophy ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 10 (38) ◽  
pp. 222-224
Author(s):  
Natalie Duddington
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Fiftieth Anniversary ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Materialist Dialectic

In U.S.S.R. dialectical materialism is still the only subject discussed by writers on philosophy. Philosophical publications during the last year include Lenin’s Philosophical Note-books; Dialectical Materialism and the Theory of Balance, by Selektor; Marx’s Philosophical Development, by Lipendin; A Course of Dialectical Materialism, by Markuse; Dialectical Materialism and Social Democracy, by Rudash; The Idealistic Dialectic of Hegel and the Materialist Dialectic of Marx, by L. Axelrod. On the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Marx’s death the Communist Academy Institute of Philosophy has published a Symposium containing papers on materialistic dialectics, on the relation of Marxism-Leninism to culture and natural science, and discussion of those papers. A number of small textbooks on dialectical materialism, or Diamat as it is called for short, are issued for university schools not only in Russian but also in some of the languages spoken in the Soviet Union.

ASSESSMENT OF HUMAN LOSSES OF THE RSFSR DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

2021 ◽  
pp. 100-108
Author(s):  
Lydia S. Parshintseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Graphical Representation ◽  
High Price ◽  
Federal State ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Military Population ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Human Losses

The Second World War is one of the most destructive, brutal and bloody wars in the history of mankind. The Soviet people "paid" a high price for the liberation of their territories and the territories of the countries of Europe and Asia from the fascist regime. The war claimed the lives of 11444,1 thousand Soviet servicemen and 13684,7 thousand civilians of the Soviet Union, leaving eternal memory and glory to the heroism, feats and perseverance of Soviet citizens. Statistics cannot convey the full depth of the tragedy for our people, but they can objectively assess the scale of human, economic, material, socio-cultural problems. The article is devoted to the topic of assessing the human losses of the RSFSR during the Great Patriotic War and the contribution of the Soviet people to the establishment of inter-country peace. To achieve this goal, an analysis of the losses of the civilian and military population of the RSFSR in wartime was performed, in particular, the dynamics of the population by gender and age was analyzed, a comparative assessment of the actual population with the hypothetical one was given, the irretrievable losses of Soviet servicemen and civilians, including children, were analyzed, the infant mortality of the population was studied, and the ratio of the number of men and women at the beginning and end of the war was considered. The Great Patriotic War "threw" the country back decades in terms of demography, social and economic development. For example, with regard to human losses, it took 10 years for the population to reach the pre-war level again. In the scientific article, the official data of the Federal State Statistics Service were used, for data analysis, the methods of constructing generalizing indicators, dynamics series, comparative analysis, as well as tabular and graphical representation of the results obtained were used.

Horizontal “checks and balances” in the socialist regime: the party chief and mayor template

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Yang Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Probability Function ◽  
Graphical Model ◽  
Transition Process ◽  
Institutional Constraints ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
Central Eastern Europe ◽  
Socialist System ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Party Chief

AbstractJános Kornai's pioneering scholarship examined the mechanisms of the socialist system. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Kornai's main focus was on the transition process in former socialist countries in central Eastern Europe. This paper builds on Kornai's work on the socialist system by analyzing horizontal bargaining within every political branch in contemporary China. I argue that this horizontal bargaining within the party is enhanced by the vertical bargaining. Incorporating Kornai's work on socialism, the “party chief and mayor” template extends the bargaining model from one key figure and one group in the “king and council” template to two key figures and their respective confidants. In addition, it incorporates institutional constraints into the graphical model. It also defines a “collective decision probability function,” which shows how the party chief and mayor model reaches “checks and balances” that limit the policy space, regardless of whether the policy is exogenous or endogenous.

scholarly journals Seventy-fi ve years of the victory of the Soviet people in the World War II. The role of Soviet medicine

2020 ◽  
Vol 174 (5) ◽  
pp. 127-131
Author(s):  
A. I. Paltsev
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The World ◽  
Red Flag ◽  
Historical Truth

The World War II was and is unforgettable for the Soviet people because it is the Great victory of the Great people. The president of the Russian federation defi ned the attitude of the West to the victory by the next words: “Countries do not stop trying to distort historical truth about the World War II… Russia will answer the truth to attempts to distort the facts about the World War II”. For our people this war is great tragedy and great feat. On the fi rst day of aggression the Soviet government declared: “Our cause is just. The enemy will be defeated. Victory will be ours.” The strength and courage of military commanders, soldiers and officers, who did, everything to ensure that on the night of May 1 the Red Flag hosted above the Reichtag. According to estimates of marshals of the Soviet Union, the role of the Soviet medical scientists, doctors, middle and junior medical workers is invaluable. It were they who returned to service 73.3% of the wounded and 90.6% of the sick, in absolute numbers that were about 17 million people, and 6.7 million people participated in the Berlin operation. Thus, the last point in the war was put by a Soviet soldier, a Soviet officer, returned to service by the Soviet medicine.

Producing and Displaying Grief

Grief ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 95-122
Author(s):  
David Shneer
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Wartime Experience ◽  
Soviet Experience

Under Khrushchev, Baltermants returned to his wartime archive and produced art photographs for exhibition of some of his best work that he had taken during the war for publications. This chapter describes the process by which he produced Grief. This photograph, named for an emotion of the living, became a defining image of the Soviet experience of war. Given the horrors the photograph depicts, Baltermants hoped that it might also be used to position the Soviet Union as the global advocate for world peace. To that end, Baltermants curated his solo exhibitions, first in Moscow and then in London, in which he explored the tension between the commonalities of human experience and the differences in the wartime experience of the Soviet people. The chapter shows how in the 1960s, Baltermants made Grief both a powerful photograph and a useful weapon in Soviet cultural diplomacy during the Cold War.

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