National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931–1956. By David  Brandenberger. Russian Research Center Studies, volume 93. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv+378. $49.95.

2004 ◽  
Vol 76 (3) ◽  
pp. 740-741
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Hosking
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Russian Research ◽  
Modern Russian

scholarly journals ‘Stalinist Russocentrism’: An Interview with David Brandenberger about the Second Russian Edition of his Monograph National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2002. viii, 378 p.)

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 214-239
Author(s):  
David Brandenberger
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Research University ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
Russian Edition ◽  
The University ◽  
Modern Russian

David Brandenberger holds a doctorate in history (PhD.) and is professor of Russian and Soviet history in the Department of History at the University of Richmond (USA). He is also an associate researcher at the National Research University “Higher School of Economics” in Moscow. He is the author of books on the formation of Russian national identity during the Stalin era and on the infl uence that party propaganda and mass culture had on that process. In this interview, David Brandenberger discusses the arguments and methodologies that contributed to his monograph that was initially published in English and then in two Russian editions: National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), Natsional-bol’shevizm: stalinskaya massovaya kul’tura i formirovaniye russkogo natsional’nogo samosoznaniya, 1931-1956 gg. (St Petersburg: Akademicheskiy proekt, 2009) и Stalinskiy russotsentrizm: Sovetskaya massovaya kul’tura i formirovaniye russkogo natsional’nogo samosoznaniya, 1931-1956 gg . (Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2017). Among other things, the author discusses how his thoughts on the topic of this book have evolved since its fi rst publication in light of scholarly debate and the increased availability of primary and secondary sources.

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