The Grammar of Trust and Distrust under State Socialism after Stalin. Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-329
Author(s):  
Alexey Tikhomirov
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Politics ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual

The Grammar of Trust and Distrust under State Socialism after Stalin. Introduction The introduction to the special issue defines trust/distrust from an interdisciplinary perspective, treating these emotions as analytical categories and outlining their potential for historical analysis. Inspired by the emotional and sensory turns, the guest editor examines the shift from Stalinist violence towards a politics of trust and empathy. This new politics saw these feelings as powerful emotional forces and moral resources that not only made it possible to renegotiate a social contract between the state, society and the individual, but also enabled the stabilisation of the Eastern bloc as a whole in the post-Stalin era. Differentiating between regimes and communities of trust/distrust, the author sheds light on the grammar of trust and distrust under state socialism, which impacted the shared sense of stability and inner hybridity of the socialist personality. By connecting trust and distrust with the key analytical categories of gender and generation, morality and power, consumption and materiality, and self and subjectivity, this special issue is a contribution to a history of trust and distrust that provides further reflection on the unceasing debate about what socialism was and what the lived experience of socialism continues to be in post-communist space.

scholarly journals Self-censorship narrated: Journalism in Central and Eastern Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Schimpfössl ◽  
Ilya Yablokov ◽  
Olga Zeveleva ◽  
Taras Fedirko ◽  
Peter Bajomi-Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Central And Eastern Europe ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
State Socialism ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
The Relationship

Bringing together empirical studies of former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, this Special Issue explores the relationship between censorship and self-censorship. All the cases under consideration share a history of state-led censorship. Importantly, however, the authors argue that journalism in the former Eastern bloc has developed features similar to those observed in many countries which have never experienced state socialism. This introduction presents the theoretical framework and the historical backgound that provide the backdrop for this Special Issue’s contributions, all of which take a journalist-focused angle.

scholarly journals Psychological characteristics of the rules of subordination within the cultural and historical analysis

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
T.P. Budyakova
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Fixed Rate ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Rules ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Psychological Acceptance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Importance

The article examines the psychology of submission. Given psychological characteristic standards of submission historically embodied in the moral codes and legal sources. The subject of analysis are historical regulations XII—XX centuries, the customs, in which the fixed rate of submission, as well as the memoir literature. There are four basic psychological lines of development in the history of the rules of subordination, in particular: a special regulation of the rules of subordination and increasing social importance of the role of subordinate. It is proved that psychological acceptance of a subordinate role and the satisfaction of its implementation includes the requirement of special rules regulating authority and emphasis on the social importance of the role of subordinate. It was established that one of the reasons that the job satisfaction of employees of state structures higher than employees of private companies, a large schema definition of relations with management. Hierarchical role is considered in terms of two components: the role of attributes and rules, rules of conduct. The article focuses on the fact that the individual external signs, locking status subordination, increase the level of self-esteem of subordinate.

Hunters-Turned-Conservationists

2018 ◽  
pp. 325-372
Author(s):  
Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Dual Roles ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
British Raj ◽  
Complex Image ◽  
Richard Burton ◽  
History Of ◽  
Passionate Commitment

The final chapter locates the careers of two prominent hunters-turned-conservationists—Jim Corbett and Richard Burton—within the essential paradox of hunting and conservation in colonial India. In the case of both, as this chapter demonstrates, any simple binary of the colonizer–colonized model is inadequate to explain their prolific hunting in the first half of their lives as well as their passionate commitment to the cause of conservation in the second half. The chapter examines how, in their dual roles as hunter and conservationist, killer and protector, ruler and saviour, both men encompassed the quintessential split image of the British Raj. Particularly in their role as slayers of man-eating predators, Corbett and Burton offer an extremely nuanced and complex image that revises any straightforward impression of colonial hunters in India dominating their natural environment in imitation of the imperial domination of India’s politics. Despite such caveats, this chapter argues that Corbett and Burton remained staunch loyalists to the British Raj, and cautions that the wider history of conservation thinking should pay due attention to the critical and historical analysis of individuals like Corbett and Burton, whose individual approaches to conservation issues were drawn from lived experience, just as much as from broader colonial attitudes.

scholarly journals Degree and Related Phenomena in the History of English: Evidence of Usage and Pathways of Change

2020 ◽  
pp. 007542422096977
Author(s):  
Claudia Claridge ◽  
Merja Kytö
Keyword(s):  
Special Issue ◽  
Historical Sociolinguistics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Introductory Paper ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Individual

This introductory paper sets the scene for the present double special issue on degree phenomena. Besides introducing the individual contributions, it positions degree in the overlapping fields of intensity, focus and emphasis. It outlines the wide-ranging means of expressing degree, their possible categorizations, as well as the many-fold uses of intensification with respect to involvement, politeness, evaluation, emotive expression and persuasion. It also decribes the many angles from which degree features have been studied as extending across, e.g., (historical) sociolinguistics, (historical) pragmatics, and grammaticalization.

scholarly journals A Commentary on the History of Social Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Twentieth-Century Germany, Holland and Great Britain

2004 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 407-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Neve
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Guest Editor ◽  
Social Psychiatry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of Psychotherapy ◽  
History Of

The detailed essays in this special issue of Medical History provide an opportunity for reflection on common themes as well as on differing medical and historical contexts, specifically examining the organization and practice of European social psychiatry, its various definitions, as well as the history of psychotherapy, in twentieth-century Germany, Holland and Great Britain. The chance has also arisen for one of the two guest editors to comment briefly on various other points that seem pertinent, by way of brief introduction. His fellow guest editor, Harry Oosterhuis, is the author of one essay and co-author of another.

Bringing the human actors back on stage: the personal context of the Einstein–Bohr debate

1994 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Current Trend ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Albert Einstein ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Context ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Individual

In concluding his ‘Autobiographical notes’, Albert Einstein explained that the purpose of his exposition was to ‘show the reader how the efforts of a life hang together and why they have led to expectations of a definite form’. Einstein's remarks tell of a coherence between personal ‘strivings and searchings’ and scientific activity, which has all but vanished in the midst of the current trend of social constructivism in history of science. As Nancy Nersessian recently pointed out, in the process of illuminating complex relationships between scientific activity and its social context, ‘socio-historical analysis has “black-boxed” the individual scientist’. Has the pendulum swung too far? In reaction to the preceding great-man hagiographie approach to the history of science, the social constructivists have largely ‘thrown the baby out with the bathwater’; consideration of individual scientists' personal approaches to science was unnecessarily expunged with the removal of ‘genius’ as an explanatory tool.

Me and My Data

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (5) ◽  
pp. 616-626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Igo
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Access Control ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
First Century ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Developments ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Ownership

This article examines a recent, unexamined turn in the history of personal data in the last half century: the era when it was re-envisioned as a possession of the individual whom it described or from whom it was obtained. Data—whether scientific, commercial, or bureaucratic—had often been treated as confidential or protected, but it had not typically been conceived in terms of individual ownership. But starting in the later 1960s, more and more people in the industrialized West questioned whether they or the authorities who collected or maintained their data properly had claim to that information. This question was sparked as much by political and economic developments as it was by scientific and technological ones. Citizens’ move to shore up their proprietary claims would prompt new regulations around access, control, and consent that continue to undergird contemporary ideas about personal data. A product of social movements and civil rights reforms as well as market thinking, this bid for authority over one’s “own” information would however reveal its limitations by the turn of the twenty-first century, particularly in the context of a big data economy. This essay is part of a special issue entitled Histories of Data and the Database edited by Soraya de Chadarevian and Theodore M. Porter.

scholarly journals National originality of the architecture of Khreshchatyk as a unique ensemble of the period of totalitarianism

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 01039
Author(s):  
Olena Oliynyk
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Stalin Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
Total Lack ◽  
The Individual

Khreschatyk is a page apart in the history of world architecture. While it has a number of distinct characteristics of totalitarian architecture, Khreschatyk is the only architectural ensemble of the period to combine na-tional tradition with the exalted sentiment of Soviet architecture of the Stalin era. Also, it uniquely matched architecture and landscape. The façades has elements of Ukrainian baroque, which sets Khreschatyk apart from similar ensembles of the 1940s-1950s in other countries that mainly drew upon Ne-oclassicism or Modernism. While period architecture in other countries is typically marked by its grand scale and heavily accentuated civic spirit – complete with a denigration of the individual at the expense of the manifest greatness of Authority, Khreschatyk stand out for its pronounced harmony as an environment based on the careful preservation of old heritage, the skill-ful use of the landscape, and the introduction of traditional motifs, alongside an almost total lack of Soviet symbols. Unlike the grim grandness of totali-tarian architecture in other countries, the facades of the residential buildings that line Khreschatyk emanate joie de vivre and admiration for the fertility of Ukrainian soil.

Introduction: British nuclear culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
JONATHAN HOGG ◽  
CHRISTOPH LAUCHT
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Nuclear Science ◽  
The Third ◽  
Fictional Narratives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Individual Citizen ◽  
Nuclear Culture ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractIn the extended introduction to this special issue on British nuclear culture, the guest editors outline the main historiographical and conceptual contours of British nuclear scholarship, and explore whether we can begin to define ‘British nuclear culture’ before introducing the contributors to this special issue, whose work we have organized into three broad areas. The first part is devoted to three articles that offer explicit and extended attempts to reconceptualize British nuclear culture, illuminating the complex links between nuclear science, the state and the individual citizen. The second part of this issue is devoted to three articles that concentrate on aspects of the history of nuclear science – focusing particularly on intellectuals, nuclear scientists and enthusiasts – alongside analysis of the popularization of nuclear science as well as the relationship between the state and nuclear science and its practitioners. In the third part, four articles examine the diverse ways in which ‘official’ narratives of the atomic age can be questioned, disrupted or enhanced by analysing the significance of journalistic, anti-nuclear and fictional narratives to the development of nuclear culture in Britain.

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