scholarly journals The role of Bolshevist libraries in the build-up to the Revolution. One hundred years of the Soviet librarianship. Article one. The state of knowledge

Author(s):  
Yuri Stolyarov

The author presents the series of historical articles. The author refers to many sources to prove that the before-Revolution Bolsheviks’ propaganda was carried out via legal and illegal party libraries that served the strongholds for Bolsheviks. The author reviews Communist party and library scientific literature on the issue for the 100-year period. The first article is to demonstrate historical and theoretical significance of the reviewed issues. During the first Soviet years they were investigated by the prominent Communist party and Soviet political figures outstanding, attempted to characterize Lenin’s attitude towards library services.

2021 ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
Orlin Zagorov

This article is the author's reflections on the problems of humanism, morality, and traditional culture in connection with the concept of a Moral State put forward by Professor S.N. Baburin. The role of the spirituality of the Slavic peoples and their contribution to the strengthening of European cultural identity is considered. The author argues the importance of the conclusion that the virtue of the state as its internal quality in itself turns the state into a guarantor of virtue as a universal value and the validity of the thesis that the values of both Orthodox Christianity and Slavic spirituality represent a solid foundation of a Moral State. The author sees in the Moral State a mechanism for the harmonious combination of the spirit of the revolution with the revolution of the spirit.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 209
Author(s):  
Vinicius Sales Barbosa

O presente artigo consiste na análise do filme Olga (2004), que conta a história de Olga Benário em sua luta como militante comunista, prisioneira do regime nazista e, principalmente, sua relação com o Cavaleiro da Esperança, Luiz Carlos Prestes. Ainda que a obra aborde a biografia de Olga, o intuito desta pesquisa é destrinchar o filme em três pontos essenciais para o entendimento de sua estrutura e, posteriormente, apresentar as perspectivas historiográficas a respeito da Intentona Comunista, o papel da Aliança Nacional Libertadora (ANL) e do Partido Comunista Brasileiro (PCB) no movimento e, como objetivo central, trabalhar a esperança da revolução que o filme confere à figura de Luiz Carlos Prestes.Palavras-Chave: Olga, Cinema, História, Religião.AbstractThis article analyzes the movie Olga (2004), which tells the story of Olga Benário in her fight as a communist militant, a prisoner of the Nazi regime, and especially her relationship with the Knight of Hope, Luiz Carlos Prestes. Although the work approaches the biography of Olga, the intention of this research is to unravel the film in three essential points for the understanding of its structure and, later, to present the historiographical perspectives regarding the Communist Uprising of 1935, the role of the National Liberating Alliance (ANL) and the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB) in the movement and, as a central objective, to study the hope of the revolution that the film confers to the figure of Luiz Carlos Prestes..Keywords: Olga, Cinema, History, Religion.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
Svetlana Khubulova

Abstract. The article is devoted to the problem of the state of theatre life in the Terek region in 1917-1920, which is little studied in the regional historiography. The author introduces into the scientific circulation a corpus of new archival documents, which makes it possible to reconstruct the main activities of local theaters, to consider the influence of Moscow touring groups on the theatrical repertoire and audience preferences in the Terek region. The author dwelled on the difficulties experienced by theater companies in the difficult conditions of the revolution, the Civil War and the post-war devastation. The analysis of the documents allowed us to identify new forms of theatrical art, including workers, amateur and national theatrical societies, which fit well into the concept of educating the “new” Soviet person. In the conditions of the most fierce ideological battles, theaters were given the task of introducing the broad masses to art, who had previously been far from it and preferred simpler forms of leisure. In this regard, the repertoire of theaters was represented not only by classical works but also by revolutionary plays of mediocre quality. By trial and error, the theater acquired a new repertoire in a new environment, a spectator who was to educate and instill a good taste for highly artistic theatrical productions. The role of M. Bulgakov in the development of the proletarian theater is also interesting: the plays written by him had ideological fullness and in quality were much higher than those that were present in the repertoire of local theaters. Thanks to the writer’s efforts, the Ossetian Youth Studio was founded in Vladikavkaz, which became the basis of the future professional theater.


2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Andriej B. Nikolaev
Keyword(s):  

This article focuses the role of the IV State Duma in the decisive days of the February revolution in Russia (February 27 – March 3, 1917). The author suggests that the State Duma was the center of the revolution and the headquarters of the uprising. Attention is being given to relationships between the Temporary Committee of the State Duma (VKGD) and the Petrograd Soviet of Workers ‘and Soldiers’ Deputies. According to the article, many issues of the revolution have been solved within the framework of the Duma-Soviet cooperation. At the same time, VKGD had priority, material superiority to solve military, food, militia and other issues. The author proves that VKGD was the first Provisional Government of Revolutionary Russia.


Author(s):  
Yevheniya Shyshkina ◽  
Yaroslav Motenko

In the paper, the historiography of the problem is examined. The critique of the privet paper money which was circulating in the Ukrainian lands in 1917–1921 is conducted. The characteristics of such critique are shown and its distinctions from the critique of the state paper money are identified. The external signs of the bonds’ obverse and reverse are analyzed. The heraldic, emblematic, iconographic, sphragistics, neographic, filigree, ornamental, chronological and metrological elements of the Ukrainian privet paper money appearance are investigated and the role of these features is identified. The emblems, seals, imprints, signatures, series, numbers, dates are pointed out to be the most informative signs of the privet paper money. So, in the article, the great significance of the sphragistics, neographic and chronological data is underlined. By means of the text analysis, the issuers of bonds are identified. Thecritique of the bonds’ external features also showed the reasons for emission, the emitters’ guarantees and the scale of the privet paper money circulation.


Subject The Communist Party's recent Fourth Plenum meeting. Significance The Communist Party concluded a five-day meeting of senior leaders on October 31. The meeting, called the ‘Fourth Plenum’, focused on institutional and intra-Party affairs. Press statements that followed were short on policy detail, but the meeting appears to have reaffirmed President Xi Jinping's efforts to place the Party and its ideology at the centre of China's political, economic and social life. Impacts Xi’s grip on the Party appears unassailable. There are no signs of Xi lining up a successor; he looks likely to remain leader for a third term. There are no indications that Beijing will compromise on US demands to reduce the role of the state in industry.


2021 ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Alexandra Arabadzhyan

The paper investigates contemporary political and ideological shifts of Cuban socialism paying specific attention to the period of actualization of Cuban socio-economic model of development implemented since the VI Congress of the Communist party of Cuba. The analysis is based on the different variants of Cuban Constitutions and proposes three historical models of Cuban socialism (Marxist-Leninist, the model of transition and the actualization period model). Comparing the texts of the Constitutions, the study sheds light on several key aspects: the role and functions of the State and the Party, ideological problems of socialism, communism and Marxism, the evolution of the exploitation and oppression concepts, issues of equity and equality, and appeal to the figure of J. Marti. Using historical method, comparative analysis and Marxist theory, as the latter has been the base for the first model of Cuban socialism under investigation, the paper reveals the role of Marxism within the three models. The study uncovers the contradiction between postulating a significant role of Marxism within the actualization model and revision of several core Marxist principles as well as the turn towards national issues in the contemporary Cuban socialism.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-81
Author(s):  
Елисеев ◽  
Anatoliy Eliseev

The article deals with the historical experience of the formation and development of the state youth policy. The experience of state policy in relation to young people throughout the XX century is analyzed, the role of the Communist Party in the development of youth policy is showed, the role of the Young Communist League in the solution of problems faced by the young generation of the country is traced.


1969 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur P. Mendel

In May, 1968, France was saved from revolution not primarily by de Gaulle and his generals but by the French Communist Party. Nine million striking workers occupied the factories. Militants among the students and young unemployed workers had proven themselves more than ready to play the role of vanguard at the barricades. The peasantry had begun to move from passive grumbling to direct action, fearful that the end of agricultural tariffs in July would further depress their hard lot. Even the middleclass professionals, disenchanted with the hierarchical rigidities and the olympian paternalism of Gaullist society had risen to assert their rights to free expression and meaningful participation. All means of communication and transport and all financial agencies were either directly or indirectly under the control of the workers. At will they could have deprived Paris and other cities of food, water, fuel, electricity and gas.


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