scholarly journals PSRS Literatūras fonda Latvijas republikāniskās nodaļas poliklīnika: ieskats atmiņu mantojumā un funkcijās

Letonica ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 53-67
Author(s):  
Agija Ābiķe-Kondrāte
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Support Function ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Basic Service ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Treatment Function ◽  
History Of ◽  
Domestic Lives

Respecting the ideological aspects of the totalitarian regime and interpreting the most significant functions of the institution, the article provides an insight in one of the institutions under the supervision of the Latvian Republican branch of the USSR Foundation for Literature—the Polyclinic of Latvian Republican Branch of the USSR Foundation for Literature—locally the most important medical institution for the representatives of creative professions and related persons. This polyclinic was one of the most prestigious medical institutions in the entire Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and was commonly referred to as the Polyclinic of Writers or the Polyclinic of Lit-Foundation. In the framework of the functions of this institution, the article sheds light on various memories of the previous employees and patients looking into their memoirs, memory literature and interviews. The article briefly examines the importance of the two leading or key persons—the Director of the LSSR Foundation for Literature Elvīra Zaķe (1909–1992) and the Head of the Polyclinic, Head Doctor Vitāls Oga (1924–1984), as well as their role in the domestic lives of the creative individuals and cultural history of the Soviet period. The most essential five functions, which characterise the activities and existence of the Polyclinic are the following: 1) basic—service or treatment function; 2) the psychological support function; 3) (LSSR) the ideological-prestige function; 4) the function of sustaining Latvian cultural environment; 5) the function of a cultural sign (entails the processes of the respective period and the history of literary circles).

The Things of Life

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Golubev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Soviet People ◽  
The World ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Model Aircraft ◽  
History Of ◽  
Spatial Imagination

This book is a social and cultural history of material objects and spaces during the late socialist era. It traces the biographies of Soviet things, examining how the material world of the late Soviet period influenced Soviet people's gender roles, habitual choices, social trajectories, and imaginary aspirations. Instead of seeing political structures and discursive frameworks as the only mechanisms for shaping Soviet citizens, the book explores how Soviet people used objects and spaces to substantiate their individual and collective selves. In doing so, the author rediscovers what helped Soviet citizens make sense of their selves and the world around them, ranging from space rockets and model aircraft to heritage buildings, and from home gyms to the hallways and basements of post-Stalinist housing. Through these various materialist fascinations, the book considers the ways in which many Soviet people subverted the efforts of the Communist regime to transform them into a rationally organized, disciplined, and easily controllable community. The book argues that late Soviet materiality had an immense impact on the organization of the Soviet historical and spatial imagination. The book's approach also makes clear the ways in which the Soviet self was an integral part of the global experience of modernity rather than simply an outcome of Communist propaganda. Through its focus on materiality and personhood, the book expands our understanding of what made Soviet people and society “Soviet.”

scholarly journals Epistemological approach to correspondence: silent history of intimate spheres

Menotyra ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vita Gruodytė
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
What Is Said ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Common Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

Cultural history, without which it is essentially impossible to speak about music, is composed, as we know, of a multitude of circumstances and coincidences affecting not only the musical artefacts but also the relations between those who create this history: Why did some people meet at some point? How was the link established between them? Why did this link last in some cases and why was it just punctual in other cases? What were the mutual influences? The project “The Nylon Curtain” is based on correspondence during the Cold War era, which was circulating between the Western countries and Lithuania. We allude to personal communication initiatives based on relationships, ideas, desires, and personal opportunities that helped create a “parallel history”. In the frame and context of official history, the formation of individual micro-spheres, namely the intimate world of correspondence, which would develop outside this framework, was one of a few publicly available tools to modulate the everyday environment. Thus, correspondence participated, independently of borders, in the establishment of a communication network, which functioned as an area without boundaries, and with its own specificities and problematics. This network became a “common” area, centred on cultural, professional and personal experiences. We should treat the correspondence of the Soviet period not only as a historical document but also as a reference to a certain emotional state of that period. The latter affects not only the language of the letters, but also what is read between the lines; not only what is said, but also what is implied by what is said: the silent language is the true discourse of the Soviet era. Consequently, the central element of our analysis, which allows us to make a link between the problems raised at the beginning, is emotional space: it is the key to understand that cultural acts in the Soviet era were carried out in spite of a greater or lesser presence of fear and in spite of the possibilities of the regime’s reaction.

scholarly journals “Kiev Citizen” Movie by T. Levchuk: Ukrainian Revolution of 1917—1921 in the Ukrainian Soviet Cinematography

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-151
Author(s):  
Oleksandr Khomenko ◽  
Bohdan Skopnenko
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Special Interest ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Peace Treaty ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
Hybrid Warfare ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ideological Manipulation

Cinematography is one of those unique cultural phenomena, whose history has always attracted historians’ interest. In the 20th century, this phenomenon did not only determine the direction of cultural transformations development but also impacted the formation of ideologies and political regimes. Today this topic is especially relevant considering the fact that the propaganda methods, intrinsic of dictatorship systems, namely the Soviet totalitarian regime, are actively used by the antidemocratic Russian power for achieving its political goals. The special interest in the context of the “hybrid warfare” which is currently going on between Russia and Ukraine, causes the construction in the Soviet period cinematography of the image of a “Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist” as the instrumental technologies of ideological manipulations used in such movies proved their effectiveness for shaping the outlook of a “new Russian citizen”. Such phenomenon, especially in the 20th century, determined not only the direction of aesthetic transformations of cultural development but also had an impact on the formation of ideologies and strengthening of political regimes. This topic is relevant because the methods of propaganda that were actively used by totalitarian regimes (including the Soviet totalitarian one) are now actively applied by the undemocratic Russian regime to achieve political goals. The construction of the image of the "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalist" in the Soviet cinema constitutes special interest in the context of today’s Russia’s "hybrid warfare" against Ukraine. The instrumental technologies of ideological manipulation used in the creation of films have shown their effectiveness in shaping the worldview of the “new Soviet man.” Forms of this type of consciousness still continue to influence the political choices of many citizens of our state. The film “Kiev Citizen”, studied in the article, was created in 1958 by Ukrainian Soviet film director T. Levchuk at Kyiv O. Dovzhenko Studio. This film is a classic example of ideologically biased film production. Using this movie, we can observe technological principles and constructive models of falsification of the 20th–century history of Ukraine by the Soviet regime, in particular the events of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921. In the film “Kiev Citizen”, the events of the Ukrainian revolution of 1917–1921 were falsified in order to illustrate the audience the Soviet version of the history of Ukraine and the events connected with the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks. Soviet propaganda tried to form in this way the audience loyal to the “Soviet empire” type of psychological perception of reality. In particular, the facts related to the Bolsheviks’ attempt to seize power in Kyiv in October 1917, the battles for the Arsenal plant in January 1918, and the conclusion of a peace treaty between the Ukrainian People’s Republic and Germany were falsified.

scholarly journals To the 70th anniversary of the birth of Professor V. V. Ivanenko

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 4
Author(s):  
Oleksii B. Shliakhov ◽  
Serhii I. Svitlenko
Keyword(s):  
Historical Memory ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Creative Work ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Totalitarian Regime ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Education ◽  
Main Factors

The main factors of the formation of personality of V. V. Ivanenko, stages of the biography of the famous scientisthistorian and teacher, manager of the high school are considered. The focus of the authors’ attention is the creative work of a scientist - a well-known specialist on the modern history of Ukraine, his work on expanding historical knowledge on the issues of the controversial Soviet period, the didactic activity of the scientific and pedagogical worker, his hard work on the preparation of higher education qualifications as a scientific Head, Consultant and Chair of the Specialized Academic Council on History. An important part of the work of the historian within the framework of the program "Rehabilitated History" in the Dnipropetrovsk region was the revival and preservation of historical memory, the study of punitive and repressive policies of Soviet power, which led to numerous victims of the Stalinist totalitarian regime. The various initiatives of the vice-rector on modernization of educational work with a student youth, his public activity were revealed. The contribution of the jubilator to the development of higher historical education and science in Ukraine is recognized.

Review of The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation.

1989 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-413
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
History Of
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