Leaving

Jimmy Reid ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 159-192
Author(s):  
W.W.J. Knox ◽  
A. McKinlay
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Road ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Power Base ◽  
Revolutionary Party ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right

The chapter explores his vain attempts to be elected as a full-time national official of the AEU defeated by the right-wing of the union’s leadership. It also exposes the organisational deficiencies of Reid; a man capable of motivating and inspiring workers but unable to build a mass power base within the political or industrial arenas. It also discusses critically Reid’s narrative concerning the road to leaving the CPGB as well as the reception to his decision both within the media and among the party membership. We contend that international events such as the Prague invasion were secondary influences, rather we argue it was events nearer to home that were more influential. Thus, we discuss how the rejection of the concept of the revolutionary party by the CPGB in favour of broad-based parliamentary alliances narrowed the ideological chasm between communists and the Labour left. Indeed, the only issue dividing them was the continued support by the former for the Soviet Union; something that Reid had begun to reject. The other factor was his dissatisfaction with party democracy. Reid left in 1976 and joined the Labour Party two years later. Fast tracked by the left he stood as Labour candidate in 1979 in Dundee where he suffered the same fate as in 1974.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 197-218
Author(s):  
Kyle Burke
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Right ◽  
At Home

The Iran-Contra scandal halted much of these paramilitary campaigns in the late 1980s. That was because it required many of the most important actors, John Singlaub among them, to spend much of their time testifying in Congress and preparing legal defenses, rather than working overseas. Within a few years, the collapse of the Soviet Union made the anticommunist international obsolete. Still, the ideas and impulses that had animated it lived on. Those legacies were most evident in the rise of the private military firms abroad and the radicalization of the right-wing paramilitaries at home.

Legitimacy and Power in the Soviet Union Through Socialist Ritual

1984 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christel Lane
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Theoretical Argument ◽  
Change Over Time ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Right ◽  
Over Time

Every political system must secure compliance with its commands on the part of the ruled; the methods applied to achieve this vary from society to society and within societies over time. One way of gaining compliance is for political elites to establish the legitimacy of the political system, of their position within it, and of the commands that are issued. Political power can be said to be legitimate when, in the words of Sternberger, it is exercised both with a consciousness on the part of the elite that it has a right to govern and with some recognition by the ruled of that right. Both this consciousness of the right to govern and its acknowledgement by the ruled is derived from some source of authorization which may change over time. This paper will focus on the conscious attempts of Soviet political elites from the early sixties onwards to change their strategy of gaining compliance by reducing reliance on coercion and strengthening political legitimacy. It will draw attention to their efforts to develop a new source of authorization and to employ a new legitimation procedure. In developing the theoretical argument the Weberian typology of legitimate rule will be employed, and this approach to the topic will be contrasted with that adopted by T. H. Rigby in two recent publications.

10. Transformations of Zionism since 1995

2016 ◽  
pp. 106-111
Author(s):  
Michael Stanislawski
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Balance Of Power ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
The Right ◽  
Israeli Economy

For a short while after Rabin’s death, right-wing politicians and religious leaders became less inflammatory, but soon Israeli politics returned to normal. The swing from left to right repeated time and time again: parties on the left, the middle, and the right have been riven by splits into smaller parties, which therefore inevitably hold the balance of power, while the country as a whole is split down the middle on domestic and foreign policies. “Transformations of Zionism since 1995” tracks the results of recent elections, notes the importance of the huge increase in immigrants from the Soviet Union, describes the modernization of the Israeli economy, and highlights the dramatic rebirth of Orthodox Zionism.

War and Women in Jānis Streičs’ Films

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-70
Author(s):  
Inga Pērkone
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Full Time ◽  
War Films ◽  
The Road ◽  
Women And War ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Visual Style ◽  
Soviet Ideology

Abstract This article is devoted to the theme of women and war in the films of Jānis Streičs, possibly the most influential Latvian film director. In the course of his career, which spanned nearly 50 years, Streičs made films that were popular in Latvia, as well as throughout the Soviet Union. He is one of the few Latvian film directors who managed to continue a comparatively stable career in the newly reindependent Republic of Latvia. Streičs skilfully used the canonised means of expression of classical cinema and superficially fulfilled the demands of socialist realism to provide appealing and life-asserting narratives for the audiences. Being a full-time film director at Riga Film Studio, and gradually becoming a master of the studio system, Jānis Streičs managed to subordinate the system to his own needs, outgrowing it and becoming an auteur with an idiosyncratic style and consistently developed topics.1 The most expressive elements of his visual style can be found in his war films, which are presented as women’s reflections on war. In this article, Streičs’ oeuvre in its entirety provides the background for an analysis of two of his innovative war films. Meetings on the Milky Way (Tikšanās uz Piena ceļa, Latvia, 1985) rejects the classical narrative structure, instead offering fragmentary war episodes that were united by two elements – the road and women. In Carmen Horrendum (Latvia, 1989) Streičs uses an even more complicated structure that combines reality, visions and dreams. After watching this film, the only conclusion we can come to with certainty is that war does not have a woman’s face and, in general, war has no traces of humanity. The aim of this article is to demonstrate how World War II, a theme stringently controlled by Soviet ideology, provided the impetus for a search for an innovative film language.

Geography and Nationalities in the USSR: A Commentary

Slavic Review ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 564-570
Author(s):  
V. Stanley Vardys
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Political ◽  
Soviet System ◽  
Political Aspect ◽  
Considerable Contribution ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Decisions

In the wake of the rising interest in Soviet nationalities and the problems that the nationality phenomenon produces for the Soviet political and economic system, it is gratifying to read a geographer's discussion of regionalism in this huge Soviet state. The nationality question can be best elucidated by inter-disciplinary studies; logically it follows that the question of regionalism does not belong exclusively to the jurisdiction of geographers and economists. It is obvious, however, from reading Professor Hooson's article that geographers can make a considerable contribution to the understanding of the development and prospects of Soviet nationalities.The connection between regionalism and nationalities is not artificial. Soviet regionalism, whether considered in geographical, historical, or other terms, is intertwined with the prospects of nationalities, because these groups provide much of the demographic matrix in which development occurs and to which the Kremlin's political decisions apply. The political aspect, furthermore, is especially pronounced in the Soviet case, because the large, compactly settled national groups live in regions adjacent to the borders of the Soviet state; theoretically their republics have the right to secede from the Soviet Union. The Soviet state itself was organized to accommodate these nationalities, and they are supposed to share in decision-making as well as in the benefits that the Soviet system can confer.

scholarly journals Suomi Moskovasta nähtynä: Suurvaltapolitiikan, sisällissodan ja vallankumouksen leikkauspisteessä 1920–1930

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aappo Kähönen
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Baltic Sea Region ◽  
Soviet Foreign Policy ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Right ◽  
Political Decision Making

The focus of this research is on Finland’s role in Soviet Union’s calculation of its foreign policy between 1920 and 1930. This was the first decade of both Finnish independence and of Soviet power in Russia. This book answers questions about the objectives of Soviet foreign policy in Finland, on the contacts used by the Soviet legation to obtain information, and on how well the Soviets understood Finland’s objectives. People interested in Finland and in Russian perspectives with regards to foreign policy and neighbouring countries will find much new in this book because it relies on formerly unpublished Russian archival material to form the basis for charting Soviet objectives in Finland. The book shows that the Soviets primarily observed Finland in a larger regional context along with other states on its borders in the Baltic Sea region. The global objectives of the revolution and the Soviet Union, but also the domestic political situation in both countries, are reflected on this framework. The period was characterized by forced collectivization in the Soviet Union and, in Finland, by the rise of the right-wing Lapua Movement that emerged at the onset of the Great Depression, laying the foundations for the most severe crisis in the relations during 1929–1930 when the issues surrounding these events destabilized simultaneously the society and political decision-making in both countries.

The CPSU in Transition from Brezhnev to Gorbachev

1988 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohdan Harasymiw
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
The Political ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Leadership Succession ◽  
New Members ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Political Roles

AbstractLeadership succession in the Soviet Union has always had some impact on the composition of the ruling Communist party, which is otherwise determined normally by the force of social status. As the CPSU constitutes the pool from which the Soviet political elite is drawn, changes in that pool brought about by the succession of Gorbachev are bound to have implications for the future. Apparently unable at the beginning of his term to stem the intake of new members, Gorbachev has made dramatic use of expulsions to regulate the composition of the party. In their overall effect, his policies have shown a remarkable continuity with the Brezhnev period. This includes the enhancement of workers’ and peasants’ chances of being drawn into full-time political roles at the expense of white-collar persons. The net effect is likely to be a widening of the gap between the party and the intelligentsia, who are effectively excluded from membership in the political elite.

7. Misappropriations, disparagements, and lapses

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Freeden
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Liberal Internationalism ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Liberal Concept

‘Misappropriations, disparagements, and lapses’ first considers one of the most prominent misrepresentations of liberalism: neoliberalism. In terms of liberal morphology, neoliberals confine the core liberal concept of rationality to maximizing economic advantage. It also discusses the rise of neoliberalism in Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union; pseudo liberals, such as the right-wing Austrian Freedom Party; the concept of liberal internationalism; the criticism of liberalism by Marxists; and the race, ethnicity, and gender discrimination issues of liberalism. It concludes with the emotional side of liberalism that is often overlooked. Liberals believe that liberalism’s rational ideas—at their best—inspire passion and commitment.

Censoring Revolution: the Lord Chamberlain and the Soviet Union

1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (32) ◽  
pp. 305-312
Author(s):  
Steve Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Russian Revolution ◽  
British Library ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Right ◽  
Unpublished Manuscripts ◽  
The University

In two earlier articles, Steve Nicholson has explored ways in which the the right-wing theatre of the 1920s both shaped and reflected the prevailing opinions of the establishment – in NTQ29 (February 1992) looking at how the Russian Revolution was portrayed on the stage, and in NTQ30 (May 1992) at the ways in which domestic industrial conflicts were presented. He concludes the series with three case studies of the role of the Lord Chamberlain, on whose collection of unpublished manuscripts now housed in the British Library his researches have been based, in preventing more sympathetic – or even more objective – views of Soviet and related subjects from reaching the stage. His analysis is based on a study of the correspondence over the banning of Geo A. DeGray's The Russian Monk, Hubert Griffith's Red Sunday, and a play in translation by a Soviet dramatist, Sergei Tretiakov's Roar China. Steve Nicholson is currently Lecturer in Drama at the Workshop Theatre of the University of Leeds.

scholarly journals FROM THE HISTORY OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Batyrbekkyzy ◽  
◽  
T.K. Mekebaev ◽  
Zh.Zh. Kumganbaev ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Home Front ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
The Right

The article is a part of the history of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 - newspapers in the Kazakh language on the front. It is a chronicle of the bravery of the Kazakh warriors, the brave sons and daughters of the Kazakh people, the citizens of the Soviet Union in fiery battles, and the feat of home front. The most widespread and developed branch of the Kazakh journalism of that time - daily editions, newspapers, constantly transmitting the news to the public and readers. If in fact, the main duty and responsibility of the media (media) before the country, the Creator, for society was to guide the positive emotions of all citizens by the right distribution of truth and to ensure the development of society, then during the war years the media had fully fulfilled their duty, performed, described exemplary ways to defend the Motherland, passed on to the descendants as a historical heritage. This is an eternal historical value and value for us and for our future generations.

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