Arvo Pärt’s Tintinnabuli and the 1970s Soviet Underground

Arvo Pärt ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 68-86
Author(s):  
Kevin C. Karnes
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Student Culture ◽  
Informal Network ◽  
Compositional Language

This chapter focuses on early, largely forgotten engagements between Pärt, tintinnabuli, and student culture in the 1970s Soviet Union. It documents the embrace of Pärt’s new style among students and young artists and depicts how an informal network of Soviet youth and young musicians played a crucial role in fostering and promoting his earliest tintinnabuli works between the time of the October 1976 premieres and the popular breakthrough of Tabula Rasa in the fall of 1977. While not denying the singularity of Pärt’s achievement with his new compositional language, the chapter rebuts the widespread image of Pärt as a solitary, isolated figure during the time of his greatest creative breakthrough

Staging the Great Victory

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-123
Author(s):  
Catherine Schuler
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
History And Memory ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Great Victory

A war of history and memory over the Great Patriotic War (WWII) between the Soviet Union and Germany has been raging in Vladimir Putin’s Russia for almost two decades. Putin’s Kremlin deploys all of the mythmaking machinery at its disposal to correct narratives that demonize the Soviet Union and reflect badly on post-Soviet Russia. Victory Day, celebrated annually on 9 May with parades, concerts, films, theatre, art, and music, plays a crucial role in disseminating the Kremlin’s counter narratives.

Brothers at War

2020 ◽  
pp. 384-405
Author(s):  
Vicente Sánchez-Biosca
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Visual Imagery ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Khmer Rouge ◽  
People's Republic Of China ◽  
Phnom Penh ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Visual Strategies ◽  
Democratic Kampuchea

In January 1979, Vietnamese troops triumphantly entered Phnom Penh, the capital of Democratic Kampuchea ruled by the Khmer Rouge. The images they produced to justify their military offensive dwelled on the horror of the atrocities committed by the overthrown Pol Pot regime in the former torture center code-named S-21. In the framework of a split within the communist Bloc between the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, this article discusses three strategies put forward by the Vietnamese propaganda machinery in which the visual imagery of the former prison played a crucial role: an intense documentary production, the atrocity-themed museum constructed on the site of S-21, and the trial for genocide held in absentia against Pol Pot and Ieng Sary. These visual strategies aimed to deprive the Khmer Rouge of their communist status by associating them with Nazis and their crimes.

The Changing Vision of the African Working Class – a Component of Soviet Strategy in Black Africa?

1978 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 695-700
Author(s):  
Miléna Charles
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Global Strategy ◽  
The Political ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Class A ◽  
Black Africa ◽  
The Soviet Union

The Soviet Union is not able to replace western economic investments even in those African countries which become its affies. Therefore its influence is limited to the political sphere, mainly to inter-party relations. By playing a crucial rôle in Southern Africa and Ethiopia, the Soviet Union has accomplished an important step in its global strategy.

scholarly journals In memoriam Kamal Mazhar Ahmad (1937-2021), doyen of Kurdish historians

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 233-241
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Postgraduate Studies ◽  
In Memoriam

The Iraqi Kurdish historian Kamal Mazhar Ahmad (1937-2021) was probably one of the best known and most productive historians. He belonged to the first generation of Iraqis to pursue postgraduate studies in the Soviet Union, and when he was allowed to return to Iraq in 1970, he played a crucial role in the institutionalization of academic institutions and disciplines there and acted as an intermediary between Iraqi Kurdish and Soviet academic circles. As a lecturer and later professor at Baghdad University, he trained thousands of (Arab and Kurdish) students.  Abstract in Kurmanji Bi bîranîna Kemal Mezher Ehmed (1937-2021), duayenê dîroknasên kurd Dîroknasê Kurd ê Iraqê Kemal Mezher Ehmed (1937-2021), bê guman dîroknasê Kurdan ê herî berhemdar û bi bandor bû. Ew ji neslê ewil ê Iraqiyan bû ku li Yekîtiya Sovyetê di asta lîsansa bilind de xwendiye û, dema ku li sala 1970î destûra vegera li Iraqê wergirt, wî li wir roleke mezin di sazûmaniya babet û saziyên akademîk de leyist, û her weha navbênkariya derdorên akademîk ên Kurdî-Iraqî û Sovyetî kiriye. Wek dersdar û, bi pey re, profesor li Zanîngeha Bexdayê, wî bi hezaran xwendekar (hem Ereb hem Kurd) jî perwerde kirine. Abstract in Sorani Yadkirdnewey Kemal Mezher Ehmed (1937-2021), diyartirîn mêjûnûse Kurdekan Mêjûnûsî benawbengî kurd Kemal Mezher Ehmed (1937-2021) yekêk bû le diyartirîn û karîgertirîn mêjûnûsekanî kurd. Yekêk bû le yekemîn newey ‘Êraqî ke xwêndinî ballay le Yekêtî Sovyet be dest hênawe. Ü katêk rêgay pêdra bgerrêtewe bo ‘Êraq le sallî 1970 da, rollêkî karîgerî bînî le be damezrawekirdnî nawende ekadîmyekan û beşe zanistyekan lew wllate da. Û herweha bû be nawendkarêk le nêwan ekadîmanî kurdî ‘Êraq û Yekêtî Sovyet da. Wekû mamostayekî zanko û paşan wek profîsorêk le Zankoy Bexdad, hezaran xwêndkarî kurd û ‘erebî perwerde û fêrkirdwe. Abstract in Zazaki Seba yadkerdişê Kemal Mezhar Ahmadî (1937-2021), duayenê tarîxnasanê kurdan Beno ke tarîxnasê kurdanê Îraqî Kemal Mezhar Ahmad (1937-2021) tarîxnasê kurdan o tewr berhemdar û tesîrdar bî. O neslê îraqijan ê verênî ra bî ke Yewîya Sovyetan de perwerdeyê lîsansê berzî wendbî. Wexto ke serra 1970î de destûr dîya ci ke agêro Îraq, uca dezgesazîya beş û enstîtuyanê akademîkan de rolêko elzem ard ca û mîyanê akademîsyananê kurdanê Îraqî û Sovyetan de mabênkarîye kerde. Sey dersdayox û dima zî sey profesorê Unîversîteya Bexdadî, ey bi hezaran wendekarî (ereb û kurdî) perwerde kerdî.  

Making News Soviet: Rethinking Journalistic Professionalism after Stalin, 1953–1970

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-84
Author(s):  
SIMON HUXTABLE
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Journalistic Professionalism ◽  
Flow Of Information ◽  
Made In

This article challenges the assumption, frequently made in scholarship on Soviet media, that news was absent in the Soviet Union. Working across press, radio, and television, the article shows how after 1953 reform of Soviet news became a priority for journalists, editors and media professionals. The article focuses on discussions among journalists and officials about the future of journalism, arguing that journalists’ notions of professional excellence played a crucial role in shaping news coverage. In a climate of Cold War competition with western radio, new technological possibilities and changing political priorities, journalists gradually overcame their condescension towards news, emphasising its civic potential as an agent of social ‘democratisation’, and the artistic nature of reportage. This new configuration was precarious, however, and collapsed after the Czechoslovakian crisis of 1968. As the Party placed new restrictions on the flow of information, news lost its professional prestige.

Marine scientific research and the Soviet Arctic

Polar Record ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 27 (163) ◽  
pp. 325-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Franckx
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Scientific Cooperation ◽  
Clear Signal ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Arctic State ◽  
Soviet Research

AbstractScientific cooperation in the Arctic has gained momentum during the last two years. The changing attitude of the Soviet Union, the most advanced Arctic state in this respect, has played a crucial role in this evolution. This article, which focusses on non-Soviet research efforts in Soviet Arctic waters, concludes that the Soviet Union has lately given a clear signal by allowing foreigners, after many years of repeated refusal, to conduct marine scientific research close to its own coasts. In doing so the Soviets have further clarified the legal status of their northern waters.

scholarly journals A Neglected Source of Lenin's Nationality Policy

Slavic Review ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Kreindler
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
World War I ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Outstanding Contribution ◽  
World War ◽  
Nationality Policy ◽  
Treasure Trove ◽  
Cultural Autonomy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Rosa Luxemburg

Lenin's crucial role in formulating and laying the foundations of Soviet nationality policy is acknowledged by all. His nationality program—whether one views it as opportunist and pseudo-Marxist or as “the outstanding contribution to the treasure trove of creative Marxism”—is considered to be his most original and perhaps most successful policy. Lenin's lasting impact on the nationalities themselves is attested by the fact that national dissidents in the Soviet Union often call for a return to “Leninist” policy. One dissident writes, “It is difficult to find today anything more useful, noble and imperative than the restoration of Lenin's nationalities policy.”According to most biographers, Lenin became involved with the nationality question only on the eve of World War I while living in exile in the multinational Austrian Empire. It was there that he recognized nationalism as a powerful force and began to devise a program that would harness it for the revolution. Opposing both the cultural autonomy scheme of the Austrian Marxists and the total scorn of nationalism by Rosa Luxemburg, Lenin, in debates with fellow Marxists, formulated his own program.

scholarly journals Dynamics of Number of Workers and Completing of Staff of the Enterprises of Timber Processing Complex of the Soviet Union in the 1930s

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1 (25)) ◽  
pp. 58-68
Author(s):  
Ivan V. Zykin
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Specific Weight ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Dynamics Of Number

In article changes of number of human resources and ways of completing of work collectives of the enterprises of timber processing complex of the Soviet Union in the 1930s are investigated. Specific weight of the industry in the number of workers of the national economy of the country is revealed. Features and problems of attraction of human resources in the forest industry are considered by different methods. The conclusion is drawn on a crucial role of actions of mobilization and compulsory character in increase in number of workers who, nevertheless, did not allow to overcome deficiency of human resources in the industry.

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