Polly Jones
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3751200 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Polly Jones |
| NOMBRES | Polly |
| APELLIDO | Jones |
| FIRMA | JONES P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Oxford |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
The Censor
This chapter first outlines the history of imperial and Soviet censorship, before analysing the complex interactions of the multiple state and Party institutions, and individuals, that characterised censorship during Stalinism and post-Stalinism. The influence of Soviet censorship was profound, but somewhat unpredictable: not all elements of the censorship worked in harmony, and lines of authority were sometimes blurred. Censorship very often sim…
The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature
This is the essential new guide to Russian literature, combining authority and innovation in coverage ranging from medieval manuscripts to the internet and social media. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral narrative but as multiple parallel histories. Each of its four strands tells a story of Russian literature according to a defined criterion: Movements, …
Kilometres 51 and 101
This article analyses the evolution of spatial constraints around Soviet cities and other sensitive zones, especially in Ukraine and Russia, arguing that banishment and residency prohibition was a consistent and significant element of Bolshevik policy from the revolution onwards, and not just from the start of passportisation of the early 1930s. It traces the development of legislation and extra-legal practices that led to the banishment and barr…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Stalin’s Library
Journal Article Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts Get access Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022; pp. 272. £25). Polly Jones Polly Jones University College, Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead189, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead189 Publi…
The Thaw's Provincial Margins
This article offers a comprehensive examination of the editing, publication, reception, and after-effects of the almanac Pages from Tarusa (1961), a major, but little-analyzed, Soviet publication of the Thaw. Drawing on a wide range of memoir and local archive material, it argues that Pages was crucially shaped by Tarusa's position astride dacha territory and the “101st kilometer”, the borders of the metropolitan zone from which Gulag and exile r…
Revolution Rekindled
A major late Soviet initiative, the ‘Fiery Revolutionaries’ (Plamennye revoliutsionery) series, was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, eventually giving rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels authored by many key post-Stalinist writers. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by writers including dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists? How did their millions of r…
Life as big as the ocean’
This article analyses the major changes in the publication and reception of Soviet biographies of Bolshevik heroes in the first two post-war decades, comparing the reforms undertaken by the two most important publishers of such biography, Molodaia gvardiia and Politizdat. The article argues that the 1950s and 1960s witnessed not just criticism of Bolshevik biographies' tendencies towards de-personalization and standardization, but also substantiv…
The Poetics and Politics of Modern Russian Biography
Slavonic and East European Review, 96, 1, 2018 The Poetics and Politics of Modern Russian Biography POLLY JONES Like many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a dominant force in post-Soviet publishing. Yet studies of Russian biography's poetics and i…
The Fire Burns On? The "Fiery Revolutionaries" Biographical Series and the Rethinking of Propaganda in the Brezhnev Era
In this article, I analyze the production of late Soviet propaganda, highlighting the shifts toward greater literary sophistication and the reinvention of revolutionary biography, instituted in order to re-enthuse the population about revolutionary ideals. In the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras, the State Political Publishing House (Politizdat) grappled with a profound crisis of political persuasion and came to realize that collaboration and c…
Myth, Memory, Trauma
Myth, Memory, Trauma
Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, this book offers an innovative account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. The book traces the authorities' initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynam…
Iurii Trifonov’s fireglow and the “mnemonic communities” of the brezhnev era
Cet article étudie les réseaux de partage des Mémoires et de l’information historique du début de la période soviétique qui ont fait suite aux recherches de l’écrivain Jurij Trifonov et à la publication, par celui-ci, de la biographie de son père, Otblesk kostra [Le Reflet du brasier] (1965 ; version augmentée en 1966). Il analyse ces « communautés mnémoniques » des vétérans de la guerre civile et des historiens amateurs locaux non pas comme une …
Revue. Dir. Sergei Loznitsa. Brooklyn
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Between Post-Stalinist Legitimacy and Stalin’s Authority
This article analyses the ways in which post-Soviet debates over whether and how to remember the defeats of the early period of World War II were shaped by earlier Soviet-era debates over war memory and legitimacy. It argues that the reaction against the Khrushchev thaw in the early Brezhnev era—which eventually gave rise to the quintessentially late socialist “war cult”—initially led to a deep contestation between the state and some of the Sovie…
The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization
Stalinist Values
Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky-and many later commentators-this apparent embrace of bourgeois values marked a betrayal of the October Revolution and a retreat from socialism. In the first book to address these developments fully, David L. Hoffmann argues…
Du prix Staline au prix Lénine
Cet article examine les continuités et transformations qui ont caractérisé le système des récompenses honorifiques au sein de l'appareil d'État soviétique, notamment durant la période de sortie du stalinisme (1953-1962). Si les honneurs se sont multipliés durant l'ère stalinienne, participant directement du culte de la personnalité qui entourait le « Père des Peuples » mais aussi de l'émulation instaurée dans les secteurs sensibles de la vie soci…
From stalinism to post-stalinism
(2003). From stalinism to post-stalinism: De-mythologising stalin, 1953-56. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 127-148
Language and Revolution
The Poetics and Politics of Modern Russian Biography
Slavonic and East European Review, 96, 1, 2018 The Poetics and Politics of Modern Russian Biography POLLY JONES Like many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a dominant force in post-Soviet publishing. Yet studies of Russian biography's poetics and i…
The Fire Burns On? The "Fiery Revolutionaries" Biographical Series and the Rethinking of Propaganda in the Brezhnev Era
In this article, I analyze the production of late Soviet propaganda, highlighting the shifts toward greater literary sophistication and the reinvention of revolutionary biography, instituted in order to re-enthuse the population about revolutionary ideals. In the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras, the State Political Publishing House (Politizdat) grappled with a profound crisis of political persuasion and came to realize that collaboration and c…
Between Post-Stalinist Legitimacy and Stalin’s Authority
This article analyses the ways in which post-Soviet debates over whether and how to remember the defeats of the early period of World War II were shaped by earlier Soviet-era debates over war memory and legitimacy. It argues that the reaction against the Khrushchev thaw in the early Brezhnev era—which eventually gave rise to the quintessentially late socialist “war cult”—initially led to a deep contestation between the state and some of the Sovie…
From stalinism to post-stalinism
(2003). From stalinism to post-stalinism: De-mythologising stalin, 1953-56. Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 127-148
Language and Revolution
Du prix Staline au prix Lénine
Cet article examine les continuités et transformations qui ont caractérisé le système des récompenses honorifiques au sein de l'appareil d'État soviétique, notamment durant la période de sortie du stalinisme (1953-1962). Si les honneurs se sont multipliés durant l'ère stalinienne, participant directement du culte de la personnalité qui entourait le « Père des Peuples » mais aussi de l'émulation instaurée dans les secteurs sensibles de la vie soci…
Stalinist Values
Soviet official culture underwent a dramatic shift in the mid-1930s, when Stalin and his fellow leaders began to promote conventional norms, patriarchal families, tsarist heroes, and Russian literary classics. For Leon Trotsky-and many later commentators-this apparent embrace of bourgeois values marked a betrayal of the October Revolution and a retreat from socialism. In the first book to address these developments fully, David L. Hoffmann argues…
The Dilemmas of De-Stalinization
Revue. Dir. Sergei Loznitsa. Brooklyn
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Between Post-Stalinist Legitimacy and Stalin’s Authority
This article analyses the ways in which post-Soviet debates over whether and how to remember the defeats of the early period of World War II were shaped by earlier Soviet-era debates over war memory and legitimacy. It argues that the reaction against the Khrushchev thaw in the early Brezhnev era—which eventually gave rise to the quintessentially late socialist “war cult”—initially led to a deep contestation between the state and some of the Sovie…
Myth, Memory, Trauma
Myth, Memory, Trauma
Drawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, this book offers an innovative account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. The book traces the authorities' initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography. Engaging with the dynam…
Iurii Trifonov’s fireglow and the “mnemonic communities” of the brezhnev era
Cet article étudie les réseaux de partage des Mémoires et de l’information historique du début de la période soviétique qui ont fait suite aux recherches de l’écrivain Jurij Trifonov et à la publication, par celui-ci, de la biographie de son père, Otblesk kostra [Le Reflet du brasier] (1965 ; version augmentée en 1966). Il analyse ces « communautés mnémoniques » des vétérans de la guerre civile et des historiens amateurs locaux non pas comme une …
The Fire Burns On? The "Fiery Revolutionaries" Biographical Series and the Rethinking of Propaganda in the Brezhnev Era
In this article, I analyze the production of late Soviet propaganda, highlighting the shifts toward greater literary sophistication and the reinvention of revolutionary biography, instituted in order to re-enthuse the population about revolutionary ideals. In the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras, the State Political Publishing House (Politizdat) grappled with a profound crisis of political persuasion and came to realize that collaboration and c…
Life as big as the ocean’
This article analyses the major changes in the publication and reception of Soviet biographies of Bolshevik heroes in the first two post-war decades, comparing the reforms undertaken by the two most important publishers of such biography, Molodaia gvardiia and Politizdat. The article argues that the 1950s and 1960s witnessed not just criticism of Bolshevik biographies' tendencies towards de-personalization and standardization, but also substantiv…
The Poetics and Politics of Modern Russian Biography
Slavonic and East European Review, 96, 1, 2018 The Poetics and Politics of Modern Russian Biography POLLY JONES Like many genres, biography came belatedly to Russia. As with other such late arrivals, biography underwent intensive growth in quantity, sophistication, cultural significance and popularity from the era of Nicholas I onwards. It stands today as a dominant force in post-Soviet publishing. Yet studies of Russian biography's poetics and i…
Revolution Rekindled
A major late Soviet initiative, the ‘Fiery Revolutionaries’ (Plamennye revoliutsionery) series, was launched to rekindle popular enthusiasm for the revolution, eventually giving rise to over 150 biographies and historical novels authored by many key post-Stalinist writers. What new meanings did revolution take on as it was reimagined by writers including dissidents, leading historians, and popular historical novelists? How did their millions of r…
The Thaw's Provincial Margins
This article offers a comprehensive examination of the editing, publication, reception, and after-effects of the almanac Pages from Tarusa (1961), a major, but little-analyzed, Soviet publication of the Thaw. Drawing on a wide range of memoir and local archive material, it argues that Pages was crucially shaped by Tarusa's position astride dacha territory and the “101st kilometer”, the borders of the metropolitan zone from which Gulag and exile r…
The History of Birobidzhan
Gennady Estraikh’s book is the first to explore the birth, growth, demise and afterlife of the Birobidzhan Jewish Autonomous Region (JAR). The History of Birobidzhan looks at how the shtetl was widely used in Soviet propaganda as a perfect solution to the ‘Jewish question’, arguing that in reality, while being demographically and culturally insignificant, the JAR played a key, and essentially detrimental, role in determining Jewish rights and ent…
Stalin’s Library
Journal Article Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts Get access Stalin's Library: A Dictator and His Books, by Geoffrey Roberts (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2022; pp. 272. £25). Polly Jones Polly Jones University College, Oxford, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, cead189, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cead189 Publi…
The Censor
This chapter first outlines the history of imperial and Soviet censorship, before analysing the complex interactions of the multiple state and Party institutions, and individuals, that characterised censorship during Stalinism and post-Stalinism. The influence of Soviet censorship was profound, but somewhat unpredictable: not all elements of the censorship worked in harmony, and lines of authority were sometimes blurred. Censorship very often sim…
The New Cambridge History of Russian Literature
This is the essential new guide to Russian literature, combining authority and innovation in coverage ranging from medieval manuscripts to the internet and social media. With contributions from thirty-four world-leading scholars, it offers a fresh approach to literary history, not as one integral narrative but as multiple parallel histories. Each of its four strands tells a story of Russian literature according to a defined criterion: Movements, …
Kilometres 51 and 101
This article analyses the evolution of spatial constraints around Soviet cities and other sensitive zones, especially in Ukraine and Russia, arguing that banishment and residency prohibition was a consistent and significant element of Bolshevik policy from the revolution onwards, and not just from the start of passportisation of the early 1930s. It traces the development of legislation and extra-legal practices that led to the banishment and barr…
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
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