Igal Halfin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1087985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Igal Halfin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Igal |
| FAMILY NAME | Halfin |
| SIGNATURE | HALFIN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University
During Stalin's Great Terror, accusations of treason struck fear in the hearts of Soviet citizens - and lengthy imprisonment or firing squads often followed. Many of the accused sealed their fates by agreeing to confessions after torture or interrogation by the NKVD. Some, however, gave up without a fight. In Confessions, Igal Halfin investigates the phenomenon of a mass surrender to the will of the state. He deciphers the skillfully rendered dis…
Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University
Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928
The Bolsheviks' gallows laughter
The present article studies the evolution of the Bolshevik rhetoric toward ideological heterodoxy through the prism of laughter. I examine the official sense of humour (there are many indications of the audience giggling in the Party transcripts, sometimes in very baffling places) and show how in the 1920s the laughter directed at the opposition was soft in kind (mainly irony and parody) and how it turned to be sardonic and annihilating during th…
Terror in my soul: Communist autobiographies on trial
"In this work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the new regime enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers…
Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities
Between Instinct and Mind: The Bolshevik View of the Proletarian Self
Anna Krylova questions whether the spontaneity-consciousness paradigm, the standard interpretive approach toward Bolshevik thought in the field of Soviet studies, offers an exhaustive account of Bolshevik discourse. To do that she examines the centrality of V I. Lenin'sWhat Is to BeDone?(1902) in Bolshevik thought and points to the 1905 revolution as the formative event in the Bolshevik conception of the worker. Krylova introduces an overlooked B…
Looking into the Oppositionists' Souls: Inquisition Communist Style
The Rape of the Intelligentsia: A Proletarian Foundational Myth
olshevik visionaries dreamt of a society dramatically changed, in which victim of old order was destined to become ruler of new. The paragon of Revolution, perfect Bolshevik, would become a New Man-a strong, free and conscious creature emancipated from allegedly distorted and servile capitalist psyche. The New Man could come only from ranks of proletariat, class messiah. But under capitalism proletariat, blind and unaware of itself, embodied only…
Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary
Terror in my soul: Communist autobiographies on trial
"In this work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the new regime enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers…
Looking into the Oppositionists' Souls: Inquisition Communist Style
The Bolsheviks' gallows laughter
The present article studies the evolution of the Bolshevik rhetoric toward ideological heterodoxy through the prism of laughter. I examine the official sense of humour (there are many indications of the audience giggling in the Party transcripts, sometimes in very baffling places) and show how in the 1920s the laughter directed at the opposition was soft in kind (mainly irony and parody) and how it turned to be sardonic and annihilating during th…
Between Instinct and Mind: The Bolshevik View of the Proletarian Self
Anna Krylova questions whether the spontaneity-consciousness paradigm, the standard interpretive approach toward Bolshevik thought in the field of Soviet studies, offers an exhaustive account of Bolshevik discourse. To do that she examines the centrality of V I. Lenin'sWhat Is to BeDone?(1902) in Bolshevik thought and points to the 1905 revolution as the formative event in the Bolshevik conception of the worker. Krylova introduces an overlooked B…
Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary
The Rape of the Intelligentsia: A Proletarian Foundational Myth
olshevik visionaries dreamt of a society dramatically changed, in which victim of old order was destined to become ruler of new. The paragon of Revolution, perfect Bolshevik, would become a New Man-a strong, free and conscious creature emancipated from allegedly distorted and servile capitalist psyche. The New Man could come only from ranks of proletariat, class messiah. But under capitalism proletariat, blind and unaware of itself, embodied only…
Looking into the Oppositionists' Souls: Inquisition Communist Style
Terror in my soul: Communist autobiographies on trial
"In this work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political and personal salvation. To screen the population for moral and political deviance, the new regime enlisted natural scientists, doctors, psychologists, sexologists, writers…
Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities
Between Instinct and Mind: The Bolshevik View of the Proletarian Self
Anna Krylova questions whether the spontaneity-consciousness paradigm, the standard interpretive approach toward Bolshevik thought in the field of Soviet studies, offers an exhaustive account of Bolshevik discourse. To do that she examines the centrality of V I. Lenin'sWhat Is to BeDone?(1902) in Bolshevik thought and points to the 1905 revolution as the formative event in the Bolshevik conception of the worker. Krylova introduces an overlooked B…
The Bolsheviks' gallows laughter
The present article studies the evolution of the Bolshevik rhetoric toward ideological heterodoxy through the prism of laughter. I examine the official sense of humour (there are many indications of the audience giggling in the Party transcripts, sometimes in very baffling places) and show how in the 1920s the laughter directed at the opposition was soft in kind (mainly irony and parody) and how it turned to be sardonic and annihilating during th…
Intimate Enemies: Demonizing the Bolshevik Opposition, 1918-1928
Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University
During Stalin's Great Terror, accusations of treason struck fear in the hearts of Soviet citizens - and lengthy imprisonment or firing squads often followed. Many of the accused sealed their fates by agreeing to confessions after torture or interrogation by the NKVD. Some, however, gave up without a fight. In Confessions, Igal Halfin investigates the phenomenon of a mass surrender to the will of the state. He deciphers the skillfully rendered dis…
Stalinist Confessions: Messianism and Terror at the Leningrad Communist University
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