Andrea Graziosi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1203735 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrea Graziosi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrea |
| FAMILY NAME | Graziosi |
| SIGNATURE | GRAZIOSI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Naples Federico II |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1178-3085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Public Memory in the USSR and Soviet Myths about World War II
Jonathan Brunstedt, The Soviet Myth of World War II: Patriotic Memory and the Russian Question in the USSR, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Editor's Introduction: This book by Jonathan Brunstedt of Texas A&M University, looking at changing notions of patriotism and national identity in the Soviet Union as reflected in public commemorations of the USSR's role in the Second World War, raises a host of intriguing issues regarding So…
Stalin and the Soviet theory of nationality and nationalism
In this essay, I assess Stalin’s ideas and concepts about nationalities, their ‘manipulability’ and their legacies. I do this by briefly reconstructing their theoretical and political roots in both Tsarist and socialist traditions. Special attention will be paid to the discovery of a positive correlation between economic development and the growth of nationalism among ‘backward’ peasant peoples, which went against the grain of previous socialist …
Evaluating the Demise of the Soviet Union
Editor's Introduction: The disintegration of the Soviet Union in late December 1991 was one of the most remarkable events of the twentieth century. The Cold War had ended two years earlier, in 1989, with the collapse of East European Communism, but the dissolution of the Soviet Union in late 1991 made clear that the Cold War was truly over and that a new phase of international politics had begun. To be sure, the advent of the post–Cold War era di…
Genocide
The Weight of the Soviet Past in Post-1991 Russia
Four distinguished experts on Soviet history and Soviet politics discuss the issues raised by Andrea Graziosi in his article “The Weight of the Past in Post-Soviet Russia,” which appeared in the Winter 2020–2021 issue of the JCWS. The article and the discussion forum are the first of several items that will be published in the journal over the next few years assessing a variety of legacies of the Cold War
Genocide
The Weight of the Soviet Past in Post-1991 Russia
This article evaluates Soviet legacies in post-Soviet Russia. Far from being static phenomena, these legacies change over time. The article highlights the problems, fault lines, weaknesses, and strengths the USSR handed down to Russia, detailing their impact on political elites and the wider population. The analysis is divided into four sections: (1) comparative horizons of the Soviet/Russian case; (2) "imperial" legacies, such as borders, diaspo…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Soviet Famines of 1930–1933
The 20th century has been a century of political famines, that is, famines directly—and at times willfully—caused by human policies, in war 1 and in peacetime. Scores of millions starved to death in times during which there was enough food to feed everyone and the means to transport it where needed
Alex de Waal, Mass Starvation. The History and Future of Famine
The National and the Social in Stalin's Political Famines
Ten or more years ago I informally proposed to a friend sitting in the editorial board of a major historical journal to organise a forum on Soviet famines in the light of the new sources and interpretations that were emerging. The answer I received struck me: it was a good idea and the topic was indeed important, but times weren't yet ripe. At first I was reminded of what Mikhail Suslov supposedly told Vasily Grossman: people weren't yet ready fo…
Political Famines in the USSR and China
This article offers a comparative study of the domestic and international dimensions of two calamitous famines in Communist countries: one in the USSR engendered by Iosif Stalin's Great Turning Point (1928–1934) and the other in the People's Republic of China in connection with Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward (1958–1962). The article traces the historical roots of these catastrophes and explains how Sino-Soviet interactions affected the genesis o…
Communism and Hunger
Over the past two decades, important studies of the famines in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China have transformed our understanding of these events and laid the groundwork for the first attempts at comparative analysis. Nevertheless, the great twentieth-century famines caused by state policies remain relatively little studied. We still lack a systematic comparison of their features, at least in part because of the difficulty in …
Stalin’s and Mao’s Famines
This essay addresses the similarities and differences between the cluster of Soviet famines in 1931-33 and the great Chinese famine of 1958-1962. The similarities include: Ideology; planning; the dynamics of the famines; the relationship among harvest, state procurements and peasant behaviour; the role of local cadres; life and death in the villages; the situation in the cities vis-à-vis the countryside, and the production of an official lie for …
Selected Bibliography of Socialist Famines in the Twentieth Century
Selected Bibliography of Socialist Famines in the Twentieth Century
The Impact of Holodomor Studies on the Understanding of the USSR
This paper investigates what the Holodomor tells us about the development and dynamics of Soviet history. It starts by examining the evolving relations between Stalin and the peasantry during the Soviet Union’s first decades as well as the social, economic, moral, and psychological consequences in the USSR after 1933 following the destruction of traditional rural society. The relationship between the Holodomor and the viability of the Soviet syst…
Perspectives on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides
This forum includes commentaries by seven experts—Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman—on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term “genocidal,” the application of “genocide” to the atrocities perpetr…
An Extraordinary Man, An Extraordinary Historian
David Montgomery was both an extraordinary man and an extraordinary historian. All one needs to do is look at his autobiographical interview, which appeared in Visions of History in 1983, to know this. I had the good fortune of studying and then collaborating with David from 1979 at the University of Pittsburgh until the late 1990s at Yale University. While he had been recruited to Yale in the wake of the academic and political success of his Wor…
Michael Confino, 1926-2010
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Nicolas Werth, L’ivrogne et la marchande de fleurs
This is an intelligent, humane and rich book, one from which even the specialist has much to learn. Werth carefully gathered together the exceptional documents unearthed after 1991 by Memorial researchers, to whom the book is properly dedicated, and ably combined them with those published by scholars such as Khaustov, as well as with what he himself discovered and learnt over the years, to produce the best book we have today on the Great Terror. …
Marco Buttino, La rivoluzione capovolta
July 01 2007 Marco Buttino, La rivoluzione capovolta: L'Asia centrale tra il crollo dell'impero zarista e la formazione dell'Urss [The Revolution Turned Upside Down: Central Asia between the Collapse of the Tsarist Empire and the Formation of the USSR] Andrea Graziosi Andrea Graziosi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrea Graziosi Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007…
Les famines soviétiques de 1931-1933 et le Holodomor ukrainien
Pour ébaucher l’esquisse d’une nouvelle interprétation des famines soviétiques de 1931-1933 et du Holodomor ukrainien, cet article se réfère aux études, nombreuses et remarquables, parues ces dernières années. Cette nouvelle hypothèse interprétative tient compte tant du contexte soviétique général que de l’importance indéniable de la question nationale. L’auteur espère ainsi faire progresser la compréhension de la « Grande famine » et stimuler un…
The new Soviet archival sources
Les nouvelles sources fournies par les archives soviétiques. Hypothèses pour une évaluation critique. – Cet article présente plusieurs hypothèses sur les richesses et les insuffisances des sources fournies par les archives de la période qui précède 1953. Un bref aperçu des archives centrales de Moscou et de leur fonds est suivi d’une présentation des documents relatifs aux dirigeants du pays. Une cartographie des sources aujourd’hui accessibles p…
The new Soviet archival sources [Hypotheses for a critical assessment*]
Andrea Graziosi. Les nouvelles sources fournies par les archives soviétiques. Hypothèses pour une évaluation critique. Cet article présente plusieurs hypothèses sur les richesses et les insuffisances des sources fournies par les archives de la période qui précède 1953. Un bref aperçu des archives centrales de Moscou et de leur fonds est suivi d'une présentation des documents relatifs aux dirigeants du pays. Une cartographie des sources aujourd'hu…
At the roots of Soviet industrial relations and practices [Piatakov's Donbass in 1921]
Andrea Graziosi, At the roots of Soviet industrial relations and practices. Piatakovs Donbass in 1921. Using documents from different Russian archives, the author tries to reconstruct the passage from War Communism to the NEP in the crucial mining and industrial region of the Donbass. The analysis is developed along three main directions: the social and national tensioas arising from the rigid application of militarization policies in the region;…
Stalin's Antiworker “Workerism”, 1924–1931
This article sketches the background of the development of the “workerist myth” in the Soviet Union in the period 1924–1931. From 1924 onward workers were subjected to mounting pressure to increase productivity and tighten discipline, against the background of the great debate on how to transform the Soviet Union from an agrarian country into a country with a powerful industrial sector as rapidly as possible. Between 1928 and 1929 a vigorous anti…
The new Soviet archival sources
Les nouvelles sources fournies par les archives soviétiques. Hypothèses pour une évaluation critique. – Cet article présente plusieurs hypothèses sur les richesses et les insuffisances des sources fournies par les archives de la période qui précède 1953. Un bref aperçu des archives centrales de Moscou et de leur fonds est suivi d’une présentation des documents relatifs aux dirigeants du pays. Une cartographie des sources aujourd’hui accessibles p…
Collectivisation, révoltes paysannes et politiques gouvernementales [à travers les rapports du GPU d'Ukraine de février-mars 1930]
Andrea Graziosi, Collectivization, peasant revolts and government policies through the reports of the Ukrainian GPU (February-March 1930). Seventeen up to now unpublished reports from the former party archives are presented to the reader. They were addressed to the Soviet leadership by the Ukrainian GPU in the cmcial moment of the peasants' reaction to the first wave of collectivization and dekulakization (February-March, 1930). The introductive …
The new Soviet archival sources [Hypotheses for a critical assessment*]
Andrea Graziosi. Les nouvelles sources fournies par les archives soviétiques. Hypothèses pour une évaluation critique. Cet article présente plusieurs hypothèses sur les richesses et les insuffisances des sources fournies par les archives de la période qui précède 1953. Un bref aperçu des archives centrales de Moscou et de leur fonds est suivi d'une présentation des documents relatifs aux dirigeants du pays. Une cartographie des sources aujourd'hu…
Common laborers, unskilled workers
(1981). Common laborers, unskilled workers: 1880–1915. Labor History: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 512-544
Les famines soviétiques de 1931-1933 et le Holodomor ukrainien
Pour ébaucher l’esquisse d’une nouvelle interprétation des famines soviétiques de 1931-1933 et du Holodomor ukrainien, cet article se réfère aux études, nombreuses et remarquables, parues ces dernières années. Cette nouvelle hypothèse interprétative tient compte tant du contexte soviétique général que de l’importance indéniable de la question nationale. L’auteur espère ainsi faire progresser la compréhension de la « Grande famine » et stimuler un…
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Soviet Famines of 1930–1933
The 20th century has been a century of political famines, that is, famines directly—and at times willfully—caused by human policies, in war 1 and in peacetime. Scores of millions starved to death in times during which there was enough food to feed everyone and the means to transport it where needed
Political Famines in the USSR and China
This article offers a comparative study of the domestic and international dimensions of two calamitous famines in Communist countries: one in the USSR engendered by Iosif Stalin's Great Turning Point (1928–1934) and the other in the People's Republic of China in connection with Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward (1958–1962). The article traces the historical roots of these catastrophes and explains how Sino-Soviet interactions affected the genesis o…
Perspectives on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides
This forum includes commentaries by seven experts—Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman—on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term “genocidal,” the application of “genocide” to the atrocities perpetr…
Stalin's Antiworker “Workerism”, 1924–1931
This article sketches the background of the development of the “workerist myth” in the Soviet Union in the period 1924–1931. From 1924 onward workers were subjected to mounting pressure to increase productivity and tighten discipline, against the background of the great debate on how to transform the Soviet Union from an agrarian country into a country with a powerful industrial sector as rapidly as possible. Between 1928 and 1929 a vigorous anti…
Foreign Workers in Soviet Russia, 1920–40
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Common laborers, unskilled workers
(1981). Common laborers, unskilled workers: 1880–1915. Labor History: Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 512-544
Foreign Workers in Soviet Russia, 1920–40
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
Collectivisation, révoltes paysannes et politiques gouvernementales [à travers les rapports du GPU d'Ukraine de février-mars 1930]
Andrea Graziosi, Collectivization, peasant revolts and government policies through the reports of the Ukrainian GPU (February-March 1930). Seventeen up to now unpublished reports from the former party archives are presented to the reader. They were addressed to the Soviet leadership by the Ukrainian GPU in the cmcial moment of the peasants' reaction to the first wave of collectivization and dekulakization (February-March, 1930). The introductive …
At the roots of Soviet industrial relations and practices [Piatakov's Donbass in 1921]
Andrea Graziosi, At the roots of Soviet industrial relations and practices. Piatakovs Donbass in 1921. Using documents from different Russian archives, the author tries to reconstruct the passage from War Communism to the NEP in the crucial mining and industrial region of the Donbass. The analysis is developed along three main directions: the social and national tensioas arising from the rigid application of militarization policies in the region;…
Stalin's Antiworker “Workerism”, 1924–1931
This article sketches the background of the development of the “workerist myth” in the Soviet Union in the period 1924–1931. From 1924 onward workers were subjected to mounting pressure to increase productivity and tighten discipline, against the background of the great debate on how to transform the Soviet Union from an agrarian country into a country with a powerful industrial sector as rapidly as possible. Between 1928 and 1929 a vigorous anti…
The new Soviet archival sources
Les nouvelles sources fournies par les archives soviétiques. Hypothèses pour une évaluation critique. – Cet article présente plusieurs hypothèses sur les richesses et les insuffisances des sources fournies par les archives de la période qui précède 1953. Un bref aperçu des archives centrales de Moscou et de leur fonds est suivi d’une présentation des documents relatifs aux dirigeants du pays. Une cartographie des sources aujourd’hui accessibles p…
The new Soviet archival sources [Hypotheses for a critical assessment*]
Andrea Graziosi. Les nouvelles sources fournies par les archives soviétiques. Hypothèses pour une évaluation critique. Cet article présente plusieurs hypothèses sur les richesses et les insuffisances des sources fournies par les archives de la période qui précède 1953. Un bref aperçu des archives centrales de Moscou et de leur fonds est suivi d'une présentation des documents relatifs aux dirigeants du pays. Une cartographie des sources aujourd'hu…
Les famines soviétiques de 1931-1933 et le Holodomor ukrainien
Pour ébaucher l’esquisse d’une nouvelle interprétation des famines soviétiques de 1931-1933 et du Holodomor ukrainien, cet article se réfère aux études, nombreuses et remarquables, parues ces dernières années. Cette nouvelle hypothèse interprétative tient compte tant du contexte soviétique général que de l’importance indéniable de la question nationale. L’auteur espère ainsi faire progresser la compréhension de la « Grande famine » et stimuler un…
Marco Buttino, La rivoluzione capovolta
July 01 2007 Marco Buttino, La rivoluzione capovolta: L'Asia centrale tra il crollo dell'impero zarista e la formazione dell'Urss [The Revolution Turned Upside Down: Central Asia between the Collapse of the Tsarist Empire and the Formation of the USSR] Andrea Graziosi Andrea Graziosi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Andrea Graziosi Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2007…
Nicolas Werth, L’ivrogne et la marchande de fleurs
This is an intelligent, humane and rich book, one from which even the specialist has much to learn. Werth carefully gathered together the exceptional documents unearthed after 1991 by Memorial researchers, to whom the book is properly dedicated, and ably combined them with those published by scholars such as Khaustov, as well as with what he himself discovered and learnt over the years, to produce the best book we have today on the Great Terror. …
Michael Confino, 1926-2010
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Perspectives on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides
This forum includes commentaries by seven experts—Joshua Rubenstein, Paul Hollander, Andrea Graziosi, Roman Szporluk, Jeffrey Hardy, Michael Ellman, and Jeffrey Rossman—on Norman Naimark's Stalin's Genocides, published by Princeton University Press in 2010. Most of the commentators praise the book highly but raise some questions about specific points, such as the use of the term “genocidal,” the application of “genocide” to the atrocities perpetr…
An Extraordinary Man, An Extraordinary Historian
David Montgomery was both an extraordinary man and an extraordinary historian. All one needs to do is look at his autobiographical interview, which appeared in Visions of History in 1983, to know this. I had the good fortune of studying and then collaborating with David from 1979 at the University of Pittsburgh until the late 1990s at Yale University. While he had been recruited to Yale in the wake of the academic and political success of his Wor…
The Impact of Holodomor Studies on the Understanding of the USSR
This paper investigates what the Holodomor tells us about the development and dynamics of Soviet history. It starts by examining the evolving relations between Stalin and the peasantry during the Soviet Union’s first decades as well as the social, economic, moral, and psychological consequences in the USSR after 1933 following the destruction of traditional rural society. The relationship between the Holodomor and the viability of the Soviet syst…
Communism and Hunger
Over the past two decades, important studies of the famines in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China have transformed our understanding of these events and laid the groundwork for the first attempts at comparative analysis. Nevertheless, the great twentieth-century famines caused by state policies remain relatively little studied. We still lack a systematic comparison of their features, at least in part because of the difficulty in …
Stalin’s and Mao’s Famines
This essay addresses the similarities and differences between the cluster of Soviet famines in 1931-33 and the great Chinese famine of 1958-1962. The similarities include: Ideology; planning; the dynamics of the famines; the relationship among harvest, state procurements and peasant behaviour; the role of local cadres; life and death in the villages; the situation in the cities vis-à-vis the countryside, and the production of an official lie for …
Selected Bibliography of Socialist Famines in the Twentieth Century
Selected Bibliography of Socialist Famines in the Twentieth Century
Political Famines in the USSR and China
This article offers a comparative study of the domestic and international dimensions of two calamitous famines in Communist countries: one in the USSR engendered by Iosif Stalin's Great Turning Point (1928–1934) and the other in the People's Republic of China in connection with Mao Zedong's Great Leap Forward (1958–1962). The article traces the historical roots of these catastrophes and explains how Sino-Soviet interactions affected the genesis o…
The National and the Social in Stalin's Political Famines
Ten or more years ago I informally proposed to a friend sitting in the editorial board of a major historical journal to organise a forum on Soviet famines in the light of the new sources and interpretations that were emerging. The answer I received struck me: it was a good idea and the topic was indeed important, but times weren't yet ripe. At first I was reminded of what Mikhail Suslov supposedly told Vasily Grossman: people weren't yet ready fo…
Alex de Waal, Mass Starvation. The History and Future of Famine
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Soviet Famines of 1930–1933
The 20th century has been a century of political famines, that is, famines directly—and at times willfully—caused by human policies, in war 1 and in peacetime. Scores of millions starved to death in times during which there was enough food to feed everyone and the means to transport it where needed
The Weight of the Soviet Past in Post-1991 Russia
This article evaluates Soviet legacies in post-Soviet Russia. Far from being static phenomena, these legacies change over time. The article highlights the problems, fault lines, weaknesses, and strengths the USSR handed down to Russia, detailing their impact on political elites and the wider population. The analysis is divided into four sections: (1) comparative horizons of the Soviet/Russian case; (2) "imperial" legacies, such as borders, diaspo…
Genocide
The Weight of the Soviet Past in Post-1991 Russia
Four distinguished experts on Soviet history and Soviet politics discuss the issues raised by Andrea Graziosi in his article “The Weight of the Past in Post-Soviet Russia,” which appeared in the Winter 2020–2021 issue of the JCWS. The article and the discussion forum are the first of several items that will be published in the journal over the next few years assessing a variety of legacies of the Cold War
Genocide
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