Miriam Dobson
Biographic Data
| ID | 323458 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miriam Dobson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miriam |
| FAMILY NAME | Dobson |
| SIGNATURE | DOBSON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Gulag after Stalin
Protestants, Peace and the Apocalypse
In recent years historians have paid growing attention to the religious dimensions of the Cold War. These studies have largely focused, however, on the capitalist world, particularly the rise of evangelicalism and fundamentalism in the USA. This article turns the spotlight on the communist adversary, asking whether the USSR also participated in a ‘religious Cold War'. Given the atheist convictions on which the Soviet state was founded, this might…
Protestant women in the late Soviet era
At the peak of the anti-religious campaigns under Nikita Khrushchev, \ncommunist propaganda depicted women believers as either naïve \ndupes, tricked by the clergy, or as depraved fanatics; the Protestant \n“sektantka” (female sectarian) was a particularly prominent folk-devil. \nIn fact, as this article shows, women’s position within Protestant \ncommunities was far more complex than either of these mythical \nfigures would have one believe. The…
The Social Scientist Meets the “Believer
In this article, I use the transcripts of interviews carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Scientific Atheism in the mid-sixties. Informants were asked about diverse aspects of their religious practice and belief, allowing scholars—both then and now—to consider the nature of Soviet “secularization.” Following Charles Taylor, I suggest that this was not simply “a story of loss, of subtraction”; instead, informants’ rather heterodox co…
Child Sacrifice in the Soviet Press
The blood libel is normally associated with anti-Semitic traditions, but in Soviet atheist propaganda of the 1950s and early 1960s it was evangelical Christians who were accused of ritually killing young children. In the existing scholarly literature, the anti-religious campaigns of the Khrushchev era tend to be explained in terms of a quest for scientific, rational modernity, but by focusing on the blood libel I uncover a rather more sensational…
Stalin's Gulag
Separate Schools
The dust-jacket of this book is divided in two: in the top half, rows of boys sit studiously at their desks; underneath, a roomful of girls in their uniform black dresses, white collars and plaited hair, look up obediently, presumably towards a teacher just off-shot. It seems a long way from the ideals of the Revolution, in which the gender restrictions of the nineteenth century were to be overturned and the hierarchies of the imperial classroom …
The Social History of Post-War Soviet Life
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Contesting the Paradigms of De-Stalinization
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the literary journal Novyi mir in November 1962 and provoked excited debate across the Soviet press in subsequent months. In this article, Miriam Dobson uses unpublished letters to the editor to examine readers' responses to this work of literature and as a means to explore attitudes towards the process of de-Stalinization more broadly. While many historians …
Protestants, Peace and the Apocalypse
In recent years historians have paid growing attention to the religious dimensions of the Cold War. These studies have largely focused, however, on the capitalist world, particularly the rise of evangelicalism and fundamentalism in the USA. This article turns the spotlight on the communist adversary, asking whether the USSR also participated in a ‘religious Cold War'. Given the atheist convictions on which the Soviet state was founded, this might…
Protestant women in the late Soviet era
At the peak of the anti-religious campaigns under Nikita Khrushchev, \ncommunist propaganda depicted women believers as either naïve \ndupes, tricked by the clergy, or as depraved fanatics; the Protestant \n“sektantka” (female sectarian) was a particularly prominent folk-devil. \nIn fact, as this article shows, women’s position within Protestant \ncommunities was far more complex than either of these mythical \nfigures would have one believe. The…
The Social Scientist Meets the “Believer
In this article, I use the transcripts of interviews carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Scientific Atheism in the mid-sixties. Informants were asked about diverse aspects of their religious practice and belief, allowing scholars—both then and now—to consider the nature of Soviet “secularization.” Following Charles Taylor, I suggest that this was not simply “a story of loss, of subtraction”; instead, informants’ rather heterodox co…
Child Sacrifice in the Soviet Press
The blood libel is normally associated with anti-Semitic traditions, but in Soviet atheist propaganda of the 1950s and early 1960s it was evangelical Christians who were accused of ritually killing young children. In the existing scholarly literature, the anti-religious campaigns of the Khrushchev era tend to be explained in terms of a quest for scientific, rational modernity, but by focusing on the blood libel I uncover a rather more sensational…
Contesting the Paradigms of De-Stalinization
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the literary journal Novyi mir in November 1962 and provoked excited debate across the Soviet press in subsequent months. In this article, Miriam Dobson uses unpublished letters to the editor to examine readers' responses to this work of literature and as a means to explore attitudes towards the process of de-Stalinization more broadly. While many historians …
Contesting the Paradigms of De-Stalinization
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was published in the literary journal Novyi mir in November 1962 and provoked excited debate across the Soviet press in subsequent months. In this article, Miriam Dobson uses unpublished letters to the editor to examine readers' responses to this work of literature and as a means to explore attitudes towards the process of de-Stalinization more broadly. While many historians …
Stalin's Gulag
Separate Schools
The dust-jacket of this book is divided in two: in the top half, rows of boys sit studiously at their desks; underneath, a roomful of girls in their uniform black dresses, white collars and plaited hair, look up obediently, presumably towards a teacher just off-shot. It seems a long way from the ideals of the Revolution, in which the gender restrictions of the nineteenth century were to be overturned and the hierarchies of the imperial classroom …
The Social History of Post-War Soviet Life
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
Child Sacrifice in the Soviet Press
The blood libel is normally associated with anti-Semitic traditions, but in Soviet atheist propaganda of the 1950s and early 1960s it was evangelical Christians who were accused of ritually killing young children. In the existing scholarly literature, the anti-religious campaigns of the Khrushchev era tend to be explained in terms of a quest for scientific, rational modernity, but by focusing on the blood libel I uncover a rather more sensational…
The Social Scientist Meets the “Believer
In this article, I use the transcripts of interviews carried out under the auspices of the Institute of Scientific Atheism in the mid-sixties. Informants were asked about diverse aspects of their religious practice and belief, allowing scholars—both then and now—to consider the nature of Soviet “secularization.” Following Charles Taylor, I suggest that this was not simply “a story of loss, of subtraction”; instead, informants’ rather heterodox co…
Protestant women in the late Soviet era
At the peak of the anti-religious campaigns under Nikita Khrushchev, \ncommunist propaganda depicted women believers as either naïve \ndupes, tricked by the clergy, or as depraved fanatics; the Protestant \n“sektantka” (female sectarian) was a particularly prominent folk-devil. \nIn fact, as this article shows, women’s position within Protestant \ncommunities was far more complex than either of these mythical \nfigures would have one believe. The…
Protestants, Peace and the Apocalypse
In recent years historians have paid growing attention to the religious dimensions of the Cold War. These studies have largely focused, however, on the capitalist world, particularly the rise of evangelicalism and fundamentalism in the USA. This article turns the spotlight on the communist adversary, asking whether the USSR also participated in a ‘religious Cold War'. Given the atheist convictions on which the Soviet state was founded, this might…
The Gulag after Stalin
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