Robert Hornsby
Biographic Data
| ID | 4246710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Hornsby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Hornsby |
| SIGNATURE | HORNSBY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2826-297X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Past, Present and Future: Youth Protest in the Soviet Union's Baltic Republics after Stalin
Drawing on declassified reports from the KGB and Komsomol, this paper offers a new picture of dissenting activity among young people in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia between Stalin's death in 1953 and the end of the 1960s. In contrast to existing depictions of this period as a time of relative quiescence across the region, the article highlights key themes and forms of protest behaviour, ranging from political graffiti and vandalism through to ma…
Watching, Listening and Learning: KGB Agentura in Soviet Lithuania
The Soviet Sixties
Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s
Following the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev again began to embrace internationalism not just with rhetoric but also in practice. Much as in the West, Soviet authorities used higher education as a means to build influence and strengthen relationships. This article explores the ways in which the USSR’s Communist Youth League (Komsomol) worked with and responded to incoming students from the developing world, both…
Strengthening Friendship and Fraternal Solidarity: Soviet Youth Tourism to Eastern Europe under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
The three decades following Stalin’s death in 1953 witnessed a dramatic expansion in Soviet tourism to the other countries of the European socialist bloc. Youth tourism in particular was an important feature of efforts to build friendlier and more durable links with the satellite states at the grassroots level. However, the prospects for long-term success in this endeavour were continually hampered by Soviet concerns about the dangers of interact…
Gleb Tsipursky, Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945–1970
Khrushchev’s Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959
Khrushchev’s Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959." Europe-Asia Studies, 68(3), pp. 543–544
Soviet Youth on the March: The All-Union Tours of Military Glory, 1965–87
Between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s tens of millions of young people took part in the Communist Youth League’s ‘All-Union Tours around Sites of Military Glory’, visiting former battle sites, walking old partisan trails, uncovering soldiers’ remains, and meeting with war veterans. This was a prominent facet of the ‘cult’ that the Soviet regime built around the Second World War during the Brezhnev era, and it was also a crucial feature of work …
The Enemy Within? The Komsomol and Foreign Youth Inside The Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1957-1985
‘I like the people, man. The people ... are something else, if you can just get away from the guides’. 1 By the late 1950s, after the deep isolation of post-war Stalinism, foreigners headed to the USSR in far greater numbers than they ever had before. During its first six months in operation, beginning in June 1958, the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) Bureau for International Youth Tourism (BMMT) brought almost 1,600 youth tourists from capital…
The post-Stalin Komsomol and the Soviet fight for Third World youth
Based upon evidence from archives in Russia, Georgia, Latvia and Estonia, this article examines the ways in which the USSR’s Communist Youth League (Komsomol) worked to advance the Soviet cause among world youth during the Cold War. These ranged from cultural propaganda through to attempts at political subversion, and played a role not just in fortifying the regime’s international standing but also serving important domestic purposes at the same …
Jay Bergman, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov
A Soundtrack to (illegal) Entrepreneurship: Pirated CD/DVD Selling in a Greek Provincial City
This paper—by using the pirated CD/DVD market in a provincial city in Greece as a case study—will attempt to show how alien conspiracy theory has permeated the understanding of ‘organized crime’ and how the concept serves to enforce racism and, in particular, the treatment of diasporic communities. The paper will then proceed to interrogate the concept in the context of the local operation of this market in tandem with various legitimate interest…
A Zone of Ambiguity: The Political Economy of Cigarette Bootlegging
This paper examines the development of cigarette bootlegging within the United Kingdom by way of a case study of an entrepreneurial criminal firm which sought to capitalize upon the cigarette price disparities within the European Union, through its professional supply of contraband goods to a highly receptive UK market. The paper contends that by way of the relaxation of trading barriers via European Union legislation, an enterprising criminal fi…
A Zone of Ambiguity: The Political Economy of Cigarette Bootlegging
This paper examines the development of cigarette bootlegging within the United Kingdom by way of a case study of an entrepreneurial criminal firm which sought to capitalize upon the cigarette price disparities within the European Union, through its professional supply of contraband goods to a highly receptive UK market. The paper contends that by way of the relaxation of trading barriers via European Union legislation, an enterprising criminal fi…
Soviet Youth on the March: The All-Union Tours of Military Glory, 1965–87
Between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s tens of millions of young people took part in the Communist Youth League’s ‘All-Union Tours around Sites of Military Glory’, visiting former battle sites, walking old partisan trails, uncovering soldiers’ remains, and meeting with war veterans. This was a prominent facet of the ‘cult’ that the Soviet regime built around the Second World War during the Brezhnev era, and it was also a crucial feature of work …
A Soundtrack to (illegal) Entrepreneurship: Pirated CD/DVD Selling in a Greek Provincial City
This paper—by using the pirated CD/DVD market in a provincial city in Greece as a case study—will attempt to show how alien conspiracy theory has permeated the understanding of ‘organized crime’ and how the concept serves to enforce racism and, in particular, the treatment of diasporic communities. The paper will then proceed to interrogate the concept in the context of the local operation of this market in tandem with various legitimate interest…
The post-Stalin Komsomol and the Soviet fight for Third World youth
Based upon evidence from archives in Russia, Georgia, Latvia and Estonia, this article examines the ways in which the USSR’s Communist Youth League (Komsomol) worked to advance the Soviet cause among world youth during the Cold War. These ranged from cultural propaganda through to attempts at political subversion, and played a role not just in fortifying the regime’s international standing but also serving important domestic purposes at the same …
Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s
Following the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev again began to embrace internationalism not just with rhetoric but also in practice. Much as in the West, Soviet authorities used higher education as a means to build influence and strengthen relationships. This article explores the ways in which the USSR’s Communist Youth League (Komsomol) worked with and responded to incoming students from the developing world, both…
Khrushchev’s Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959
Khrushchev’s Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959." Europe-Asia Studies, 68(3), pp. 543–544
A Zone of Ambiguity: The Political Economy of Cigarette Bootlegging
This paper examines the development of cigarette bootlegging within the United Kingdom by way of a case study of an entrepreneurial criminal firm which sought to capitalize upon the cigarette price disparities within the European Union, through its professional supply of contraband goods to a highly receptive UK market. The paper contends that by way of the relaxation of trading barriers via European Union legislation, an enterprising criminal fi…
A Soundtrack to (illegal) Entrepreneurship: Pirated CD/DVD Selling in a Greek Provincial City
This paper—by using the pirated CD/DVD market in a provincial city in Greece as a case study—will attempt to show how alien conspiracy theory has permeated the understanding of ‘organized crime’ and how the concept serves to enforce racism and, in particular, the treatment of diasporic communities. The paper will then proceed to interrogate the concept in the context of the local operation of this market in tandem with various legitimate interest…
Jay Bergman, Meeting the Demands of Reason: The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov
The post-Stalin Komsomol and the Soviet fight for Third World youth
Based upon evidence from archives in Russia, Georgia, Latvia and Estonia, this article examines the ways in which the USSR’s Communist Youth League (Komsomol) worked to advance the Soviet cause among world youth during the Cold War. These ranged from cultural propaganda through to attempts at political subversion, and played a role not just in fortifying the regime’s international standing but also serving important domestic purposes at the same …
Khrushchev’s Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959
Khrushchev’s Thaw and National Identity in Soviet Azerbaijan, 1954–1959." Europe-Asia Studies, 68(3), pp. 543–544
Soviet Youth on the March: The All-Union Tours of Military Glory, 1965–87
Between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s tens of millions of young people took part in the Communist Youth League’s ‘All-Union Tours around Sites of Military Glory’, visiting former battle sites, walking old partisan trails, uncovering soldiers’ remains, and meeting with war veterans. This was a prominent facet of the ‘cult’ that the Soviet regime built around the Second World War during the Brezhnev era, and it was also a crucial feature of work …
The Enemy Within? The Komsomol and Foreign Youth Inside The Post-Stalin Soviet Union, 1957-1985
‘I like the people, man. The people ... are something else, if you can just get away from the guides’. 1 By the late 1950s, after the deep isolation of post-war Stalinism, foreigners headed to the USSR in far greater numbers than they ever had before. During its first six months in operation, beginning in June 1958, the Komsomol (Communist Youth League) Bureau for International Youth Tourism (BMMT) brought almost 1,600 youth tourists from capital…
Gleb Tsipursky, Socialist Fun: Youth, Consumption and State-Sponsored Popular Culture in the Soviet Union, 1945–1970
Strengthening Friendship and Fraternal Solidarity: Soviet Youth Tourism to Eastern Europe under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
The three decades following Stalin’s death in 1953 witnessed a dramatic expansion in Soviet tourism to the other countries of the European socialist bloc. Youth tourism in particular was an important feature of efforts to build friendlier and more durable links with the satellite states at the grassroots level. However, the prospects for long-term success in this endeavour were continually hampered by Soviet concerns about the dangers of interact…
The Soviet Sixties
Engineering friendship? Komsomol work with students from the developing world inside the USSR in the 1950s and 1960s
Following the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union under Nikita Khrushchev again began to embrace internationalism not just with rhetoric but also in practice. Much as in the West, Soviet authorities used higher education as a means to build influence and strengthen relationships. This article explores the ways in which the USSR’s Communist Youth League (Komsomol) worked with and responded to incoming students from the developing world, both…
Past, Present and Future: Youth Protest in the Soviet Union's Baltic Republics after Stalin
Drawing on declassified reports from the KGB and Komsomol, this paper offers a new picture of dissenting activity among young people in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia between Stalin's death in 1953 and the end of the 1960s. In contrast to existing depictions of this period as a time of relative quiescence across the region, the article highlights key themes and forms of protest behaviour, ranging from political graffiti and vandalism through to ma…
Watching, Listening and Learning: KGB Agentura in Soviet Lithuania
Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Economic history (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · History (8 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Communism, Protests, Social Movements (6 works) · Soviet union (5 works)