Nina Tumarkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 456100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Tumarkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tumarkin |
| SIGNATURE | TUMARKIN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wellesley College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
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…
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
V icky D avis . Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
What a good thing it is to read local history at its best, especially when its author skillfully embeds it in larger national imperatives. Without leaning on the by now already somewhat unfashionable concept of identity, Vicky Davis’s Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia: Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City details the evolution of a local war myth in all its complexity while retaining an admirable lucidity of analysis a…
A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance
Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives
The Great Patriotic War as myth and memory
In the Soviet Union, the ‘Great Patriotic War’ was both a uniquely traumatic ordeal that took the lives of approximately 30 million people, and the focus of a decades-long myth and cult that celebrated the most glorious achievement of the Soviet era. At the war’s end, Stalin, whose mistakes and brutality had greatly increased Soviet war losses, sought to obscure popular memories of the war experience, but the Brezhnev regime turned an idealized m…
The Living and the Dead
Myth and memory in soviet society
Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia
Political Ritual and the Cult of Lenin
think, Maxim Gorky wrote in 1922, the Russian masses have a special predilection for brutality in the same way, let us say, that the Englishman has a sense of humour.' Gorky was arguing that violence was the basis of all power relationships among the Russian peasantry, and that peasants manifested political dominance by brutalizing each other. Gorky was a Marxist and, of course, had utter disdain for the peasantry. But his observation may fairly …
Lenin Lives
Religion, Bolshevism, and the Origins of the Lenin Cult
In 1925, one year after Lenin's death, a story, called Clever Lenin, circulated among the peasants of the Viatka countryside. One day, it begins, Lenin was leafing through books and newspapers and in every one found writings about himself. Why should we fear the Entente and America when we have Vladimir Il'ich, who goes by the name of Lenin? Lenin worried about how his country would fare without him, so he sent for the finest Soviet doctor and ex…
The Living and the Dead
The Great Patriotic War as myth and memory
In the Soviet Union, the ‘Great Patriotic War’ was both a uniquely traumatic ordeal that took the lives of approximately 30 million people, and the focus of a decades-long myth and cult that celebrated the most glorious achievement of the Soviet era. At the war’s end, Stalin, whose mistakes and brutality had greatly increased Soviet war losses, sought to obscure popular memories of the war experience, but the Brezhnev regime turned an idealized m…
Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia
Lenin Lives
Religion, Bolshevism, and the Origins of the Lenin Cult
In 1925, one year after Lenin's death, a story, called Clever Lenin, circulated among the peasants of the Viatka countryside. One day, it begins, Lenin was leafing through books and newspapers and in every one found writings about himself. Why should we fear the Entente and America when we have Vladimir Il'ich, who goes by the name of Lenin? Lenin worried about how his country would fare without him, so he sent for the finest Soviet doctor and ex…
Political Ritual and the Cult of Lenin
think, Maxim Gorky wrote in 1922, the Russian masses have a special predilection for brutality in the same way, let us say, that the Englishman has a sense of humour.' Gorky was arguing that violence was the basis of all power relationships among the Russian peasantry, and that peasants manifested political dominance by brutalizing each other. Gorky was a Marxist and, of course, had utter disdain for the peasantry. But his observation may fairly …
Religion, Bolshevism, and the Origins of the Lenin Cult
In 1925, one year after Lenin's death, a story, called Clever Lenin, circulated among the peasants of the Viatka countryside. One day, it begins, Lenin was leafing through books and newspapers and in every one found writings about himself. Why should we fear the Entente and America when we have Vladimir Il'ich, who goes by the name of Lenin? Lenin worried about how his country would fare without him, so he sent for the finest Soviet doctor and ex…
Political Ritual and the Cult of Lenin
think, Maxim Gorky wrote in 1922, the Russian masses have a special predilection for brutality in the same way, let us say, that the Englishman has a sense of humour.' Gorky was arguing that violence was the basis of all power relationships among the Russian peasantry, and that peasants manifested political dominance by brutalizing each other. Gorky was a Marxist and, of course, had utter disdain for the peasantry. But his observation may fairly …
Lenin Lives
Lenin Lives! The Lenin Cult in Soviet Russia
Myth and memory in soviet society
The Living and the Dead
The Great Patriotic War as myth and memory
In the Soviet Union, the ‘Great Patriotic War’ was both a uniquely traumatic ordeal that took the lives of approximately 30 million people, and the focus of a decades-long myth and cult that celebrated the most glorious achievement of the Soviet era. At the war’s end, Stalin, whose mistakes and brutality had greatly increased Soviet war losses, sought to obscure popular memories of the war experience, but the Brezhnev regime turned an idealized m…
Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives
A European Memory? Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance
V icky D avis . Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia
What a good thing it is to read local history at its best, especially when its author skillfully embeds it in larger national imperatives. Without leaning on the by now already somewhat unfashionable concept of identity, Vicky Davis’s Myth Making in the Soviet Union and Modern Russia: Remembering World War II in Brezhnev’s Hero City details the evolution of a local war myth in all its complexity while retaining an admirable lucidity of analysis a…
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
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…
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