Roger D Markwick
Biographic Data
| ID | 551044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roger D Markwick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roger D |
| FAMILY NAME | Markwick |
| SIGNATURE | MARKWICK R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Newcastle Australia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6086-173X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Every Log a Blow to the Enemy!’ Women in the Soviet Wartime Timber Industry, 1941–1945
A pivotal question in the historiography of Stalinism is the degree to which coercion or popular support drove the Soviet war effort in World War II. This article addresses this question by examining the mass mobilisation of women to labour in the vital wartime logging and timber industry. It examines the means by which women workers were recruited; the incentives or otherwise used to promote production; and the daily lives of these women. The pr…
Mark Edele gets embroiled in the historiography of Stalinism
Historical writing is inherently political, shaped not only by the author’s personal politics but even more so by the temporal, geo-political and institutional context in which it is researched and
War, Violence and the Making of the Stalinist State
Defining the state as ‘organised violence’, based on the emergence of the modern European national state system, Charles Tilly identified four essential war-driven, state-building activities: ‘war-making’; ‘state-making’; ‘protection’ of elite ‘clients’; and ‘extraction’ of resources. Drawing on Tilly's primary categories of analysis, this essay considers the ways in which war, or the threat of war, real or imagined, shaped the Soviet state, part…
Introduction
STALINISM, PARTICULARLY THE PERIOD OF STALIN’S RULE in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), must be one of the most investigated topics in the field of Soviet studies. Most of those studies, while enriching our empirical knowledge of Stalinism, especially in the wake of the so-called ‘archival revolution’, focusing primarily on the phenomenon as it unfolded in the Soviet Union, have eschewed locating Stalinism in broader typologies of …
The kitchen garden movement on the Soviet home front, 1941–1945
Leningrad 1941 – 1942. Morality of a City under Siege
Leningrad 1941 – 1942. Morality of a City under Siege . By Sergey Yarov. Foreword by John Barber. Translated by Arch Tait (Cambridge, UK and Malden, USA: Polity Press, 2017), pp.xiii + 409. Notes. Index. £26.99 (hb)
S ergei I. Z huk . Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR
Since the mid-nineteenth century, it has been commonplace to regard the intellectual outlooks and allegiances of the Russian intelligentsia as divided into two major streams: on the one hand there are the Slavophiles (slavianofily), patriotic intellectuals who reject the Western path of development and look to Russian native culture, religion, and institutions to invigorate Russian state and society; and on the other there are the Westernizers (z…
Violence to Velvet
From their inception, the 1917 Russian Revolutions, specifically the October Revolution, have been synonymous with Bolshevik violence. In the course of the last century, almost all observers have believed that violence was inherent in the Russian revolutions and revolutions generally. Such views have obscured what a revolution actually is. Closer examination of the October Revolution confirms violence was not its defining feature. Further, the Bo…
Stalin. New Biography of a Dictator
Stalin. New Biography of a Dictator . By Oleg V. Khlevniuk. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (New Haven and London: Yale university Press, 2015), pp.xvi + 392. Notes. Photographs. Index. AU$64.00 (cloth), distributed by Footprint Books in Australia
War, Violence, Aftermaths
Larry E. Holmes. War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power
The “anti-fascist” war on the Eastern Front in World War II was the best of times and the worst of times, according to the triumphalist, patriotic Soviet narrative. “The Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945” saw the Soviet military and home fronts rise up as one to vanquish a barbarous Nazi war machine that had inflicted death, destruction and suffering on an unimaginable scale. Victory seemed to confirm the claim that the self-sacrificing unity of the…
Communism
Many hold the view not only that Soviet communism and Italian fascism were close ‘totalitarian’ cousins, if not twins like Stalinism and Nazism, but also that the threat of communism begat fascism in its Italian, German, and other European guises. This article compares Stalin's Soviet Union with Mussolini's Fascist Italy, with occasional asides on fascist Germany. Close inspection of Italian fascism and Soviet communism, on a historical basis rat…
Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of o
Our brigade will not be sent to the front”
“A Sacred Duty”
Some 500,000 women fought with the Red Army in the Great Fatherland War, 1941‐1945. Based on a selection of women veterans’ memoirs published since the demise of the Soviet Union, this article looks at what these women choose to remember about the war, and how, and equally what they choose to forget or remain silent about. The paper seeks to illuminate shared or disparate collective and individual memory and experiences. A particular objective of…
Cultural History under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
What kind of state is the Russian state if there is one
The stalling of Russia's transition to capitalism and the apparent ineffectiveness of its presidential regime raises important questions about the nature of the Russian state and its apparatus. Paradoxically, it seems to have connived in the demise of Russia as a nation and world power and even in its own instruments of governance. To understand this self‐destructive process it is necessary to look beyond the trappings of Russian democracy and fo…
Activist Academic
Lloyd Churchward, who died in 1998, was actively involved with the labour movement in various capacities for six decades. During this time he was a political activist and organiser, a member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), a labour historian, and a scholar of Soviet politics. This article uses Churchward's political and intellectual Odyssey as a case study of the labour intellectual, understood as somebody who shaped the organisations …
A Discipline in transition
The collapse of the Soviet system and its partners in the ‘communist’ world poses problems of theory for scholars, as well as practical problems of managing a transition to a new social, political and economic system on the part of the peoples and governments concerned. Previous understanding of the nature of the ‘communist’ system has come under fresh scrutiny, with ‘totalitarianism’, ‘socialism’, ‘communism’ and other concepts in the establishe…
Catalyst of historiography, Marxism and dissidence
(1994). Catalyst of historiography, Marxism and dissidence: The sector of methodology of the institute of history, Soviet academy of sciences, 1964–68. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 579-596
Peaceful coexistence, detente and third world struggles
(1990). Peaceful coexistence, detente and third world struggles: The soviet view, from Lenin to Brezhnev. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 171-194
The kitchen garden movement on the Soviet home front, 1941–1945
Violence to Velvet
From their inception, the 1917 Russian Revolutions, specifically the October Revolution, have been synonymous with Bolshevik violence. In the course of the last century, almost all observers have believed that violence was inherent in the Russian revolutions and revolutions generally. Such views have obscured what a revolution actually is. Closer examination of the October Revolution confirms violence was not its defining feature. Further, the Bo…
A Discipline in transition
The collapse of the Soviet system and its partners in the ‘communist’ world poses problems of theory for scholars, as well as practical problems of managing a transition to a new social, political and economic system on the part of the peoples and governments concerned. Previous understanding of the nature of the ‘communist’ system has come under fresh scrutiny, with ‘totalitarianism’, ‘socialism’, ‘communism’ and other concepts in the establishe…
Catalyst of historiography, Marxism and dissidence
(1994). Catalyst of historiography, Marxism and dissidence: The sector of methodology of the institute of history, Soviet academy of sciences, 1964–68. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 579-596
Every Log a Blow to the Enemy!’ Women in the Soviet Wartime Timber Industry, 1941–1945
A pivotal question in the historiography of Stalinism is the degree to which coercion or popular support drove the Soviet war effort in World War II. This article addresses this question by examining the mass mobilisation of women to labour in the vital wartime logging and timber industry. It examines the means by which women workers were recruited; the incentives or otherwise used to promote production; and the daily lives of these women. The pr…
Our brigade will not be sent to the front”
Cultural History under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
What kind of state is the Russian state if there is one
The stalling of Russia's transition to capitalism and the apparent ineffectiveness of its presidential regime raises important questions about the nature of the Russian state and its apparatus. Paradoxically, it seems to have connived in the demise of Russia as a nation and world power and even in its own instruments of governance. To understand this self‐destructive process it is necessary to look beyond the trappings of Russian democracy and fo…
Peaceful coexistence, detente and third world struggles
(1990). Peaceful coexistence, detente and third world struggles: The soviet view, from Lenin to Brezhnev. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 171-194
Peaceful coexistence, detente and third world struggles
(1990). Peaceful coexistence, detente and third world struggles: The soviet view, from Lenin to Brezhnev. Australian Journal of International Affairs: Vol. 44, No. 2, pp. 171-194
Catalyst of historiography, Marxism and dissidence
(1994). Catalyst of historiography, Marxism and dissidence: The sector of methodology of the institute of history, Soviet academy of sciences, 1964–68. Europe-Asia Studies: Vol. 46, No. 4, pp. 579-596
A Discipline in transition
The collapse of the Soviet system and its partners in the ‘communist’ world poses problems of theory for scholars, as well as practical problems of managing a transition to a new social, political and economic system on the part of the peoples and governments concerned. Previous understanding of the nature of the ‘communist’ system has come under fresh scrutiny, with ‘totalitarianism’, ‘socialism’, ‘communism’ and other concepts in the establishe…
What kind of state is the Russian state if there is one
The stalling of Russia's transition to capitalism and the apparent ineffectiveness of its presidential regime raises important questions about the nature of the Russian state and its apparatus. Paradoxically, it seems to have connived in the demise of Russia as a nation and world power and even in its own instruments of governance. To understand this self‐destructive process it is necessary to look beyond the trappings of Russian democracy and fo…
Activist Academic
Lloyd Churchward, who died in 1998, was actively involved with the labour movement in various capacities for six decades. During this time he was a political activist and organiser, a member of the Communist Party of Australia (CPA), a labour historian, and a scholar of Soviet politics. This article uses Churchward's political and intellectual Odyssey as a case study of the labour intellectual, understood as somebody who shaped the organisations …
Cultural History under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
“A Sacred Duty”
Some 500,000 women fought with the Red Army in the Great Fatherland War, 1941‐1945. Based on a selection of women veterans’ memoirs published since the demise of the Soviet Union, this article looks at what these women choose to remember about the war, and how, and equally what they choose to forget or remain silent about. The paper seeks to illuminate shared or disparate collective and individual memory and experiences. A particular objective of…
Our brigade will not be sent to the front”
Communism
Many hold the view not only that Soviet communism and Italian fascism were close ‘totalitarian’ cousins, if not twins like Stalinism and Nazism, but also that the threat of communism begat fascism in its Italian, German, and other European guises. This article compares Stalin's Soviet Union with Mussolini's Fascist Italy, with occasional asides on fascist Germany. Close inspection of Italian fascism and Soviet communism, on a historical basis rat…
Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War
This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second World War. Drawing on a vast array of o
Larry E. Holmes. War, Evacuation, and the Exercise of Power
The “anti-fascist” war on the Eastern Front in World War II was the best of times and the worst of times, according to the triumphalist, patriotic Soviet narrative. “The Great Patriotic War, 1941–1945” saw the Soviet military and home fronts rise up as one to vanquish a barbarous Nazi war machine that had inflicted death, destruction and suffering on an unimaginable scale. Victory seemed to confirm the claim that the self-sacrificing unity of the…
Stalin. New Biography of a Dictator
Stalin. New Biography of a Dictator . By Oleg V. Khlevniuk. Translated by Nora Seligman Favorov (New Haven and London: Yale university Press, 2015), pp.xvi + 392. Notes. Photographs. Index. AU$64.00 (cloth), distributed by Footprint Books in Australia
War, Violence, Aftermaths
Violence to Velvet
From their inception, the 1917 Russian Revolutions, specifically the October Revolution, have been synonymous with Bolshevik violence. In the course of the last century, almost all observers have believed that violence was inherent in the Russian revolutions and revolutions generally. Such views have obscured what a revolution actually is. Closer examination of the October Revolution confirms violence was not its defining feature. Further, the Bo…
Leningrad 1941 – 1942. Morality of a City under Siege
Leningrad 1941 – 1942. Morality of a City under Siege . By Sergey Yarov. Foreword by John Barber. Translated by Arch Tait (Cambridge, UK and Malden, USA: Polity Press, 2017), pp.xiii + 409. Notes. Index. £26.99 (hb)
S ergei I. Z huk . Nikolai Bolkhovitinov and American Studies in the USSR
Since the mid-nineteenth century, it has been commonplace to regard the intellectual outlooks and allegiances of the Russian intelligentsia as divided into two major streams: on the one hand there are the Slavophiles (slavianofily), patriotic intellectuals who reject the Western path of development and look to Russian native culture, religion, and institutions to invigorate Russian state and society; and on the other there are the Westernizers (z…
War, Violence and the Making of the Stalinist State
Defining the state as ‘organised violence’, based on the emergence of the modern European national state system, Charles Tilly identified four essential war-driven, state-building activities: ‘war-making’; ‘state-making’; ‘protection’ of elite ‘clients’; and ‘extraction’ of resources. Drawing on Tilly's primary categories of analysis, this essay considers the ways in which war, or the threat of war, real or imagined, shaped the Soviet state, part…
Introduction
STALINISM, PARTICULARLY THE PERIOD OF STALIN’S RULE in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), must be one of the most investigated topics in the field of Soviet studies. Most of those studies, while enriching our empirical knowledge of Stalinism, especially in the wake of the so-called ‘archival revolution’, focusing primarily on the phenomenon as it unfolded in the Soviet Union, have eschewed locating Stalinism in broader typologies of …
The kitchen garden movement on the Soviet home front, 1941–1945
Mark Edele gets embroiled in the historiography of Stalinism
Historical writing is inherently political, shaped not only by the author’s personal politics but even more so by the temporal, geo-political and institutional context in which it is researched and
Every Log a Blow to the Enemy!’ Women in the Soviet Wartime Timber Industry, 1941–1945
A pivotal question in the historiography of Stalinism is the degree to which coercion or popular support drove the Soviet war effort in World War II. This article addresses this question by examining the mass mobilisation of women to labour in the vital wartime logging and timber industry. It examines the means by which women workers were recruited; the incentives or otherwise used to promote production; and the daily lives of these women. The pr…
Political science (21 works) · Law (19 works) · History (16 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Economic history (10 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (7 works) · History (7 works)