Joshua Rubenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 5693258 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Rubenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubenstein |
| SIGNATURE | RUBENSTEIN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
From February 1966, when the Soviet regime under Leonid Brezhnev put two writers on trial for publishing “anti-Soviet” work abroad, through March 1985 with the ascent to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet dissident movement gained widespread attention in Western news coverage. Despite the inevitable focus on East–West relations and the overriding concern of nuclear weapons and the prospects for détente, Western correspondents in Moscow found …
The Last Days of Stalin
A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin’s death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet Jews. Stalin’s …
Kathleen E. Smith. Moscow 1956
No single event can best illustrate the breathless, liberating, and ultimately frustrating decade that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. There were simply too many: the release of over one million prisoners; the publication of once-forbidden poems by repressed Soviet authors; greater access to Western culture; even, for a trusted few, the chance to travel to Western Europe; and most dramatically, the denunciation of Stalin by party fig…
Leon Trotsky
Gulag Voices
This is the first volume of oral histories of Gulag survivors to appear in English. Western scholars conducted the interviews during the decade or more following the collapse of the Soviet Union, m...
The Fall of Tsarism
In 2017, the year of the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution, it is important to be reminded that Vladimir Lenin did not seize power from Tsar Nicholas II. The monarchy had already collapsed in ...
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…
Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago's Children
July 01 2010 Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia Joshua Rubenstein Joshua Rubenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joshua Rubenstein Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Journal of Cold War Studies (2010) 12 (3): 171–173. https://doi.or…
Stalinist Secret Pogrom
Arno Lustiger, Stalin and the Jews
October 01 2006 Arno Lustiger, Stalin and the Jews: The Red Book: The Tragedy of the Soviet Jews and the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, trans. by Mary Beth Friedrich and Todd Bludeau Joshua Rubenstein Joshua Rubenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joshua Rubenstein Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War S…
Ilya Ehrenburg—Between East and West
Journal of Cold War Studies - Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2002
Victims of Soviet Terror
Foreword Preface Introduction Memorial: History as Moral Imperative The Formation of the Soviet System Stalinism: Inheritance and Legacy The Rediscovery of Soviet History The Emergence and Evolution of Memorial 1987-1988: Gaining Support 1988-1989: Towards the Founding Conference 1989-1990: Memorial Branches Out Memorial Actualizes Itself History as Dissidence Memorial in Action The Politics of Memorial Today We Are Historians of Dissidence, And …
Notes of a Non-Conspirator
Soviet dissidents
Victims of Soviet Terror
Foreword Preface Introduction Memorial: History as Moral Imperative The Formation of the Soviet System Stalinism: Inheritance and Legacy The Rediscovery of Soviet History The Emergence and Evolution of Memorial 1987-1988: Gaining Support 1988-1989: Towards the Founding Conference 1989-1990: Memorial Branches Out Memorial Actualizes Itself History as Dissidence Memorial in Action The Politics of Memorial Today We Are Historians of Dissidence, And …
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…
Soviet dissidents
Notes of a Non-Conspirator
Victims of Soviet Terror
Foreword Preface Introduction Memorial: History as Moral Imperative The Formation of the Soviet System Stalinism: Inheritance and Legacy The Rediscovery of Soviet History The Emergence and Evolution of Memorial 1987-1988: Gaining Support 1988-1989: Towards the Founding Conference 1989-1990: Memorial Branches Out Memorial Actualizes Itself History as Dissidence Memorial in Action The Politics of Memorial Today We Are Historians of Dissidence, And …
Ilya Ehrenburg—Between East and West
Journal of Cold War Studies - Volume 4, Number 1, Winter 2002
Arno Lustiger, Stalin and the Jews
October 01 2006 Arno Lustiger, Stalin and the Jews: The Red Book: The Tragedy of the Soviet Jews and the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, trans. by Mary Beth Friedrich and Todd Bludeau Joshua Rubenstein Joshua Rubenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joshua Rubenstein Online Issn: 1531-3298 Print Issn: 1520-3972 © 2006 Massachusetts Institute of Technology2006 Journal of Cold War S…
Stalinist Secret Pogrom
Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago's Children
July 01 2010 Vladislav Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia Joshua Rubenstein Joshua Rubenstein Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Joshua Rubenstein Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2010 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology2010 Journal of Cold War Studies (2010) 12 (3): 171–173. https://doi.or…
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…
Leon Trotsky
Gulag Voices
This is the first volume of oral histories of Gulag survivors to appear in English. Western scholars conducted the interviews during the decade or more following the collapse of the Soviet Union, m...
The Fall of Tsarism
In 2017, the year of the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution, it is important to be reminded that Vladimir Lenin did not seize power from Tsar Nicholas II. The monarchy had already collapsed in ...
Kathleen E. Smith. Moscow 1956
No single event can best illustrate the breathless, liberating, and ultimately frustrating decade that followed the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. There were simply too many: the release of over one million prisoners; the publication of once-forbidden poems by repressed Soviet authors; greater access to Western culture; even, for a trusted few, the chance to travel to Western Europe; and most dramatically, the denunciation of Stalin by party fig…
The Last Days of Stalin
A gripping account of the months before and after Stalin’s death and how his demise reshaped the course of twentieth-century history Joshua Rubenstein’s riveting account takes us back to the second half of 1952 when no one could foresee an end to Joseph Stalin’s murderous regime. He was poised to challenge the newly elected U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower with armed force, and was also broadening a vicious campaign against Soviet Jews. Stalin’s …
Benjamin Nathans, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
From February 1966, when the Soviet regime under Leonid Brezhnev put two writers on trial for publishing “anti-Soviet” work abroad, through March 1985 with the ascent to power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet dissident movement gained widespread attention in Western news coverage. Despite the inevitable focus on East–West relations and the overriding concern of nuclear weapons and the prospects for détente, Western correspondents in Moscow found …
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