Tomas Sniegon
Biographic Data
| ID | 5747569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tomas Sniegon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sniegon |
| SIGNATURE | SNIEGON T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lund University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9911-7118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Coup d ́état KGB style? A New Look at the Conflict within the Soviet Communist Hierarchy during the Early Brezhnev Era
In October 1964, the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Nikita Khrushchev, was abruptly removed from office by the ruling CPSU Presidium. His successor, Leonid Brezhnev, had to solidify his own political position for some time afterward. Rumors soon circulated that Brezhnev might be removed himself by younger members of the ruling elite, particularly Aleksandr Shelepin and Vladimir Semichastnyi, both of whom were closely in…
Getting Ready to Fight Dissidents
This article explains how the USSR's State Security Committee (KGB) inadvertently spurred the rise of a dissident movement in the Soviet Union. Under the leadership of Vladimir Semichastnyi in 1962 and 1963, the KGB launched a new offensive against “ideological subversion,” aimed primarily at Soviet intellectuals who were skeptical but not hostile in their views of Soviet Communism. These intellectuals had been mostly left alone for a year or two…
A KGB with a Human Face? The End of Illusions. The 1962 Novocherkassk Protests and the End of De-Stalinisation Under Khrushchev
This essay analyses the role of the KGB, the Soviet state security and political police, in suppressing large workers’ protests in Novocherkassk in early June 1962. The aim is not only to study the actions of the KGB during the crisis itself, but to show how events in Novocherkassk and the subsequent brutal punishment of their main actors contributed to the subsequent change in the overall character of the KGB and, more generally, the entire regi…
Železný, nebo nerezový Felix? Felix Dzeržinskij jako symbol revolučního fanatismu, banalizace bezpráví a pochybné demokracie v sovětské éře i postsovětském Rusku
The article discusses the cult associated with the personality of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), a revolutionary and the founder of the political police in the Soviet Union, and the changing meanings of this cult in various stages of the history of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Thanks to Dzerzhinsky, as the head of the most significant repressive component, Soviet state terror acquired a very specific institutionalized form…
Vanished History
Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Not all Czechs, however, remained passive bystanders during the genocide. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia i…
Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics, by Graeme Gill
Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics, by Graeme Gill Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics, by Graeme Gill (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; pp. 351. £99.99). Tomas Sniegon Tomas Sniegon University of Lund [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 574, June 2020, Pages 730–731, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa121 Published: 24 July 2020
Between Old Animosity and New Mourning
Historie ve znovuzrozené volné soutěži
Dva ze čtyř historických narativů, český národně-liberální a slovenský národně-evropský, sytily českou a slovenskou historii národním a demokratickým smyslem, využívajíce historii k legitimizaci budoucích cílů v těchto oblastech. Dva zbývající historické narativy, komunistický a slovenský národně-katolický, zaujímaly se svým způsobem využívání historie vysloveně konfrontační postoj vůči „politicky liberálním” hodnotám, třebaže se ve své obnovené …
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Historie ve znovuzrozené volné soutěži
Dva ze čtyř historických narativů, český národně-liberální a slovenský národně-evropský, sytily českou a slovenskou historii národním a demokratickým smyslem, využívajíce historii k legitimizaci budoucích cílů v těchto oblastech. Dva zbývající historické narativy, komunistický a slovenský národně-katolický, zaujímaly se svým způsobem využívání historie vysloveně konfrontační postoj vůči „politicky liberálním” hodnotám, třebaže se ve své obnovené …
Between Old Animosity and New Mourning
Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics, by Graeme Gill
Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics, by Graeme Gill Collective Leadership in Soviet Politics, by Graeme Gill (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018; pp. 351. £99.99). Tomas Sniegon Tomas Sniegon University of Lund [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 135, Issue 574, June 2020, Pages 730–731, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaa121 Published: 24 July 2020
Železný, nebo nerezový Felix? Felix Dzeržinskij jako symbol revolučního fanatismu, banalizace bezpráví a pochybné demokracie v sovětské éře i postsovětském Rusku
The article discusses the cult associated with the personality of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877–1926), a revolutionary and the founder of the political police in the Soviet Union, and the changing meanings of this cult in various stages of the history of the Soviet Union and post-Soviet Russia. Thanks to Dzerzhinsky, as the head of the most significant repressive component, Soviet state terror acquired a very specific institutionalized form…
Vanished History
Bohemia and Moravia, today part of the Czech Republic, was the first territory with a majority of non-German speakers occupied by Hitler's Third Reich on the eve of the World War II. Tens of thousands of Jewish inhabitants in the so called Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia soon felt the tragic consequences of Nazi racial politics. Not all Czechs, however, remained passive bystanders during the genocide. After the destruction of Czechoslovakia i…
Getting Ready to Fight Dissidents
This article explains how the USSR's State Security Committee (KGB) inadvertently spurred the rise of a dissident movement in the Soviet Union. Under the leadership of Vladimir Semichastnyi in 1962 and 1963, the KGB launched a new offensive against “ideological subversion,” aimed primarily at Soviet intellectuals who were skeptical but not hostile in their views of Soviet Communism. These intellectuals had been mostly left alone for a year or two…
A KGB with a Human Face? The End of Illusions. The 1962 Novocherkassk Protests and the End of De-Stalinisation Under Khrushchev
This essay analyses the role of the KGB, the Soviet state security and political police, in suppressing large workers’ protests in Novocherkassk in early June 1962. The aim is not only to study the actions of the KGB during the crisis itself, but to show how events in Novocherkassk and the subsequent brutal punishment of their main actors contributed to the subsequent change in the overall character of the KGB and, more generally, the entire regi…
Coup d ́état KGB style? A New Look at the Conflict within the Soviet Communist Hierarchy during the Early Brezhnev Era
In October 1964, the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), Nikita Khrushchev, was abruptly removed from office by the ruling CPSU Presidium. His successor, Leonid Brezhnev, had to solidify his own political position for some time afterward. Rumors soon circulated that Brezhnev might be removed himself by younger members of the ruling elite, particularly Aleksandr Shelepin and Vladimir Semichastnyi, both of whom were closely in…
Politics (7 works) · Communism (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Soviet and Russian History (4 works) · Intelligence, Security, War Strategy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works)