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Website on the Gulag

June 4, 2008 in Stalin and Stalinism, Stalinism, USSR, history | No comments

In the past I have bemoaned the problems in finding good resources on the Gulag in English. This has now been rectified with a new site, Many Days, Many Lives. The site is excellent, and contains plenty of material that will be of use to students.

The Gulag was horrific, but as this site rightly points out there was no single unified experience. Vast numbers of people were sent into the camps, and they all have their own story. Some of these have been told. Many of them have not. This site will go some way to rectifying this situation.

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Stalin and Stalinism - thoughts towards a special subject for 2009

March 13, 2008 in Stalin and Stalinism, Uncategorized | No comments

I’d like to propose a special subject on Stalin and Stalinism to start in 2009.  I’ve taught one in the past at the University of Leeds, so have some ideas on what I might cover, but feel that I could usefully produce a module that dealt with the Stalinist state in both a domestic and international context.  Students would not be expected to have a command of Russian, and would be directed to the wide range of primary material available in English.Topics that might be included: 

  • The Comintern 
  • The 1927 war scare
  • Foreign policy in the 1930s
  • The Nazi Invasion, 1941
  • The beginning of the Cold War 
  • Stalin’s rise to power
  • Industry 
  • Agriculture and Collectivization
  • Culture: the Arts; everyday life
  • Identity
  • Terror (including the Purges and the Gulag)
  • Women
  • ‘High Stalinism’

 

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Ali

Ali is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of the West of England.
He works on Russian and Soviet foreign affairs. His current research is into the Comintern and its agents.
He's also rowing (but not as much as he used to), spending most of his time on the water in his single scull, Пошёл ты.


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