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Doesn t an educated person simple and working, sick and with a sick child doesn t she have the right to enjoy at least the crumbs at the table of the revolutionary feast? Disabled single mother Maria Zolotova-Sologub raised this question in a petition dated July 1929 demanding medical assistance and a monthly subsidy for herself and her daughter. While the welfare of able-bodied and industrially productive people in the first socialist country in the world was protected by a state-funded insurance system, the social rights of labor-incapacitated and unemployed individuals such as Zolotova-Sologub were difficult to define and legitimize. "The Right to Be Helped" illuminates the ways in which marginalized members of Soviet society understood their social rights and articulated their moral expectations regarding the socialist state between 1917 and 1950. Maria Galmarini-Kabala shows how definitions of state assistance and who was entitled to it provided a platform for policymakers and professionals to engage in heated debates about disability, gender, suffering, and productive and reproductive labor. She explores how authorities and experts reacted to requests for support, arguing that responses were sometimes characterized by an enlightened nature and other times by coercive discipline, but most frequently by a combination of the two. By focusing on the experiences of behaviorally problematic children, unemployed single mothers, and blind and deaf adults in several major urban centers, this important study shows that the dialogue over the right to be helped was central to defining the moral order of Soviet socialism. It will appeal to scholars and students of Russian history, as well as those interested in comparative disabilities and welfare studies.".
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Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. But modern research is developing a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. There is a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, many not isolated in far-off Siberia; prisoners often intermingled with local populations. The forced labor system was not completely distinct from the "free" labor of ordinary Soviet citizens, as convicts and non-prisoners often worked side-by-side. Nor was the Gulag unique when viewed in a global historical context. Still, the scale and scope of the Soviet Gulag was unprecedented. Intrinsic to Stalinist modernization, the Gulag was tasked with the construction of massive public works, scientific and engineering projects, and such mundane work as road repairs. Along with the collectivization of agriculture, the Soviet economy (including its military exertions in World War II) was in large part dependent on compulsory labor. The camp system took on an outsized economic significance, and the vast numbers of people taken in by zealous secret police were meant to fulfill material, not just political, goals. While the Soviet system lacked the explicitly dedicated extermination camps of its Nazi counterpart, it did systematically extract work from inmates to the verge of death then cynically "released" them to reduce officially reported mortality rates. In an original turn, the book offers a detailed consideration of the Gulag in the context of the similar camps and systems of internment. Chapters are devoted to the juxtaposition of nineteenthcentury British concentration camps in Africa and India, the Tsaristera system of exile in Siberia, Chinese and North Korean reeducation camps, the post-Soviet penal system in the Russian Federation, and of course the infamous camp system of Nazi Germany. This not only reveals the close relatives, antecedents, and descendants of the Soviet Gulag-it shines a light on a frighteningly widespread feature of late modernity. Overall, The Soviet Gulag offers fascinating new interpretations of the interrelationship and importance of the Gulag to the larger Soviet political and economic system, and how they were in fact parts of the same entity.
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• A natural-born rebel
• Professional nomination
• Alone with Lenin
• A female lecturer
• Forming Il Duce
• Female journalist
• Expulsion
• International spy
• Lenin's favorite, Mussolini's most trusted
• Mussolini's elegy
• A well-hidden family
• Back to Russia
• De facto ambassador to the Scandinavian countries
• Dining with the Lenins
• Post-mortem research
• Organizing the first and only general strike in Switzerland
• Vice President of Foreign Affairs to the Ukraine
• Governor of Odessa
• Lenin's most trusted agent
• Freemason without an apron
• An adolescent Armenian boy
• Persona non grata
• The spy whom I loved
• The foundation of Angelica Balabanoff
• Under FBI surveillance
• The Red Popessa
• Afterword: Ten birth dates.

Born in 1878 to a wealthy Ukrainian family, Angelica Balabanoff broke ties with her parents and left for Europe to become one of the leading female socialists of the early 20th century. Just five feet tall, plump and plain, she was rumored to be a lover of Mussolini, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. Returning to Russia at the beginning of the October Revolution, she became one of the few women to occupy high-ranking positions within the all-male Bolshevik government, later fleeing Russia in disagreement with Lenin's politics. She was accused by European and American secret services of promoting communist propaganda, and by the Soviets of disloyalty. She lived in small dormitory-like rooms, moving on average every two years with her two suitcases of important documents. She died in Rome at the age 96, concluding her 65-year career by supporting Giuseppe Saragat in his quest to become president of Italy. During her nomadic life, state and police agencies in the countries she visited compiled documents on her. The author draws on this extensive, scattered archive in this first biography of Balabanoff.
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• Note on Translation, Document Presentation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
• List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Frequently Used Terms
• Introduction: Stalin and the Lubianka
• Expanding Power, Infiltrating the State, 1922-1927
• Threats from Abroad, Infiltrating the Economy, 1927-1930
• Subduing the Countryside, 1928-1933
• Ordering Society, 1933-1937
• The Great Purges, 1935-1939
• Social and Ethnic Cleansing : The Mass Operations, 1937-1938
• The Security Organs at War, 1939-1944
• Border Wars, Plots, and Spy Mania, 1945-1953
• Conclusion
• Biographical Sketches
• List of Documents.

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
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• Note on Translation, Document Presentation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
• List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Frequently Used Terms
• Introduction: Stalin and the Lubianka
• Expanding Power, Infiltrating the State, 1922-1927
• Threats from Abroad, Infiltrating the Economy, 1927-1930
• Subduing the Countryside, 1928-1933
• Ordering Society, 1933-1937
• The Great Purges, 1935-1939
• Social and Ethnic Cleansing : The Mass Operations, 1937-1938
• The Security Organs at War, 1939-1944
• Border Wars, Plots, and Spy Mania, 1945-1953
• Conclusion
• Biographical Sketches
• List of Documents.

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
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• Note on Translation, Document Presentation, Transliteration, and Abbreviations
• List of Abbreviations and Glossary of Frequently Used Terms
• Introduction: Stalin and the Lubianka
• Expanding Power, Infiltrating the State, 1922-1927
• Threats from Abroad, Infiltrating the Economy, 1927-1930
• Subduing the Countryside, 1928-1933
• Ordering Society, 1933-1937
• The Great Purges, 1935-1939
• Social and Ethnic Cleansing : The Mass Operations, 1937-1938
• The Security Organs at War, 1939-1944
• Border Wars, Plots, and Spy Mania, 1945-1953
• Conclusion
• Biographical Sketches
• List of Documents.

This fascinating documentary history is the first English-language exploration of Joseph Stalin's relationship with, and manipulation of, the Soviet political police. The story follows the changing functions, organization, and fortunes of the political police and security organs from the early 1920s until Stalin's death in 1953, and it provides documented detail about how Stalin used these organs to achieve and maintain undisputed power. Although written as a narrative, it includes translations of more than 170 documents from Soviet archives.
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• Wendisch Rietz
• Die kasernierte vormilitärische Ausbildung
• Die Russen kommen!
• Das kurze Verhör
• Das Lager Weesow
• Gedenkstätte Weesow
• Vorbemerkung von Julius Cöster
• Meine Verhaftung von Julius Cöster
• Das Kapitel Weesow von Julius Cöster
• Der Todesmarsch nach Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen von Julius Cöster
• Der Marsch nach Bernau
• Der Todestransport nach Landsberg an der Warthe
• Landsberg an der Warthe : Sonderlager 4
• Der misslungene Transport von Kurt Biederstädt
• Die letzten Tage in Landsberg
• Eine Fahrt ins Ungewisse
• Buchenwald : Sonderlager II
• Ein kurzer Hinweis zu Buchenwald
• Anhang zu Buchenwald von Kurt Biederstädt
• Protokolle und Übersetzungen : Transportliste
• Die "Reise" nach Karaganda/Kasachstan
• Das Japanerlager Nr. 99 der Stadt Karaganda
• Internierungslager der Stadt Karaganda
• Die Garage Jilstroy
• Karaganda Lager 7099-19
• Die Heimfahrt
• Hof/Moschendorf, das westliche Entlassungslager
• Meine Heimkehr und Ausklang
• Anhang.

"Ne venez pas. Nous nous sommes trompés." Manya Schwartzman, jeune révolutionnaire, quitte sa terre natale, la Bessarabie, pour construire le socialisme en Union soviétique et disparaît en 1937 dans les grandes purges staliniennes après ce dernier message aux siens. Pour traverser le fleuve, elle s'est émancipée des archaïsmes du monde juif, de son pays, de sa condition sociale. La Révolution n'était pas une pensée pour elle, mais une nécessité vitale. Parce que l'idée d'une tombe sans nom lui déplaît, Sandrine Treiner mène l'enquête pour arracher son héroïne à l'anonymat des fosses communes. Voyage dans des territoires et des idées perdues, au coeur des steppes ensoleillées baignées par la mer Noire, ce récit est d'abord une réparation. Et une rencontre avec Manya S., héroïne déterminée et trahie, rendue à la vie et, par ces lignes, à son engagement et à sa lucidité."--P. [4] of cover.

• The Research Questions and the Research Design Crisis and Opportunity in the United States and the Soviet Union Torture: From Informal Institution to Official Policy The Mechanism Fails: The United States and the Mexican War Torture and Leadership Projects Personality and Leadership.
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Why did it happen? Why did the United States begin to torture detainees during the War on Terror? Instead of an indictment, this book presents an explanation. Crises produce rare opportunities for overcoming the domestic and foreign logjams facing political leaders. But what if the projects used to address the crisis and provide cover for their actions come under serious threat from clandestine opponents? Then the restraints on interrogation can be overwhelmed, leading to informal institutions that allow the official establishment of torture. These ideas are tested using comparative historical narratives drawn from two cases where torture was adopted - the War on Terror and the Stalinist Terror - and one where it was not - the Mexican War. The book concludes with some thoughts about how the United States can avoid the legal establishment of torture in the future.
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• 1. Marks and Burns: Youth and the Consequences of War
• 2. Explaining the Inexplicable: Youth and the Post-War Ideological Campaigns
• 3. Mechanisms of Integration: Rituals, Icons, and Idols
• 4. War-time Heroes for Post-War Youth: The Rise and Fall of Molodaia Gvardiia
• 5. Morals under Siege: Myth and Reality of Youth Crime
• 6. Re-defining Sovietness: Fashion, Style, and Non-conformity
• 7. Comrades, Friends, and Lovers: Post-War Personal Relations in Theory and Practice
• 8. Patterns of Participation: Finding a Self in the System
• 9. Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index.
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'Stalin's last generation' was the last generation to come of age under Stalin, yet it was also the first generation to be socialized in the post-war period. Its young members grew up in a world that still carried many of the hallmarks of the Soviet Union's revolutionary period, yet their surroundings already showed the first signs of decay, stagnation, and disintegration. Stalin's last generation still knew how to speak 'Bolshevik', still believed in the power of Soviet heroes and still wished to construct socialism, yet they also liked to dance and dress in Western styles, they knew how to evade boring lectures and lessons in Marxism-Leninism, and they were keen to forge identities that were more individual than those offered by the state. In this book, Juliane Furst creates a detailed picture of late Stalinist youth and youth culture, looking at young people from a variety of perspectives: as children of the war, as recipients and creators of propaganda, as perpetrators of crime, as representatives of fledgling subcultures, as believers, as critics, and as drop-outs. In the process, she illuminates not only the complex relationship between the Soviet state and its youth, but also provides a new interpretative framework for understanding late Stalinism - the impact of which on Soviet society's subsequent development has hitherto been underestimated, including its role in the ultimate demise of the USSR.
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