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Dr. Ian Thatcher , Reader in Modern History, Brunel University

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Synopsis

 

Stalin is famous above all for a remarkable programme of economic development – the establishment of a ‘command-administrative system’ that set targets for the transformation of the USSR’s economy in the form of five-year plans. This economic revolution also carried profound consequences for Soviet society. This talk outlines how Stalin’s changes ripped social ties apart in both the urban and rural environments. The purpose of culture, it is argued, was to try and put society back together again, whether by building families, resorting to traditional schooling, by being more tolerant of religion, or by combining socialist realism with popular entertainment.

Further Reading

 

For further reading Vladimir Andrle, A Social History of 20th Century Russia (1994) summarises important research.

Important essays on culture under Stalin are contained in C. Ward (ed.), The Stalinist Dictatorship (1998).

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