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1917 in the Countryside: Iakov Iakovlev and the Writing of the History of the Peasantry in Early Soviet Russia
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1917 god v derevne: vospominaniia krest'ian [1917 in the Countryside: Peasant Memoirs] is a censored volume of a vast collection of peasant memoirs and writings on the Revolution of 1917. These writings were sent by peasants in response to “an appeal to the countryside” published by future...
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Fall 2018
This dissertation advances the study of late Stalinism, which has until recently been regarded as a bizarre appendage to Stalin’s rule, and aims to answer the question of whether late Stalinism was a rupture with or continuation of its prewar precursor. I analyze the reintegration of Ukrainian...
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Space Propaganda “For All Mankind”: Soviet and American Responses to the Cold War, 1957-1977
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This study examines narratives about space exploration officially produced by government agencies of the Soviet Union and the United States between 1957 and 1977. It compares how space activities from the first Soviet Sputnik on October 4, 1957, to the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) in July...
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The Politics of Soviet Self-Representation: Soviet Cultural Diplomacy at the 1925 and 1937 Paris World's Fairs.
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Participation at the 1925 and 1937 Paris International Expositions offered the USSR two unique opportunities to present carefully constructed and multifaceted images of the Soviet Union, its peoples and culture to massive foreign audiences in the context of World's Fairs. The collection of...
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The creation of the United Nations Organization as a factor in Soviet foreign policy, 1943-46
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The thesis explores in depth the negotiations to create the United Nations Organization through which Stalin sought to enhance the USSR’s power and prestige via traditional, military-oriented means. Although the Kremlin was relatively successful at maximizing Soviet power within the structure of...