title: The American Image of the Helmsman or Who Mister Stalin Is
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko, Andrey Yu.
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metadata.value: 2024-04-08T17:02:40Z
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metadata.value: 2024-04-08T17:02:40Z
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metadata.value: 2024-03
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko A. Yu. The American Image of the Helmsman or Who Mister Stalin Is. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 1, pp. 233–246. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.116 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.116
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45273
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metadata.value: This article is a response to the recently written, very interesting and innovative, book, by an
  American historian Jim Curtis. During 20th century, the study of the Russian history was conducted
  in the opposing to each other American and Soviet historiographies. However, as far as
  Stalinism is concerned, American scholars obviously surpassed the Soviet Union as this theme
  was forbidden in the latter. Curtis aims to rise above all “combats” and to study Stalinism
  with the help of such disciplines as media theory, linguistics, and anthropology — disciplines
  that scholars in America as well as in Russia have usually ignored. He also excellently knows
  the Russian literature. To his opinion, religious notions, particularly “monasticism”, “monastic
  walls”, relationship between the elder and the junior comprise a certain framework of Stalin’s
  consciousness. It may be true but it is not enough to explain the phenomenon of the cult of
  Stalin’s personality. Moreover, it is arguable whether literature could adequately reflect the history
  of a society, particularly, for the need of historians. We also have to be very careful when
  comparing the USA and Russia/USSR, because such phenomena as slavery, political system,
  frontier, Protestant ethics may be different in their foundation. It is also very hard to compare
  Stalin with many other dictators as despite their seeming similarities, their origins differ. The
  main merit of this book is a conviction that the Russian history is indivisible, that Soviet and
  post-Soviet “periods” simply continue the previous history. This approach enables to understand
  more in the “natural laws” of the Russian history.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 69; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Jim Curtis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: American historiography
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Stalin
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: monasticism
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: reflection of reality
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The American Image of the Helmsman or Who Mister Stalin Is
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metadata.value: Article
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