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Books > Humanities > History > World history > From 1900
This thought-provoking collection of essays analyses the complex,
multi-faceted, and even contradictory nature of Stalinism and its
representations. Stalinism was an extraordinarily repressive and
violent political model, and yet it was led by ideologues committed
to a vision of socialism and international harmony. The essays in
this volume stress the complex, multi-faceted, and often
contradictory nature of Stalin, Stalinism, and Stalinist-style
leadership, and. explore the complex picture that emerges. Broadly
speaking, three important areas of debate are examined, united by a
focus on political leadership: * The key controversies surrounding
Stalin's leadership role * A reconsideration of Stalin and the Cold
War * New perspectives on the cult of personality Revisioning
Stalin and Stalinism is a crucial volume for all students and
scholars of Stalin's Russia and Cold War Europe.
Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state's
long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary.
Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be
other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage
across color lines. How indigenous peoples of Virginia resisted
erasure and built their identities as Native Americans is the
powerful story this book tells. Spanning a century of fraught
history, Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia describes the
critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia Indians,
descendants of the seventeenth-century Algonquian Powhatan
chiefdom, undertook to sustain their Native identity in the face of
deep racial hostility from segregationist officials, politicians,
and institutions. Like other Southeastern Native groups living
under Jim Crow regimes, tidewater Native groups and individuals
fortified their communities by founding tribal organizations,
churches, and schools; they displayed their Indianness in public
performances; and they enlisted whites, including well-known
ethnographers, to help them argue for their Native distinctness.
Describing an arduous campaign marked by ingenuity, conviction, and
perseverance, Laura J. Feller shows how these tidewater Native
people drew on their shared histories as descendants of Powhatan
peoples, and how they strengthened their bonds through living and
marrying within clusters of Native Virginians, both on and off
reservation lands. She also finds that, by at times excluding
African Americans from Indian organizations and Native families,
Virginian Indians themselves reinforced racial segregation while
they built their own communities. Even as it paved the way to
tribal recognition in Virginia, the tidewater Natives' sustained
efforts chronicled in this book demonstrate the fluidity,
instability, and persistent destructive power of the construction
of race in America.
In this book the territory of Pechenga, located well above the
Arctic circle between Russia, Finland and Norway, holds the key to
understanding the geopolitical situation of the Arctic today. With
specific focus on the local nickel industry of the region, Lars
Rowe explores the interaction between commercial and state security
concerns in the Soviet Union. Through the lens of this local
industry a larger historical context is unravelled - the nature of
Soviet-Finnish relations after the Russian Revolution, Soviet
international relations strategies during the Second World War and
the nature of the Stalinist economy in the early post-war years. By
presenting this environmentally focused history of a small corner
of the Arctic, Rowe offers the historical context needed to
understand the current geopolitical climate of the Polar North.
In this book, Tuuli Lahdesmaki, Katja Makinen, Viktorija L. A.
Ceginskas, and Sigrid Kaasik-Krogerus scrutinize how people who
participate in cultural initiatives funded and governed by the
European Union understand the idea of Europe. The book focuses on
three cultural initiatives: the European Capital of Culture, the
European Heritage Label, and a European Citizen Campus project
funded through the Creative Europe programme. These initiatives are
examined through field studies conducted in 12 countries between
2010 and 2018. The authors describe their approach as 'ethnography
of Europeanization' and conceptualize the attempts at
Europeanization in the European Union's cultural policy as politics
of belonging.
This is the remarkable story of one of the Second World War's most
unusual animal heroes - a 14-stone St Bernard dog who became global
mascot for the Royal Norwegian Forces and a symbol of freedom and
inspiration for Allied troops throughout Europe. From a happy and
carefree puppyhood spent as a family pet in the Norwegian fishing
town of Honningsvag, the gentle giant Bamse followed his master at
the outbreak of the war to become a registered crew member of the
mine-sweeper Thorodd. Often donning his own steel helmet as he took
his place in the Thorodd's bow gun turret, Bamse cut an impressive
figure and made a huge contribution to the morale of the crew, and
he gallantly saved the lives of two of them. After Norway fell to
the Germans in 1940, the Thorodd operated from Dundee and Montrose,
where Bamse became a well-known and much-loved figure, shepherding
the Thorodd's crew-members back to the boat at pub closing time,
travelling on the local buses, breaking up fights and even taking
part in football matches. Mourned both by locals and Norwegians
when he died in 1944, Bamse's memory has been kept alive both in
Norway, where he is still regarded as a national hero, and in
Montrose, where a larger-than-life statue of him was unveiled in
2006 by HRH Prince Andrew. Written from extensive source material
and eyewitness accounts, Sea Dog Bamse is a fitting tribute to the
extraordinary life of an extraordinary dog.
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