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From the first anniversary of the revolution in 1918, 7 November
was the day of celebrations that marked the founding of the Soviet
regime. Through marches, speeches, military parades, carnivals, and
the inaugurations of public monuments and plaques, it was on this
key date that the peoples and territories of the USSR were brought
together in commemoration of the October socialist revolution.
Domestically, the object was to foster unity, provide legitimacy,
and facilitate popular mobilisations. Commemorative events were
also held outside the USSR, and these practices upheld the regime's
international prestige, especially when it presented itself as a
model for world revolution. This volume brings together a range of
international authors exploring those commemorations from the
perspective of the 2017 centenary. Contributors address the
international echoes of the celebrations by sketching out a map of
the diverse territories commemorating October, including the state
spaces of the USSR and other socialist regimes; the associational
spaces of the communist Western micro-societies; and the symbolic
spaces of newspapers, colours, songs and the communists'
revolutionary calendar. The collection is therefore valuable for
readers interested in Soviet political rituals and their
representations and new appropriations through different spaces,
from the interwar period to the Cold War. It, as part of the
Studies in Twentieth Century Communism series, offers a unique and
vital perspective on the history of the twentieth century.
This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency
of images in the construction of 'humanitarian crises' from the
nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories
of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role
images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to
the suffering of others and to the establishment of the
international networks of solidarity. Questioning certain emotions
assumed to underlie humanitarianism such as sympathy, empathy and
compassion, they demonstrate how the experience of such emotions
has shifted over time. Understanding images as emotional objects,
contributors from a wide horizon of disciplines explore how their
production, circulation and reception has been crucial to the
perception of humanitarian crises in a long-term historical
perspective.
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