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Article: National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2004
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National Bolshevism: Stalinist Mass Culture and the Formation of Modern Russian National Identity, 1931-1956. By David Brandenberger. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 378. $49.95.)
Historians have long observed that during the 1930s the Soviet government redesigned its grand narrative of prerevolutionary Russian history, eschewing the Marxist social categories that had informed history writing under Pokrovsky in the 1920s and placing new emphasis on individuals and events. The new approach was especially notable for its positive portrayals of leaders like Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, whose misdeeds were now excused by their ...