Some of us will be spending quite a bit of this term with Uncle Joe Stalin and his band of comrades. Amongst all the stuff, there are two good podcasts on the National Archive's site by Dr Jane McDermid, in two parts here and here (right click to download the mp3). The Learning Curve here has some good documents on industrialisation and related matters.
Here's some applause; yes, for the man himself following his 1937 speech on the new Stalion constitution.
Once, famously, a whole side of a 78 rpm record (ask your grandparents) in a set covering Stalin speaking was devoted to applause. I know dear, let's listen to this...
The personality cult permeated abroad, even in the '30s the likes of HG WElls or Shaw visited Russia and lauded it (I think the same's true for Paul Robeson). By the '50s. tunes like this were doing the rounds.
mp3 Robert Wyatt: Stalin wasn't Stallin' (just click to download via host).
Last week, a Russian TV poll named Stalin as the third greatest Russian, after Alexander Nevsky and Pushkin (here).
Most of all though, read...
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