{"id":28229,"date":"2021-11-12T23:08:19","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T23:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=28229"},"modified":"2021-11-12T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T23:08:19","slug":"evgeny-dobrenko-late-stalinism-the-aesthetics-of-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=28229","title":{"rendered":"Evgeny Dobrenko, \u201cLate Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Translated by Jesse M. Savage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How the last years of Stalin\u2019s rule led to the formation of an imperial Soviet consciousness<\/strong><br><br>In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism organized chronologically around the main events of the period\u2014beginning with Victory in May 1945 and concluding with the death of Stalin in March 1953\u2014Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness that, he argues, still defines the political and cultural profile of modern Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Evgeny Dobrenko<\/strong> is professor of Russian studies at the University of Sheffield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ISBN: 9780300198478<br>Publication Date: July 14, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>584 pages,\u00a06 1\/8 x 9 1\/4<br>5 b\/w illustrations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300198478\/late-stalinism\">https:\/\/yalebooks.yale.edu\/book\/9780300198478\/late-stalinism<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Late-Stalinism.jpg?fit=220%2C335&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55062,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=55062","url_meta":{"origin":28229,"position":0},"title":"CfP: The Making of Solidarity: A\u00a0Conference on Eastern and Central European Dissidents, 1945-1991","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"24. kolovoza 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"This open call invites proposals for an interdisciplinary conference on Eastern and Central European dissidence, solidarity, and anti-imperial thought. 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