How Communism Shaped Our World

Klara Schwalbe, Matej Samide, Nicole Hanisch, Miriam Eisleb

• Publisher: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783830540311
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: African American History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

In 2017, the anniversary of the Russian Revolution was commemorated across the world. It marked the first political implementation of Communism in November 1917 - of an ideology that was highly idealistic and ambitious to improve people's lives on the one hand, while providing the justification for massive violence and oppressions on the other hand. In both respects, Communism had an immense impact on the 20th century and it still deeply affects both modern Russia and Germany. This collection of short essays is the result of an exchange between students of history and related subjects from Berlin and Moscow on the occasion of the anniversary in November 2017. It is a reflection on how Communism shaped our world – politically, culturally and intellectually – and how it is remembered and commemorated in contemporary Russia and Germany today.

Table of contents

• Table of Content
• Klara Schwalbe, Matej Samide and Miriam Eisleb | Introduction
• Sophie Kühnlenz | How Communism shaped our world. The Personal Experience
• Miriam Eisleb | Living in Communism. A Workshop Report
• Alexandra Belyanskaya | «Воспитывать, а не наказывать». Роль Комсомола вборьбе с девиантным поведением несовершеннолетних (1954–1960) – „Education but not punishment“. The role of the Komsomol in the struggle with deviant behaviour of minors (1954– 196)
• Vladislav Iakovenko | Дневник Вадима Солодникова: индивидуальное иколлективное в переживаниях советского подростка (1942–1947 гг.) – Vadim Solodnikov’s Diary: Individual and Collective in the Experiences of the Soviet Teenager (1942–1947)
• Beninio McDonough Tranza | The Russian Revolution and Gender 1917–1929
• Sophie Kühnlenz | Female revolutionaries. Women and the Russian Revolutions in 1917
• Tamara Pataki | Picturing Another Future. How Environmental Movements contributed to renegotiate the Legitimacy of the Soviet Union
• Nicole Hanisch | Popular music in public spaces in the German Democratic Republic
• Klara Rahel Schwalbe | Workshop Report: Remembering Communism – Apologetics and Positive Memory. A Workshop Report
• Pavlova Margarita Aleksandrovna | МЕМОРИАЛ «КОНЦЕНТРАЦИОННЫЙ ЛАГЕРЬЗАКСЕНХАУЗЕН» КАК МЕСТО ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙКОНФРОНТАЦИИ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ ПАМЯТИ ОВТОРОЙ МИРОВОЙ ВОЙНЕ В СОВРЕМЕННОЙГЕРМАНИИ – Sachsenhausen concentration camp memorial as a place ofpolitical confrontation of the historical memory about theSecond World War in modern Germany
• Heike Hoffmann | The annual Rosa Luxemburg & Karl Liebknecht demonstration – Remembering the Spartacist Uprising throughout the 20th century
• Eric Jeswein | The Correct Version of History. How Stalin shaped the Past with the Short Course
• Victor Wagner | The Other Revolution: 1905 in the Soviet and Post-Soviet View of History – Die andere Revolution: 1905 im sowjetischen und post-sowjetischen Geschichtsbild
• Charlotte Kohrs | The Moscow Metro – Shaping a Collective Historical Consciousness of Russia
• Matej Samide | War and Communism. A Workshop Report
• Kseniia Medvedevskikh | Red Terror in Russia during the Civil War
• Anne-Christine Mertens | Second World War and Great Patriotic War – two Perspectives? A Comparison of the used vocabulary and chosen content of the Remembrance Cultures in Russia and Germany
• Alisa Gadas | On Winning and Losing – Anthropological Approaches to Russian Commemorative Culture | Gewinner und Verlierer – Russische Erinnerungskultur verstehen. Erlebnisbericht vom Besuch des Museums des Großen Vaterländischen Krieges
• Laura Throckmorton | Continuities of Remembrance. The Great Patriotic War in communist and post-communist societies
• Acknowledgements