It was in his music that Shostakovich expressed thoughts and feelings about the radically evolving political landscape of 20th century. Bolshevism Stalin’s subsequent inheritance USSR promulgated a refashion arts, forcing to be an instrument state order avoid being victim. during Hitler’s Siege Leningrad where Shostakovich, ironically, did not feel like victim, but custodian powerful weapon dar...

Abstract The paper questions an official narrative of Soviet Marxism that had been formulated both by the Bolshevik leaders and Western European Marxists. It proposes to shift discussion from a historically constituted understanding as partisanship theory epistemic conditions after October Revolution. argues post-revolutionary logic assumes should start where Marx ended it act in Marxist fashio...

Why did Communism take root in China during the May Fourth Movement era (1917 to 1921)? I argue that a key factor was the revolutionary vanguard’s emergence through taking over existing activist organizations. Using reports and meeting minutes of 28 organizations and individual activists’ correspondence, diaries, and memoirs as sources for comparative crosssectional analysis and processual case...

This article offers a new analysis of how the Third Reich’s Foreign Office reported on anti-fascist activities in Union South Africa during 1930s. Based letters, dispatches and reports written by German legation official representatives Africa, reveals discusses Nazi officials followed reacted to activity Africa. The demonstrates perceived movements analysed them as part rising global anti-Germ...

The purpose of the proposed article is to analyze relationship two most “mythologized” representatives Ukrainian and French literature: V. Vynnychenko L.-F. Celine in country Soviets reveal sources their ideology (literary nationalism anti-Semitism Selin, as well Europeanism literary cosmopolitanism Vynnychenko). novelty study realized showwing relation both writers Bolshevism, proletariat, Sov...

The correlation between the categories of rational and irrational in philosophy Enlightenment classical Marxism, which found its embodiment Russia form Bolshevism (Leninism), is studied. authors identify that rationalism as a kind "mythology Reason" arose era reached apogee Great French Revolution German philosophy. Despite fact number works Marxism heuristically valuable ideas were put forward...