This article examines selection procedures for common citizens’ letters to Stalin, and the practices of reacting to these letters. Letters to power in general and to Stalin in particular were one of the key channels of communication between state and society in the USSR. The author analyses the dynamics of letter‑writing (including the volume of letters), the bureaucratic mechanisms (including Stalin’s personal involvement), the contents of the letters (including changes in dominant themes), and some of the consequences of letter‑writing (for both the authors’ lives and wider Stalinist policy). The study is based on materials from Stalin’s personal archives and some documents of the Special Sector of the Central Committee (TsK) of the VKP(b...
This article offers a case study of a commissariat and its members during Stalin’s purges. It consid...
This article offers a case study of a commissariat and its members during Stalin’s purges. It consid...
L’étude de la politique stalinienne des nationalités à travers les archives. – Les archives d’État e...
L’État et ses correspondants : le courrier des lecteurs, source pour l’étude des premières années du...
The letters sent by Soviet citizens to party and state bodies and to the press have been relatively ...
Sarah Davies and James Harris have set themselves the task of trying to understand Stalin. They do t...
Sarah Davies and James Harris have set themselves the task of trying to understand Stalin. They do t...
The letters sent by Soviet citizens to party and state bodies and to the press have been relatively ...
Matthew E. Lenoe. Letter-writing and the state: Reader correspondence with newspapers as a source fo...
Griesse M. Enjeux historiques des journaux et de la correspondance dans la réécriture de l’histoire ...
Yves Cohen, Letters as means of action: Stalin at the beginning of the 1930s, as seen from the Kagan...
Yves Cohen, Letters as means of action: Stalin at the beginning of the 1930s, as seen from the Kagan...
Peter A.Blitstein. Researching Stalin 's nationality policy in the archives. Insofar as Soviet party...
The article discusses the impact on Western scholarship of the opening of secret police archives in ...
International audienceThis article analyzes the mechanisms implemented during Stalin’s deportations ...
This article offers a case study of a commissariat and its members during Stalin’s purges. It consid...
This article offers a case study of a commissariat and its members during Stalin’s purges. It consid...
L’étude de la politique stalinienne des nationalités à travers les archives. – Les archives d’État e...
L’État et ses correspondants : le courrier des lecteurs, source pour l’étude des premières années du...
The letters sent by Soviet citizens to party and state bodies and to the press have been relatively ...
Sarah Davies and James Harris have set themselves the task of trying to understand Stalin. They do t...
Sarah Davies and James Harris have set themselves the task of trying to understand Stalin. They do t...
The letters sent by Soviet citizens to party and state bodies and to the press have been relatively ...
Matthew E. Lenoe. Letter-writing and the state: Reader correspondence with newspapers as a source fo...
Griesse M. Enjeux historiques des journaux et de la correspondance dans la réécriture de l’histoire ...
Yves Cohen, Letters as means of action: Stalin at the beginning of the 1930s, as seen from the Kagan...
Yves Cohen, Letters as means of action: Stalin at the beginning of the 1930s, as seen from the Kagan...
Peter A.Blitstein. Researching Stalin 's nationality policy in the archives. Insofar as Soviet party...
The article discusses the impact on Western scholarship of the opening of secret police archives in ...
International audienceThis article analyzes the mechanisms implemented during Stalin’s deportations ...
This article offers a case study of a commissariat and its members during Stalin’s purges. It consid...
This article offers a case study of a commissariat and its members during Stalin’s purges. It consid...
L’étude de la politique stalinienne des nationalités à travers les archives. – Les archives d’État e...