The New Man in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany

Fritzsche, Peter; Hellbeck, Jochen

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“…One can agree with Fritzsche and Hellbeck when they claim that the appeal to individual consciousness and willpower was an innovation of Stalinism, implying a sharp rebuff to the mechanistic views of a person of the 1920s 43 .…”

Section: Evolution Of the New Man Ideal In The 1930s: Factors And Chamentioning

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“…The second stage, beginning in the late 1920s to include the 1930s, was marked by the onset of the Stalinist period in engineering the New Man. The fi rst phase was rather experimental, characterized by the search for an idealized proletarian subject, the use of industrial technology advantages, and the scientifi c arrangement of collective labor to help it take the necessary shape 36 . The ideas of the Marxist founding fathers were developed by N.I.…”

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“…The Institute carried out research work to fi nd out whether rhythmicized and mechanized factory labor is able to teach the muscles and nerves of the worker. By 1938, over a million workers had participated in this research program at the Institute and its branches across the country 38 . A.K.…”

Section: Evolution Of the New Man Ideal In The 1930s: Factors And Chamentioning

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“…than on collective ones. The soul of the individual was rehabilitated as a source of conscious will 40 .…”

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“…This trend was caught, supported and embodied in bright artistic images by writers, whom Stalin called engineers of human souls. Literature, among other arts, was most successful in designing and promoting the New Man, giving people samples to shape their life experiences and adjust the pathway of their personal development 45 . Reflecting the shift in the understanding of the New Man, in his article On the Old and the New Man of 1932, A.M. Gorky says, "Denying bourgeois zoological individualism, the new man perfectly understands the high integrity of individuality, fi rmly connected with the collective, for he himself is precisely this individuality [italics added -O.P.…”

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Bolshevik Engineering of the “New Man” in the Early Soviet Period: Theoretical Bases, Political and Ideological Priorities, Evolution of Approaches

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2019

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Istor. Ross.

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The article examines theoretical preconditions, as well as the political and ideological priorities of Bolshevik eff orts to engineer of the "New Man" in the early Soviet period. The author shows the Marxist origins of the Bolshevik project and their transformation in the works of V.I. Lenin and other leaders of the Communist Party and the Soviet state. It describes the principal mechanisms and tools used to design the New Man, as well as practice of social mobilization and exposure to the political culture of Bolshevism. Emphasis is given to the role of the legacy of World War I in the Bolshevik institutionalization of social engineering, coercion and violence to create new human material. The article also shows disagreements among the Bolshevik leadership during the period from 1917 until the late 1920s regarding the ways of designing the New Man in the context of the proletarian culture, the role of the moral character concept for an ideal communist person as the builder of new society. Analysis is given to the gender aspect of the problem, the Bolshevik vision of the ways to design the New Woman and reshape the old way of life. The article traces the transformation of the Bolshevik leadership's vision of the New Man and the New Woman throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The author singles out two stages in the Bolshevik engineering of the New Man in the early Soviet period (1917-mid-1920s, late 1920s-mid-1930s), and describes the project's evolution.

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Section: Evolution Of the New Man Ideal In The 1930s: Factors And Chamentioning

confidence: 71%

Section: Evolution Of the New Man Ideal In The 1930s: Factors And Chamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evolution Of the New Man Ideal In The 1930s: Factors And Chamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…than on collective ones. The soul of the individual was rehabilitated as a source of conscious will 40 .…”

Section: Evolution Of the New Man Ideal In The 1930s: Factors And Chamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Evolution Of the New Man Ideal In The 1930s: Factors And Chamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Bolshevik Engineering of the “New Man” in the Early Soviet Period: Theoretical Bases, Political and Ideological Priorities, Evolution of Approaches

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2019

Vestn. Ross. univ. družby nar., Ser. Istor. Ross.

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Motives for the New Constitution

Velikanova

2018

Mass Political Culture Under Stalinism

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Emotions and Temporalities

Pernau

2021

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This Element brings together the history of emotions and temporalities, offering a new perspective on both. Time was often imagined as a movement from the past to the future: the past is gone and the future not yet here. Only present-day subjects could establish relations to other times, recovering history as well as imagining and anticipating the future. In a movement paralleling the emphasis on the porous self, constituted by emotions situated not inside but between subjects, this Element argues for a porous present, which is open to the intervention of ghosts coming from the past and from the future. What needs investigating is the flow between times as much as the creation of boundaries between them, which first banishes the ghosts and then denies their existence. Emotions are the most important way through which subjects situate and understand themselves in time.

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The New Man in Stalinist Russia and Nazi Germany

Cited by 18 publications

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Bolshevik Engineering of the “New Man” in the Early Soviet Period: Theoretical Bases, Political and Ideological Priorities, Evolution of Approaches

Bolshevik Engineering of the “New Man” in the Early Soviet Period: Theoretical Bases, Political and Ideological Priorities, Evolution of Approaches

Motives for the New Constitution

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