The post-Stalin Komsomol and the Soviet fight for Third World youth

Hornsby, Robert

doi:10.1080/14682745.2015.1078316

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“…This youth organization was a platform for raising trustworthy party members. Komsomol members’ reliability was verified and confirmed in various capacities and settings over several years before they became party candidates (Hornsby 2016). 2 Similar to Shelest, who in the late 1920s served as a Komsomol leader in the Kharkiv oblast, and to people like Aleksandr Shelepin and Vladimir Semichastnyi who both became KGB chairmen after rising to Komsomol first secretaries in the 1950s, Shevel began his career as a state official in the Komsomol TsK.…”

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Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970s

Bertelsen

2019

Nationalities Papers

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This article examines the goals and practices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Ukraine in the 1970s, a Soviet institution that functioned as an ideological organ fighting against Ukrainian nationalists domestically and abroad. The central figure of this article is Heorhii Shevel who governed the Ministry from 1970 to 1980 and whose tactics, strategies, and practices reveal the existence of a distinct phenomenon in the Soviet Union—the nationally conscious political elite with double loyalties who, by action or inaction, expanded the space of nationalism in Ukraine. This research illuminates a paradox of pervasive Soviet power, which produced an institution that supported and reinforced Soviet “anti-nationalist” ideology, simultaneously creating an environment where heterodox views or sentiments were stimulated and nurtured.

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Section: Shevel and The Mzs: Promotion Or Demotion?mentioning

confidence: 85%

Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970s

Bertelsen

2019

Nationalities Papers

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“…69 Although Soviet propaganda largely failed by the 1970s to build up the prestige of the Soviet Union, it still remained expert at attacking its enemies. 70 The prevalence of racism in the United States remained one of the country's greatest weak spots. American visitors frequently recalled being asked about the viciousness of American racism by Soviet citizens.…”

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The Making of a State‐Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union

Jacobs

2023

History

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This article uses Angela Davis' 1972 visit to the Soviet Union to explore the continued connections between the Soviet Union and African Americans. Davis was made famous in the Soviet Union because of her victimhood and her pro‐Soviet outlook. Soviet support for her cause combined with her eyewitness testimony that the Soviet Union had abolished racism provided Soviet propaganda with ample opportunities to undercut American criticism of the Soviet Union, while inspiring domestic Soviet youth to be more faithful and proud of their home country. Yet, while Davis was used by the Soviet Union and its propaganda machine, she also made use of her Soviet connections and experience. The USSR, as it had for the Scottsboro Boys in the past, advocated for Davis and rallied leftists around the world to her cause. The Soviet Union, by turning her into a state‐sponsored heroine, provided her with a major platform that eventually extended far beyond the Soviet Union. Moreover, in the Soviet Union, she found inspiration. There, as she witnessed personally during her 1972 visit, she believed she encountered a society free of racism, prejudice and strife that she knew so well at home.

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“…94 It was one of the many nonstate, party-affiliated, Soviet organisations that entertained relations with foreign movements. Other Soviet organisations were the Soviet Committee for Peace, the Soviet Women's Committee, 95 the Komsomol 96 and the Friendship societies. However, the SKSSAA was the one which fulfilled most obviously quasi-diplomatic tasks entertaining relations with organisations with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs could not negotiate, as the latter worked only on a state level.…”

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Symbiosis and Revolution: The Soviet Encounter with the War in Dhofar

Casula

2021

Contemporary European History

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This article discusses how the Soviet Union perceived and related to Middle Eastern revolutionary movements, using a case study from South Yemen and the War in Dhofar. This specific Soviet encounter will be analysed through selected Soviet material from published and archival sources. The article highlights how Soviet representatives assessed prospects for socialism in Yemen, and how they interacted with their partners on the ground. The article is divided into three parts: the first discusses the theoretical debates in Soviet academia and the press, the second section contrasts these theoretical views with Middle Eastern ‘socialist’ theories during the Cold War and the third shows how a symbiosis developed between Soviet and Yemeni institutions and organisations. The article argues that due to an Orientalist take on South Yemen and Dhofar, the Soviet side could not appreciate the political importance and potential of socialist currents in the region, reducing cooperation to ‘pragmatism’.

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The post-Stalin Komsomol and the Soviet fight for Third World youth

Cited by 7 publications

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Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970s

Political Affinities and Maneuvering of Soviet Political Elites: Heorhii Shevel and Ukraine’s Ministry of Strange Affairs in the 1970s

The Making of a State‐Sponsored Heroine: Angela Davis, African Americans, and the Promise of the Soviet Union

Symbiosis and Revolution: The Soviet Encounter with the War in Dhofar

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