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Monumental Changes: or how the reaction to Stalin by three social groups illustrates
the development of Socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s. ...
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Monumental Changes:
Or how the reaction to Stalin by three social groups illustrates the development of Socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s.
Monumental Propaganda relates a bottom-up history of the Soviet Union from the end of WWII to Post-Socialist Russia of the 1990s. The story is presented from the perspective of an unwavering defender of the cultural mores of post-war Russia, Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina. It is through this outlook that the reader glimpses the political transformations of the Soviet Union. Because Aglaya remains a devoted Stalinist, reactions to her should also be taken as reactions to Stalin and his ideology. Though Aglaya does not change her opinions, the world around her certainly does. In the course of the novel, the Soviet people embrace Stalin, abandon Stalin, embrace Khrushchev, abandon Khrushchev, follow the leadership of Brezhnev, abandon Brezhnev in favor of Gorbachev and Perestroika, abandon socialism, embrace capitalism, democracy, and deal with the effects of corruption. This paper will address three social groups and analyze how these momentous changes affected each of their opinions toward Stalin and his ideology. These groups are (1) the youth, or that generation of Soviets that did not live under Stalin (2) dissidents, or those opposed to the government, and (3) the common citizen. These will be analyzed thematically1, rather than individually, in order to better document the universality and general inclusiveness of the political transformations. The analysis will revolve upon the differing opinions concerning, and their reaction toward, the figure of Stalin and the person of Aglaya in order to illustrate the development of socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s.
Aglaya is steadfastly, fanatically, devoted to Stalin, to not only his ideology but also to his person (his statue makes its way into her state-allocated apartment). Her opinion was not unusual at the...
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