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090    D810.P7 |bS655 1997
100 1  Spaeder, David C. |q(David Carl)
245 10 Propaganda and the politics of community in the USSR, 1941-1947 / |cDavid C. Spaeder.
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] : |b[publisher not identified], |c1997.
300    vii, 313 pages
336    text |btxt |2rdacontent
337    unmediated |bn |2rdamedia
338    volume |bnc |2rdacarrier
502    Thesis (Ph. D.)--Indiana University, 1997.
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-313).
520     German forces crossed the western borders of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 to wage a "race war" against the "Jew-Bolshevik" Enemy depicted in Nazi propaganda. The Soviet Union mounted its response to the invasion by developing countervailing images of the Nazi Enemy as the focus of its unprecedentedly vast war effort. These images reflected the efforts of Soviet propagandists and other officials to mobilize communities within their prospective audience, from the "Soviet people" to "workers," "collective farm workers," or "soldiers," to make the contributions necessary to fight a "total war." This dissertation explores the efforts of Soviet officials to constitute various kinds of communities of concerted action against the external threat personified by the Nazi Enemy. Each image of the Nazi Enemy invoked identities within the Soviet body politic--and in some cases politicized previously excluded or problematized identities for incorporation into the body politic--in their collective forms as communities with specialized roles to play in the greater war effort. The communities in question, as well as the qualities that were said to define them, were the products of propaganda argument rather than sociological affiliation and reflected the propagandists' attempts to assemble the many components of the common effort of a "patriotic war." This, then, is a study of how the Soviet Union mobilized for war through a concerted effort to constitute appropriate communities of action. Whether this strategy succeeded in pulling together the individual identities that would make these communities sociological "facts" is beyond the scope of this study and, I believe, beyond the reach of historical study in general. Nevertheless, by examining the arguments of community themselves, from the perspective of those who articulated them, this dissertation sheds light on the distinctly Soviet reality of the "Great Patriotic War."
530    Electronic version(s)  |bavailable internally at USHMM.
533    Photocopy. |bAnn Arbor, Mich. : |cUMI Dissertation Services, |d1999. |e22 cm.
590     Dissertations and Theses
591    Record updated by Marcive processing 21 June 2024
650  0 World War, 1939-1945 |xPropaganda.
650  0 Propaganda, Anti-German |zSoviet Union.
956 41  |u http://dc.ushmm.org/library/bib40059/9834575.pdf  |z Hosted by USHMM.
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852 0   |bstacks |hD810.P7 S655 1997
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