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	Soviet Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.com (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Soviet Union was established in December 1922 as the union of the Russian (colloquially known as Bolshevist Russia), Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Transcaucasian Soviet republics ruled by Bolshevik parties.
		Soviet troops intervened in the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and cited the Brezhnev Doctrine, the Soviet counterpart to the U.S. Johnson Doctrine and later Nixon Doctrine, and helped oust the Czechoslovak government in 1968, sometimes referred to as the Prague Spring.
		The Soviet Union occupied the eastern portion of the European continent and the northern portion of the Asian continent.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Soviet (5463 words)

	Homo Sovieticus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Homo Sovieticus (from New Latin) is a sarcastic and critical reference to a category of people with a specific mindset that were allegedly created by the governments of the Soviet bloc.
		The idea that the Soviet system would create a new, better kind of person was first postulated by the advocates of the Soviet system; they called it the "New Soviet man".
		Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, many social and economic problems in Russia were blamed on Homo Sovieticus’ alleged failure to adapt to a capitalist society.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homo_Sovieticus (381 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Soviet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		The Transcaucasian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic was a short-lived (1922-1936) Soviet republic, consisting of Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, which were traditionally known as the Transcaucasian Republics in the Soviet Union.
		In 1936, the republic was dissolved and the three regions became individual republics of the Soviet Union.
		Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Transnistrian Soviet Socialist Republic
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Soviet (499 words)

	The New Soviet Man: Myth and Reality - The World and I Magazine
		For example, it has become customary for Soviet citizens to compare their standard of living with that of the West rather than with their own past standards, and to assess governmental actions not only in comparison with those undertaken in other countries, but also against the background of certain general international standards.
		The Soviet rulership not only cares about "what they think," which it certainly does, but it is extremely eager to impress its own citizens with the foreigners' praise of the Soviet Union and its achievements.
		The officially conceived "new Soviet man," who never existed in reality but was the party's carefully crafted projection of the utopian man of the future, is fading away today.
	www.worldandi.com /public/1988/february/mt10.cfm (3789 words)

	Soviet Civilization: A Cultural History
		At the height of the great purges in the Soviet Union during the 1930s, Stalin personally sent instructions to the Soviet secret police which stated that in obtaining confessions from the accused, "the NKVD was given permission by the Central Committee [of the Communist Party] to use physical influence...
		Fantasies of a paradise on earth, in which a new and higher freedom would reign, led them to believe that everything civilization had created over thousands of years had to be overthrown.
		The traditional notions of family, community and self were undermined in the name of a new Soviet man. This left the individual naked and isolated, with nothing to protect him from the power of the state.
	www.fff.org /freedom/0691e.asp (863 words)

	The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)
		Soviet communism openly advocated using violence in order to create the "new Soviet man"-an evolved human being whose nature would conform to a collectivist ideal.
		Ludwig von Mises described the Marxist view of individual man, "The notion of an individual, say the critics, is an empty abstraction." To fill this abstraction, to mold it into an ideal man, it was necessary to control absolutely the society that would define him.
		As implausible as the new Soviet man might seem, left-wing radicals in the West applauded the Soviet Experiment.
	www.artukraine.com /famineart/webb.htm (960 words)

	The New Soviet Child
		The "soviet man" fostered in communist dominated countries is a man having qualities of soviet country, government or structure.
		Today, the term soviet man is defined by "socialist realism", the philosophy of the Soviet Union which is imposed on all art.
		Could then a false image of the soviet child lead to the socialization of the true (whatever he is) soviet man? We don't have the final answer and it should be the topic of another study but conservatively speaking we may venture the same answer: hardly.
	www.lituanus.org /1985/85_1_03.htm (2912 words)

	War and Human Rights Traditional Catholic Reflections & Reports, Catholic News & Reports, TCRNews2.com, TCRNews.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		In other words, politics and economics alone were to create a new kind of man. Unfortunately for the Communists, this new man was a long time in arriving, and by the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union had not yet made his appearance.
		The reason the USSR expected the emergence of the New Soviet Man was that that state saw herself as primarily an ideological state, a country organized around an idea.
		But just as the Soviets were mistaken that their political arrangements could essentially alter human nature, so we are mistaken if we think that our political arrangements can usher in a new age in human affairs.
	www.tcrnews2.com /Warrights.html (1279 words)

	Propaganda Investigative Assets: Insights
		The theme of the new kind of socialist life form doing anything it could to survive in a hostile encirclement of enemies was created during the civil war.
		The mass media bragged of a Soviet Atomic bomb, an H-bomb, Sputnik, the fact that the first man in space was a Soviet man, and that the first man to do the amazing-walk or float in space as Alexei Leonov did in March 1965-was another cosmonaut.
		New generations, the grandchildren and great grandchildren of those who made the revolution did not want to wait for "the dictatorship of the proletariat" to deliver the radiant future of communism.
	www.pbs.org /redfiles/prop/inv/prop_inv_ins.htm (5545 words)

	Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Soviet Union / Glossary
		A term coined by Joseph V. Stalin to indicate that the Soviet Union was surrounded by capitalist states pursuing political, military, and economic policies aimed at weakening and destroying the Soviet regime.
		Soviet and Western experts believe that damage to the people's health, to the economy, and to the environment will be felt for decades.
		The term is derived from the Mongol altan ordo or the Tatar altun ordu, literally meaning golden palace or camp, apparently based on the color of the tent used by Batu Khan (died 1255), the leader or ruler, during the Golden Horde's conquest of the region.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/soviet_union/su_glos.html (9351 words)

	Steven Barnes: Stanford Research Communication Program
		The massive Soviet system of forced labor concentration camps, known as the Gulag, condemned millions of citizens to internal exile or imprisonment in some of the harshest locales of human settlement.
		Soviet authorities also envisioned this very participation as key to the creation of a new Soviet man and Soviet woman.
		All scholarship on the Gulag has preceded on the assumption that cultural life, reeducation and redemption in the camps-themes so common in modern penal institutions-must be meaningless in the face of the brutality, violence and death that marked life in the Gulag.
	www.stanford.edu /group/i-rite/statements/2001/barnes.html (777 words)

	1917-1987: Unsuccessful and Tragic Attempt to Create a “New Man” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Without hesitation they undertook to build a new society, hitherto unprecedented in the history of mankind, and announced the construction of Communism throughout the whole world to be their final goal.
		This man was to be free from ethnic affiliations, see no sense in private property, be always ready to sacrifice himself for the benefit of society, have no doubts that he originated from an ape or something like it (certainly from a beast) and that nothing will remain of him after his death.
		It is true that the Soviet man is not to believe in God, and he is to be a materialist.
	www.roca.org /oa/76-77/76f.htm (3109 words)

	Paul A. Klanderud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This study is devoted to works of Russian and early Soviet literature in which the often troubled relationship between people and things provides a unique perspective on the evolution and devolution of utopian ideals, coupled with a utilitarian quest for functionality, as imaged in the literary sphere.
		First, the "new Soviet man's" inability to appreciate the "socialist" potential of things and to come to terms with their newly designated functions.
		Second, the devolution of collectivism into conformism, stemming from linguistic totalitarianism, or a process whereby man is "thingified" by the language--Soviet Newspeak-- which coerces humans into functioning as "cogs" in the nascent socialist machine.
	aatseel.org /dissertations/literature/klanderudp.html (339 words)

	Le Sabot Post-Moderne: The New Soviet Man
		For Russian it's surprising that in some new Baltic republics up to 40% of population (Russian-speaking, naturally) did not get citizenship and yet no government or NGOs complained regarding their human rights and republics in question were allowed to join NATO and EU.
		The problem with Soviet insignia is that they are associated with both great tragedies and great victories.
		The problems were so daunting in the wake of the Soviet collapse that one can only speculate as to what would have been the best course to take after the collapse.
	www.postmodernclog.com /archives/000519.html (3838 words)

	Communism, democratic socialism and the "New Man"
		The "New Man" was to be altruist in spirit, communal in outlook, sacrificial in his labour for the common good, boundless in his fight for world revolution.
		The Soviet authorities, Heller explains, tried to set and change the boundaries of "past", "present", and "future" by accelerating, shortening, and modifying the temporal horizons within which all economic and social activity were made to conform.
		The New Man under communism "is altruist in spirit, communal in outlook, sacrificial in labour for the common good, boundless in his fight for world revolution".
	www.ourcivilisation.com /cooray/westdem/chap13.htm (893 words)

	Category:Soviet phraseology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The main article for this category is Soviet phraseology.
		General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
		Purge of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Category:Soviet_phraseology (83 words)

	Soviet Writers Union - SovLit.com - Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors
		All the stars of Soviet literature were there.
		He referred to Stalin's characterization of writers as "engineers of the soul" and said that Soviet literature should be openly tendentious, abandoning old-fashioned romanticism for a new "revolutionary romanticism".
		Their task was not to follow their own individual paths, but to work together—in groups if necessary—to portray the "new reality" according to a single, unified method.
	www.sovlit.com /bios/union.html (758 words)

	Radical Islam's New Allies, Soviet military pensions
		On the eve of the first real multi-party elections to be ever held in Iraq, it is interesting to keep an ear cocked to CNN and other news networks for the opinions of sundry media pundits about what looks like the looming failure of this process.
		Soviet troops behaved the same way in the fiercely defended Berlin of 1945.
		Likewise, cops on riot details are now normally instructed not to raise their batons for an overhead strike – if they do, one of these Agitprop types will usually immediately kneel in front of them with hands raised in supplication, and another will snap the picture.
	www.mackenzieinstitute.com /2005/newsletter010105.htm (4288 words)

	Book Review - Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		However, for the leadership of the Soviet Communist Party, it was crystal clear that rock music was a capitalist plot, a bourgeois subversion of the grand socialist dream to make a "new collectivist man." Rock music was another weed in the garden of decadent individualism.
		The sound, lyrics and dance movements all served as ways to inform the authorities that Soviet youth wanted no part of any "new Soviet man" nor the world in which he was to reside.
		But it would invariably to "too far." A crackdown would be instituted, followed by a new wave of fl-market activity and a new attempt by the authorities to find a "middle ground." However, the cycle would merely repeat itself.
	www.fff.org /freedom/1190d.asp (850 words)

	Gorky, Maksim - SovLit.com - Encyclopedia of Soviet Authors
		This group teaches that it is wrong to raise up individual leaders; that man's state degenerated when humanity split into separate egos, apart from the Whole.
		A new type of man is springing up in the Soviet Union.
		He is conscious of being the builder of a new world, and although his conditions of life are still arduous, he knows that it is his arm and the purpose of his rational will to create different conditions and he has no grounds for pessimism.
	www.sovlit.com /bios/gorky.html (1749 words)

	STATISTICS OF GENOCIDE AND MASS MURDER REFERENCES
		THE HARVEST OF SORROW: SOVIET COLLECTIVIZATION AND THE TERROR-FAMINE.
		New York: The Institute for the Study of Genocide, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), March, 1990.
		Mace, James E. "The man-made famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine." In FAMINE IN UKRAINE 1932-1933, [edited] by Roman Serbyn and Bohdan Krawchenko.
	www.hawaii.edu /powerkills/SOD.REF.HTM (12028 words)

	A Webb of Lies: Newsroom: The Independent Institute
		Soviet communism openly advocated using violence in order to create the “new Soviet man”—an evolved human being whose nature would conform to a collectivist ideal.
		The Webbs toured the Ukraine during the height of the famine (1932–1933), interviewing Soviet officials as they went.
		For example, Walter Duranty—the New York Times correspondent who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports on Russia—also dismissed the famine as propaganda.
	www.independent.org /newsroom/article.asp?id=139 (910 words)

	Modern Russian Culture: Spring 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		Specifically, the Soviet experiment was designed to produce a different kind of human being: the New Soviet Man. We will trace the cultural representation of this "new man," who, if he existed at all, ultimately strayed far from his theoretical model.
		Though the Soviet Union no longer exists, modern Russian culture is inevitably connected to the experience of communism and revolution.
		Besides the "new SPlan Classt the following issues: the roles of the intellectual and the Jew, art under totalitarianism, representations of gender and sexuality, the problem of theory and practice, and the "Russian apocalypse." One of our goals is to understand the "Soviet mentality," which promises to outlive the system that provided its name.
	aatseel.org /syllabi/mod-russ-cult.html (1194 words)

	paleo Ideofact
		One of the tropes of communist intellectuals and apologists was that a new "Soviet man" was being created.
		I'm taking tonight off to work on the new site; I'll be back here over the weekend with some updates and perhaps the odd item or two, then it's off to the new, improved (well, except for the quality of the writer himself) ideofact.
		The plans for a Committee of Public Safety, for a new terror, may already be hatching in someone's mind.
	ideofact.blogspot.com /?/2002_03_17_ideofact_archive.html (3443 words)

	Amazon.ca: New Soviet Man: Gender and Masculinity in Stalinist Soviet Cinema: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-09)
		This is the first full-length study of masculinity in Stalinist Soviet cinema.
		A detailed analysis of Stalinist discourse examines the imagined relationship between the patriarch Stalin and his "model sons" in the key genre cycles of the era: from the capital to the collective farms, and ultimately to the very borders of the Soviet state.
		Informed by contemporary and present day debates over the social and cultural significance of cinema and masculinity, this book draws on a range of theoretical and comparative material to produce engaging and accessible readings accounting for both the appeal of--and the inherent potential for subversion within--films produced by the Stalinist culture industry.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0719062381 (329 words)

	The History Department at CCSU
		At present, he is working on an article tentatively entitled, "Soviet Dissidents on Post-Soviet Russia: How Have Their Views Changed since the Collapse?" He is currently the president of the Connecticut Association of Scholars.
		The View of Soviet Dissidents and the Reformers of the Gorbachev Era," Studies in East European Thought (1998): 247-281.
		"Soviet Dissidents on Nazism, Hitler, and the Holocaust: A Study of the Preservation of Historical Memory," Slavonic and East European Review (1992): 477-504.
	www.history.ccsu.edu /fac/bergman.html (386 words)

	Quotes and Excerpts - Brainwashing and "Education Reform"
		That is the dilemma they have been unable to solve short of creating a 'new Soviet man' with the instinctive obedience of the termite instead of a free will which is subject to reasoning faculties and is therefore never 'reliable'."
		The language and ideals of each other these fields were taken over and given new meanings and new interpretations in accordance with communist need.
		The man does not have to be a true believer so long as he is convinced that he has no alternative to following Red instructions.
	www.crossroad.to /Quotes/brainwashing.html (1860 words)

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