The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course
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The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks): Short Course is a heavily propagandistic official textbook published in 1938 that presented a Stalinist interpretation of Soviet and party history for ideological education.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
history textbook
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ideological manual → propaganda work → |
| attributedAuthor |
Joseph Stalin
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| collectiveAuthor |
Commission of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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| commissionedBy |
Joseph Stalin
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| contains |
official interpretation of Civil War
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official interpretation of October Revolution → official interpretation of collectivization → official interpretation of industrialization → |
| countryOfOrigin |
Soviet Union
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| criticizedFor |
cult of personality around Stalin
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distortion of historical facts → erasure of political opponents from history → |
| describedAs |
heavily propagandistic
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official textbook → |
| distribution |
mass circulation in the Soviet Union
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| downplaysRoleOf |
Leon Trotsky
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other Old Bolsheviks later purged → |
| focusesOn |
Bolshevik Party history
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role of Joseph Stalin in party history → |
| genre |
party history
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political history → |
| ideology |
Marxism–Leninism
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Stalinism → |
| influenced |
communist parties worldwide
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| originalLanguage |
Russian
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| portrays |
Joseph Stalin as Lenin’s closest disciple
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Joseph Stalin as the legitimate heir of Lenin → |
| publicationYear |
1938
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| publisher |
Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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| purpose |
ideological education
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party indoctrination → |
| reassessedAfter |
Stalin’s death
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| replacedBy |
new party history narratives after Khrushchev’s Secret Speech
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| statusAfter1956 |
ideologically discredited in the USSR
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| subject |
history of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)
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history of the Soviet Union → |
| supervisedBy |
Joseph Stalin
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| supports |
Stalinist line in the struggle against “deviationists”
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purges of alleged enemies of the people → |
| timePeriodCovered |
from the late 19th century to the 1930s
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| translatedInto |
many foreign languages
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| usedAs |
standard reference on party history in the late 1930s and 1940s USSR
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| usedFor |
education in higher educational institutions
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education in party schools → political education in the USSR → training party cadres → |
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| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Joseph Stalin
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