Stalin's Cult in Georgian Colours: Stalinist History Textbooks, Press, Mass Culture and the Emergence of Georgian Stalinism, 1930-1956

格鲁吉亚色彩的斯大林崇拜：斯大林主义历史教科书、出版社、大众文化和格鲁吉亚斯大林主义的出现，1930-1956

• 批准号: 2598732
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2598732
• 关键词: Stalin; Cult; Georgian; Colours; Stalinist

The proposed research topic to be undertaken on a doctoral level at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies is built on my MA dissertation, examining the origins and the development of the Georgian nationalist forms that created the fertile grounds for the emergence of Georgian Stalinism, and aims to broaden its scope through in-depth archival research. The scholarly interest toward Georgian Stalinism has lately increased due to the recent public surveys, revealing that positive attitudes toward Stalin's figure are higher in his homeland, Georgia than in the other former Soviet republics. Although various studies indicate that there are apparent links between the Stalinist discourse and the Georgian national narrative, the initial phase of the nationalist forms upon which Georgian Stalinism has emerged, remains under-researched. Such analysis is especially relevant because there is significant archival proof that Stalin was personally involved in the editing of the first official history textbooks of Georgia and interfered in the creation of Georgian mass culture.For this, my MA dissertation was focused on the analysis of the Georgian history textbooks published during Stalin's rule. There I contended that the associations between Stalin's cult and the prominent Georgian historical figures have emerged out of the Stalinist history textbooks, penetrated the sphere of Georgian nationalism, gave rise to the myths about Stalin's Georgian patriotism and crystallized into the locally nationalist form of Stalinism. For my doctoral studies, I plan to expand my research beyond history textbooks and include literary works, paintings, films and a wider range of archival materials to explain the paradoxical linkage between the Georgian nationalism and Stalinism by examining the Stalinist cultural policy and the policy of history writing in the Georgian SSR. It will explore how the Communist Party under Stalin's leadership used Georgian history to legitimize state ideology in the Georgian society and to what extent the Stalinist cultural policy and its public reception in the Georgian SSR have contributed to the emergence of Georgian Stalinism. Such research is important for several reasons: first, while Georgian Stalinism attracts the interests of scholars due to its perplexity, its historical origins remain under-researched; Second, studying the origins of Georgian Stalinism can lead to a more in-depth understanding of Stalin's nationality policy; Third, omnipresent Stalinist sentiments in contemporary Georgia are often weaponized by various propaganda sources and the comprehensive understanding of their origins is a key for elaborating preventive measures against them.

拟议的研究主题将在牛津全球和地区研究学院的博士学位上进行，这是基于我的MA论文，研究了格鲁吉亚民族主义形式的起源和发展，这为乔治亚斯大林主义的出现创造了肥沃的理由，并旨在通过深入的档案研究来扩大其范围。由于最近的公开调查，对格鲁吉亚斯大林主义的学术兴趣最近增加了，这表明，他的家乡佐治亚州对斯大林的身材的积极态度要高于其他前苏联共和国。尽管各种研究表明，斯大林主义话语与格鲁吉亚民族叙事之间存在明显的联系，这是格鲁吉亚斯大林主义已经出现的民族主义形式的初始阶段，但仍未研究。这种分析尤其重要，因为有重大的档案证据表明，斯大林亲自参与了佐治亚州的第一本官方历史教科书的编辑，并干涉了乔治亚人的大众文化的创建。对于此，我的MA论文集中于对分析的分析格鲁吉亚历史教科书在斯大林的统治期间出版。在那儿，我争辩说，斯大林的邪教与杰出的格鲁吉亚历史人物之间的关联已经从斯大林主义历史教科书中脱颖而出，渗透到格鲁吉亚民族主义的领域，引起了关于斯大林的乔治亚人爱国主义的神话，并将其结晶成本地民族主义的斯坦丁主义形式。对于我的博士研究，我计划将研究扩展到历史教科书之外，包括文学作品，绘画，电影和更广泛的档案材料，以解释格鲁吉亚民族主义与斯大林主义之间的矛盾联系，通过研究斯大林主义文化政策以及格鲁吉亚SSR的历史写作。它将探讨斯大林领导下的共产党如何利用格鲁吉亚历史使佐治亚社会中的国家意识形态合法化，以及斯大林主义文化政策及其在格鲁吉亚SSR中的公众接待在多大程度上促进了佐治亚州斯大拉林主义的出现。这种研究的重要性很重要：首先，虽然格鲁吉亚斯大林主义由于其困惑而吸引了学者的利益，但其历史起源仍未研究；其次，研究格鲁吉亚斯大林主义的起源可以使人们对斯大林的国籍政策有更深入的了解。第三，当代佐治亚州的无所不在的斯大林主义情绪通常被各种宣传来源武器，对其起源的全面理解是阐明针对他们的预防措施的关键。