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Russians formed the largest ethnic group. The capital of the Russian SFSR and the USSR as a whole was Moscow and the other major urban centers included Leningrad (Petrograd until 1924), Stalingrad (Volgograd after 1961), Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk, Gorky and Kuybyshev. It was the first socialist state in the world.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov (Russian: Алексей Максимович Пешков; [a] 28 March [ O.S. 16 March] 1868 – 18 June 1936), popularly known as Maxim Gorky ( Максим Горький ), was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent. [1] He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. [2]
Gorky’s tour upon his return from exile in Europe provides the most concrete and deliberate linkage between the model-based methods of guiding foreign visitors developed in the 1920s and modes of pointing mass Soviet audiences toward the bright future.
Dec 10, 2014 · On one side were those in favor of Stalin’s favorite, Gorky, who had remained in the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution, while the other camp supported the émigré “white” writer,...
- Yolanda Delgado
- Vladimir Lenin - St. Petersburg and much more. The revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin didn’t support the creation of his personality cult. Nevertheless, despite all the exhortations of his wife, Nadezhda Krupskaya, after his death in 1924 the former capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg, was renamed in his honor as Leningrad.
- Joseph Stalin - Volgograd and more. In 1924, Joseph Stalin launched a mass campaign of renaming cities whose titles harked to the imperial era. Supposedly, “by the request of ordinary people”, many cities and small towns across the Soviet Union were renamed after Stalin while he was still alive.
- Sergei Kirov - Vyatka. One of Stalin's closest friends and fellows, Sergei Kirov, was originally among the Communist Party elite and the country’s top officials.
- Mikhail Kalinin - Königsberg and more. For many years Mikhail Kalinin was among the top officials of the Soviet Union, heading the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the USSR's Central Executive Committee, as well as head of the RSFSR (which was how Russia was known as a region of the Soviet Union).
Jan 29, 2018 · Insofar as Gorky’s energetics comprises both a doctrine of culture-building and a theory of subjectivity, it allows us to see in a new light the writer’s return to the Soviet Union in the late 1920s.
Insofar as Gorky’s energetics comprises both a doctrine of culture-building and a theory of subjectivity, it allows us to see in a new light the writer’s return to the Soviet Union in the late 1920s.
