The leader, the victory, and the nation: Public celebrations in Soviet Ukraine under Stalin (Kiev, 1943-1953)

Jahrbuecher fuer Geschichte Osteuropas

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-19

  Yekelchyk, Serhy ^a  

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References (110)

1. Derzhavnyi arkhiv Kyivskoi oblasti (hereafter DAKO), fond 1, opys 3, sprava 5, ark. 28
2. Ibidem ark. 53
3. See STEPHEN KOTKIN Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization. Berkeley 1995
4. See notably MARY RYAN The American Parade: Representations of the Nineteenth-Century Social Order, in: LYNN HUNT (ed.) The New Cultural History. Berkeley 1989, pp. 131-153
5. KAREN PETRONE Life Has Become More Joyous, Comrades: Celebrations in the Time of Stalin. Bloomington 2000
6. Ibidem 1/3/9, ark. 10
7. DAKO 1/3/5, ark. 56
8. TsDAHO 1/70/95, ark. 79 (Khrushchev), 89 (Vatutin); 1/70/97, ark. 17 (40,000)
9. Kyivska pravda (28 November 1943) pp. 1-3; (3 December 1943) p. 1
10. Pravda (3 December 1943) p. 2
11. Radianska Ukraina (21 March 1944), pp. 1-2
12. Kyivska pravda (21 March 1944) p. 1
13. DAKO 1/3/72, ark. 12; 5/2/606, ark. 56-63
14. TsDAHO 1/70/881, ark. 3-5,6; 1/23/720, ark. 1-42
15. DAKO 1/3/78, ark. 5; 1/3/82, ark. 205
16. DAKO 5/2/606, ark. 36-43
17. Ibidem ark. 132
18. TsDAHO 1/70/881, ark. 1-2. Although the state apparatus did its best to collect signatures on such short notice, some Kiev oblast party bosses felt that 150,000 signatures from the capital was not enough and that this "low" number could embarrass them before higher-ups (DAKO 1/3/43, ark. 103)
19. Ibidem 1/70/82, ark. 19-20; 1/23/784, ark. 17-18
20. DAKO 1/3/43, ark. 115
21. TsDAHO 1/70/202, ark. 1-5
22. Ibidem 1/23/1589, ark. 17
23. DAKO 1/3/222, ark. 8-12 ("national motifs" and "two to three years" on ark. 8); 1/3/201, ark. 3-26
24. TsDAHO 1/70/202, ark. 6, 29-30
25. DAKO 1/3/221, ark. 5 overleaf
26. Ibidem 1/3/201, ark. 7
27. Kyivska pravda (1 May 1945) pp. 1-2
28. DAKO 1/3/221, ark. 5
29. Ibidem 1/3/221, ark. 5-7
30. TsDAHO 1/70/342, ark. 1
31. Ibidem 1/23/1764, ark. 15, 19
32. Ibidem 1/70/342, 2
33. DAKO 1/3/221, ark. 11
34. TsDAHO 1/70/306, ark. 6-7
35. See, for example, Kyivska pravda (5 September 1945) p. 1
36. DAKO 1/3/201, ark. 15
37. Kyivska pravda (5 September 1946) p. 6; (8 September 1946) p. 1
38. Ibidem (19 November 1944) p. 1
39. Ibidem (20 November 1945) p. 1
40. DAKO 1/3/255, ark. 3
41. Kyivska pravda (12 November 1947) p. 1
42. See Kyivskapravda (27 July 1945) p. 1; (5 August 1947) p. 1; (10 August 1947) p. 2
43. Ibidem(23 July 1950)p. 1
44. Radianska Ukraina (10 August 1952)p. 1;(12 August 1952)p. 1
45. DAKO 277/1/98, ark. 189
46. Ibidem (6 November 1946) p. 1
47. Ibidem (10 November 1947) p. 2
48. Ibidem (4 May 1946) p. 4; (11 May 1946) p. 4
49. Compare Kyivska pravda (11 May 1947) p. 1 and (25 November 1947) p. 3
50. NINA TUMARKIN The Living and the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Cult of World War II in Russia. New York 1994, p. 104
51. See AMIR WEINER Making Sense of War: The Second World War and the Fate of the Bolshevik Revolution. Princeton 2001
52. Vechirnii Kyiv (10 May 1952)p.3
53. DAKO 5/6/292, ark. 22
54. Literaturna hazeta (13 September 1945) p. 1 (Karpenko-Kary)
55. Kyivska pravda (24 February 1946) p. 5 (Lesia Ukrainka)
56. TsDAHO 1/70/306, ark. 20
57. Ibidem
58. Kyivska pravda (14 October 1944) p. 1 (editorial and Khrushchev); p. 8 (preparations in Kiev); (16 October 1945) p. 6 (celebration in Kiev)
59. TsDAHO 1/23/5075, ark. 344
60. Ibidem 1/70/647, ark. 36. The first draft of this decree envisaged the festivities on 27 and 28 December 1947
61. See ibidem 1/23/4486, ark. 12-13
62. See TsDAHO 1/23/5075; 1/70/1291
63. Tsentralnyi derzhavnyi arkhiv vyshchykh orhaniv vlady i upravlinnia Ukrainy (thereafter TsDAVOV) 1/18/58
64. Radianska Ukraina (24-26 January 1948)
65. TsDAHO 1/23/5075, ark. 131-132
66. Kyivska pravda (27 January 1948) p. 3
67. Promova V. M. Molotova na iuvileinii sesii Verkhovnoi Rady URSR v den 30-richchia Radianskoi Ukrainy, in: Bilshovyk Ukrainy, no. 1 (1948) pp. 1-5
68. TsDAHO 1/23/5075, ark. 25
69. Promova N. S. Khrushchova na iuvileinii sesii Verkhovnoi Rady URSR, in: Bilshovyk Ukrainy, no. 1 (1948) p. 10
70. DAKO 1/3/511, ark. 30
71. Velyka istorychna podiia v zhytti ukrainskoho narodu, in: Bilshovyk Ukrainy, no. 9 (1949) p. 1
72. TsDAHO 1/30/1349
73. Vsenarodne sviato, in: Partiine zhyttia, no. 9 (1949) pp. 1-58
74. KP(b)U is the Ukrainian and Russian acronym for the Communist Party (Bolshevik) of Ukraine
75. DAKO 5/3/2491, ark. 52
76. TsDAHO 1/30/1738, ark. 2
77. DAKO 1/6/332, ark. 2
78. TsDAHO 1/70/1731, ark. 6
79. DAKO 5/3/2594, ark. 61
80. Ibidem ark. 64
81. Kyivska pravda (30 October 1949) p. 1
82. The most recent analysis of the tercentenary celebrations is in SERHY YEKELCHYK Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination. Toronto 2004, pp. 154-159
83. TsDAHO 1/23/2884, ark. 136
84. Ibidem 1/3/304, ark. 6-7
85. TsDAHO 1/23/2884, ark. 137
86. Ibidem 1/6/904, ark. I
87. DAKO 1/3/222, ark. 25-39
88. Ibidem 791/1/238, ark. 85
89. TsDAHO 1/30/1348, ark. 54
90. DAKO 1/3/222, ark. 6-7
91. Ibidem 1/3/304, ark. 38
92. Ibidem 178/1/1, ark. 19-19 overleaf; 178/1/7, ark. 15
93. Ibidem 277/1/98, ark. ark. 29
94. Ibidem 1/3/308, ark. 128. Sydir Kovpak was a celebrated Soviet partisan commander, who after the war occupied several prominent, albeit largely symbolic, government positions
95. See for example DAKO 1/24/2430, ark. 101-102; 1/23/4289, ark. 153-154
96. See, for example, DAKO 282/1/5, ark. 44; 282/1/6, ark. 59; TsDAHO 1/24/2423,.ark. 73-74; 1/24/2430, ark. 108
97. TsDAHO 1/24/1417, ark. 9; 1/23/4289, ark. 154
98. DAKO 5/5/895, ark. 3
99. TsDAHO 1/24/1417, ark. 9, 248
100. Ibidem 1/24/2432, ark. 73-74
101. Ibidem 1/24/1417, ark. 9
102. DAKO 5/5/895, ark. 2
103. Ibidem 1/3/201, ark. 40
104. Ibidem 1/11/661, ark. 49-54; 5/5/938, ark. 29-32
105. See, for example, Kyivska pravda (14 October 1950) p. 2
106. DAKO 5156/1/3, ark. 7
107. Ibidem 1/3/304, ark. 29
108. Ibidem 1/11/661, ark. 53
109. Ibidem 5/5/895, ark. 4
110. Ibidem 1/11/661, ark. 51-52