scholarly journals RATIONING OF THE INTIMATE LIFE OF COMMUNISTS AND KOMSOMOL MEMBERS IN THE ACTIVITIES OF THE CONTROL COMMISSIONS OF THE RKP(B) IN THE 1920s (THE CASE OF PERM REGION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 777-783
Author(s):  
A. B. Suslov ◽  
D. A. Kazantsev
Keyword(s):  
Private Life ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Court Cases ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Small Circle ◽  
Traditional Morality ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Intimate Life ◽  
Perm Region

The article highlights the practice of rationing the intimate life of communists and Komsomol members in the activities of the control commissions of the RKP(b) Perm region in the 1920s. It analyzes both the norms translated by Bolshevik ideologists and their application by such a significant institution as control commissions. The use of microhistorical analysis methods made it possible to make significant observations based on a relatively small circle of sources - on materials deposited in the Perm archives of the control commissions and other bodies of the RCP(b), as well as court cases. The publication deepens and concretizes the ideas about the tools for controlling private life in Soviet Russia in the 1920s. The authors come to the conclusion that the norms of intimate relations between men and women supported by the control commissions completely fit into the framework of “traditional” morality, which, in particular, was also preached by the Orthodox Church. At the same time, party ideologists and functionaries of the control commissions preferred to derive these norms from the prevailing ideologues about the "interests of the proletariat".

Acting Between the Spheres: Charlotte Cushman as Androgyne

1996 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 23-66
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Reitz Mullenix
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Audience Member ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Separate Spheres ◽  
Theatrical Performances ◽  
Human Figure

On 29 December 1845, Charlotte Cushman did an extraordinary thing at the Haymarket theatre: she convincingly transformed herself into a man. Audience members who witnessed this performance were captivated by “the transmuting power” of Cushman's “genius” as she became Romeo. This production (and Cushman's Romeo in general) continues to fascinate both contemporary theatre historians and feminist scholars, who are equally impressed with Cushman's seeming ability to create an unsettling paradox. In a recent article, Anne Russell discusses the positive reception that Cushman's Romeo received and questions how the cross-dressed actress could have been so successful “in a period when dominant gender ideologies assumed clearly delineated separate spheres for men and women, when stage reviewers as a manner of routine assessed the ‘womanliness’ or ‘manliness’ of characters and performers.” As Russell explains, the nineteenth-century audience member, critic, and/or commentator read the human figure on stage as either male or female; indeed, such antithetic thinking was pervasive throughout nineteenth-century culture. Cushman was unique, however, in that she repeatedly defied such categorization, both in her theatrical performances and in her “private” life.

Fallen Heroes? All about Men

2005 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Weeks
Keyword(s):  
Historical Fiction ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Masculinity And Femininity ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Crisis Discourse ◽  
Intimate Life

The question of what men are and what they want has become central to public debates and private concerns but we cannot understand what is happening if we see it as a problem for men alone. It needs to be considered as part of a long process in which masculinity and femininity, sexual normality and abnormality, and the nature of intimate life are being profoundly shaken. The emergence of a crisis discourse around masculinity has served to obscure the different conditions under which men live their lives, and to exaggerate in turn the radical dichotomy of men and women. Binary divisions along gender and sexual lines can be seen as an historical fiction which conceals a much more confused mixture of fears, anxieties and desires about what being a man means. The dramatic social and cultural changes that we are now witnessing provide conditions for reinventing the relations of gender and sexuality.

Post-Soviet Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 181-212
Author(s):  
Paul Robinson
Keyword(s):  
Political Authority ◽  
Western World ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Central Authority ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Core ◽  
Russian Politics ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Conservative Turn

This chapter looks at conservatism in post-Soviet Russia, particularly during the 2010s when there arose a “conservative turn” in Russian politics and society. This was associated with a revival of the Russian Orthodox Church, centralization of political authority, growing Russian nationalism, increased tensions between Russia and the Western world, and socially conservative legislation. These phenomena have made Russian conservatism a matter of considerable contemporary importance. The chapter describes multiple types of conservatism and shows that what all these groups have in common is support for a strong centralized state and belief in the need for Russia to protect its sovereignty and develop in an organic fashion, befitting its national traditions. Despite all the differences, as in previous eras, Orthodoxy, a belief in a strong central authority, and variations of nationalism remain at the core of Russian conservatism.

Through the Eyes of the Beholder

2015 ◽  
pp. 195-215
Author(s):  
Nonofo Constance Losike-Sedimo
Keyword(s):  
Political Participation ◽  
Elderly Woman ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Child Rearing ◽  
Value System ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Gender Biases ◽  
The Right

This chapter presents experiences of an elderly woman living in Africa from a Feminist theoretical perspective. Feminism is a theory that argues that men and women should be treated equally, politically, economically and socially. It includes sensitivity to all sorts of gender biases such as excluding voices of women in life debates. The aim of this chapter is to map the challenges and constraints posed by patriarchal value system, as it relates to the right to reproduction, child rearing practices and legal connotation, the discussion also includes opportunities in socio-cultural, Educational, economic and political participation. These experiences are situated in both public and private life. As the author wrote this narrative of her experiences, she went through major literature sources and could only locate a few relevant sources with similar narrations.

Prologue

Alive Still ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Cathy Curtis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
American Art ◽  
Severe Form ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Art World ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Full Extent ◽  
Intimate Life ◽  
Positive Force

In 1959, Nell Blaine was a rising star in the New York art world—one of her paintings was purchased by the Whitney Museum of American Art—when she traveled to Mykonos, Greece, to paint. After several months, she suddenly felt very weak; her illness was finally diagnosed as a severe form of polio. Although she was now a paraplegic, she retrained herself to paint, turning the limitations caused by her disability into a positive force. She would travel to far-flung locations and continue to share her intimate life with women. This book is the first to reveal the full extent of her public and private life.

The Bolsheviks and the Family

1995 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-291 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Waters
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Political Process ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Capitalist System ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
The Family ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
The Masses

The Bolsheviks considered the family to be a minor matter. The ABC of Communism, a popular exposition of Bolshevik Marxism published shortly after the October Revolution, detailed the economic and political institutions of Soviet Russia with only a passing reference to the public services that would emancipate women in the future society.1 Its authors, Nikolai Bukharin and Evgenii Preobrazhenskii, understood the revolutionary process chiefly as the by-product of economic development and expected socialism to come through the manipulation of economic mechanisms by central government, and in this they echoed the views of their party. The Bolshevik scenario did not preclude the ‘participation of the masses’ to use the vocabulary of the times. Individuals, women as well as men, were to enjoy unprecedented access to the political process, and as masters of the nation's resources would decide matters of state, each acting as part of the whole, or more exactly as part of a number of collectivities, first and foremost as members of the proletariat, but also as members of other groups including nationality, youth and women. While families in the past had played a crucial role in the creation and transmission of private property, with the overthrow of the exploitative capitalist system they would cease to function as providers of economic and psychological welfare. Instead the individual's social place and action would be determined by class and, to a lesser extent, by ethnicity, age and gender. Families belonged to the superstructure and were symptom rather than cause; they adapted to the needs of society, changing in response to the transformation of economic relations. Families, in other words, could look after themselves, and appropriate forms of private life would evolve without much outside intervention.

scholarly journals The “End of Times” and the Antichrist’s Arrival: The Orthodox Dogmas and Prophecies in the National-Patriotic Media in Post-Soviet Russia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Victor A. Shnirelman
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Soviet Russia ◽  
Politically Active

A return of the Orthodox religion and a renaissance of the Russian Orthodox Church gave a way for politically active movements of Orthodox fundamentalists and monarchists. They were obsessed with the idea of the “end of time” and argued that the Antichrist was at the door. The article focuses on several national-patriotic newspapers and their interest to Orthodox prophecies about the end of time, which can be traced from the turn of the 1990s. It is examined who exactly, in what way and for what goals developed and discussed eschatological ideas. The major themes, rhetorical means and key words are scrutinized, which helped consumers to disclose the “enemies of Russia” and to reveal their “perfidious plans” and “harmful actions” aimed at the destruction of Russia and its people. A relationship between this ideology and theological teaching of the end of time is analyzed.

scholarly journals FAMILY AND SOCIAL LIFE

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 308-318
Author(s):  
Remina Sima
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Working Time ◽  
Clear Distinction ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Men And Women

Abstract The paper deals with the concept of family seen both as a system and as a unit. It shows how family functions and the structure of family. The paper also draws attention to the separation between home and work which makes substantial differences to the daily lives of both men and women. This means that there is a clear distinction between working time and leisure time, and there is a much clearer distinction between public and private life

‘Yes, My Lord’: Some Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Bishops and the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary

1998 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Geoffrey Kirkus
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Virgin Mary ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
New Work ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Holy See ◽  
Contemporary Situation ◽  
The Church

That we may freely and consistently persevere in our intention … we will that … all and each of ours shall make a vow never to seek directly or indirectly nor to allow others to seek … that except the Chief Pontiff to whom alone we humbly beg to be subject, any religious order whatsoever or any person whomsoever or any bishop or any one else appointed by the Pope to visit us, should have us so committed to his charge as to exercise over us authority, power, or jurisdiction.(Memorial of Mary Ward, translated from the Latin original, Archivum Romanum Societatis Jesu, Anglia 31, 11, pp. 675-685).The above are strong words, even from a forthright Yorkshirewoman, and they are almost startling when one considers how submissive, personally, was their author to all authority in the Church. But, in this Memorial, Mary Ward describes the constitution she envisages for her Institute. The firm lines she draws are even more accentuated in her Third Plan of 1622: ‘We most humbly beg that the entire hierarchical structure of this work should depend entirely on the Holy See and not on any other authority’. Another document headed Reasons why we may not alter makes it clear that the proposals admit of no compromise. The genesis of this attitude is not far to seek. Mary Ward considered she had received divine intimation that she was to undertake some new work to the greater glory of God and for this she was to follow St. Ignatius’ Society of Jesus with its direct responsibility to the Holy See. Sr. Immolata Wetter points out that Mary Ward’s ideas were further sharpened by the contemporary situation of the Catholic Church in England: ‘adherence to the primacy of the Pope distinguished the English martyrs and confessors of the faith. For their loyalty to the Vicar of Christ these brave men and women suffered restrictions both in public and private life.

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