STALINKA

[Galina Rylkova]

personally, I see no problem with "Stalinka" as short for "Digital  
Library of Stalinism" (its full name). It is analogous to "Istorichka,"  
"Teatralka," "Inostranka," "Publichka" and alike. I rarely heard these  
libraries called by their full names.

On Sep 25, 2005, at 10:21 PM, Francoise Rosset wrote:

> I'm interested as to why the word "Stalinka" itself is a problem
> (I associated it with both the housing projects and the Leninka,
> as mentioned already by others, or else anything to do with Stalin).
>
> I'm not Russian, did not live through or specialize in Stalin's time,
> so this is a serious and genuine question.
> Is it because it's too mild? too facetious? because it was used to
> glorify Stalin? Why would Russians in particular see this site as
> disrespectful or a glorification or apologia?
> Would the title "Stalinka" signal to Russians that that's what
> they should expect?
>
> The only thing marginally un-serious in the e-mailed announcement
> was the lead-up, delivered in Helena Goscilo's usual tongue-in-cheek
> tone.
>
>>  > "Hitleriana" and "Hitlerka" for a Russian collection of  
>> Hitler-related
>>  > papers but it would look like a collection for Neo-Nazis.
>
> And so would this set of pictures to a neo-Stalinist -- but is that  
> because
> this site is warped, or the beholder?
> "Hitleriana," "Staliniana," "X-iana," etc. are standard descriptors  
> and titles
>  for "sundry materials about" X.
>
> The materials: I've seen them, the site is not "blocked" (now there's
> a neutral word... ). I accessed them both times I tried. They're  
> pictures
> relating to Stalin and to the cult of Stalin: no commentary besides
> identification, and the short "Information" window is purely  
> descriptive.
> The Home page picture is a classic picture of Stalin as sun/light/god  
> --
> perhaps the one place where visitors might misread the site, esp. if  
> they
> choose to not  read the description.
> The pictures, if anything, show how totally pervasive Stalin's hold  
> was on
> the collective popular psyche. But the site assumes you know that  
> already.
>
> No blogs, please. Enough little green footballs out there already.
>
> -FR
>
>
> --
>
> Francoise Rosset
> Russian and Russian Studies
> Interim Coordinator, Women's Studies
> Wheaton College
> Norton, Massachusetts 02766
>
> phone:  	(508) 286-3696
> fax #:    	(508) 286-3640
> e-mail: FRosset at wheatonma.edu
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