{"title":"Solidarity and the Aesthetics of Pain: Soviet Documentary Film and the Vietnam War","authors":"Kristin Roth-Ey","doi":"10.1017/s0020859024000051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859024000051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Soviet campaign in support of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the Vietnam War saturated Soviet public culture in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It was the longest solidarity action in Soviet history and the first to reach mass television audiences. This article examines the production and reception of a televised documentary film about the Vietnam War made by Konstantin Simonov – a celebrity writer who played a crucial role in Soviet culture during World War II, and then, in the post-war period, in the struggle to come to terms with terrible truths about Stalinism and the chaos and trauma that war had rendered. Simonov's film presented the Vietnam War in lyrical rather than analytical terms, calling upon viewers to draw connections between the suffering of the Vietnamese and the Soviet wartime experience and to enact their solidarity with the Vietnamese in terms of feeling. The film proposes a solidarity of pain and an understanding of war and wartime suffering as elemental and overwhelming. In dozens of letters to Simonov, we find an understanding and appreciation of this vision, which decentres Vietnam and instead sends viewers on a journey back to Soviet history and trauma.</p>","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139967304","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transnational Echoes of Spenceanism: A Text-Mining Exploration in English-Language Newspapers (1790–1850)","authors":"Matilde Cazzola, Anselm Küsters","doi":"10.1017/s0020859024000014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859024000014","url":null,"abstract":"By tracing mentions of the English radical thinker Thomas Spence (1750–1814), his revolutionary “Plan”, and his disciples (the “Spencean Philanthropists”) in digitized collections of English-language Irish, Caribbean, Indian, Australian, Canadian, and US-American newspapers in the 1790s–1840s, this article explores the dissemination of the ideas and militancy inspired by Spence (“Spenceanism”) across the British Empire and the United States. By applying Digital Humanities methods to investigate British radical history from a transnational perspective, the global reception of Spenceanism is reconstructed by examining and comparing a corpus of 275 newspaper articles through text-mining methods such as keyword analysis, co-occurrences, and sentiment analysis. These methods enable the identification of key themes in references to Spenceanism and advance hypotheses concerning both their geographical and chronological distribution: not only when and where Spence and the Spenceans were alluded to and commented upon, but also how a newspaper's geographical location may have impacted its rhetoric in a specific year and historical context. By combining quantitative and qualitative analysis, this article contributes new insights regarding the global circulation of radical ideas across the nineteenth-century English-reading world.","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139670403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Winter-Quartering Tribes: Nomad–Peasant Relations in the Northeastern Frontiers of the Ottoman Empire (1800s–1850s)","authors":"Yener Koç","doi":"10.1017/s0020859023000639","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859023000639","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Focusing on the winter quartering of Kurdish nomadic tribes among peasant villages, this article discusses the patterns of Kurdish nomadism and nomad–peasant relations in the Ottoman sanjaks of Muş, Bayezid, and Van during the first half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the political structure of these regions and the requirements of animal husbandry among the nomads not only created a distinct pattern of nomadism among the Kurdish tribes, but also led to the polarization of relations between nomads and peasants. Moreover, the article observes how nomad–settled, tribe–peasant relations in these regions evolved as a result of the gradual sedentarization of the pastoral nomads and related changes in their subsistence economies starting from the mid-nineteenth century. Finally, this article provides a background for a better understanding of the intercommunal tensions and conflicts over land in the Ottoman Empire of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.</p>","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"295 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138544625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lorenzo Costaguta. Workers of All Colors Unite. Race and the Origins of American Socialism. [The Working Class in American History.] University of Illinois Press, Urbana (IL) 2023. 254 pp. Ill. $110.00. (Paper: $28.00; E-book $19.95.)","authors":"Chad Pearson","doi":"10.1017/S0020859023000536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859023000536","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"514 ","pages":"535 - 538"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139018864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ISH volume 68 issue 3 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0020859023000615","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859023000615","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"16 16","pages":"f1 - f4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139019713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jorell A. Meléndez Badillo The Lettered Barriada. Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico. Duke University Press, Durham (NC) [etc.] 2021. xiii, 261 pp. Ill. $102.95. (Paper: $27.95.)","authors":"Juan A. Giusti-Cordero","doi":"10.1017/S0020859023000548","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859023000548","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"257 3","pages":"538 - 541"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139020028","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peter Kenez. Before the Uprising. Hungary under Communism, 1949–1956. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2022. viii, 281 pp. Ill. £75.00. (E-book: $99.99.)","authors":"Heléna Huhák","doi":"10.1017/S0020859023000597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859023000597","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"685 ","pages":"554 - 557"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138992146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrations d’élites. Une histoire-monde XVIe–XXIe siècle. Ed. by Marianne Amar and Nancy L. Green. [Migrations.] Presses universitaires François-Rabelais, Tours 2022. 304 pp. € 26.00.","authors":"Vincent Hugoo","doi":"10.1017/S0020859023000494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859023000494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"52 ","pages":"521 - 524"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139017625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"James D. Fisher The Enclosure of Knowledge. Books, Power, and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800. [Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History.] Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] 2022. xiii, 330 pp. Ill. £75.00. (E-book: $99.99.)","authors":"J. Myrdal","doi":"10.1017/S0020859023000585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859023000585","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"33 2","pages":"551 - 554"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138988266","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Discontinuation of Print Edition","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0020859023000676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020859023000676","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46254,"journal":{"name":"International Review of Social History","volume":"487 ","pages":"355 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139021825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}