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by Jan Plamper


  Patterson, Jim, 160

  Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 41

  Peace conference, see Second World War

  Peace pipes (caricature), 96

  Peasants: and the tsar cult, 6, 8–9; premodern mentality of, 2, 222, 241 n. 3

  Pelevin, Viktor Olegovich, 259 n. 35

  Peonies (painting), 147

  People’s Commissar for Defense of the USSR, see People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs

  People’s Commissar for Education, 159

  People’s Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs, 88, 146, 157, 178

  People’s Commissar(iat) of Enlightenment, see Narkompros

  People’s Commissariat of Internal Affairs, 236

  People’s tribune: Stalin’s image as, 193, 194

  Peredvizhniki, see Wanderers

  Perelman, Viktor Nikolaevich, 113, 150, 153, 279–280 n. 178

  Personality cult: after February Revolution 1917, 10–12, 245 n. 47, 245 n. 49

  Personality cult (modern), see also entangled modern personality cults, France, Germany, and Italy; and Bolshevik-style Marxism, 19–22, 124, 135, 223–224, 246 n. 68, see also collectivism, and tsarist carryover; characteristics of, xvii–xviii, 5, 24, 222, 244 n. 27, see also closed society, mass media, mass politics, patricentrism, and secularism; definition of, xv–xvi; succession principle of, 24, 188, see also Stalin as Lenin’s successor

  Peter I, 8, 244 n. 33

  Petrov, Vladimir Mikhailovich, 135

  Petrovsky, Grigory Ivanovich, 199

  Photographic template, 30, 31, 36, 75, 77, 102, 103, 139, 144, 170, 173, 174, 187, 201, 224, 249 n. 12

  Photography, xv, 15, 31, 202; versus painting, 7, 102, 103, 140, 144, 194–199, 285 n. 77, 288 n. 130

  Photomontage, 36, 37, 47, 71, 255 n. 111, 255 n. 113

  Physical imperfections, 18–19, 138–139, 252 n. 58, 255 n. 112, 273 n. 93

  Pilsudski, Joseph, 15

  Pimenov, Yury Ivanovich, 150, 159

  Planned economy, 148–149, 156, 165, 182, see also Stakhanovism

  Planning of art production, 103, 156, 165, 182, 201, 208, 224, 283 n. 33

  Plastov, Arkady Aleksandrovich, 159, 187–188, 191

  Plekhanov, Georgy Valentinovich, 19, 25

  Pogodin, Rady Petrovich, 179

  Pokarzhevsky, Petr Dmitrievich, 187

  Politburo, 22, 113, 122, 123, 125, 126, 150, 186, 202, 227, 236, 248 n. 2, 249 n. 10, 253 n. 81, 266 n. 15, 267 n. 31, 268 n. 40, 272 n. 80, 272 n. 83, 285 n. 64

  Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (painting), 128, 268 n. 40

  Political religion, xvi, 2, 6, 9, 13, 22, 24, 240 n. 18, 240 n. 20, 245 n. 53, 248 n. 90

  Polotsky, Simeon, 93, 258 n. 18

  Popov, Georgy Mikhailovich, 57, 67

  Popular sovereignty, xvii–xviii, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 24, 25, 140, 222, 240 n. 21, 241 n. 3

  Portrait of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia (1900, painting), 140–141, Plate 10

  Portrait of J. V. Stalin (1945, painting), 87, Plate 2

  Portrait of J. V. Stalin by Isaak Brodsky (1937, painting), Plate 12

  Portrait of J. V. Stalin by Pavel Filonov (1936, painting), Plate 11

  Portrait of Louis XIV (1701, painting), 5

  Portrait of S. M. Kirov (painting), 179

  Portrait of V. I. Lenin by Denisov (painting), 198–201, 202

  Posing for artists, 102, 103, 137–145, 170, 177, 178–179, 224, 272 nn. 83–84, 274 n. 102, 274 n. 105–108, 276 n. 138

  Poskryobyshev, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 33–34, 50, 121, 125, 128–132, 135, 173, 266 n. 16, 269 n. 42, 269–270 n. 54, 270 n. 58

  Pospelov, Petr Nikolaevich, 200, 219, 270 n. 65

  Pravda (newspaper), xiv, xix, 29, 35–86, 92–94, 100, 103, 107, 112, 119, 128, 179, 202, 219, 223, 227–233, 234, 249 n. 3–6, 249 n. 6, 251 n. 37, 251 n. 40, 251 n. 52, 252 n. 58–59, 254 n. 108, 256 n. 123, 270 n. 64, 279 n. 166, 283 n. 31, 290 n. 154, 293 n. 62, 294 n. 65; importance of, 30–33, 79, 171; in visual representations, 24, 55, 68, 77, 78; Stalin’s control of, 31–35

  Private Aleksandr Matrosov (1947, movie), 213, 293 n. 44

  The Proclamation of the German Empire (1877, painting), 89–90

  Progress (1853, painting), 110

  Proletary (publisher), 124

  Proletkult, 167, 236

  Protopopov, A. V., 193

  Purge, xiv, 42, 46, 47–48, 62, 86, 134, 136, 139, 148, 160, 175, 176, 224, 226, 230, 272 n. 77, 276 n. 135, 281 n. 193, 281 n. 7, 289 n. 143

  Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 41, 100–101

  Pushkin Fine Arts Museum (Moscow), 100, 172, 175, 176, 236, 281 n. 5, 291 n. 10

  RABIS, 153, 236, 261 n. 57, 278 n. 162–163, 282 n. 14

  Radimov, Pavel Aleksandrovich, 135, 159–160, 167, 272 n. 77, 279 n. 166, 279–280 n. 178, 281 n. 7

  Radio, 14, 18, 25, 40, 59–60, 86, 114, 207, 214–215, 223, 229, 233, 255 n. 116, 260 n. 37, 293 n. 44

  Rákosi, Mátyás, 78, 81

  Ram, Harsha, 20

  Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino), 145

  Rasputin, Grigory Efimovich, 6

  Razumovskaia, S., 197

  Reagan, Ronald Wilson, xviii, 222

  Realist art, see socialist realist art, and Wanderers (prerevolutionary)

  Reception of the Georgian Delegation at the Kremlin (painting), 212

  Red Army, embodiment of, 66, 98, 103, 145, 149, 153, 158, 175, 276 n. 129

  Red Army Soldiers Bathing (painting), 136

  Red corner, xvi, 182

  Rembrandt Harmenzoon van Rijn, 171, 197

  Repentance (1986, movie), 221

  Repin, Ilya Yefimovich, 6, 145, 148, 167

  Repin Institute (Leningrad), 170, 236

  Rerberg, Ivan, 183

  Reshetnikov, Fedor Pavlovich, 132, 160

  Retouched: paintings, 179, 183, 186, 224, 225, 269 n. 42, 285 n. 76, 286 n. 95, 289 n. 143; photographs, 34, 36, 37, 38, 53, 70, 77, 96, 183, 224, 250 n. 16, 255 n. 112, 258 n. 17; woodcuts, 129

  Revenge of Muscovy, 8, 244 n. 41, see also tsarist carryover

  Revolution: as linear movement, 91, 223; Lenin as embodiment of, 72, 111, 112, 211, 223

  Riangina, Serafima Vasilievna, 159

  Riazhsky, Georgy Georgievich, 173

  Rigaud, Hyacinthe, 5

  River in the Catskills (1843, painting), 109–110

  Robespierre, Maximilien, 22

  Rodchenko, Aleksandr Mikhailovich, 166

  Rokossovsky, Konstantin Konstantinovich, 126

  Romakov, Yury A., 201

  Romanova, Maria Fedorovna, 141

  Romm, Mikhail Ilich, xv, 160, 180

  Romov, Sergei Matveevich, 197

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, xviii, 14–15, 18–19, 55, 222

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 15

  Rovinsky, Lev Yakovlevich, 33

  Rozin, Peisakh Itskovich, 107

  Rukhliadev, Aleksei Mikhailovich, 161

  Rumiantsev, A. M., 198

  Russian Academy of Pedagogical Sciences, 129–130

  Russian Orthodox (Church), xvi–xvii, 1, 6, 20, 22, 98, 210, 217, 235, 236

  Russian Revolution: 1905, 6–7, 9; February Revolution 1917, 8, 10–11; October Revolution 1917, 12, 31, 39, 42, 145, 166, 193, 196, 205, 218, 223, 236, 280 n. 192; visual representations of, see revolution

  Russianness: and the tsar, 6, 8, 244 n. 33; shift to, 45, 47, 48, 70, 80, 81, 214

  Russocentric nationalism, see Soviet patriotism

  Rykov, Aleksei Ivanovich, 122–123, 139

  Ryndziunskaia, Marina Davydovna, 139–141, 144, 176, 274 n. 101

  Ryzhkov, Semyon, 146

  Sacral aura, see sacrality

  Sacrality, xvi-xviii, 2, 4, 6, 9, 12–13, 18–19, 24, 88–89, 126, 211, 219, 240 n. 13–16, 240 n. 20, 241 n. 3, 244 n. 29, 245 n. 53, 257 n. 5; and art, 89–90, 115–116, 210, 212; and Stalin, 35, 40, 41, 59, 83, 98, 142, 212, 232, 245 n. 52, 260 n. 42, 262 n. 73, see also Stalin as society’s center

  Sadoven, Vladimir Vladimirovich,
87, 104, 262 n. 67

  Sakharov, Andrei Dmitrievich, 294 n. 4

  The Schoolgirl (painting), 185

  Scott, Joan Wallach, 95

  Sculpture, see Lenin sculpture and Stalin sculpture

  Second World War, 121, 146, 249 n. 4, 275 n. 123, 282 n. 18; Peace conference, 55, 59, 96; Stalin’s cult during, xiv, 53, 55–58, 62, 66, 70, 77, 86, 223, 228–229, 230, 232; visual representations of Stalin during, 47, 52–56, 57, 86, 216, 223, 262 n. 67

  Secret police, 33, 60, 150, 166, 171, 236, 249 n. 10, 270 n. 61, 283 n. 22

  Secretariat, see Stalin’s Secretariat

  Secularism, xvii, 5, 13, 24, 222, 240 n. 14, 240 n. 20–21, 241 n. 3

  Selvinsky, Ilya Lvovich, 156

  Serebriany, Iosif Aleksandrovich, 106

  Sergeev, Artyom Fedorovich, xiii

  The Seven Wives of Ivan the Terrible (play), Plate 13

  Shabanov, Aleksei Grigorievich, 215–216

  Shabelnikov, Vladilen, 141

  Shadr, Ivan Dmitrievich, 23, 277 n. 144

  Sharapov, Dmitry Filippovich, 141

  Shaumian, Stepan Georgievich, 152

  Shcherbakov, Aleksandr Sergeevich, 57

  Shchors (screenplay), 271 n. 68

  Shchukin, Dmitry Ivanovich, 159, 178, 217

  Shchusev, Aleksei Viktorovich, 161

  She Saw Stalin (1950, painting), 114

  Shefstvo, 153, 155, 278 n. 162

  Shegal, Grigory M., 106, 113, 159, 262 n. 71

  Shelepin, Aleksandr Nikolaevich, 154

  Shelgunov, Vasily Andreevich, 21

  Shepilov, Dmitry Mikhailovich, 129, 131

  Shevchenko, Taras Grigorievich, 41

  Shils, Erward Albert, xvi

  Shkiriatov, Matvei Fedorovich, 50, 67

  Shmidt, Otto, 38, 40

  The Shooting of the 26 Baku Commissars (painting), 150

  Show trial, 47–48

  Shtange, Galina, 260 n. 37

  Shterenberg, David Petrovich, 159, 272 n. 77

  Shtiglits Art College (Leningrad), 170, 236

  Shurpin, Fedor Savvich, 107–109, 111, 160, 187, 191, 211–212, 263–264 n. 82

  Shvernik, Nikolai Mikhailovich, 50, 56–57, 67–68, 78

  Simonov, Konstantin Mikhailovich, 126

  Sinkó, Ervin, 121

  Široký, Viliam, 78

  Slonim, Ilia Lvovich, 145

  Smirnova, Vera, 123, 267 n. 21

  Socialism: Stalin as symbol of builder of, 38, 44, 46, 72, 87, 105, 188, 189, 191, 196, 197, 223

  Socialist realist art, xvii, 37, 47, 91, 107–108, 114–115, 137–138, 147, 148, 154–155, 159, 161, 170, 172, 202, 223, 242 n. 7, 256 n. 143, 264 n. 96, 271 n. 75, 283 n. 31, 283 n. 33, 285 n. 77, 287 n. 99, 288 n. 116, 288 n. 129; and mimetic representation, 140, 144–145, 188–189, 194–198, 202, 280 n. 185, 287 n. 100, 289 n. 135; Stalin’s concept of, 142–143; versus avant-garde, 91, 142, 148, 166, 168, 170, 218

  Socialist realist novel, 44, 145, 156; hero in, xv, 239 n. 11, 259 n. 35, 264 n. 92

  Society of Easel Painters, see OSt

  Sokolov, Mikhail Georgievich, 190

  Sokolov, Nikolai Aleksandrovich, 53

  Sokolov-Skalia, Pavel Petrovich, 59, 114, 159, 186–187, 191

  Soloviev, Aleksandr Konstantinovich, 227

  Southern Knot (play), 293 n. 44

  Sovetskaia Kul’tura (newspaper), 200, 219, 279 n. 166, 282 n. 18

  Sovetskoe Iskusstvo (newspaper), 107, 153, 158–159, 160–161, 171, 172–173, 184, 195–196, 207, 219, 236, 279 n. 178, 282 n. 18

  Soviet Army, see Red Army

  Soviet patriotism, 47, 70, 256 n. 127

  Soviet time, see holiday cycle

  Soviet-Finnish Winter War, 146, 148, 224

  Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact, see Hitler-Stalin Pact

  Sovnarkom, 169, 199, 237, 275 n. 125, 279 n. 178, 282 n. 12

  Spandarian, Suren Spandarovich, 38

  Spatial arrangement, see Moscow, painting, and St. Petersburg

  St. Petersburg: spatial arrangement, 90–91

  Stakhanov, Aleksei Grigorievich, 41

  Stakhanovism, 66, 75, 174, 180, 182, 237

  Stakhanovite, 41, 86, 113–114, 137, 176, 178, 273 n. 88

  Stalin: and Hero of Socialist Labor (medal), 50, 57, 68, 77, 256 n. 124; and Hero of the Soviet Union (title), 57; as embodiment of history, xv, xvii, 39, 65, 72, 73, 91, 100, 105, 107, 108, 110, 112, 140, 188, 191, 197, 203, 223; as General Secretary, 29, 138, 236, 270 n. 58; as Lenin’s successor (the Lenin of today), 24, 33, 39, 40, 59, 64, 68, 72–73, 85, 93, 100, 120, 122, 140, 145, 163, 188, 254 n. 105, 261 n. 46, 262 n. 71, 287 n. 98; as society’s center, 88–89, 96–97, 100, 101, 239 n. 11, 260 n. 42, 262 n. 71, 262 n. 73, see also sacrality; death, xiv, xx, 12, 81–85, 88, 125, 141, 162, 192, 201–202, 219, 221–222, 223, 226, 238 n. 3, n. 24, 294 n. 1; dedication to, 121–122, n. 25, 263 n. 78, 267 n. 20; designation as vozhd’, 35, 105, 121, 132, 193; sculpture, 37, 52–53, 61, 79, 92–93, 97, 107, 114, 121, 139–141, 144–145, 151–152, 170, 176, 177, 183–185, 193–194, 228, 229, 233, 234, 235, 257 n. 152, 274 n. 101, 274 n. 103, 286 n. 83; Georgian accent of Stalin and his actors, 46, 47, 214, 217, 259 n. 35; Georgianness, 46–47, 48, 75; manner of speaking, 96, 112, 222, 260 n. 37

  Stalin, Vasily Iosifovich, xiii

  Stalin among the Cadets (1932, painting), 195, 289 n. 132

  Stalin among the Female Delegates (painting), 127, 267 n. 31

  Stalin and Gorky with Lenin (painting), 191

  Stalin and Lenin in Gorky (photograph), 36, 63, 81, 84, 255 n. 112

  Stalin and Voroshilov in the Kremlin (1938, painting), xix, 88, 95, 97–108, 178, 201, 223, 260 n. 43–44, 261 n. 47, 261 n. 58, 261 n. 59, 262 n. 60, 262 n. 66–67, Plate 3

  Stalin at the Sixteenth Party Congress (painting), 261 n. 58

  Stalin Constitution, 46, 47, 74–75, 212; in arts, 99, 100–101, 176, 177

  Stalin cult: and cults of Party magnates, 37, 38, 42, 52, 86, 123, 132, 134, 148, 224, 227, 237, 270 n. 57; and Soviet hero (cults), 37, 41, 61, 86, 174; and writer cults, 41, 149, 251 n. 52–53

  The Stalin Harvest (painting), 187

  Stalin portrait: as icon, xiii–xiv, xvi-xvii, 85, 143, 193, 210, 292 n. 25, see also canonical image, iconography, obraz(y), and sacrality

  Stalin portrait by Nikolai Andreev (drawing), 138–139, 273 n. 92, Plate 9

  Stalin portrait competition, see competition

  Stalin Prize, 69, 85, 169, 214, 215, 216, 262 n. 66, 263 n. 78, 293 n. 50

  Stalin Reading Letters from Children (1951, painting), 160

  Stalin Visits the Sick Voroshilov (painting), 266 n. 16

  Stalin with a Child (sculpture), 286 n. 83

  Stalin with Lenin in Gorki (painting), 179

  Stalin’s absence from public, xiv, 36–37, 42, 48, 53, 55–56, 59, 86, 229, 253 n. 77

  Stalin’s control of his own cult, xix–xx, 29, 31–35, 123–137, 138–139, 163–164, 223–224, 225, 266 n. 16, 267 n. 21, 268 n. 35, 270 n. 58, 270 n. 63

  Stalin’s name, see also naming after Stalin, and toponymics; adjectivized, 37, 63, 74, 75; in caption, 39–40, 42–44, 53, 65, 67, 68–69, 77–78, 233, 251 n. 40; visual representations of, 37, 68, 71, 72, 83, 93, 229, 250 n. 30, 255 n. 121

  Stalin’s Oath (sculpture), 114

  Stalin’s opposition to his cult, xviii, xix, 119–123, 125, 126, 144, 163, 164, 224, 267 n. 21, 267 n. 31

  Stalin’s Secretariat, 33–35, 124–125, 127–133, 135, 151, 171, 173, 225, 236, 250 n. 13, 270 n. 58

  Stalin’s succession, 57, 69–70, 81–85, 256 n. 126

  Stalin’s verbal representations, 35, 37, 40, 50–51, 63, 74–75, 229, 250 n. 28; slogans, 52, 57, 64, 66, 67, 68, 71, 72, 73, 75, 77; metaphor of, 35, 44, 59, 79, 86, 91–95, 107, 254 n. 105, 256 n. 132, 258 n. 24, 259 n. 29, 260 n. 42, 263 n. 74

  Stalin’s visual representations, 139, see also birthday of Stalin, canonical image, iconography, obraz(y), and physical imperfections; 1930 until mid-1933, 36–37, 38, 40, 86, 227, 230, 232; age of,
36, 48, 53, 54, 55, 57, 68, 72, 74, 79, 81, 83, 86, 107, 202, 253 n. 79; and Lenin, see Lenin’s visual representations and Stalin; and linear movement, 91, 107, 139, see also revolution; as father of peoples, xiii, 44, 47, 49, 93–94, 108, 121, 149, 158, 177, 193, 233, 236; as generalissimo, 48, 54, 57, 59, 65–66, 68, 71, 72, 86, 107, 108, 126, 193, 221, 230, 232, 236, 254 n. 104, 255 n. 111; as vozhd’, 35, 44, 63, 83, 88, 91, 121, 126, 150, 193, 230, 232; as wartime commander, xv, 54, 108, 193–194, 223; calmness of Stalin, 25, 39, 88, 95, 112, 113, 138, 139, 191, 193, 216, 222, 259 n. 36; children in, 44, 45, 49, 59, 68, 70, 78, 80, 81, 86, 114, 128; Churchill versus Stalin, 14–16, 25, 55, 96; cigarette, 25, 96, 255 n. 112; clothing of, 36, 38, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57–59, 60, 63, 65, 68, 71, 72, 74–75, 77, 79, 80, 81, 85, 86, 98, 107, 129; distinction of Stalin from other functionaries, xix, 38, 39, 56, 59, 65, 67, 68, 69, 71, 80, 81, 86, 95, 98, 191, 223, 250 n. 33; eyes, 15, 47, 113–114, 132, 142, 193; gaze, xvii, 15, 36, 38–39, 50, 52, 53, 54, 64, 65, 67, 68, 72, 74, 79, 80, 81, 83, 88, 91, 99, 100–101, 105, 107–108, 109–112, 114, 132, 139, 157, 189, 193, 254 n. 105; gray(ing) hair, 48, 52, 53, 54, 55, 57, 68, 72, 74, 79, 83, 86, 107; hair style, 36, 48, 50, 68, 81; Hitler versus Stalin, 15, 25, 55, 74, 96, 222; immobility of Stalin’s body, 25, 39, 74, 95, 98, 107, 112, 139, 214, 259 n. 32; mid-1933 until late 1930s, 37–48, 62, 86, 223, 228–229, 232, 239 n. 6; modesty, 19, 120–123, 124, 139, 144–145, 164, 249 n. 3, 260 n. 37, 265 n. 11; moustache, 48, 52, 54, 57, 68, 72, 75, 79, 86, 121; Napoleonic hand gesture, 36, 55, 56, 60, 61, 84; pipe, 14–15, 25, 39, 57, 78, 95–96, 113, 130, 142, 259 n. 34, 259 n. 35, 294 n. 4; placement in Pravda, 38, 40, 50, 55, 57, 64, 65, 67, 68, 77, 81, 233, 252 n. 59, 254 n. 104; postwar, 55–75, 107, 111, 228, 229, 230, 232, 254 n. 99, 255 n. 111; Roosevelt versus Hitler, 15, 17; Roosevelt versus Stalin, 55; secondary, 38, 44, 52–55, 56–57, 67, 68, 70, 71, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80, 81, 84, 93, 97, 106, 191, 227, 228–231, 233, 253 n. 70, 254 n. 91, 255 n. 111, 257 n. 151; smiling, 44, 50, 52, 55, 80, 86, 252 n. 63; Stalin’s presence in absence, 59–60, 86, 114, 223, 228–229; touching of face, 38, 81, 251 n. 37; with foreign dignitaries, 53, 55, 59, 63, 77, 83, 232; wrinkles in Stalin’s face, 48, 52, 53, 107, 112, 113

  Stanislavsky, Konstantin Sergeevich, 107

  Stankevich, Nikolai, 247 n. 75

  Stary Bolshevik (publisher), 121, 266 n. 13

  Stasov, Vladimir Vasilievich, 135, 145, 272 n. 77

 

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