Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин; born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, Russian: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили; 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 and later held the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee from 1922 until his death in 1953. While the office of the General Secretary was officially elective and not initially regarded as the top position in the Soviet state, Stalin managed to use it to consolidate more and more power in his hands after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924 and gradually put down all opposition groups within the Communist Party. This included Leon Trotsky, a socialist theorist and the principal critic of Stalin among the early Soviet leaders, who was exiled from the Soviet Union in 1929. Whereas Trotsky was an exponent of permanent revolution, it was Stalin's concept of socialism in one country that became the primary focus of Soviet politics.
"The Man" is a slang phrase that may refer to the government or to some other authority in a position of power. In addition to this derogatory connotation, it may also serve as a term of respect and praise.
The phrase "the Man is keeping me down" is commonly used to describe oppression. The phrase "stick it to the Man" encourages resistance to authority, and essentially means "fight back" or "resist", either openly or via sabotage.
The earliest recorded use[citation needed] of the term "the Man" in the American sense dates back to a letter written by a young Alexander Hamilton in September 1772, when he was 15. In a letter to his father James Hamilton, published in the Royal Dutch-American Gazette, he described the response of the Dutch governor of St. Croix to a hurricane that raked that island on August 31, 1772. "Our General has issued several very salutary and humane regulations and both in his publick and private measures, has shewn himself the Man." [dubious – discuss] In the Southern U.S. states, the phrase came to be applied to any man or any group in a position of authority, or to authority in the abstract. From about the 1950s the phrase was also an underworld code word for police, the warden of a prison or other law enforcement or penal authorities.
Stephen Mark Kotkin is Professor of History and director of the Program in Russian Studies at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of the Soviet Union and has recently begun to research Eurasia more generally.
Kotkin graduated from the University of Rochester in 1981 and studied history under Reginald Zelnik and Martin Malia at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his M.A. in 1983 and his Ph.D. in 1988.
He is perhaps best known for Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization, which exposes the realities of everyday life in the Soviet city of Magnitogorsk during the 1930s. He published Armageddon Averted, a short history of the fall of the Soviet Union, in 2001. He is currently working on a multi-century history of Siberia, focusing on the Ob River valley.
Kotkin frequently writes on Russian and Eurasian affairs for the popular American press, particularly The New Republic. He is currently a W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
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A fiction film made with fragments of reality. An historical documentary made by cogging fictional elements. This is the odyssey of those who dared dreaming and were devoured by their dreams. An adventure into the origins of cinema and utopias, an historical road movie. The K Effect recounts Maxime's passionate life during the 20th century: a century shaken by fascinating utopias that spawned cheerful dreams and dreadful nightmares. Lights and shadows. The great metaphor of cinema. Una película de ficción realizada con fragmentos de realidad, un documental histórico filmado con los engranajes de la ficción. La odisea de aquellos que se arriesgaron a soñar y fueron devorados por sus sueños. Una aventura en los orígenes del cine y las utopías, una road movie histórica. El Efecto K nos narra la vida de Máxime en un siglo XX convulso por las hermosas utopías que engendraron sueños felices y pesadillas atroces. Luces y sombras. La gran metáfora del Cine.
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Melding the seemingly disparate traditions of apocalyptic live-action graphic novel and charming Victoria-era toy theater, Dante's Inferno is a subversive, darkly satirical update of the original 14th century literary classic. Retold with the use of intricately hand-drawn paper puppets and miniature sets, and without the use of CGI effects, this unusual travelogue takes viewers on a tour of hell. And what we find there, looks a lot like the modern world. Sporting a hoodie and a hang-over from the previous night's debauchery, Dante wakes to find he is lost - physically and metaphorically - in a strange part of town. He asks the first guy he sees for some help: The ancient Roman poet Virgil, wearing a mullet and what looks like a brown bathrobe. Having no one else to turn to, Dante's quickly convinced that his only means for survival is to follow Virgil voyage down, down through the depths of Hell. The pair cross into the underworld and there Virgil shows Dante the underbelly of the Inferno, which closely resembles the decayed landscape of modern urban life. Dante and Virgil's chronicles are set against a familiar backdrop of used car lots, strip malls, gated communities, airport security checks, and the U.S. Capitol. Here, hot tubs simmer with sinners, and the river Styx is engorged with sewage swimmers. Also familiar is the contemporary cast of presidents, politicians, popes and pop-culture icons sentenced to eternal suffering of the most cruel and unusual kind: Heads sewn on backwards, bodies wrenched in half, never-ending blow jobs, dancing to techno for eternity, and last, but certainly not least, an inside look at Lucifer himself, from the point of view of a fondue-dunked human appetizer. Each creatively horrific penance suits the crime, and the soul who perpetrated it. As Dante spirals through the nine circles of hell, he comes to understand the underworld's merciless machinery of punishment, emerging a new man destined to change the course of his life. But not, of course, the brand of his beer.
Keywords: allegory, anger, astrologer, based-on-novel, catholic, dante's-inferno, dick-cheney, divine-comedy, fraud, gluttony
The epic film of a lost young man's journey through hell.
Dante. Virgil. Hell. Puppets. Questions?
To Hell and back through the streets of America: a journey in toy theater.
Virgil: This is Hell, Dante. Not your personal fantasy.
Ulysses - Strom Thurmond: I'm not Mrs. Butterworth, God Dammit. I'm Senator Strom Thurmond.
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Stalin is an ex-military man who spends his time in helping people. He usually gets peeved that the apathy in the society and how it affects in turn. He wants to bring change in the society by implementing a simple formula of extending unconditional help to those are in need. The rest of the story is all about how he transforms the society with that simple formula.
Keywords: action-hero, arm-cut-off, army, attempted-murder, bullet-in-body, car-chase, character-name-in-title, do-gooder, evil-politician, ex-army-officer
Man for the Society
Stalin: If you were born to a mother and a father, then attack me before you attack my family.
Stalin: While you are holding me back to stop me, your hand is touching my heart. Dont you feel the power inside my heart?
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The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
Keywords: 1940s, based-on-novel, belarus, firearm, great-patriotic-war, month-in-title, russian-soldier, spy, world-war-two, year-1944
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Few knew that Stalin spent his last night in the arms of a young Australian woman. Few still knew that their "love-child" brought Australia to the brink of civil war. Until now ...
Keywords: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, abandoned-by-husband, abduction, accountant, activism, activist, angina
What do you do when your father is no ordinary Joe?
A red comedy about the ultimate party animals.
Joan Fraser: Discreet! Oh, for God's sake! We're not talking about dance classes, we're talking about the bloody proletariat revolution!
Zachary Welch: [in reference to the pub closing] I don't know, frankly, how we'll ever get the revolution going with 6 o'clock closing.
David Hoyle: Stalin? You killed Josef Stalin?::Joan Fraser: Yes.::David Hoyle: What did you do to him?::Joan Fraser: I don't know I don't remember... I don't recall. I think we were in his room.::David Hoyle: You were in his... bedroom, Joan? His bedroom!::Joan Fraser: I think so.
Joan Fraser: There's no father Welch.::Zachary Welch: Joan I'm not an educated man but I do understand a few basic facts.
Joan Fraser: [in reference to her unborn child] It's a bastard of a world out there if you know what I mean.
Joan Fraser: All your life you'll here a lot of things about important people and some of them will be true and some of them will not.
Police: [Joe trying to get himself arrested] Well, if it isn't public enemy number one? Have you been robbing banks again?::[Joe nods eagerly]::Police: Very naughty, hold out your hands.
Constable Anna: Yes, it was strange, and rather perverse. But... that's love for you.
Joe: Isn't the point to help people?::Joan Fraser: Well, people, yes. Not the police!
Stalin: Yuri, have you been smoking?::Yuri Nikolayev: No, Comrade Secretary.::Stalin: [sniffs air] Who has been smoking?::Yuri Nikolayev: Punin. Pezyriv. Slepak. Druchin. Yermolinsky.::Stalin: [pats Yuri's back] Good.::Yuri Nikolayev: Askenov.::Stalin: Ah.::Yuri Nikolayev: [turns to leave, continues denouncing people] Troepolski. Ezvekov.::Stalin: Good.::Yuri Nikolayev: [walking away] Yegorov.::Stalin: Yeah.::Yuri Nikolayev: [exits Stalin's office] Mikhalov.::Stalin: Good.::Yuri Nikolayev: [from next room] Troegubov.::Stalin: That's enough!
Taking the Red Out of Stalin
I won't let you break me, baby [x2]
[Verse 1:]
The other night I knew
That girl was checkin you
Thought I had no clue (but I knew)
Her freckle flappin eyes
They took you by surprise
And I was the one who got all your lies
[Chorus:]
After so long I've had you
Didn't think I dare to do
The dirty that you do
The dirty that you do
And night after night
The screamin and the fights
Baby, I'll be alright (baby, I will be alright)
Go ahead play me, boy
Just don't be waiting up at night (at night)
You won't break me, baby
When will you see, boy
I'm just too grown fight (to fight)
(I won't let you break me, baby)
You can't break me, baby
[Verse 2:]
Still remembering your call
All about some dirty note
That quote, "I want you"
Still sitting down to cry
Instead of calling to ask you why
I wrote a note back that said goodbye
[Chorus:]
After so long I've had you
Didn't think I dare to do
The dirty that you do
The dirty that you do, baby
And night after night
The screamin and the fights
Baby, I'll be alright (baby, I will be alright)
Go ahead play me, boy
Just don't be waiting up at night (at night)
You won't break me, baby
When will you see, boy
I'm just too grown fight (to fight)
(I won't let you break me, baby)
You can't break me, baby
[Hook:]
Got my girls up on the phone
They can tell just by my tone
I'm all grown and I'll be fine all on my own
Took a shower and got dressed
To the open I looked passed
And spotted our past
[Chorus:]
After so long I've had you
Didn't think I dare to do
The dirty that you do
The dirty that you do, baby
And night after night
The screamin and the fights
Baby, I'll be alright (baby, I will be alright)
Go ahead play me, boy
Just don't be waiting up at night (at night)
You won't break me, baby
When will you see, boy
I'm just too grown fight (to fight)
(I won't let you break me, baby)
You can't break me, baby
Go ahead play me, boy
Just don't be waiting up at night (at night)
You won't break me, baby
When will you see, boy
I'm just too grown fight (to fight)