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"Drawing on declassified material from Stalin's personal archive, this is the first systematic attempt to analyze how Stalin saw his world--both the Soviet system he was trying to build and its wider international context. Stalin rarely left his offices and viewed the world largely through the prism of verbal and written reports, meetings, articles, letters, and books. Analyzing these materials, Sarah Davies and James Harris provide a new understanding of Stalin's thought process and leadership style and explore not only his perceptions and misperceptions of the world but the consequences of these perceptions and misperceptions"--

The article assesses the significance of the Moscow tour of Peter Brook'sHamlet. It considers how far the tour succeeded in overcoming the symbolic iron curtain by examining whatHamletmeant for contemporaries on both sides of the political divide. It argues that theHamlettour served at once to perpetuate and undermine the divisions between East and West, confirming Iriye's observation that on one level the Cold War intensified antagonism between states, while on another it helped to foster the growth of internationalist sentiment.

Sarah Davies leads us through an examination of the conceptual boundary of Roman imperium, and changes brought to Rome by the establishment of Roman military authority in Carthage and Corinth. As the expansion of the Republic attained a sort of critical mass, feedback from the frontiers brought change to the center. In Borderlands Theory, the idea that the inscription of the borderland itself begins the process of change is a fundamental concept. Engaging heavily with core-periphery models, and studies of ethnic change in the Hellenistic world, Davies examines the rhetoric of the center, in order to understand how Rome was able to cope with its new status and imperial boundaries as it renegotiated its own identity in the Mediterranean world. Likewise, Davies also makes explicit the link between the internal transformation of the conceptual boundary, defined by the Roman idea of imperium, and the real political ramifications of the year 146 BCE.

This article considers how the emerging Cold War shaped the development of Soviet thinking on the role & significance of cinema, which came to be regarded as a key weapon in what was presented from the outset as an ideological war. The article focuses on the impact this had on the making of the great Soviet director Pudovkin's Admiral Nakhimov. Adapted from the source document.

Sarah Davies, The crime of "anti-Soviet agitation " in the Soviet Union in the 1930's. The article examines the prosecution of cases of "anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" in the USSR in the 1930's. It traces how the crime originated in Soviet law after the revolution, and then examines how the article covering the crime (58. 10) was applied during the 1930's. It shows how definitions of what constituted anti-Soviet agitation fluctuated throughout this period. It was only with the onset of collectivization that large numbers of people began to be prosecuted for anti-Soviet agitation. In 1933-1934 an attempt was made to curb prosecutions. This "liberalism" evaporated after the murder of Kirov when the defmition of what constituted anti-Soviet agitation was broadened, and the numbers prosecuted rose accordingly. In 1936 the judiciary attempted to limit the application of article 58.10 again, but proved unable to resist the might of the NKVD which began to apply it indiscriminately during the terror. From 1939 a concerted attempt was made to restore legality and to restrain the powers of the NKVD; in this period the courts were active in overturning convictions for anti-Soviet agitation. The study reveals that repressive policies during this decade were characterized by inconsistency and fluctuation. Conflicts between individuals, between institutions and between the center and regions impeded the smooth functioning of the Stalinist regime.

Intro -- Table of Cotents -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction -- The rise of hacking and making -- New tools and technologies -- Experiencing hackerspaces -- Where the book is going -- Notes -- 2: Craft, DIY and Active Leisure -- The New Domesticity -- Serious leisure -- The pleasures of making -- Notes -- 3: Histories of Hacking and Making -- The rise of hackerspaces -- From makerspaces to DIY bio -- Making a movement -- Our research -- Notes -- 4: How Do Hackerspaces Work? -- Origin stories -- 'Do-ocracy' -- Becoming a member -- Online, offline -- Notes -- 5: The Hacker Spirit -- The hacker spirit -- 'Anyone can hack' -- Notes -- 6: How Do Hackerspaces Really Work? -- Experiencing community -- Community and social capital -- 'What's that in the fridge?' -- Notes -- 7: Exclusion -- Empowerment and exclusion -- The rise of feminist hackerspaces -- Crafting community -- The dark side of social capital -- Notes -- 8: Cool Projects -- The role of the project -- What makes a cool project? -- The Pleasure of the Hack -- Notes -- 9: Emancipation and Commodification -- Self-actualization and serious leisure -- On not being political -- Commodifying the counter-culture -- Hacking, governments and educators -- Notes -- 10: Who Is a Hacker? -- The novelty of hacking and making -- Overlapping communities -- 'Hacking and making are buzzwords right now' -- Notes -- 11: Conclusion -- Community -- A spirit of the times -- Faultlines and tensions -- Emancipation and commodification -- Collective action and individualism -- Hacking and making are awesome -- Notes -- Index -- End User License Agreement.