スターリニズムの演出と舞台装置 : ボリシェヴィキ党大会(一九二七-一九三四年)(<特集>2011年度大会)

抄録

There has been a major development in the study of Stalinism from cultural perspectives over the last two decades. One of the topics which historians have recently extensively discussed is how Stalinism and the authority of the one-Party state were represented at various public festivals, propaganda events and ritualistic Party meetings. However, the Party congress has so far drawn scant attention from historians as a Soviet political festival-cum-ritual even after the "archival bonanza". At the congresses between 1927 (the Fifteenth Congress) and 1934 (the Seventeenth Congress), Stalinism was carefully orchestrated as a means of projecting the authority of Stalin and the Party for consumption by the mass Soviet public. The means of orchestration included the careful selection of the date of convening; the special delegate's numbers given to Stalin and other top officials; propaganda events which represented the bright future of the USSR; and the gift-giving to Stalin by local Party organs. Time and again, these "scenes" were also reproduced in post-congress propagandas, by which the memory and significance of each congress became "homogenized". The Party congresses therefore constituted an essential part in the consolidation of the Stalinist regime in the late 1920s- early 1930s.