The Red Guards were a clumsy political tool: young, unruly, and difficult to deploy with any precision
How do you think the Red Guard compares with the KGB?
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- Apr 2017
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The great Tangshan earthquake of 1976 killed more than a quarter of a million people and was another kind of unplanned spectacle.
Were structures in the U.S. earthquake proof at the time? I wonder if the U.S. gov's reaction or preparation would have been different.
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The performers were shocked both by the sudden destruction of the Chairman’s inviolable image and by the danger of serious political charges. Without a word, they gathered into a circle and ground the shards of Mao’s head into dust with their feet. They understood that they had become complicit in an unspoken compact to conceal their secret deed.
Even though the situation had been an accident, it goes to show how unforgiving and heretical it must have been to damage a bust of the glorious leader.
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ries of “Long Live Chairman Mao!” resounded in public spaces. Newsreels, paintings, posters, and statues fueled the cult.
He essentially became king but with such the cult following, it must have been insane to watch all this unfold.
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“Internationale”
Oh yes this was a big part of the Communist movement of early 20th century, no doubt they could have used it for propaganda.
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China’s national anthem, “Song of the Volunteers,” fell under a cloud along with the author of its words, Tian Han. The informal replacement was “The East Is Red,” a revolutionary ode based upon a North China folk tune:
Music as a means for propaganda! Also a similarity between Russian Federation and Soviet Union changing of the nation anthem (lyrics).
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but perhaps no more smoothly than the Warren Commission in the United States explained the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Interesting how many similarities you can find between two nations so different at this time.
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r (more plausibly) his son, Lin Liguo, did so on his behalf. Lin Biao probably did not know much of what was going on and was perhaps drugged as he was put on a plane that crashed in Mongolia on September 13, 1971.
Lots of shady events, the things people do for control of power.
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There were rituals of public humiliation for fallen officials, who were forced to stand for long periods, sometimes wearing tall hats and placards, enduring verbal
There's no justice in this. In the U.S. post Civil War, Confed officials that had formerly opposed the government had completely better treatment.
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Mao Zedong wears the armband of the Red Guards to show his support for young rebels.
The armband reminds me of the Nazi armband and its uses.
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much like medieval Christians venerating the bones of a saint.
Ah insightful comparison here, also interesting that he's glorifying a fruit like the leader himself. Midas touch or what?
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Three broad explanations appear for the causes of the Cultural Revolution: (1) conflict within the political elite, (2) tensions within Chinese society, and (3) China’s international position.
Summarized well, probably good to just star here for later.
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Mao’s declining health (he had Parkinson’s and heart disease) disengaged the one central figure who could adjudicate among rival factions
This must have been similar to Stalin nearing his end?
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o the north, military tensions with the Soviet Union increased, while to the south, the United States escalated its invasion of Vietnam.
These historical oversights really put context on the daunting task it must have been to take control of a country in the middle of all these conflicts.
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Mao encouraged the teens to attack his enemies.
Whoa. Really?
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Maoist writers found an outlet for articles that no one in the capital would publish, and several talented and ambitious local figures aligned themselves to the Maoist cause.
For propaganda especially of the past, one needed a means to print in large quantities, a hard task for a taboo movement in Shanghai.
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ao’s appeals struck a chord with many who felt that life in China was unfair, that it had not lived up to ideals of revolution.
Propaganda to the lower classes.
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massive purge of his enemies in the Party.
Similar to McCarthyian purging going on in America at the same time.
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unfoundedly optimistic production figures, the state increased quotas for grain procurement e
I see a lot of connections between China and the USSR in this aspect
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Lower officials, anxious of being judged “rightist,” too quickly assured their bosses of successes in every fiel
In my organizational behavior business class, this reminds me of a poor business model where dishonesty occurs and a disconnect between levels of corporations.
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which a million intellectuals were labeled as “rightist elements,
Makes me think of "leftist snowflakes" today, save the societal repercussions.
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peasant audiences viewing The White-Haired Girl wanted to kill the actor singing the role of the evil landlord.
Wow! And we thought Americas were critical (of movies today)
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series of arts productions aimed at spreading revolutionary values by appealing to peasant audiences.
Communism relied on the working class support and it's interesting to have this seen through art, where I'm guessing music plays a role.
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he major obstacle to social progress and modernity to be Confucian culture with its patriarchy, land tenure system, and opposition to learning foreign way
Amazing that a country with such a rich history for thousands of years could go against something so classic as their own Confucian ideals.
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s a historical swamp
This makes me think of rhetoric used for swamp today in politics, any difference/influence?
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- Mar 2017
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performances are often viewed as pure‘hooliganism’preciselybecause they cannot be made entirely and transparently intelligible by referenceto any singular binary
similar to pop music discussed
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yet anonymous gendered identity
they most likely support the rebellion of social norms and exploration of identities
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neither all believers nor allclergy were outraged
Not all were outraged but it was overplayed to silence them and keep power in the hands of the church
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social order has required that we clothe persons with institutional power, theexercise of one validating the other
very insightful, connecting history to the idea of presentation matters
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men want to seeaggressive naked girls attacked by cop
Some will look past the group's initiatives and in the eyes of sexists discredit them and sexualize it instead
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The contrast between their treatment and that of Pussy Rio
Author suggests that the lack of clothing discredited the group's argument in the eyes of Putin or he made a joke out of them and thus only gave light sentences. Pussy Riot on the other hand received stronger sentences because Putin had a harder time throwing them off
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pper bodies painted with an inverted Orthodox cross,and began to dance and flagellate themselves in mock penance, holding up signsreading,‘God, chase away the Tsar’, before being wrapped in overcoats andbundled away
wow, you can see this counter culture supporting pussy riot begin to build
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haute bourgeoisie
"Upper bourgeoisie" or noblesse, diction frequented in communist principles
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where today real men do notuse condoms and make women bear the burden of contraception, where gaypride marches are banned and homosexuality popularly branded a disease andequated with paedophilia
examples the author gives of hypermasculinity
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012 Presidential election for which he was again eligible
It's weird from an American perspective to think Obama or Bush could just come back in eight years to run again
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specially the USA as a sometimes rival butalways real shadow opponent, to evoke old formulas like‘Russia has its ownway’and to reinvigorate certain national symbols, like the national anthem.
Here's some music for ya. Also nationalism to go with it, how Putin became favorable at large
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creating a‘vertical power’(вертикальныйвласть)that significantly reduced popular sovereignty in all but the most local electionsand placed former associates from the security services, known collectively assiloviki, in important administrative position
Putin's attempts to have greater control by silencing popular sovereignty
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Putin himself was fortunate to be able to lead his country during aneconomic recovery, thanks principally to the rise in international oil prices
Sometimes public opinion of leaders happens by chance depending on the outside conditions
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ndividuals have norights as persons, only as citizens
powerful statement
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Church and State strive to constrain thepolysemy of the body, naked or clothed, linking embodiment to agencies theywant to limit,
The Russian Orthodox church and the Russian government both play a role in attempts to limit speech; shocking a little from American perspective, where Church ideally is a separate entity
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exists only if and when there exist agents who can say they arethe class, by the mere fact of speaking publicly
LGBT groups and others who are a minority in Russia only begin to be recognized as legitimate only when some speak out. And laws or public officials try and prevent them from doing so. Circular logic (think of marijuana in U.S.)
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was stirring in the USA, and a public sexual culture, including gayculture, was surfacing, though not without resistance. In Russia, however,questions of sexual practices and orientations were occluded, as they had beennearly from the beginning of the Soviet State
Russia often historically slower to adapt certain social movements (serfdom, etc)
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heterodoxy
the choice of word is interesting - - is it combining orthodox in the place of heteronormativity? Intelligent
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short, the denaturalization of identity categories suchas gender
the idea of gender fluidity is often found in certain political circles, though it's also a very edgy subject some places and sometimes is the subject of ridicule
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habitus, depth both in a phenomenologicalsense and in the Geertzian sense of nested framing
The language in this article is very difficult to understand in some cases; the author appears to have a very rooted opinion backed up by scholarly research and a solid background
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iberalism’s legitimacy depends on the freedom it claims to protect andenable its ability to accommodate an ever-widening scope of practical socialaction.
The author most likely is not satisfied with the state of politics in Russia and believes Putin claims to be the liberal identity of free society in contrast to what Russia has been in the past historically
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social media
ties into the other article for Monday
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patriarchal and heteronormative
these two words bear super connotations today, usually only a select group of people with a certain view point use them so could possibly give insight to the author's POV
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The Pussy Riot phenomenon was particularly explosive because it exposed theunstable coexistence of authoritarianism with a liberal constitutional state whoselegitimacy depends upon the exclusion of arbitrary authority from the political fiel
Why Pussy Riot became so popular in Russia recently
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- Feb 2017
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A Parody of Event
Maybe I would have given a more descriptive title to this section I'm not sure. They go to talk about its response to current events which is pretty specific, and it's a good title. Just if I didn't read the paragraph I might have trouble fully getting at what they were going to write about.
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I like the healthy length of each section. I think they do it good justice by dividing it into the topics they discuss. Do we have any similarities or differences enough to merit a different organizational structure?
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The article doesn't actually seem too long to write up. I think if we just divide and organize things well and contextualize things it shouldn't take too much more research. We know a lot about the piece already and are just waiting to fully contextualize it with stuff we're going to look at on Wednesday.
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Primary Source Observations and Language Analysis
This is sort of the meat of the piece analysis. Everything is sort of clumped in about the title picture and its lyrics and things and it's the longest section.
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Origins of the Text
I like how the article is divided into paragraph like sections. This also could mean some of us could spend some more time on certain sections and divide up some of the work similarly?
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response
Is our piece responding to anything? The war's end maybe?
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references to recently established laws
Maybe we could mention what Spencer said about the Freedman's Bureau and look up some info about that
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Image from C.T. Beauman. Gay and Festive Boy from the South. New York: A.E.Blackmar, N.d. Print.
The level of racism here, my god
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sometime around 1863
OK so they might have more context during the war for why it was written. Ours may have seemed to have been possibly quickly written up with lyrics slapped on the unoriginal tune, so we'll have more a post war focus.
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lost to the mists of time
So we have common ground here...
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publishing empowering marches and prideful anthems
This is really true. From what I remember about civil war music, the North was a whole lot more serious about its music and included a lot more orchestrated marches while the South actually had a lot more melody to their pieces with informal arrangements.
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In the midst of a raging ideological war, this parody undermined northern strength and helped create a sense of southern unity
Following the war this pro-Southern parody helped tie unity to the South's post-war feelings where as our piece instead probably does the opposite. Both use populism however for its effects, pretty cool.
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