april week 2 Flashcards
(17 cards)
describe the increased personal power (as an outcome of the great terror) 3
- new party officials owed their educations and position to stalin, glorifying the civil war & revolution and given privileges guaranteeing loyalty
- at the 17th party congress the number of delegates shrank from 1996 in 1920 to 1108 in 1939, no debate, criticism or discussion at the 1939 congress.
- only 2 of the 1917 bolshevik committee were alive in 1940 (stalin and kollantai)
what does t.g. tucker say about love and sonnet 116
Shakespeare uses strong MONOSYLLABIC language to describe love as something constant and unchanging.
The word “love” is shown as eternal and not affected by time or challenges.
Tucker suggests that true love is different from temporary feelings—it stays steady no matter what happens.
issues of duncan smith during his leadership 5
- aggressively eurosceptic and reopened divisions
- remained socially conservative voting against repealing section 28 and allowing unmarried couples to adopt
- due to being key rebel of europe against major, difficult to demand loyalty from backbenchers
- supported british entry into iraq war
- press speculation on the salary he paid his wife (secretary too), faced vote of no confidence
changes to the middle class/professionals between 1881-1894 (2)
- continued to grow as society continued to modernise eg. education and industry
- some became patrons of the arts eg. mamontov founded the abramtsevo colony
- reduced control in zemstva from counter-reforms and land captains
example of peasant poverty under alexander iii
- a zemstva survey in 1880s found 2/3 of households in the central province of Tambov couldn’t feed their family w/o going into deb
changes to workers between 1881-1894 (4)
- bunge passed laws restricting child labour and women working at night, complusory education for young workers (but these laws made little impact)
- 33 illegal strikes between 1886-94. the okrana used factory ‘informers’ watching out for early signs of strike action
- marxists invited workers to join their discussion circles of radical ideas
- literacy rate increased, 1897 almost 3/4 of workers were literate
significance of othello blowing out the candle in act 5.2
and quote
‘put out the light’
- she was just a candle in his life
an object
an image of light, innocence, hope and purity
a silent and small decoration with great potential
describe beck’s risk society
we live in a risk society because of man-made risks
He links this to things like pollution, climate change, financial crises — risks we’ve created.
baudrillard
Hyperreality: Society now interacts with simulated media versions of reality more than real life (e.g. influencers vs. real life, war shown in games/movies vs. actual conflict).
what is liquid modernity
where everything (jobs, identity, relationships) is uncertain and constantly changing.
how does risk society relate to class
says class matters less
can be criticised though
a fresh new green breast of the world - significance
myrtles death didn’t get a metaphor, instead visceral imagery
what happened in industrial relations after the 1966 sterling crisis
then what about the 1967 six day war
1966 - national union of seamen bitter strike
1967 national dock strike
2 examples of post modernist theorists
Baudrillard (hyperreality), Lyotard (metanarratives)
2 examples of late-modernists
Giddens (reflexivity), Beck (risk society)
view on science post and late modern
post - No objective truth – all is relative
late - useful but needs reflection
view of society post v late
post modernism - Structured, but risky and uncertain
late modernism - Fragmented, media-driven, no fixed reality
