Interview on the Actually Existing Socialism Podcast, August 4, 2022
Samantha Lomb, a PHD in Russian history, joins the show to discuss her book “Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution”. Based on her studies of soviet archives Samantha guides us through a discussion of how the average Soviet citizen participated in reforming their new constitution in 1936
Samantha Lomb, a PHD in Russian history, joins the show to discuss her book “Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution”. Based on her studies of soviet archives Samantha guides us through a discussion of how the average Soviet citizen participated in reforming their new constitution in 1936
Roundtable on Collectivization on Sean's Russia Blog, November 18, 2019
Aaron Hale-Dorrell, Kristy Ironside, and Samantha Lomb on the collective farm system in the USSR. Aaron Hale-Dorrell is an independent scholar of Modern Russia. He’s the author of Corn Crusade: Khrushchev’s Farming Revolution in the Post-Stalin Soviet Union published by Oxford University Press. Kristy Ironside is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University specializing in the political, economic, and social history of modern Russia. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled “A Full-Value Ruble: The Promise of Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union, 1945-1964.” Samantha Lomb is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages at Vyatka State University in Kirov, Russia. She the author of Stalin’s Constitution: Soviet Participatory Politics and the Discussion of the 1936 Draft Constitution published by Routledge. |
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Interview with Istochnik Tvoego Goroda, Jan 17, 2019
I was interviewed by Yuri Litvinenko about my life and research in Kirov. I discussed how I moved to Kirov to finish my dissertation and the book projects I am currently working on including one about local officials. As I recount in the interview, that book features a chapter on Sergei Nikolaevich Gusarov, a raikom chairman who refused to open an investigation into whether the district's chief agronomist was an enemy of the people in 1937, probably saving the man's life. Istochnik Tvoego Goroda is a locally published newspaper based in Kirov.
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Interview for the "Worlds Apart" program, Russia Today, June 17, 2018 If asked to name the most oppressive Russian or Soviet Leader, Joseph Stalin is likely to be among the first to come up. The great terror of the 1930s, with millions executed or sent to the gulags, still haunts Russia. What is much less known is that, barely a year before the purges, Stalin sought to democratize Soviet society and society resisted. These paradoxes of Soviet power have come to light thanks to Samantha Lomb, a young American academic from Pittsburgh. |
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Interview for "Worlds Apart" dubbed in Russian- Интервью из программы "Противоположности" на русском
Сталинская демократия?Сталин и демократия — казалось бы, совершенно несовместимые вещи. Однако историк из США доказывает обратное. Уже шесть лет Саманта Ломб живёт в России, изучая советские архивы. Она написала работу, посвящённую Конституции 1936 года. Из этого исследования следует, что Сталин был куда более либеральным и прогрессивным лидером, чем общество могло допустить. Это противоречие и привело к Большому террору. |