{"id":60617,"date":"2020-11-08T20:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T01:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=60617"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:14:32","slug":"andrei-tupolev-joseph-stalin","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/andrei-tupolev-joseph-stalin\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Tupolev \/ Joseph Stalin"},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">Andrei Tupolev \/ Joseph Stalin<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section><div class=\"wpv-view-output\" data-toolset-views-view-editor=\"89b26404c5cbd5b7d9c1d87d49aa5800\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-toolset-views-view-editor wpv-gutenberg-view-wrapper-61885\">\n\n\n<div id=\"wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRf4ab8754c58b4d55133426c8d84c9ac0\" class=\"js-wpv-view-layout js-wpv-layout-responsive js-wpv-view-layout-61885-CATTRf4ab8754c58b4d55133426c8d84c9ac0\" data-viewnumber=\"61885-CATTRf4ab8754c58b4d55133426c8d84c9ac0\" data-pagination='{\"id\":\"61885\",\"query\":\"normal\",\"type\":\"disabled\",\"effect\":\"fade\",\"duration\":500,\"speed\":5,\"pause_on_hover\":\"enabled\",\"stop_rollover\":\"false\",\"cache_pages\":\"enabled\",\"preload_images\":\"enabled\",\"preload_pages\":\"enabled\",\"preload_reach\":1,\"spinner\":\"builtin\",\"spinner_image\":\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif\",\"callback_next\":\"\",\"manage_history\":\"enabled\",\"has_controls_in_form\":\"disabled\",\"infinite_tolerance\":\"0\",\"max_pages\":1,\"page\":1,\"base_permalink\":\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60617?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRf4ab8754c58b4d55133426c8d84c9ac0&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM\",\"loop\":{\"type\":\"\",\"name\":\"\",\"data\":[],\"id\":0}}' data-permalink=\"\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60617?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRf4ab8754c58b4d55133426c8d84c9ac0\">\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n          <h2 class=\"lectureDate\">Lecture Date: January 28, 2021<\/h2>\n\n<h3>The Irene and Curry Roberts Lecture<\/h3>\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2021 Great Lives, Andrei Tupolev, Joseph Stalin\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/497691223?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<div class=\"topicSummary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/11\/Tupolev-and-Stalin-300x161.png\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/11\/Tupolev-and-Stalin-300x161.png 300w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/11\/Tupolev-and-Stalin-768x412.png 768w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/11\/Tupolev-and-Stalin.png 782w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"><p>The totalitarian system that Joseph Stalin built in the 1930s relied heavily on terror to keep Soviet citizens in line. It also forced them to work for a dictator who took credit for his country&rsquo;s successes and blamed others for its catastrophic failures. Millions of Soviet citizens suffered under Stalinist repression to such a degree that the Soviet Union was ill prepared to meet Nazi Germany&rsquo;s invasion of the USSR in June 1941. One such victim was Andrei Nikolaevich Tupolev, an aviation pioneer whose aircraft designs had already made him a household name before the war. Instead of executing Tupolev, Stalin forced him to work inside the Gulag on airplane designs for the war and the dictator&rsquo;s glory. And soon after the war, Tupolev obliged Stalin&rsquo;s obsession with American technology by reverse engineering the B-29 bomber. Unlike most of Stalin&rsquo;s victims, Tupolev outlived the dictator and led a design bureau that propelled the USSR into the Jet Age and even produced a supersonic passenger aircraft. Born in 1888, Tupolev&rsquo;s incredible career spanned Russia&rsquo;s turbulent 20th century from Tsar Nicholas II to Leonid Brezhnev before his death in 1972. This lecture explores Tupolev&rsquo;s life, his relationship to Stalin, and how his cutting-edge designs for military and civilian aircraft helped make the Soviet Union an aviation superpower.<\/p>\n<p>For further reading on Andrei Tupolev, see <a href=\"https:\/\/fredericksburg.com\/opinion\/great-lives-stalin-s-chief-aviation-designer-was-also-a-prisoner-of-the-gulag\/article_1b87ba87-8127-5414-b182-01294ea0ce8f.html\"><em>an op-ed by Steven Harris<\/em><\/a>, published in the Free Lance-Star on January 27, 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 class=\"lectureSpeaker\" style=\"padding-top: 1em;\">Speaker: Steven Harris<\/h2>\n<div class=\"speakerInfo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"140\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/11\/Steve-Harris.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail alignleft\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"\">\n<p>Steven E. Harris is a historian of modern Russia and Europe. He is presently writing a new book, &ldquo;Flying Aeroflot: A History of the Soviet Union in the Jet Age,&rdquo; which examines the Soviet airline and aviation culture in late socialism. Among his many courses at the University of Mary Washington, Harris teaches an upper-level seminar, &ldquo;Empires of the Air: Histories of Aviation and Space in the Modern World.&rdquo; Funding for Harris&rsquo;s book project has been generously provided by UMW through a Waple Professorship (2016-2018) and through a Verville Fellowship at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC (2016-2017). Most recently, Harris received a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities to complete research on this book project in Moscow in summer 2021. Harris&rsquo;s first book, <cite>Communism on Tomorrow Street: Mass Housing and Everyday Life after Stalin <\/cite>(The Woodrow Wilson Center Press and the Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), shows how Soviet citizens&rsquo; move from communal housing in the Stalin era to the single-family separate apartment of the Khrushchev years fundamentally transformed the post-Stalinist &ldquo;thaw&rdquo; from an elite into a mass phenomenon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1244],"class_list":{"0":"post-60617","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1244","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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