{"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":"\n<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>\n\n\n<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=\"{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;61885&quot;,&quot;query&quot;:&quot;normal&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;effect&quot;:&quot;fade&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:500,&quot;speed&quot;:5,&quot;pause_on_hover&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;stop_rollover&quot;:&quot;false&quot;,&quot;cache_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_images&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_pages&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;preload_reach&quot;:1,&quot;spinner&quot;:&quot;builtin&quot;,&quot;spinner_image&quot;:&quot;\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/plugins\/toolset-blocks\/embedded\/res\/img\/ajax-loader.gif&quot;,&quot;callback_next&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;manage_history&quot;:&quot;enabled&quot;,&quot;has_controls_in_form&quot;:&quot;disabled&quot;,&quot;infinite_tolerance&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;max_pages&quot;:1,&quot;page&quot;:1,&quot;base_permalink&quot;:&quot;\/greatlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lecture\/60617?wpv_view_count=61885-CATTRf4ab8754c58b4d55133426c8d84c9ac0&amp;wpv_paged=WPV_PAGE_NUM&quot;,&quot;loop&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;data&quot;:[],&quot;id&quot;: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\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s glory. And soon after the war, Tupolev obliged Stalin\u2019s obsession with American technology by reverse engineering the B-29 bomber. Unlike most of Stalin\u2019s 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\u2019s incredible career spanned Russia\u2019s turbulent 20th century from Tsar Nicholas II to Leonid Brezhnev before his death in 1972. This lecture explores Tupolev\u2019s 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, \u201cFlying Aeroflot: A History of the Soviet Union in the Jet Age,\u201d 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, \u201cEmpires of the Air: Histories of Aviation and Space in the Modern World.\u201d Funding for Harris\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019 move from communal housing in the Stalin era to the single-family separate apartment of the Khrushchev years fundamentally transformed the post-Stalinist \u201cthaw\u201d 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>","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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