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magazine in February 1941 he was “dismayed” to find breezy photojournalism suddenly give way to five pages of solid text.1 He had perhaps just skimmed an article on a shoe fair in Chicago or glanced at an ad for Virginia, a “punch-packed love story of the new North and the modern South.”2 And now he was confronted by “The American Century,” an extended editorial by Life publisher Henry R. Luce. Luce’s closely-argued text repurposed well-worn tropes of American exceptionalism—including calls to “manifest” duty and an internationalism “of the people, by the people and for the people”—to urge the United States to plunge into the war then raging in Europe, to assert its rightful place as world leader, and to remake the world order in its own image.3 As Clarkson read on his initial dismay quickly turned to “delight,” and he was left wondering how many other “imaginations” had been similarly “inflamed” by Luce’s intoxicating vision.
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This article will address the creation and two-year existence of the so-called ‘Lokot’ Republic’ in Russia between 1941 and 1943. Though fully within German-occupied territory and the rear area of the 2nd Panzer Army, it was afforded a limited degree of self-autonomy that resulted in the creation of a statelet with its own government departments, armed forces, laws, schools, hospitals, and cultural life. The experiment was regarded by its defenders as a preliminary step toward Russian independence in the post-war European ‘New Order’, and today many historians argue that an opportunity existed for the Russian people to overthrow the Stalinist regime with German assistance and replace it with a viable alternative. However, such a view discounts the will of the most important figures in the German political leadership — above all, Adolf Hitler — who were determined to promptly initiate eventual National Socialist aspirations of an empire in the East colonized exclusively by Germans and ‘kindred’ nations. The study findings are based on archival material as well as current Russian and German research on the subject.
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