Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography 1956-1974

by R. Markwick

Overview

This book explores the political significance of the development of historical revisionism in the USSR under Khrushchev in the wake of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and its demise with the onset of the 'period of stagnation' under Brezhnev. On the basis of intensive interviews and original manuscript material, the book demonstrates that the vigorous rejuvenation of historiography undertaken by Soviet historians in the 1960s conceptually cleared the way for and fomented the dramatic upheaval in Soviet historical writing occasioned by the advent of perestroika.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349419234
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	02/02/2001
Edition description:	1st ed. 2001
Pages:	327
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

ROGER MARKWICK Lectures in Modern European History at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction PART I: THE CONTEXT OF THE DISCUSSIONS A Resurgent Intelligentsia The Twentieth Congress and History PART II: SOME MAJOR DISCUSSIONS The New Direction Historians Writing and Rewriting the History of Collectivization The 'Hour of Methodology' PART III: THE POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES Collision Course From Zastoi to Perestroika Glossary of Abbreviations and Russian Terms Sources and Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

' Rewriting History in Soviet Russia is necessary reading.' - History : Reviews of New Books

From the Publisher

Based on interviews and original manuscripts, including an unpublished history of collectivization, Markwich (modern European history, U. of Newcastle, Australia) examines the rush of historical revisionism after the death of Stalin. He shows how historians, reviving the tradition of the Russian intelligentsia, began reconsidering Soviet history and historical writing in such a manner that collision with the party elite was inevitable. Their efforts during the 1960s, he says, paved the way for the historical writing occasioned by . The CiP shows the title as with the same subtitle. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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