Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of ...

DIVStalin's death and denunciation at the 1956 Twentieth Party Congress unleashed a furor among soviet historians. Despite attempts of Stalinist apparatchiks to stem the tide of historical revision, in the 1960s a small group of anti-Stalinist historians continued to fight for historical truth, setting them on a collision course with the party political elite. Using intensive interviews and original manuscript material, Markwick provides a unique, insiders' account of the battle for the Soviet past in the 1960s which paved the way for the dramatic upheavel in Soviet historical writing occcasioned byiperestroika/i.br/DIVDIVbPart II: The Context of the Discussions/b* A Resurgent Intelligentsia * The Twentieth Congress and History *bPart II: Some Major Discussions/b* The New Direction Historians * Writing and Rewriting the History of Collectivization * The Hour of Methodology *bPart III: The Political Consequences/b* Collision Course * From Zastoi to Perestroika * Glossary of Abbreviations and Russian Terms * Sources and Bibliography * IndexbrbPart II: The Context of the Discussions/b* A Resurgent Intelligentsia * The Twentieth Congress and History *bPart II: Some Major Discussions/b* The New Direction Historians * Writing and Rewriting the History of Collectivization * The Hour of Methodology *bPart III: The Political Consequences/b* Collision Course * From Zastoi to Perestroika * Glossary of Abbreviations and Russian Terms * Sources and Bibliography * Indexbr/DIVDIV...Rewriting History in Soviet Russia is necessary reading.iHistory: Reviews of New Books/ibr/DIVDIVRoger D. Markwick is Senior Research Associate in the Department of Government, University of Sydney.br/DIVDIVStalin's death and denunciation at the 1956 Twentieth Party Congress unleashed a furor among soviet historians. Despite attempts of Stalinist apparatchiks to stem the tide of historical revision, in the 1960s a small group of anti-Stalin