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Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union - From De-Stalinization to Perestroika (Paperback)
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Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union - From De-Stalinization to Perestroika (Paperback)
Series: Library of Modern Russia
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How was it possible to write history in the Soviet Union, under
strict state control and without access to archives? What methods
of research did these 'historians' - be they academic, that is
based at formal institutions, or independent - rely on? And how was
their work influenced by their complex and shifting relationships
with the state? To answer these questions, Barbara Martin here
tracks the careers of four bold and important dissidents: Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Roy Medvedev, Aleksandr Nekrich and Anton
Antonov-Ovseenko. Based on extensive archival research and
interviews (with some of the authors themselves, as well as those
close to them), the result is a nuanced and very necessary history
of Soviet dissident history writing, from the relative
liberalisation of de-Stalinisation through increasing repression
and persecution in the Brezhnev era to liberalisation once more
during perestroika. In the process Martin sheds light onto late
Soviet society and its relationship with the state, as well as the
ways in which this dissidence participated in weakening the Soviet
regime during Perestroika. This is important reading for all
scholars working on late Soviet history and society.
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