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Adventures in Russian Historical Research - Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present (Paperback, New)
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Adventures in Russian Historical Research - Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present (Paperback, New)
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American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot.
Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or
Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were
seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully
shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives.
Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised
suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to
be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume
brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on
Russian history representing four generations. They relate their
experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first
academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years,
detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often
moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record
dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the
society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.
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