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This book is a collection of introspective essays bringing together
the experience of the biographical process of biographers. It
illustrates which type of psychoanalytic response is likely to
catalyze a process that will increase the biographer's
self-awareness as it pertains to his creativity.
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.
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.
"Exciting to read, this excellent book reconstructs a little-known
yet very important and dramatic incident in the Soviet Union during
the Khruschev era. There is simply no other work like it, not even
in Russian. It is a major contribution to the emergin
historiography of the period."
--Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago
"Baron's book provides substantial new insights into events that
were shrouded in secrecy until the final days of the Soviet Union.
. . . It is the first in-depth, English-language analysis of the
events of 'Bloody Saturday.' . . . Baron's contributions to
understanding the flaws of the Soviet system of government are both
novel and significant. Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union is
accessible for college level readers and would be valuable to those
interested in empirical history and an understanding of the basis
of Soviet labor policy in the post-Stalin era."--History
"Exciting to read, this excellent book reconstructs a little-known
yet very important and dramatic incident in the Soviet Union during
the Khruschev era. There is simply no other work like it, not even
in Russian. It is a major contribution to the emergin
historiography of the period."
--Ronald Grigor Suny, University of Chicago
"Baron's book provides substantial new insights into events that
were shrouded in secrecy until the final days of the Soviet Union.
. . . It is the first in-depth, English-language analysis of the
events of 'Bloody Saturday.' . . . Baron's contributions to
understanding the flaws of the Soviet system of government are both
novel and significant. Bloody Saturday in the Soviet Union is
accessible for college level readers and would be valuable to those
interested in empirical history and an understanding of the basis
of Soviet labor policy in the post-Stalin era."--History
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