Dissident Histories in the Soviet Union

From De-Stalinization to Perestroika

By:

Barbara Martin

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Hardback

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.

Author Biography:

Barbara Martin is Research Associate at the Pierre du Bois Foundation, Switzerland. She has published a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals (including Slavic Review) and has co-edited a book on the dissident historical journal Pamiat', published in Russian.

Release date NZ

May 16th, 2019

Author

Barbara Martin

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

5 bw illus

Pages

312

Series

Library of Modern Russia

ISBN-13

9781788310536

Product ID

28725776

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