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Soviet historiography is the study of the study of history in Soviet Union and its sphere of influence (see Eastern bloc). Differently from history research in democratic countries, in Soviet Union, the state-approved history was openly subjected to politics and propaganda (see also agitprop). These trends have been brilliantly analysed by George Orwell in his classic work, Nineteen Eighty-Four (see also Ministry of Truth).
Sources and further reading
- Lietuvos istorijos metraštis: From sovietology to Soviet history: three trends in Western historiography by Dalia Marcinkevičienė
- National Review January 18, 1993: Soviet historiography, western journalism — western journalists slow to report General Dmitri Volkogonov's explanation of his exoneration of convicted spy Alger Hiss by Amos Perlmutter
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