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Soviet historiography is a historiography written by Soviet scholars. 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).
As until 1989 the Soviet leadership and historians, unlike their Western colleagues, had denied the existence of a secret protocol to the Soviet-German Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939, the Soviet approach to the study of the Soviet-German relations before 1941 and the origins of World War II used to be remarkably flawed.
Translations of foreign historiography were often produced in a truncated form, accompanied with extensive corrective footnotes. E.g. in the Russian 1976 translation of Basil Liddell Hart's History of the Second World War pre-war purges of Red Army officers, secret protocol to theMolotov-Ribbentrop Pact, many details of the Winter War, occupation of Baltic states, Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Allied assistance to the Soviet Union during the war, many other Western Alles' efforts, the Soviet leadership's mistakes and failures, criticism of the Soviet Union and other content were censored out.
References
- The Commissar vanishes (The Newseum)
- Bidlack, Richard (1990). Review of Voprosy istorii i istoriografii Velikoi otechestvennoi voiny by I. A. Rosenko, G. L. Sovolev. Slavic Review 49 (4), 653-654.
- Lewis, B. E. (1977). Soviet Taboo. Review of Vtoraya Mirovaya Voina, History of the Second World War by B. Liddel Gart (Russian translation). Soviet Studies 29 (4), 603-606.
See also
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
- Avrich, Paul H. (1960). The Short Course and Soviet Historiography. Political Science Quarterly 75 (4), 539-553.
- Enteen, George M. (1976). Marxists versus Non-Marxists: Soviet Historiography in the 1920s. Slavic Review 35 (1), 91-110.
- Gefter, M. J. & V. L. Malkov (1967) Reply to a Questionnaire on Soviet Historiography. History and Theory 6 (2), 180-207.
- Ito Takayuki (ed.), Facing up to the Past: Soviet Historiography under Perestroika. Sapporo: Hokkaido University, 1989.
- Keep, John (ed.),Contemporary History in the Soviet Mirror. N.Y. – London: Praeger, 1964.
- Markwick, Roger D. Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography, 1956-1974. N.Y.: Palgrave, 2001.
- Mazour, Anatole G. & Herman E. Bateman (1952). Recent Conflicts in Soviet Historiography. The Journal of Modern History 24 (1), 56-68.
- Mazour, Anatole G. The Writing of History in the Soviet Union. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1971.
- McCann, James M. (1984). Beyond the Bug: Soviet Historiography of the Soviet-Polish War of 1920. Soviet Studies 36 (4), 475-493.
- Asher, Harvey (1972). The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of M. N. Pokrovsky. Russian Review 31 (1), 49-63.
- Baron, Samuel H. (1974). The Resurrection of Plekhanovism in Soviet Historiography. Russian Review 33 (4), 386-404.
- Daniels, Robert V. (1967). Soviet Historians Prepare for the Fiftieth. Slavic Review 26 (1), 113-118.
- Eissenstat, Bernard W. (1969). M. N. Pokrovsky and Soviet Historiography: Some Reconsiderations. Slavic Review 28 (4), 604-618.
- Enteen, George M. (1969). Soviet Historians Review Their Own Past: The Rehabilitation of M. N. Pokrovsky. Soviet Studies 20 (3), 306-320.
- Enteen, George M. (1970). Pokrovsky's Rehabilitation: A Reply to Bernard W. Eissenstat. Soviet Studies 22 (2), 295-297.
- McNeal, Robert H. (1958). Soviet Historiography on the October Revolution: A Review of Forty Years. American Slavic and East European Review 17 (3), 269-281.
- Schlesinger, Rudolf (1950). Recent Soviet Historiography. II. Soviet Studies 2 (1), 3-21.
- Schlesinger, Rudolf (1950). Recent Soviet Historiography. III. Soviet Studies 2 (2), 138-162.
- Schlesinger, Rudolf (1950). Recent Soviet Historiography. I. Soviet Studies 1 (4), 293-312.
- Schlesinger, Rudolf (1951). Note on Recent Soviet Historiography, Part IV. Soviet Studies 3 (1), 64.
- Shapiro, Jane P. (1968). Soviet Historiography and the Moscow Trials: After Thirty Years. Russian Review 27 (1), 68-77.
- Barber, John. Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928-1932.
- Pundeff, Marin. History in the USSR. Selected Readings.
- Shteppa, Konstantin F. Russian Historians and the Soviet State.
- Black, C. E. Rewriting Russian History. Soviet Interpretations of Russia's Past.
- Nancy Whittier Heer. Politics and History in the Soviet Union
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