Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: The Politics of Revisionist Historiography 1956-1974 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333792094)

This book explores the political significance of the development of historical revisionism in the USSR under Khrushchev in the wake of the Twentieth Congress of the CPSU and its demise with the onset of the 'period of stagnation' under Brezhnev. On the basis of intensive interviews and original manuscript material, the book demonstrates that the vigorous rejuvenation of historiography undertaken by Soviet historians in the 1960s conceptually cleared the way for and fomented the dramatic upheaval in Soviet historical writing occasioned by the advent of perestroika.

Author: R. Markwick
ISBN-10: 0333792092
ISBN-13: 9780333792094
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/02/2001
Pages: 327
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.41lbs
Size: 8.82h x 5.88w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2001 pg. 35
Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 741