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Two Books on Soviet Historiography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2011

George Enteen
George Enteen
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University
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Extract

Western observers of Soviet life have been apt to construe Soviet historiography as a political barometer. The character of statements rather than the events purportedly described by them has been the object of study. The tendentiousness of Soviet historical writing —its distortions and its employment of such elusive concepts as “relations of production”—have been not so much obstacles to investigation as they have been its subject matter.

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Review Articles
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World Politics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , January 1968 , pp. 327 - 353
Copyright
Copyright © Trustees of Princeton University 1968

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References

1 See Richards, Edward B., “Marxism and Marxist Movements in Latin America in Recent Soviet Historical Writing,” Hispanic American Historical Review, xiv (November 1965), 577–90CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Oswald, J. Gregory, “Contemporary Soviet Research on Latin America,” Latin American Research Review, 1 (Spring 1966), 77–96Google Scholar.

2 Translated in Stalin, J. V., Problems of Leninism (Moscow 1953), 483–97Google Scholar.