Revising the revolution : the unmaking of Russia's official history of 1917 /
"The clash between scholarship and politics-between truth and propaganda-was ruthless for historians in Istpart, the Russian Communist Central Committee's official historical department. As part of the state publishing house, Istpart was tasked with preserving the documentary record, compi...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Istpart's origins and mission
- At the periphery
- Multiple scripts for 1905 and 1917
- Viatka's 1917 Revolution in the past and the present
- Fractured finances
- Moscow's embrace of the political
- The passing of Istpart and professional civility
- Methodology ex Cathedra: Stalin speaks and Istpart's legacy
- Their fate.