Bibliograph

Politics and history in the Soviet Union, Nancy Whittier Heer

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Politics and history in the Soviet Union, Nancy Whittier Heer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Politics and history in the Soviet Union

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

114409

Responsibility statement

Nancy Whittier Heer

Table Of Contents

1. HISTORY AS A POLITICAL SUBSYSTEM: The functions of history -- The structure of Soviet historiography -- 2. HISTORY AS A POLITICAL RECORD: The rewriting of history and political unrest, 1956-1957 -- The antiparty plot and Stalin's ghost, 1957-1961 -- Historiography and group politics, 1962 -- Depersonalizing the depersonalizer, 1963-1966 -- 3. HISTORY AS THE MIRROR OF CONSCIENCE: SOME CASE STUDIES: Political opposition and the myth of infallibility -- A tragedy revisited: The story of collectivization -- The Soviet leader as hero of history -- 4. HISTORY AS PORTENT: History as an image of the past -- History as an image of the future

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