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The Journal of Modern History | 2013

What Was Soviet Studies and What Came Next

Catriona Kelly

In a round-up article written during the manic last years of Boris Yeltsin’s presidency, StephenKotkin looked forward to the demise of the so-called totalitarian interpretation of Soviet history, which sawSoviet politics, society, and culture as monolithic and emphasized the all-consuming role of ideology and the fiat of the Party leader. “The ‘need’ for totalitarianism as a devastating political weapon may well recede with those who engaged with the serious battles of the cold war,”Kotkin speculated. He also anticipated a time when the study of the Soviet Union would itself become part of history: “That thousands of people in one country ðthe United StatesÞ could earn a living by observing another ðRussiaÞ


The Journal of Modern History | 2008

Thomas C. Wolfe, Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin .:Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin

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The Journal of Modern History | 2008

Governing Soviet Journalism: The Press and the Socialist Person after Stalin. By Thomas C. Wolfe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005. Pp. xxi+240.

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The Journal of Modern History | 2006

39.95.

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The Journal of Modern History | 2006

Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution. By Frederick C. Corney. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. Pp. xvi+301.

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The Journal of Modern History | 2005

49.95 (cloth);

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The Journal of Modern History | 2005

22.50 (paper).

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The Journal of Modern History | 2002

:Telling October: Memory and the Making of the Bolshevik Revolution

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The Journal of Modern History | 2002

Stalinist Values: The Cultural Norms of Soviet Modernity, 1917–1941. By David L. Hoffmann. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi+248.

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The Journal of Modern History | 2000

47.50 (cloth);

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