History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past articles from September 2009

History and Memory: Studies in Representation of the Past archives from September 2009

Stigmatized by history or by historians? The peoples of Russia in school history textbooks.(Report)
September 22, 2009... Russia is an ethno-federal state that includes, as did the USSR before it, several "national" (i.e., ethnically based) republics in addition to provinces. The former are named after their "titular peoples," i.e., the indigenous ethnic group of a...

The transformation of historiography on the "punished peoples".
September 22, 2009... One of the central issues that has troubled post-Soviet historiography regarding the Soviet period as a whole and the Stalin era in particular has been the Soviet regime's nationalities policy. While a great deal of literature appeared on the...

Russian historiography of the 1917 revolution: new challenges to old paradigms?(Report)
September 22, 2009... Francois Furet, the well-known historian of the French Revolution, stated with justification that "the revolution is over." (1) For 200 years now the main figures of contemporary politics have not identified with the main figures of that...

From the editor.(Editorial)
September 22, 2009... "Our future," it has been sarcastically asserted by contemporary Russian historians, "is crystal clear, but our past is absolutely unpredictable." This issue examines the changing trends of historical research in Russia following the demise of...

War, politics and memory: Russian historians reevaluate the origins of World War II.
September 22, 2009... The myth of the Great Patriotic War was the most important component in defining the identity of the Soviet peoples after 1945. While some scholars have argued that the cult of World War II was cynically manufactured by the communist regime for...

The new Russian historiography and the old--some considerations.(Essay)
September 22, 2009... Historiography is a singular branch of the historical discipline. Whereas the other branches deal usually with personalities, events, processes and ideas in the past, historiography explores the minds and the writings of those who study the...

The vicissitudes of socialism in Russian history textbooks.(Report)
September 22, 2009... The twentieth-century fin de siecle marked a watershed in Russian historical studies. The rejection of Marxism, which had long supplied the theoretical basis for Soviet historical scholarship, brought about a profound shift in the conceptual...