George Enteen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1435484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Enteen |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Enteen |
| SIGNATURE | ENTEEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Recent Writings about Soviet Historiography
In this essay, George Enteen reviews two studies of Soviet historiography, one Russian and one western, as well as a Russian who's who of historians. The Russian study, which examines the establishment of censorship in the 1920s, is based on archives that have usually been overlooked. The western study examines the struggle against intellectual controls in the years from 1956 to 1974 and draws on archives and extensive interviews. This latter stu…
Protocols of the Military Revolutionary Committee
NOTE GEORGE ENTEEN (University Park, PA, U.S.A.) PROTOCOLS OF THE MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE On 1 March 1927 representatives of tstpart? and Tsentroarkhiv2 met to discuss publication of the protocols of the Petrograd Military- Revolutionary Committee (MRC), the Bolshevik-led organization of the Petrograd Soviet that carried out the seizure of power in the capital. The plan.for publication coliapsed in 193 i,3 for a still unknown reason. Not…
Robert V. Daniels's Interpretation of Soviet History
Slavic Holdings in the Library of Stockholm University
Communications
Fate of the Stalin Myth
Totalitarian democracy and after
Totalitarian democracy and after: International colloquium in memory of Jacob L. Talmon." History of European Ideas, 8(3), pp. 377–378
Historiography and Nationalism
GEORGE M. ENTEEN (University Park, Penn., U.S.A.) HISTORIOGRAPHY AND NATIONALISM Isaiah Berlin once observed that none of the great modern thinkers-those monuments who since the seventeenth century have transformed the categories of our thought and who have imposed their vision upon us--expected nationalism to become the force it is. Nor were they constrained to account for its origin. It was a minor figure, according to Berlin, Moses Hess, refer…
Utopianism and totalitarianism
Writing Party History in the USSR
Istorizm protiv eklektiki
History and the social sciences
What present-day historian has not been influenced by Adam Smith, if not by Karl Marx? Who, in his assessment of motives, has not been influenced by Freud: and in his evaluation of concepts such as progress and social evolution by Max Weber’s writings, even if he has never troubled to read a line of theirs? Too often the ideas of social scientists are derived by the historian from the climate of opinion and enter his consciousness as dogmatic ass…
Varieties of historiography
(1981). Varieties of historiography. History of European Ideas: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 247-254
Soviet Historians and the Study of Russian Imperialism
The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat
Marxists versus Non-Marxists
The policy of "using non-communist hands in the building of communism," almost as old as the Soviet government itself, came to an end at the outset of the First Five-Year Plan. In the early 1920s the Communist Party had come to accept the realities of a socialist regime confined to an underdeveloped country. Consequently, during the years of the New Economic Policy (1921- 28), the party sought to guide numerous institutions in which its members a…
Pokrovsky's rehabilitation
THERE are certain ambiguities, it seems, in my article, 'Soviet Historians Review Their Own Past: The Rehabilitation of M. N. Pokrovsky', that have led the reader to misunderstand my interpretation of the subject. Professor Eissenstat has understood me to view Pokrovsky's rehabilitation as the outcome of efforts by Soviet historians to appease their consciences. Furthermore, he suggested by inference that I do not consider 'the response of the pa…
Soviet historians review their own past
HISTORIANS arrived at a post-Stalin interpretation of Pokrovsky before the party publicly took up the matter of his standing. Pokrovsky's name was bruited about in the flurry of disputation surrounding the XX Party Congress. If-there was favourable reference to him in I956,1 then there was at least one reversion to the formula 'anti-Leninist' in 95 7.2 But by that time those who stood against a favourable evaluation of him had thrown out the old …
The History Faculty of Moscow State University
I spent the fall of 1966 as an exchange fellow at Moscow State University, where I obtained and had deciphered a copy of the academic plan of the history faculty for 1964. In this article I propose to set forth some of the major facts about the history faculty and to comment upon them on the basis of personal observations.' Certain features of the curriculum stand out-most notably the enormous number of hours the student spends in the lecture hal…
Two Books on Soviet Historiography
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
The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat
Recent Writings about Soviet Historiography
In this essay, George Enteen reviews two studies of Soviet historiography, one Russian and one western, as well as a Russian who's who of historians. The Russian study, which examines the establishment of censorship in the 1920s, is based on archives that have usually been overlooked. The western study examines the struggle against intellectual controls in the years from 1956 to 1974 and draws on archives and extensive interviews. This latter stu…
Marxists versus Non-Marxists
The policy of "using non-communist hands in the building of communism," almost as old as the Soviet government itself, came to an end at the outset of the First Five-Year Plan. In the early 1920s the Communist Party had come to accept the realities of a socialist regime confined to an underdeveloped country. Consequently, during the years of the New Economic Policy (1921- 28), the party sought to guide numerous institutions in which its members a…
Two Books on Soviet Historiography
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
Two Books on Soviet Historiography
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
Soviet historians review their own past
HISTORIANS arrived at a post-Stalin interpretation of Pokrovsky before the party publicly took up the matter of his standing. Pokrovsky's name was bruited about in the flurry of disputation surrounding the XX Party Congress. If-there was favourable reference to him in I956,1 then there was at least one reversion to the formula 'anti-Leninist' in 95 7.2 But by that time those who stood against a favourable evaluation of him had thrown out the old …
The History Faculty of Moscow State University
I spent the fall of 1966 as an exchange fellow at Moscow State University, where I obtained and had deciphered a copy of the academic plan of the history faculty for 1964. In this article I propose to set forth some of the major facts about the history faculty and to comment upon them on the basis of personal observations.' Certain features of the curriculum stand out-most notably the enormous number of hours the student spends in the lecture hal…
Pokrovsky's rehabilitation
THERE are certain ambiguities, it seems, in my article, 'Soviet Historians Review Their Own Past: The Rehabilitation of M. N. Pokrovsky', that have led the reader to misunderstand my interpretation of the subject. Professor Eissenstat has understood me to view Pokrovsky's rehabilitation as the outcome of efforts by Soviet historians to appease their consciences. Furthermore, he suggested by inference that I do not consider 'the response of the pa…
Marxists versus Non-Marxists
The policy of "using non-communist hands in the building of communism," almost as old as the Soviet government itself, came to an end at the outset of the First Five-Year Plan. In the early 1920s the Communist Party had come to accept the realities of a socialist regime confined to an underdeveloped country. Consequently, during the years of the New Economic Policy (1921- 28), the party sought to guide numerous institutions in which its members a…
Soviet Historians and the Study of Russian Imperialism
The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat
History and the social sciences
What present-day historian has not been influenced by Adam Smith, if not by Karl Marx? Who, in his assessment of motives, has not been influenced by Freud: and in his evaluation of concepts such as progress and social evolution by Max Weber’s writings, even if he has never troubled to read a line of theirs? Too often the ideas of social scientists are derived by the historian from the climate of opinion and enter his consciousness as dogmatic ass…
Varieties of historiography
(1981). Varieties of historiography. History of European Ideas: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 247-254
Istorizm protiv eklektiki
Historiography and Nationalism
GEORGE M. ENTEEN (University Park, Penn., U.S.A.) HISTORIOGRAPHY AND NATIONALISM Isaiah Berlin once observed that none of the great modern thinkers-those monuments who since the seventeenth century have transformed the categories of our thought and who have imposed their vision upon us--expected nationalism to become the force it is. Nor were they constrained to account for its origin. It was a minor figure, according to Berlin, Moses Hess, refer…
Utopianism and totalitarianism
Writing Party History in the USSR
Totalitarian democracy and after
Totalitarian democracy and after: International colloquium in memory of Jacob L. Talmon." History of European Ideas, 8(3), pp. 377–378
Fate of the Stalin Myth
Communications
Slavic Holdings in the Library of Stockholm University
Protocols of the Military Revolutionary Committee
NOTE GEORGE ENTEEN (University Park, PA, U.S.A.) PROTOCOLS OF THE MILITARY REVOLUTIONARY COMMITTEE On 1 March 1927 representatives of tstpart? and Tsentroarkhiv2 met to discuss publication of the protocols of the Petrograd Military- Revolutionary Committee (MRC), the Bolshevik-led organization of the Petrograd Soviet that carried out the seizure of power in the capital. The plan.for publication coliapsed in 193 i,3 for a still unknown reason. Not…
Robert V. Daniels's Interpretation of Soviet History
Recent Writings about Soviet Historiography
In this essay, George Enteen reviews two studies of Soviet historiography, one Russian and one western, as well as a Russian who's who of historians. The Russian study, which examines the establishment of censorship in the 1920s, is based on archives that have usually been overlooked. The western study examines the struggle against intellectual controls in the years from 1956 to 1974 and draws on archives and extensive interviews. This latter stu…
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