Redesigning History in Contemporary Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10075486 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Catherine Merridale (University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 13-28 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0094 • E-ISSN: 1461-7250 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0022009403038001961 |
| OpenAlex | W2008840033 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
The past is something that dictatorships do not leave to chance. They almost always control academic research. They limit public access to information. Most conspicuously of all, they also try to define popular history, including school and university courses, as well as media output, literature, commemoration and public space. These features have been common to most of the dictatorships of the past two centuries, but for those whose propaganda has emphasized an ideology of progress, they have been crucial. Marxism, which views all history through the lens of its own teleology, invites a radical rethinking of the past. Not surprisingly, history-writing was among the most controversial of academic pursuits in communist states such as the former Soviet Union
Ancient history · Political science · Russian history · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Soviet and Russian History
Of Credits, Kontrakty and Critical Thinking
How the past weighs on the present
Putinistisk historiepolitikk
The Lost Atlantis of Objectivity
The Vicissitudes of Socialism in Russian History Textbooks
Millions of Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews, People of All Ethnicities’
Which History Matters? Surveying Russian Youth and Their Understandings of the Past
Narrowcasting collective memory online
Never-Ending Second World War
Representations of the past in the Estonian Russian-language press
The embarrassing centenary
Relative deprivation versus system justification
National Humiliation, History Education, and the Politics of Historical Memory
History as ideology
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2021 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |