Creating the Soviet Historical Profession, 1917-1934
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4211238 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert F Byrnes (Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 297-308 |
| Publication date | 1991-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2500205 |
| OpenAlex | W2330684629 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Despite the richness of primary sources covering the 1917-1921 period of Soviet history, the swirl of events and disagreements over policy among the Bolsheviks make the period confusing for the scholar. In this confusion and understandable disorder, the goals and policies of the Soviet leaders were remarkably consistent: They sought to acquire and retain full control. Lenin and his colleagues were fully aware of the importance of history and of those who wrote and taught it. In their new world, history was to provide the scientific explanation of the past and provide guidance for the future, but acquiring power and beginning construction of the new society occupied higher priorities for them than did the, historical profession
Aesthetics · Confusion · Economic history · Period (music · Political science · Power (physics · Psychoanalysis · Russian history · Social science · Sociology · History · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Philosophy · Philosophy, History, and Historiography · Psychology · Soviet and Russian History
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |