Stalinizing Polish Historiography: What Soviet Archives Disclose
Stalinizing Polish Historiography: What Soviet Archives Disclose
Author(s): Elizabeth Kridl ValkenierSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism, Politics of History/Memory
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Polish historiography; Soviet archival materials; Stalinizing history; Communist regime; 1948-1952; Polish communists;
Summary/Abstract: Materials in the archive of the Institute of Slavic Studies-the premier Soviet academic institution charged with directing the transformation of East European and Polish historiography-do not greatly alter the basic story we have known , that between 1948 and 1952 the Communist regime in Warsaw undertook to reinterpret the nation's history with the help of paradigms supplied by Moscow. The new, official version of Poland's past set out to present history as a predestined march toward socialism , to depict first Russia and then the USSR as Poland's unfailing friend , proclaim class struggle as the motive force of change, and judge all scholarship-past and present-in terms of rigid class concepts. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 07/1993
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 109-134
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English
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