Die Pariser Kommune von 1871 im Spiegel der sowjetischen Geschichtsschreibung
The Paris Commune of 1871 in the Mirror of Soviet Historiography

Author(s): Klaus Meschkat
Subject(s): Political history, 19th Century
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Paris Commune; Historiography;
Summary/Abstract: This work is not concerned with the historical event of the Paris Commune itself, but rather with the way in which this event was interpreted, thus elaborated and processed in Soviet historiography. The brief methodological remarks relating to the distinction between "fact" and "interpretation" are therefore of only limited importance, but not insignificant for the nature of the treatment of the topic under consideration here: None of the commune histories available to date can be subjected to the analysis of Soviet commune historiography as if they were an "objective standard" against which Soviet accounts could then only be critically measured according to the schema of convergence and deviation. Such an approach is prohibited primarily because it could all too easily encourage an alternative assessment according to which an unprejudiced and therefore objective knowledge of history in the non-communist sphere would be contrasted with a discipline in the Soviet Union that merely serves to distort and falsify historical truth, called "history science."PUBLISHED IN 1965 BY OSTEUROPA-INSTITUT AR FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN IN CO-OPERATION WITH HARRASSOWITZ PUBLISHER (WIESBADEN)

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