Samuel H. Baron, Cathy Frierson

Adventures in Russian Historical Research (eBook, PDF)

Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their research trips were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official monitors. They were seeking access to a historical record that was purposefully shrouded in secrecy, boxed up and locked away in closed archives. Their efforts, indeed their curiosity itself, sometimes raised suspicion at home as well as in a Soviet Union that did not want to be known even while it felt misunderstood. This lively volume brings together the reflections of twenty leading specialists on Russian history representing four generations. They relate their experiences as historians and researchers in Russia from the first academic exchanges in the 1950s through the Cold War years, detente, glasnost, and the first post-Soviet decade. Their often moving, acutely observed stories of Russian academic life record dramatic change both in the historical profession and in the society that they have devoted their careers to understanding.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317477747
• Artikelnr.: 42644105

Autorenporträt

Samuel H. Baron, Cathy A. Frierson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 My Historical Research in the Soviet Union, Nicholas V. Riasanovsky
Chapter 2 A Tale of Two Inquiries, Samuel H. Baron
Chapter 3 Discovering Rural Russia, Priscilla Roosevelt
Chapter 4 Catherine the Great and the Rats, John T. Alexander
Chapter 5 Exploration and Adventure in the Two Capitals, Richard Stites
Chapter 6 Leningrad, 1966-1967, S. Frederick Starr
Chapter 7 Adventures and Misadventures, Hugh Ragsdale
Chapter 8 Reclaiming Peter the Great, James Cracraft
Chapter 9 Prisoner of the Zeitgeist, Laura Engelstein
Chapter 10 Of Outcomes Happy and Unhappy, Bruce W. Menning
Chapter 11 A Journey from St. Petersburg to Saratov, Donald J. Raleigh
Chapter 12 Romancing the Sources, Nancy Shields Kollmann
Chapter 13 Russian History from Coast to Coast, Elise Kimerling Wirtschafter
Chapter 14 Friends and Colleagues, Eve Levin
Chapter 15 Within and Beyond the Pale, RobertWeinberg
Chapter 16 Mysteries in the Realms of History and Memory, Cathy A. Frierson
Chapter 17 A Historian of Science Works from the Bottom Up, Paul R. Josephson
Chapter 18 Orthodoxies and Revisions, Nadieszda Kizenko
Chapter 19 Post-Soviet Improvisations, Golfo Alexopoulos
Chapter 20 Hits and Misses in the Archives of Kazakhstan, Steven A. Barnes