Chapter Reading Stalinism: Stalinist Culture as a Research Feld in the West
Abstract
This article analyses the research field of Stalinist culture, which has been rapidly changing since the early 1990s when the study of Stalinism left the sphere of traditional Sovietology and gradually became one of the dominant subjects in the history of the 20th century. Among the main factors that influenced the formation of this research field, one can name the change of generations of scholars, inter-disciplinarity and methodological shifts, democratization, and the opening of archives, as well as changes in the academic economy. However, in general, the analysis of Western historiography reveals numerous gaps in the study of Stalinism and the need for new methodological and institutional changes.
Keywords
Post-Soviet historiography; Cultural history; Sovietology; Revisionism; StalinismDOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0238-1.19ISBN
9791221502381, 9791221502381Publisher
Firenze University PressPublisher website
https://www.fupress.com/Publication date and place
Florence, 2023Series
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici, 55Classification
Literature: history and criticism