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9780765611970

Adventures in Russian Historical Research Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present

Adventures in Russian Historical Research Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present
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  • ISBN-13: 9780765611970
  • ISBN: 076561197X
  • Publisher: Sharpe Incorporated, M. E.

AUTHOR

Baron, Samuel H., Frierson, Cathy A.

SUMMARY

American historians of Russia have always been an intrepid lot. Their European sojourns were spent not in Cambridge or Paris, Rome or Berlin, but in Soviet dormitories with official minders. 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 American specialists on Russian history spanning 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.Baron, Samuel H. is the author of 'Adventures in Russian Historical Research Reminiscences of American Scholars from the Cold War to the Present' with ISBN 9780765611970 and ISBN 076561197X.

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