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Historiography in the mid-twentieth century USSR was charged to an unprecedented degree with the functions of legitimizing political institutions, perpetuating established mores and mythology, and rationalizing official policies. The specific claims of Marxist-Leninist doctrine placed the Soviet historian -- required to serve as scholar, high priest, and political functionary, often caught between the conflicting pressures of ideological orthodoxy and liberalization -- under special tensions. This book presents a detailed analysis of Soviet historiography of the Communist Party in the USSR after Khrushchev's secret speech denouncing Stalin through the Twenty-third Party Congress (roughly 1956-1966). The author uses source materials that she spent a number of years reading and translating -- Soviet mass-edition texts and pamphlets, scholarly monographs, articles in historical journals and the popular press -- to construct a schematic chronology of developments in political history and related political events under Khrushchev and his immediate successors.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• History as A Political Subsystem 1(p. 11)
• The Functions of History 1(p. 13)
• 2 The Structure of Soviet Historiography(p. 34)
• History as A Political Record 2(p. 59)
• 3 The Rewriting of History and Political Unrest, 1956-1957(p. 61)
• 4 The Antiparty Plot and Stalin's Ghost, 1957-1961(p. 96)
• 5 Historiography and Group Politics, 1962(p. 130)
• 6 Depersonalizing the Depersonalizer, 1963-1966(p. 162)
• 3 History A the Mirror of Conscience: Some Case Studies(p. 183)
• 7 Political Opposition and the Myth of Infallibility(p. 185)
• 8 A Tragedy Revisited: The Story of Collectivization(p. 220)
• The Soviet Leader as Hero of History 9(p. 239)
• 4 History as Portent(p. 261)
• 10 History as an Image of the Past(p. 263)
• 11 History as an Image of the Future(p. 270)
• Bibliography(p. 277)
• Index(p. 303)