Useful Past. History in Stalin's USSR
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Useful Past. History in Stalin's USSR
14.99 €
11.99 €
Control over the past in Stalin's time was one of the most important ways of manipulating public consciousness and mobilizing the masses. Using historical allegories as an ideological tool, propaganda used them to explain the current political situation to the viewer or reader and to create a so-called useful past - an inexhaustible resource for maintaining the leader's power. Vitaly Tikhonov's book explores the complex relationship that developed between the Stalinist regime and historical science. The author describes how Stalin read historical works, perceived history and interfered in the production of scientific knowledge, as well as the role of historical anniversaries and the cult of historical heroes in the ideology. Considerable attention is also paid to professional scientists who were held hostage to the era - their place and role in historical politics. The book aims to answer the questions of how this peculiar "historiographical vertical of power" was organized and how ideological campaigns and discussions changed the conceptual shape of Soviet historical science. Vitaly Tikhonov is a doctor of historical sciences, a leading researcher at the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a specialist in the social history of science, institutional history and the history of historical science of the twentieth century.
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