Author
Reiman, Michal
Year
2016
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
Language
English
Pages
7
ISBN
978-3-63167-136-8
Last Update
05-Sep-2024
Keywords
History
Although a scattering of memoirs and other literature emerged during the period between the wars, it was in the 1950s that the pace of international research into the history of the Soviet Union visibly hastened. Its course was serpentine, with a scope of investigation that reached well beyond the dictatorial, later totalitarian, turn taken by the political powers when Russia’s traditional government and social system collapsed in 1917. State and social structures, the economy, personal relationships, science and culture – the elements which a country’s national life is constructed of – were placed upon fresh foundations in Soviet Russia and the USSR....
