Other voices in Soviet history : collected for a devil's advocate / edited by Heather D. DeHaan, Dan Healey, and Tracy McDonald.

Format Book
PublicationMontreĢal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press, [2025]
Description293 pages : 24 cm
Subjects
Soviet Union--History.

Other author/creatorViola, Lynne, honoree https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfcMchgh49pwqvhYc7T73
Other author/creatorDeHaan, Heather D., 1974- editor https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjJG7v3Bhhj8RrGW6BqRcd
Other author/creatorHealey, Dan editor https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqvXJcj8P9TdhyPKQYByd
Other author/creatorMcDonald, Tracy, 1966- editor https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjJJGCDTWr4x4q7Pkm8hRC
Contents Academic Biography: Writing Stalinist History in Cold War Breezes / Kate Brown and Amy E. Randall -- Soviet Peasants, Village Prose, and the Thaw: A Reading Audience That Was Not There? / Denis Kozlov -- “I’ll Burn Myself Up!”:�Borderland Subalterns in the Writing of Mirza Ibragimov / Heather D. DeHaan -- Saving Beauty: The Leningrad Zoo during the Siege of World War II / Tracy McDonald -- Researching the Stalinist Prison: Narratives of Repression and the Tomsk Internal Prison / Wilson T. Bell -- Inside the Grey Zone: Reading the Memoirs of Gulag Doctors / Dan Healey -- The Stalinist Secret Police Interrogator as an Oral Historian in the Postwar Period / Seth Bernstein -- Order through Terror: Punitive Detachments, Mass Violence, and Collaboration in Leningrad oblast’ during the German Occupation / Steve Maddox -- Revolution in Faith: The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and its Impact on the Ukrainian Village during the 1920s / Zenon V. Wasyliw -- Soviet Voices from the Great Patriotic War: Finding Soviet Agency in New Sources from Post-Soviet Archives / Marilyn Campeau and Maris Rowe-McCulloch.
Abstract "This book pays tribute to the scholarship and academic mentorship of Lynne Viola, who made critical methodological and thematic contributions to the study of Soviet history. The contributors, all scholars whom Viola supervised, demonstrate and build on those contributions in their chapters in this volume. Viola’s trajectory as a scholar is critically analysed in a chapter tracing her intellectual biography. The book then turns to three exemplary and innovative themes emerging from Viola’s work: finding the subaltern voice in Soviet history; unravelling the perpetrator-victim encounter and its meaning in the Stalinist era and afterwards; and reading Soviet historical sources for counternarratives to the official, ideologically “correct”�accounts of revolutionary and wartime experience. The book’s focus is, tragically, very timely: it decenters Soviet history by examining how colonial mindsets, the proximity of various borders, war, and transnational interactions shaped political, social, and cultural dynamics in the USSR. It analyzes the methodological challenges and rewards in looking beyond the central Moscow archives and official collections to listen for peripheral and subaltern voices, and to uncover how official narratives overlaid local and regional stories of experience. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of the history of the Soviet Union, and also to university students and teachers of historical methods and approaches."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other formsIssued also in electronic format.
Issued in other formOnline version: Other voices in Soviet history. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025 0228024242 9780228024248
Genre/formFestschriften.
ISBN9780228024224
ISBN0228024226

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