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Other Voices in Soviet HistoryCollected for a Devil’s Advocate |
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Decentring familiar narratives in Soviet history.
Other Voices in Soviet History identifies Soviet historian Lynne Viola’s critical methodological and thematic interventions in the study of Soviet history and builds on them through a selection of new research trajectories inspired by her thinking.
The collection’s essays are oriented around three overlapping themes: listening to subaltern voices, challenging a rigid victim-perpetrator binary, and contesting dominant narratives. By looking beyond central archives, official collections, and traditional sources, the contributors convey peripheral and subaltern voices and uncover how state narratives overlaid, existed alongside, or ignored altogether voices from the many crevices of empire.
Other Voices in Soviet History decentres Soviet history by examining how colonial mindsets, war, agency, identity, the proximity of various borders, and transnational interactions shaped political, social, and cultural dynamics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
The collection’s essays are oriented around three overlapping themes: listening to subaltern voices, challenging a rigid victim-perpetrator binary, and contesting dominant narratives. By looking beyond central archives, official collections, and traditional sources, the contributors convey peripheral and subaltern voices and uncover how state narratives overlaid, existed alongside, or ignored altogether voices from the many crevices of empire.
Other Voices in Soviet History decentres Soviet history by examining how colonial mindsets, war, agency, identity, the proximity of various borders, and transnational interactions shaped political, social, and cultural dynamics in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Details
304 Pages, 6 x 9
ISBN 9780228024224
April 2025
Formats: Cloth, eBook
“Other Voices in Soviet History testifies that the old division between totalitarian and revisionist schools of Soviet history is now long in the past, in large part thanks to Lynne Viola’s work over the decades.” Zbigniew Wojnowski, University of Oxford and author of The Near Abroad: Socialist Eastern Europe and Soviet Patriotism in Ukraine, 1956–1985
Heather D. DeHaan is associate professor of history at Binghamton University.
Dan Healey is professor emeritus of Russian history at the University of Oxford.
Tracy McDonald is associate professor of history at McMaster University.
Dan Healey is professor emeritus of Russian history at the University of Oxford.
Tracy McDonald is associate professor of history at McMaster University.
