Postface. Ego-Documents As Counter-Archives in Russia
In discussions about the value of autobiographical texts as historical sources, the potential of these texts to compensate for limitations of archives has played a greater role in Russia and the Soviet Union than in Western Europe. Historians, literary scholars, and publicists valued this category...
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| Materialtyp: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Språk: | Anglais |
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Revue des études slaves
2021
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | In discussions about the value of autobiographical texts as historical sources, the potential of these texts to compensate for limitations of archives has played a greater role in Russia and the Soviet Union than in Western Europe. Historians, literary scholars, and publicists valued this category of texts as “counter-archives” and saw in it a documentation of those events that otherwise remained inaccessible in the arcana of power – sealed behind archive walls, concealed by censorship. The ... |
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