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Soviet Historians Prepare for the Fiftieth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Abstract

Every tenth-year anniversary of the October Revolution has been the occasion for a burst of publication by Soviet scholars to celebrate the event. Each successive decade has witnessed an ever larger output of documentary and memoir collections, symposia, monographs, surveys, brochures, and textbooks. The half-century year 1967 promises to be the culminating point of this effort, with hundreds of historical publications of every type now appearing or promised.

I had some advance acquaintance with this anniversary historiography during the month which I spent as an exchange scholar in Moscow and Leningrad in the fall fall of 1966 under the United States-Soviet cultural exchange agreement.

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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1967

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References

1 Voprosy istorii KPSS, No. 6, 1966.

2 V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, V revoliutsii (Moscow, 1957); N. I. Podvoiskii, God 1917 (Moscow, 1958).

3 Protokoly Tsentral'nogo Komiteta RSDRP(b), avg. ipryfev. 1918 (Moscow, 1958).

4 Perepiska Sekretariata TsK RSDRP(b) s mestnymi organizatsiiami (2 vols.; Moscow, 1957). Other work of the early 1960s, particularly in the journals, is described in detail by Martin Dewhurst of the University of Glasgow in “L'historiographie soviétique récente et l'histoire de la révolution,” Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique, Vol. V, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1964).

5 Petrogradskii Voenno-revoliutsionnyi komitet: Dokumenty i materialy (Moscow, 1966).

6 Protokoly i postanovleniia Tsentral'nogo Komiteta Baltiiskogo flota 1917-18 gg. (Moscow and Leningrad, 1963).

7 Raionnye sovety Petrograda v 1917 g.: Protokoly, rezoliutsii, postanovleniia (Moscow and Leningrad, 1965).

8 Recalled by M. N. Pokrovskii, Proletarskaia revoliutsiia, No. 7-8, 1930, p. 138.

9 “Communist Seizures of Power: Russia, 1917,” paper delivered at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association.