Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil’s Advocate - Hardcover

 
9780228024224: Other Voices in Soviet History: Collected for a Devil’s Advocate
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0228024226 ISBN 13: 9780228024224
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

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.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0228024226
ISBN 13 
9780228024224
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304
Editor
DeHaan Heather D., Healey Dan, McDonald Tracy