SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY OF WORLD WAR I BETWEEN DE-STALINIZATION AND NEO-STALINISM, 1956-1985

Abstract

Dedicated to the celebration of 100 years since the World War I, this study aims at a general assessment of Soviet historiography in this fi eld within the period between 1956 and 1985. As a result of this analysis, there has been ascertained a clear involution of Soviet historiography of World War One from timid attempts at de-Stalinization between 1956 and 1964 to a an undisguised neo-Stalinism in the 70s.

Keywords

• world war i
• soviet historiography
• historical school of mikhail n. pokrovsky
• de-stalinization
• neo-stalinism
• perestroika
• glasnost