Promotion of a Usable Past: Official Efforts to Rewrite Russo-Soviet History, 2000–2014
Journal: Central European University Press eBooks
Year: 2015

For much of the Soviet period, party authorities endorsed a single, mobilizational view of USSR history that was supported not only by academia and the censor, but by official mass culture, public educational institutions, and state textbook publishing.Indeed, it was not until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 that the society's traditional reliance on an "official line" and a handful of prescribed textbooks gave way to a much looser system in which a variety of ideologicallydiverse titles co