TY - JOUR
TI - A historian or a spy? – Western historians in the Soviet Archives. Sheila Fitzpatrick, A Spy in the Archives. A Memoir of Cold War Russia, I.B. Taurus, London-New York 2014, 346 pp.
AU - Szumski, Jan
TI - A historian or a spy? – Western historians in the Soviet Archives. Sheila Fitzpatrick, A Spy in the Archives. A Memoir of Cold War Russia, I.B. Taurus, London-New York 2014, 346 pp.
AB - The article focuses on Sheila Fitzpatrick’s experience of the late 1960s in the Soviet Union. It was a time when the “scientific exchanges” between the USSR and western powers began as a part of cultural diplomacy. As a historian from capitalistic country, Fitzpatrick had the unique experience of working on the Soviet period in the Soviet archives. Western scholars were subject to the control of the Soviet authorities, which often accused westerns in ideological diversion and spying. The portrayal of Soviet journal “Novy Mir” depicted the intellectual trends and literary milieu in the USSR. Thus, A Spy in the Archives, is not only record of Fitzpatrick’s personal history, but of Soviet intellectual history as well.
VL - 2018
IS - Volume 63, Issue 4
PY - 2019
SN - 0023-589X
C1 - 2657-4020
SP - 141
EP - 152
DO - 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.18.031.9522
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/historyk-czy-szpieg-zachodni-historycy-w-sowieckich-archiwach-sheila-fitzpatrick-a-spy-in-the-archives-a-memoir-of-cold-war-russia-i-b-taurus-london-new-york-2014-ss-346
KW - Sovietology
KW - Soviet archives
KW - Sheila Fitzpatrick.