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7/23/2025, 6:13:03 AM
>>17864360
>Sheila Fitzpatrick is good
>>17864366
>Great. /his/ really is a shithole. Now I get why so many are compared to plebbitors.
Well the reason Fitzpatrick gets recommended is that she (along with other revisionist historians, this term is meant positively) was part of a new generation that wrote about the USSR after it collapsed and in a more complicated way as the Soviet archives opened up and the historians got access to people who lived there and could talk about their experiences living in it. The USSR was a closed society when it existed and "Russian studies" in the U.S. during the Cold War was really shaped by CIA-funded "area studies" programs.
>Sheila Fitzpatrick is good
>>17864366
>Great. /his/ really is a shithole. Now I get why so many are compared to plebbitors.
Well the reason Fitzpatrick gets recommended is that she (along with other revisionist historians, this term is meant positively) was part of a new generation that wrote about the USSR after it collapsed and in a more complicated way as the Soviet archives opened up and the historians got access to people who lived there and could talk about their experiences living in it. The USSR was a closed society when it existed and "Russian studies" in the U.S. during the Cold War was really shaped by CIA-funded "area studies" programs.
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