Soviet Historical Knowledge through the Lens of Contemporary Historiography. Rev.: The Soviet Historical Narrative of the 1920s–1930s: Content, Actors, and Mechanisms of Construction / ed. V. V. Tikhonov. Moscow, Sovpadenie, 2025. 480 p.

This review highlights the scholarly strengths of the monograph, emphasizing the contributors’ dedicated exploration of the mechanisms behind constructing historical knowledge. It acknowledges the innovative inclusion of fiction and cinematography alongside traditional academic texts, as well as the formulation of a novel interpretative framework for the historiographical developments of the 1920s and the expansion of the historical source base. Concurrently, the review critically examines certain limitations of the publication, including an underdeveloped foundational methodology, insufficient substantiation for some conclusions, and inconsistencies in the analytical paradigms employed by the contributors and their approaches to addressing the research problems. Nonetheless, the review concludes that this volume constitutes a significant contribution to the study of Soviet historiography and advances the field beyond reductive or oversimplified perspectives.

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