History Suppressed research in the Soviet Union

soviet historiography (the way in history , written scholars of soviet union) influenced strict control authorities aimed @ propaganda of communist ideology , soviet power.

since late 1930s, soviet historiography treated party line , reality 1 , same. such, if science, science in service of specific political , ideological agenda, commonly employing historical revisionism. in 1930s, historic archives closed , original research severely restricted. historians required pepper works references – appropriate or not – stalin , other marxist-leninist classics , , pass judgment – prescribed party – on pre-revolution historic russian figures.

many works of western historians forbidden or censored, many areas of history forbidden research as, officially, never happened. translations of foreign historiography produced in truncated form, accompanied extensive censorship , corrective footnotes. example, in russian 1976 translation of basil liddell hart s history of second world war pre-war purges of red army officers, secret protocol molotov-ribbentrop pact, many details of winter war, occupation of baltic states, soviet occupation of bessarabia , northern bukovina, western allied assistance soviet union during war, many other western allies efforts, soviet leadership s mistakes , failures, criticism of soviet union , other content censored out.

the katyn massacre formally assigned nazi germany subject concealed. soviet famines taboo.