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Title Reading Russian sources : a student's guide to text and visual sources from Russian history / edited by George Gilbert
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 269 pages) : illustrations
Series Routledge guides to using historical sources
Routledge guides to using historical sources.
Contents Introduction: reading Russian sources / George Gilbert -- Contexts and approaches. Early medieval sources / Monica White -- Primary sources and the history of modern Russia / Peter Waldron -- The power of positionality? : Researching Russian history from the margins / Pavel Vasilyev -- Varieties of sources and their interpretation. Imperial maps / Jennifer Keating -- "It's only a story" : what value are novels as a historical source? / Sarah Hudspith -- The late Imperial press / George Gilbert -- Surveillance reports / Dakota Irvin -- Soviet autobiographies / Katy Turton -- "Read all about it!" : Soviet press and periodicals / Andy Willimott -- Visual culture as evidence of the Soviet past / Claire Le Foll -- Film and TV as a source in Soviet history : challenges and possibilities / Jeremy Hicks -- The diary as a source in Russian and Soviet history / Dan Healey -- Soviet memoir literature : personal narratives of a historical epoch / Claire Shaw -- Prisoner memoirs as a source in Russian and Soviet history / Mark Vincent -- Soviet letters / Courtney Doucette
Summary "This is an accessible and comprehensive guide that introduces students to the wide range of sources that can be used to engage with Russian history from the early medieval to the late Soviet periods. The book begins by considering approaches that can be taken towards the study of Russian history using primary sources. It then moves on to assess such sources as memoirs, autobiographies, journals, newspapers, art, maps, film and TV. Chronologically wide-ranging and supported by further reading, as well as suggestions to help students guide their own enquiries, it is the ideal resource for any student undertaking research on Russian history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes George Gilbert is lecturer in modern Russian history at the University of Southampton, UK. As well as editing the present volume, his publications include The Radical Right in late Imperial Russia (2016), and he has published in English and Russian on a variety of articles on different aspects of the social, cultural and political history of the late Imperial period
Online resource; title from digital title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed August 24, 2021)
Subject Diplomatics -- Russia
Diplomatics -- Soviet Union
HISTORY -- Europe -- Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
HISTORY -- Historiography.
HISTORY -- Study & Teaching.
Diplomatics
SUBJECT Russia -- History -- Sources -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Soviet Union -- History -- Sources -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Subject Russia
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Gilbert, George (Lecturer in Russian history), editor.
LC no. 2019045063
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