From the revolution to the era of Stalin. Critical reflection of the inquiry of the 'Soviet subjectivity' in the contemporary American historiography
Abstract
the conference "Russia in the 20th century - continuity and discontinuity", organized by Faculty of Arts of the University of Pardubice and the Research center for the history of the Eastern Europe of the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 3rd October, University of Pardubice. Lecture treating the study of so-called "Soviet subjectivity" in the works of adherents of modernist paradigm in the research of the Stalinist era of the 1920s and 1930s.
It discusses the differences and similarities in the approaches to "Soviet subject" of "modernists" and the representatives of the former totalitarian framework. In the centre of the lecture is the different conceptualization of the "subject" in the recent works of Israel historian Igal Halfin and the late writings of the doyen of American historical study of Soviet Russia Sheila Fitzpatrick, who instigates the establishing of the "neo-traditionalist" interpretation.