Doing Soviet History: The Impact of the Archival Revolution

Raleigh, Donald J.

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“…The early effort to digitize historical documents from the former Soviet archives was an integral part of the archival revolution that started at the turn of the 1990s following the perestroika and led to an unprecedented openness of Russian archival collections for both the scholarly community and general public (Raleigh 2002). In Russia, this effort was spearheaded by international organizations.…”

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Digitizing Archives in Russia: Epistemic Sovereignty and Its Challenges in the Digital Age

Golubev

2020

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

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The chapter discusses the production of digital archives in Russia as part of a complex political economy of historical knowledge. Several high-profile digital archives have been produced within the framework of grant funding provided by international agencies and commercial content providers and have reflected the priorities of the funding organizations by focusing on state violence in Russia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), international Communist movement, as well as other politicized or easily monetized content. At the same time, national and regional archives in Russia also engaged in the digitization of their collections by soliciting federal and local funding. These latter projects emphasized complexity and objectivity as the two key categories of the digitization of archives while pursuing an underlying political agenda to restore epistemic sovereignty over Russian history.

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Section: Archival Revolution: International Actorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digitizing Archives in Russia: Epistemic Sovereignty and Its Challenges in the Digital Age

Golubev

2020

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

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“…The 'archival revolution' started in the mid-1980s. Long-sealed central and local party archives, as well as private collections and museum holdings, opened to public generating a stream of new historical studies on Soviet Union (Raleigh 2002). 12.…”

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At the intersection of globalization and ‘civilizational originality’: cultural production in Putin’s Russia

2018

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This special issue originates from a transnational collaboration of scholars in philology, comparative literature, social theory, sociology, anthropology, ethnography, and media studies. The collection strives to advance a research agenda built on the nexus of three intellectual and academic domains: post-Soviet 'Russian cultural studies', the research paradigm put forward by Cultural Studies, as well as empirical methods developed in sociology. The collection illustrates the importance of expanding the experience of Cultural Studies beyond its established spheres of national investigation, while it also speaks to the necessity to re-evaluate the hegemony of the English-language academic and cultural production on the global scale. The collection offers insights into the gamut of cultural practices and institutional environments in which Russian cultural production happens today. It shows how cultural industries and institutions in Russia are integrated into the global marketplace and transnational communities, while they also draw on and contribute to local lives and experiences by trying to create an autonomous space for symbolic production at personal and collective levels. Through diverse topics, the issue sheds light on the agency, i.e. practitioners and participants, creators and consumers, of Russian cultural production and the neoliberal practices implemented on creative work and cultural administration in Russia today. The Introduction outlines the development of academic studies on Russian cultural practices since 1991; describes main political developments shaping the cultural field in Putin's Russia; and, finally, identifies the Cultural Studies debates the editors of the collection find most productive for investigations of Russia, i.e. the instrumentalization of culture and culture as resource. Relocated in an analysis of a post-socialist society, these conceptualisations seem increasingly problematic in a situation where local and federal policies governing cultural and creative work focus simultaneously on marketization and on nationalism as the main tools of legitimizing the federal government.

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“…The conditions described and the methodological approach they lead to are nonetheless not specific to the People's Republic of China. Indeed, USSR specialists also had recourse to this type of method, in particular before what they term the "archive revolution" (Raleigh 2002;Kragh and Hedlund 2015).…”

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What If Social Science Methods Had No Homeland?

Boucher¹

2018

chinaperspectives

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This article studies the methods used by Chinese and foreign social science researchers in their analysis of the contents of the state and Party administration archives of the People's Republic of China. Through the study of this particular subject, I demonstrate that the "tactics" used in the study of contemporary Chinese society may also be found in the study of totalitarian societies and to a lesser extent, in the study of modern bureaucracies. This detour via the method leads us to reconsider the question of the need for a "Sinicisation of the social sciences." More specifically, I call into question the idea that the heuristic nature of a method is necessarily adversely affected once past the frontier.

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Doing Soviet History: The Impact of the Archival Revolution

Cited by 28 publications

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Digitizing Archives in Russia: Epistemic Sovereignty and Its Challenges in the Digital Age

Digitizing Archives in Russia: Epistemic Sovereignty and Its Challenges in the Digital Age

At the intersection of globalization and ‘civilizational originality’: cultural production in Putin’s Russia

What If Social Science Methods Had No Homeland?

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