title: The Modern Approaches to the Study of «Leningrad Affair» of the late 1940s — early 1950s in the Russian Semi-Scholarly Literature
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metadata.value: Amosova, A. A.
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metadata.value: Brandenberger, D.
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metadata.value: 2017-05-15T15:56:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-05-15T15:56:22Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017
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metadata.value: Amosova A. A., Brandenberger D. The Modern Approaches to the Study of «Leningrad Affair» of the late 1940s — early 1950s in the Russian Semi-Scholarly Literature, Modern History of Russia, no. 1, 2017, pp. 94–112.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu24.2017.106
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6297
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The last major bout of Stalin-era political repression, the 1949–1952 “Leningrad Affair” was a purge
  that affected not only that city’s local party organization, but an array of other similar regional bodies. This purge
  resulted in the execution of a number of leading party and state officials; it also ruined many others’ lives, careers
  and families. Leningrad and its party organization were likewise crippled by the purge and endured the loss of a
  special status they had enjoyed since 1917. Despite the seriousness of the “Leningrad Affair” and its legacy, this
  subject was regarded as taboo within the USSR until the late 1980s. As a result, it has taken the society decades
  to come to terms with this purge and to rehabilitate its victims. Today, the question of what precisely precipitated
  the “Leningrad Affair” is actively debated not only in academic circles, but in the press and mass culture. Many of
  the best-known works on the subject are not written by historians, but by journalists, who play on both their audience’s
  patriotic emotions and the appeal of sensational new “revelations” that are often insufficiently supported
  by the historical record. The existence of such a semi-scholarly genre of books demonstrates the scale of contemporary societal interest in this dimension of late Stalinism. Unfortunately, the destructive effect of this sort of
  publication is often underestimated at first glance. Published in large print runs, these books tend to overshadow
  more scholarly, professional studies and catalyze the formation of erroneous popular beliefs and misconceptions
  about important historical events. This article offers a dispassionate evaluation of the latest semi-scholarly work
  on the “Leningrad Affair” (taking as its case studies a number of books by S. S. Mironin, E. A. Prudnikova, S. Kremlev,
  S. Yu. Rybas and V. D. Kuznechevskii). The authors of this study identify an array of specific mistakes and
  errors in interpretation in the books under review; they also point to a series of more fundamental errors present
  throughout this semi-scholarly literature.
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metadata.value: Работа выполнена при поддержке гранта СПбГУ № 5.42.983.2016.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Issue 1(18)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: «Leningrad affair»
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Late Stalinism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: semi-scholarly literature
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. S. Mironin
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: E. A. Prudnikova
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. Kremlev
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: S. Yu. Rybas
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: V. D. Kuznechevskiy
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Modern Approaches to the Study of «Leningrad Affair» of the late 1940s — early 1950s in the Russian Semi-Scholarly Literature
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metadata.value: Article
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