| Popis: |
Hlistory, as even the "Leninist" Mikhail Gefter suggests, is more an art than a science. Whether at the level of detailed narrative or the broadest explanation, Carl Becker and a host of other well-known historians have warned, it rests on the imaginative conceptualizing of events by the individual historian or tradition.' However, it is an art that has to be disciplined by the facts. History is personal and subjective, but there is always a common ground for debate in the record that all historians must deal with. In this spirit I welcome the comments of George Enteen and Lewis Siegelbaum, whether they parallel my views or run counter to them. Soviet studies may have passed from the realm of political science into history, but that history, like any other, will never be fixed beyond new argument. |
