Timeline for Returns Something To Its Central Place In Soviet History
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| Aug 25, 2017 at 15:43 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglishLL/status/901107741170814977 | ||
| Aug 25, 2017 at 14:22 | history | edited | Jasper |
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| Apr 11, 2015 at 23:32 | answer | added | user17814 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 16:39 | answer | added | Jasper | timeline score: 3 | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 9:59 | comment | added | Gary | @meatie No not really. It is written well- and what is appropriate for that mode of writing. If you are still unclear, I can post an actual answer. | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 6:50 | comment | added | meatie | @Jasper So, the original is poorly written? | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 0:16 | comment | added | Jasper | @meatie -- This is an even better interpretation: "Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place [as a central theme] in [the study of] Soviet history." If this interpretation helps you understand it, feel free to annotate your copy of the text. But to a native-speaker of English, this re-write is unnecessary. The word "history" is overloaded in ways that cause the original quote to mean the same thing as this longer version. | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 0:13 | comment | added | meatie | @Jasper I don't quite get how an external observer (historian) could affect, in an after-the-fact manner, a the place of a sub-event/sub-aspect within some larger history. | |
| Mar 12, 2015 at 0:09 | comment | added | meatie | @Jasper Would this rewrite be better? "Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in the study of Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution." | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 19:46 | comment | added | Jasper | @meatie -- Compared to the role of ideology in the Soviet Union, the Cold War is nowhere near as central to American history. The great upheavals in American History (1775-1791, 1861-1868, 1933-1938, 1963-1974) were not driven by the Cold War. Even if "a mere average Joe" were to promote (among historians) a theory that the Cold War held "the central place in American History", he would be wrong. I would hope that his being wrong would make him unlikely to succeed. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 19:36 | comment | added | Jasper | @meatie -- Note that the quote says "its central place in history", not "a central place in history". Leninism and Stalinism were permeated by successful attempts to force all politicians and managers to parrot the official party line -- even when the party line changed. The contrast between the ideology and reality was always a constant theme in people's daily lives. I cannot imagine how competent historians could somehow forget (or ignore) how central ideology was in the Soviet Union. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 18:49 | history | edited | meatie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2015 at 18:21 | comment | added | meatie | @StoneyB So, a mere average Joe could the put the "cold war in a central place in American history"? | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 9:43 | comment | added | Brian Hitchcock | Indeed, history would be only "lore" if there were no history writers. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 0:16 | comment | added | StoneyB on hiatus | 1) History = history AND history = historiography. 2) Malia's enormous contribution to historiography lies in putting the power of ideology once more in its proper, central historiographical place where its central role in Soviet history is restored to visibility. 3) There are good authors and bad authors but no mere authors. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 23:55 | history | asked | meatie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |