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It is hardly surprising that interest in the history of Russian society became a major preoccupation of Marxist historians in the latter half of the 1920s. Interpretation of Russia’s past held obvious significance for interpretation of the October Revolution, of the possibilities for building a socialist society in Russia, and of the actual construction of socialism. As differences over the strategy for advance became more bitter, and the situation of the country more precarious, disagreements about Russian history naturally grew more violent. This has already been observed in the debate over Pokrovsky’s theory of commercial capitalism. But if sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Russian society could be the subject of sharp controversy, still more sensitive was interpretation of the recent past. Hence the discussion about Russian capitalism in its last phase, in the two or three decades before the Revolution, developed into one of the sharpest controversies of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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Barber, J. (1981). Russian Capitalism. In: Soviet Historians in Crisis, 1928–1932. Studies in Soviet History and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-05239-4_5
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