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Eastern Europe and The Historian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Henry L Roberts
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It is not my intention in this paper to discuss those two issues that always seem to be debated whenever Eastern Europe is mentioned: the argument over the importance or utility of the study of its history, and the game of defining its precise geographic limits or its internal unity. These issues may not have been exhausted-though they are pretty limp by now—but I think it may be more profitable to turn our attention to some of the substantive and methodological problems that confront the working historian, once he has accepted this area as a field of proper concern and once he has arrived at his own definition of its scope and limits.

More specifically, I should like to consider some of the problems connected with the intimate but ambiguous relationship of Eastern Europe-including Russia-to Western Europe, both as an object of historical study and as an influence on historical research and writing.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , October 1961 , pp. 509 - 516
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1961

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9 For two depressing examples, see E. Ambartsumov, “Historians in Congress in Stock-holm,” World Marxist Review, November, 1960, p . 9, and No. 8, August, 1960, pp. 3–18.