Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-23T18:47:02.210Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Soviet writings on Irish history, 1917–80: a bibliography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Stephen White
Stephen White*
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

In 1969 the late Dr Eoin Mac White published a ‘Guide to Russian writing on Irish history, 1917-1963’. Dr Mac White, a professional diplomat who combined with his work a close and scholarly interest in many aspects of Irish-Soviet relations, hoped at some stage to expand his guide into a ‘fuller and more historiographical study’. He doubted, however, if he would be able to find time for such a project, and in the meantime he thought the growing volume of Soviet writing on Irish history ‘should be better known both for its own intrinsic interest as well as an addition to the bibliography of Irish history’. Dr Mac White’s forebodings, unhappily, were borne out; he suffered an untimely death in a motor-car accident in 1972, and to this day the continually expanding Soviet treatment of all aspects of Irish history has remained uncatalogued. This bibliography is intended to repair that omission; it attempts to record all books and journal articles dealing wholly or in substantial part with Irish history published in the U.S.S.R. in Russian or in any other Soviet language between 1917 and 1980. Compared with Dr Mac White’s compilation it lists over sixty additional items (out of a total of 162): an indication, perhaps, of the expansion of Soviet scholarly interest in Ireland over the past decade or so, and in itself some justification for undertaking an exercise of this kind.

Type
Articles
Information
Irish Historical Studies , Volume 23 , Issue 90 , 1982 , pp. 174 - 186
Copyright
Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1982

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Melbourne Slavonic Studies, no. 3 (1969), pp 40–96.

2 Ibid., p. 40.

3 Full references to the sources used in compiling this bibliography will be found in Section V below (nos 147–162).

4 There is a useful collection of Marx and Engels’s writings on Ireland in Marx, Karl and Engels, Friedrich, On Ireland (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1971, 518 pp)Google Scholar. A subject index: to the collected works of Marx and Engels in Russian is available (Spravochnyi tom (predmetnyi ukazatel’) ko vtoromu izdaniyu Sochinenii K. Marksa i F. Engel’sa (2 vols Moscow: Politizdat, 1979)), and there is a comparable subject index to the collected works of Lenin (Spravochnyi tom k polnomu sobraniyu Sochinenii V.I. Lenina (2 vols, Moscow: Politizdat, 1971–2)). See also Mac White, ‘Guide’, pp 88–93.

5 Vsemirnaya isloriya v 10-ti tomakh, ed. Zhukov, E. M. et al. (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1956- ).Google Scholar

6 Sovetskaya istoricheskaya entsiklopediya. ed. Zhukov, E. M. et al. (16 vols, Moscow: Sovetskaya entsiklopediya, 1961-76)Google Scholar. Unlike Dr Mac White, I have also excluded literary and geographical works; in these respects the only substantial omission is Sarukhanyan, A. P, Sovremennaya irlandskaya literatura [Contemporary Irish literature] (Moscow Nauka, 1973, 318 pp).Google Scholar

7 See, for instance, Heer, Nancy W., Politics and history in the Soviet Union (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1971)Google Scholar, and Baron, Samuel H. and Heer, Nancy W. (eds), Windows on the Russian past: essays on Soviet historiography since Stalin (Columbus, Ohio: American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1977).Google Scholar