Scientific Revolutions and Political Attitudes

0440396 - FLÚ 2015 CZ eng J - Journal Article
Mervart, Jan
Scientific Revolutions and Political Attitudes.
Czech Journal of Contemporary History. Roč. 2, č. 2 (2014), s. 185-190. ISSN 2336-3142
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : Scientific revolution * party historiography * Czechoslovakia * communist reformism
Subject RIV: AB - History

Discussing the book Engaged Historiography, the author asks whether the gradual emancipation of Czech historiography from Stalinist dogma can really be ascribed to the change in scientific paradigms or whether it resulted from a change in the political attitudes of historians. The study claims that Communist historians at the start of de-Stalinization were on the whole much more conformist than philosophers or writers, and he puts forth the hypothesis that this reflects their stronger affiliation with the structures of the Party apparatus.
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