Dismantling the Soviet historical paradigm in Latvia in the late 1980s: some aspects of continuity and discontinuity
2020
Abstract
The article focuses on the turning point in the deconstruction of the Soviet paradigm in Latvian historiography at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. It analyzes relevant aspects of this process.
The article aims to answer in what form the deconstruction took place, what topics became key in the discussion, whether the old ones remained and were reinterpreted or new issues were themed. Last but not least, the question of transformation raises the question of continuity and discontinuity between interwar Latvia, Soviet and re-established at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, both in terms of thematic, personnel and structural.