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Contemporary Soviet Research on Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

J. Gregory Oswald
J. Gregory Oswald*
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The University of Arizona
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This essay is divided into three parts: a discussion of the pervasive role of Marxism-Leninism in Soviet Latin American studies; an examination of the contents of a collection of translated readings of USSR scholars tentatively entitled The Soviet Image of Latin America, 1945–1965: A Documentary History, and a general survey of certain basic works devoted to the principal Latin American themes prescribed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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Topical Review
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , Spring 1966 , pp. 77 - 96
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Copyright © 1966 by the University of Texas Press

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The author wishes to express appreciation for the collaborative assistance of Gordon O. Packard, Jr., University of Arizona Graduate Assistant in Research. Various aspects of the research activities described herein were made possible by support from the Mershon Foundation of The Ohio State University, The Ford Foundation, The Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress, and The University of Arizona.

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Notes

1 G. Ia-n, “Bibliograficheskii ukazatel' periodicheskoi i ne-periodicheskoi literatury o stranakh Latinskoi Ameriki [A Bibliography of Periodical and Non-Periodical Literature on the Latin American Countries],” Revoliutsionnyi vostok (1934), Nos. 3–4, pp. 346–364.

2 M. S. Al'perovich, “Izuchenie istorii Latinskoi Ameriki v Sovetskom soiuze [The Study of Latin American History in the Soviet Union],” Latinskaia Amerika v proshlom i nastoiashchem, ed. V. V. Vol'skii et al (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1960), p. 451.

3 G. Ia-n, Revoliutsionnyi vostok, Nos. 3–4, pp. 348–364.

4 G. Dimitrov, “Nastuplenie fashizma i zadachi Kommunisticheskogo internatsionala v bor'be za edinstvo rabochego klassa protiv fashizma. Iz doklada i zakliuchitel'nogo slova na VII kongresse Kommunisticheskogo internatsionala 2 i 13 avgusta 1935 g. [The Coming of Fascism and the Tasks of the Communist International in the Struggle for the Unity of the Working Class Against Fascism. From the Report and Concluding Remarks at the Seventh Congress of the Communist International, 2nd and 13th of August, 1935],” Kommunisticheskii internatsional, Nos. 23–24 (437–438), August 20, 1935, pp. 26–66; cf., Kommunisticheskii internatsional [Communist International], Stenograficheskii otchet VI kongressa Kominterna, Vypusk #6: Tezisy, rezoliutsii, postanovleniia, zoxxvaniia [Stenographic Account of the Sixth Congress of the Comintern, Release #6: Theses, Resolutions, Decisions, Proclamations] (Moscow-Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1929), pp. 19–23; p. 71.

5 Al'perovich, Latinskaia Amerika v proshlom …, p. 451.

6 M. S. Al'perovich, “Izuchenie istorii stran Latinskoi Ameriki [The Study of the History of the Countries of Latin America],” Sovetskaia istoricheskaia nauka ot XX k XXII s'ezdu KPSS: Istoriia zapadnoi evropy i ameriki [Soviet Historical Science from the Twentieth to the Twenty-second Congress of the CPSU: The History of Western Europe and America], ed. N. M. Druzhinin et al (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963), p. 161.

7 Ibid.

8 M. S. Al'perovich, “Issledovanie problem istorii Latinskoi Ameriki [Research in the Problems of Latin American History],” Vestnik Akademii nauk SSSR (1964), No. 12, pp. 27–28.

9 Al'perovich, Sovetskaia istoricheskaia nauka ot XX k XXII s'ezdu …, p. 157.

10 S. S. Mikhailov, “Izuchenie Latinskoi Ameriki v Sovetskom soiuze [The Study of Latin America in the Soviet Union],” Voprosy istorii (April, 1962), No. 4, pp. 98–106; S. S. Mikhailov, “Izuchenie problem Latinskoi Ameriki [The Study of Latin American Problems],” Vestnik Akademii nauk SSSR (1962), No. 5, pp. 54–59; B. N. Ponomaryov, “Zadachi istoricheskoi nauki i podgotovka nauchnopedagogicheskikh kadrov v oblasti istorii [The Tasks Confronting Historical Sciences and the Training of Historians and History Teachers],” Voprosy istorii (1963), No. 1, p. 3.

11 Mikhailov, Vestnik AN SSSR (1962), No. 5, p. 54.

12 S. S. Mikhailov, “Nekotorye problemy izucheniia Latinskoi Ameriki [Some Problems in the Study of Latin America],” Novaia i noveishaia istoriia (1964), No. 2, p. 35.

13 Ponomaryov, Voprosy istorii (1963), No. 1, p. 7.

14 Ibid., p. 20.

15 A. F. Shul'govskii, “Rasstanovka klassovikh sil v borbe za osvobozhdenie [The Arrangement of Class Forces in the Struggle for Liberation],” Ekonomicheskie problemy stran Latinskoi Ameriki [Economic Problems of the Countries of Latin America], ed. V. Ia. Avarin, M. V. Danilevich (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963), IX, p. 483.

16 S. S. Mikhailov, “Kubinskaia revoliutsiia i natsional'no-osvoditel'noe dvizhenie v Latinskoi Amerike [The Cuban Revolution and the National Liberation Movement in Latin America],” Plat' let Kubinskoi revoliutsii [Five Years of the Cuban Revolution], ed. A. V. Efimov, E. V. Ananova, I. R. Grigulevich, S. S. Mikhailov and G. J. Seleznev (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963), p. 24.

17 R. A. Molochkova, “O krest'ianskoi samooborone v Kolombii [On Peasant Self-defense in Colombia],” Voprosy mezhdunarodnogo rabochego i natsional'no-osvoboditel'nogo dvizheniia na sovremennom etape [Contemporary Problems of the International Workers' and National Liberation Movements], ed. A. A. Guber and V. V. Levin (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Vysshei politicheskoi shkoly i Akademii obshchestvennykh nauk pri Tsentralnom komitete Kommunisticheskoi partii Sovetskogo soiuza, 1963), p. 190.

18 A. A. Guber, Bor' ba za edinyi rabochii i antiimperialisticheskii front v stranakh Latinskoi Ameriki [The Struggle for a Single Workers and Anti-imperalist Front in the Countries of Latin America] (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo VPSh i AON pri TsK KPSS, 1963), p. 8.

19 N. A. Koval'skii, “Politika katolicheskoi tserkvi v rabochem dvizhenii Latinskoi Ameriki [The Policy of the Catholic Church in the Latin American Workers' Movement],” Osvoboditel'noe dvizhenie v Latinskoi Amerike [The Liberation Movement in Latin America], ed. S. S. Mikhailov (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Nauka, 1964), p. 202.

20 A. F. Shul'govskii, “Sverzhenie diktatorskikh rezhimov v Latinskoi Amerike (na primere Venesuely) [The Overthrow of Dictatorial Regimes in Latin America (as in Venezuela)],” Problemy sovremennoi Latinskoi Ameriki [Problems of Contemporary Latin America], ed. M. V. Danilevich and A. F. Shul'govskii (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Instituta mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii, 1959), p. 245.

21 M. V. Antiasov, Sovremennyi panamerikanizm [Contemporary Panamericanism] (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo IMO, 1960), p. 201.

22 S. S. Mikhailov, Piat' let Kubinskoi revoliutsii, p. 32.

23 Iu. A. Zubritskii, “Latinidad i ego sushchnost [The Meaning of Latinidad],” Vestnik istorii mirovoikul'tury, XXV, No. 1 (January-February, 1961), p. 116.

24 S. S. Mikhailov, Piat' let Kubinskoi revoliutsii, p. 33.

25 Z. I. Romanova, Problemy ekonomicheskoi integratsii v Latinskoi Amerike [Problems of Economic Integration in Latin America] (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo “Nauka,” 1965), p. 247.

26 Latin America in Soviet Writings, 1945–1958: A Bibliography, comp. Leo A. Okinshevich and Cecilia J. Gorokhoff (Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1959); cf. Strany Latinskoi Ameriki: Rekomendatel'nyi ukazatel' literatury [Countries of Latin America: A Recommended Guide to the Literature], comp. N. A. Akimova et al (Moscow: Gosudarstvennaia biblioteka SSSR imeni V. I. Lenina, 1962). The Library of Congress Slavic and Central European Division has in preparation two supplementary bibliographical volumes to be published in 1966, which will list Soviet writings on Latin America, 1917–1964.

27 V. G. Revunenkov, Istoriia stran Latinskoi Ameriki v noveishee vremia (Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo ‘Vysshaia shkola,‘ 1963).

28 S. A. Gonionskii, Ocherki noveishei istorii stran Latinskoi Ameriki (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo prosveshchenie, 1964); V. V. Vol'skii et al (eds.), Latinskaia Amerika v proshlom i nastoiashchem (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1960); A. V. Efimov et al (eds.), Natsii Latinskoi Ameriki (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1964).

29 S. A. Gonionskii, Latinskaia Amerika i SShA, 1939–1959 (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Instituta mezhdunarodnykh otnoshenii, 1960); M. V. Antiasov, Sovremennyi panamerikanizm (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo IMO, 1960).

30 V. Ia. Avarina and M. V. Danilevich (eds.), Ekonomicheskie problemy stran Latinskoi Ameriki (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963).

31 Z. I. Romanova, Ekonomicheskaia ekspansiia SShA v Latinskoi Amerike (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1963); Idem, Problemy ekonomicheskoi integratsii v Latinskoi Amerike (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,’ 1965); M. V. Danilevich, Rabochii klass v osvoboditel'nom dvizhenii narodov Latinskoi Ameriki (Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo politicheskoi literatury, 1962); V. V. Vol'skii, Latinskaia Amerika, neft’ i nezavisimost' (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury ‘Mysl,’ 1964).

32 S. S. Mikhailov et al (eds.), Osvoboditel'noe dvizhenie v Latinskoi Amerike (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1964).

33 M. I. R. Rubinshtein (ed.), Narody Latinskoi Ameriki v borbe protiv amerikanskogo imperializma (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1951); N. M. Lavrov et al (eds.), Voina za nezavisimost' v Latinskoi Amerike (1810–1826) (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1964); V. Ia. Avarina and M. V. Danilevich (eds.), Natsional'no-osvoboditel'noe dvizhenie v Latinskoi Amerike na sovremennom etape (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1961).

34 L. Iu. Slezkin, Rossiia i voina za nezavisimost' v Ispanskoi Amerike (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,’ 1964); L. A. Shur, Rossiia i Latinskaia Amerika: Ocherki politicheskikh, ekonomicheskikh i kul'turnykh otnoshenii (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury ‘Mysl,’ 1964).

35 V. I. Ermolaev et al (eds.), Ocherki istorii Argentiny (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial, noekonomicheskoi literatury, 1961).

36 V. I, Ermolaev et al (eds.), Ocherki istorii Brazilii (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1962).

37 A. N. Glinkin, Noveishaia istoriia Brazilii (1939–1959) (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo IMO, 1961).

38 A. V. Efimov et al (eds.), Braziliia (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963).

39 A. V. Efimov and I. R. Grigulevich (eds.), Kuba (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1961).

40 A. V. Efimov et al (eds.), Piat' let Kubinskoi revoliutsii (Moskva:Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963).

41 N. N. Razumovich, Gosudarstvennye preobrazovaniia revoliutsionnoi Kuby (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniia,‘ 1964).

42 M. S. Al'perovich, Voina za nezavisimost' Meksiki (1810–1824) [The Mexican War of Independence (1810–1824)] (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1964), 480 p.;

Idem, with B. T. Rudenko, Meksikanskaia revoliutsiia 1910–1911 gg. i politika SShA [The Mexican Revolution of 1910–1917 and the Policy of the USA] (Moscow: Sotsekgiz, 1958), 328 p.;

Idem, ed. with N. M. Lavrov, Ocherki novoi i noveishei istorii Meksiki, 1810–1945 [Essays in the Modern and Contemporary History of Mexico, 1810–1945] (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1960), 471 p.;

Idem, “Voina za nezavisimost' i formirovanie meksikanskoi natsii [The War of Independence and the Formation of the Mexican Nation],” Natsii Latinskoi Ameriki, Formirovanie, razvitie, ed. A. V. Efimov, R. Grigulevich, and S. A. Gonionskii (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1964), pp. 105–132;

Idem, “Grazhdanskaia voina v Meksike (1914–1916 gg.) i politika SShA [The Civil War in Mexico (1914–1916) and the Policy of the USA},” Uchenye zapiski po novoi i noveishei istorii, Vypusk III (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1957), pp. 288–353;

Idem, “Hidalgo und der Volksaufstand in Mexiko,” Lateinamerika zwischen Emanzipation und Imperialisms, 1810–1960 (Berlin: 1961);

Idem, “Velikaia frantsuzskaia revoliutsiia XVIII v. i ispanskie kolonii v Amerike [The Great French Revolution of the Eighteenth Century and the Spanish Colonies in America],” Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, No. 1 (1965), pp. 26–40;

Idem, “Imperialisticheskaia politika SShA v Meksike v 1913–1914 gg. [The Imperialistic Policy of the USA in Mexico, 1913–1914],” Voprosy istorii, No. 5 (May, 1950), pp. 100–114;

Idem, “K voprosu o chislennosti indeiskogo naseleniia Meksiki v kolonial'nyi period [The Question of the Number of the Indian Population of Mexico in the Colonial Period],” Sovetskaia etnografiia, No. 3 (1962), 71–80;

Idem, “O kharaktere i formakh ekspluatatsii indeitsev v amerikanskikh koloniakh Ispanii (XVI-XVIII v.) [The Character and Forms of Exploitation of the Indian Population in the American Colonies of Spain (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Century)],” Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, No. 2 (1957), 49–68;

Idem, “Pod'em natsionarno-osvoboditel'nogo i demograticheskogo dvizheniia v Latinskoi Amerike posle vtoroi mirovoi voiny [The Rising National Liberation and Democratic Movement in Latin America After the Second World War],” Prepodovanie istorii v shkole, No. 4 (1959);

Idem, “Rol' narodnykh mass v voine za nezavisimost' Meksiki [The Role of the Popular Masses in the Mexican War of Independence],” Novaia i noveishaia istoriia, No. 5 (1960), pp. 52–63;

Idem, “Ob osvoboditel'noi voine ispanskikh kolonii v Amerike (1810–1826) [Regarding the Liberation War of the Spanish Colonies in America (1810–1826)],” Voprosy istorii, No. 11 (November, 1956), pp. 52–71 (With V. I. Ermolaev, I. R. Lavretskii, and S. I. Semenov);

Idem, “Voina za nezavisimost' Meksiki v osveshchenii burzhuaznikh istorikov XIX-XX vv. [The War of Mexican Independence from the Point of View of Bourgeois Historians of the Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries],” Voina za nezavisimost' v Latinskoi Amerike, 1810–1826 [The War of Independence in Latin America, 1810–1826] (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1964), pp. 270–300;

Idem, “Izuchenie istorii Latinskoi Ameriki v Sovetskom soiuze [The Study of Latin American History in the Soviet Union],” Latinskaia Amerika v proshlom i nastoiashchem [Latin America Past and Present] (Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1960), pp. 450–462;

Idem, “Izuchenie istorii stran Latinskoi Ameriki [The Study of the History of the Countries of Latin America],” Sovetskaia istoricheskaia nauka ot XX k XXII s'ezdu KPSS: Istoriia zapadnoi Evropy i Ameriki [Soviet Historical Science from the Twentieth to the Twenty-second Congress of the CPSU: The History of Western Europe and America] (Moscow: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963), pp. 151–170;

Idem, “Issledovanie problem istorii Latinskoi Ameriki [Researching the Problems of Latin American History],” Vestnik Akademii nauk, No. 12, (1964), pp. 24–29;

Idem, “Istoricheskaia nauka v Meksike [Historical Science in Mexico],” Voprosy istorii, No. 8 (August, 1962), pp. 198–202;

Idem, “Istoriia otnoshenii mezhdu Meksikoi i SShA v poslevoennoi meksikanskoi istoriograrii [The History of Mexican-U.S. Relations in Post-War Mexican Historiography],” Voprosy istorii, No. 3 (1958), pp. 171–183;

Idem, “Osveshchenie nekotorykh voprosov novoi i noveishei istorii Meksiki v poslevoennoi burzhuaznoi literature SShA [Views Regarding Certain Problems of the Modern and Contemporary History of Mexico in the Post-War Bourgeois Literature of the USA],” Doklady i soobshcheniia In-ta istorii AN SSSR, Vypusk X (Moscow: 1956);

Idem, “Sovremennaia meksikanskaia istoriografiia voiny za nezavisimost' [Contemporary Mexican Historiography on the War of Independence],” Voprosy istorii, No. 2 (1961), pp. 166–176.

43 M. S. Al'perovich and N. M. Lavrov (eds.), Ocherki novoi i noveishei istorii Meksiki, 1810–1943 (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury, 1960).

44 E. L. Shifrin, Ekspansiia amerikanskogo imperializma v Meksike posle vtoroi mirovoi voiny (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1952);

N. S. Larin, Bor'ba tserkvi s gosudarstvom v Meksike (Vosstanie ‘kristeros’ v 1926–1929 gg.) (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1965);

I. K. Sheremet'ev, Gosudarstvennyi kapitalizm v Meksike (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Akademii nauk SSSR, 1963);

G. I. Ivanov, “Enkom'enda v Meksike i vosstaniia indeitsev v XVI veke [The Encomienda in Mexico and the Indian Rebellions of the Sixteenth Century],” Iz istorii narodnykh vosstanii protiv feodalizma i kolonializma [From the History of Peoples' Rebellions Against Feudalism and Colonialism] (Ivanovo: Ivanovskii gosudarstvennyi pedagogicheskii institut imeni D. A. Furmanova, 1964), XXXV, pp. 99–157;

Op. cit., “Repartim'ento v Meksike v XVI-XVIII vv. [Repartimiento in Mexico from the Sixteenth through the Eighteenth Centuries],” pp. 158–195.

45 V. N. Kuteishchikova, Roman Latinskoi Ameriki v XX veke (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1964).

46 I. A. Terterian, Brazil'skii roman XX veka (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo ‘Nauka,‘ 1965).

47 L. A. Shur (comp.), Khudozhestvennaia literatura Latinskoi Ameriki v russkoi pechati (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo Vsesoiuznoi Knizhnoi palaty, 1960).

48 A. R. Burgete (comp.), Progressivnye mysliteli Latinskoi Ameriki (XIX-nachalo XX v.) (Moskva: Izdatel'stvo sotsial'no-ekonomicheskoi literatury ‘Mysl,‘ 1965).

49 Earl J. Pariseau (ed.), Handbook of Latin American Studies, No. 26 (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1964), p. 39.