"#history emerged as a particular battleground in #Russia following the ideological and material chaos of the 1990s. Following the collapse of the USSR, historians and cultural critics delved into negative aspects of Soviet rule that had previously been publicly unspeakable. This became associated with an era of crisis also marked by privatization, political corruption, and social breakdown." JSTOR https://daily.jstor.org/when-history-is-a-matter-of-national-security/