Cultural History under Khrushchev and Brezhnev: From Social Psychology to Mentalités.

The article explores the origins and development of Soviet historiography in the fields of historical psychology and mentality in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It describes the revisionist tendencies spurred by the Twentieth Party Congress within Soviet historiography. The establishment of a Marxist social psychology under sociologist Boris Porshnev is discussed.