Suffering for one's art

Abstract

Doing research in the former Soviet Union is not always comparable to working with Canadian sources, as many CHA members will be aware, either through their own experience, or through the testimony of one of their slightly loopy colleagues who, for mysterious reasons, nevertheless like visiting the region. Indeed, after a fairly open period at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union, from about mid-1991 to late 1993, gaining access to archives has increasingly become more difficult again.