Abstract
Belatedly, self-consciously, and sometimes militantly, social historians are entering the field of Western, and particularly American, scholarship on the Soviet Union. Thus far, only a few works even professing social historical concerns have been published, and still fewer that actually explore society, but many such dissertations are underway and more will certainly follow. Every Sovietologist who wants to understand the past and the present of our large and complex subject should welcome this new scholarly development, regardless of the corrosive impact it is likely to have on longstanding axioms. Indeed, Sovietology desperately needs social history, as well as contemporary sociological research, if the field is to expand its sketchy empirical knowledge or enrich its often one-dimensional interpretations. As I complained a decade ago:
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