Polly Jones

Polly Jones

1970–현재 ○ Active scholar

A historian of de-Stalinization, memory, and cultural change

Polly Jones is a British historian of Russian and Soviet culture whose work examines memory politics in authoritarian societies. Her research shows that after the 1956 Secret Speech, de-Stalinization was not only a reform directed from above but also a negotiated process in which writers and citizens navigated censorship and official memory. Her monograph and edited work analyse cultural and social change in the Khrushchev era, the myths and memories of the Stalinist past, and the tension between the Thaw's ideals and its lived responses.