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| caption2 = [[Nikolai Yezhov]] walking with Stalin in the top photo from the mid 1930s. Following his execution in 1940, Yezhov was edited out of the photo by Soviet censors.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm |title=Newseum: The Commissar Vanishes |access-date=19 July 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080611034558/http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/vanishes.htm |archive-date=11 June 2008}}</ref>
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In his book, ''[[The Stalin School of Falsification]]'', Leon Trotsky cited a range of historical documents such as party speeches, meeting minutes, and suppressed texts such as [[Lenin's Testament]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Trotsky |first1=Leon |title=The Stalin School of Falsification |date=13 January 2019 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |isbn=978-1-78912-348-7 |pages=vii-89 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Stalin_School_of_Falsification/PF2LDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=stalin+school&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref> to argue that the Stalinist faction routinely distorted political events, forged a theoretical basis for concepts such as the notion of "Socialism in One Country" and misrepresented the views of opponents. He also argued that the Stalinist regime employed an array of professional historians as well as economists to justify policy manouevering and safeguard its own set of material interests.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Trotsky |first1=Leon |title=The Stalin School of Falsification |date=13 January 2019 |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |isbn=978-1-78912-348-7 |pages=vii-89 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Stalin_School_of_Falsification/PF2LDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=stalin+school&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref>
During the existence of the [[Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic]] (1917–1991) and the [[Soviet Union]] (1922–1991), the [[Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] (CPSU) attempted to ideologically and politically control the writing of both academic and popular history. These attempts were most successful in the 1934–1952 period. According to [[Klaus Mehnert]], writing in 1952, the Soviet government attempted to control academic [[historiography]] (the writing of history by academic historians) to promote ideological and ethno-racial [[imperialism]] by Russians.<ref name="Mehnert1952Marx"/>{{better source needed|This is a dated source; and may be Cold War propaganda|date=April 2016}} During the 1928–1956 period, modern and contemporary history was generally composed according to the wishes of the CPSU, not the requirements of accepted historiographic method.<ref name="Mehnert1952Marx"/>
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