%0 Journal Article %T E-mail interview with Olaf Mertelsmann, Associate Professor in Contemporary History, University of Tartu, Estonia, conducted in June 2011 %A Vanessa Voisin %J Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies %D 2011 %I Centre d'Etudes et de Recherche sur les Soci¨¦t¨¦s et les Institutions Post-Sovi¨¦tiques %X The Archives and the Historiography of the Second World War PIPSS.ORG - First, the editorial board is grateful to you for agreeing to answer a few questions about the state of war historiography in the Baltic states. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the archives of the newly independent states became accessible to researchers, as well as central archives in Moscow. However the declassification of documents was subject to a political agenda and may not be consistent or complete. How wou... %K World War II %K Historiography %K Soviet Union %K Baltic States %K Russia %K Latvia %K History %U http://pipss.revues.org/3886