Editing October Revolution (section)

===Effect of the dissolution of the Soviet Union on historical research===
The [[dissolution of the Soviet Union]] affected historical interpretations of the October Revolution. Since 1991, increasing access to large amounts of Soviet archival materials has made it possible to re‑examine the October Revolution.<ref name="Kotkin 1998"/> Though both Western and Russian historians now have access to many of these archives, the effect of the dissolution of the USSR can be seen most clearly in the work of the latter. While the disintegration essentially helped solidify the Western and Revisionist views, post-USSR Russian historians largely repudiated the former Soviet historical interpretation of the Revolution.{{Sfn|Litvin|2001|p=47}} As [[Stephen Kotkin]] argues, 1991 prompted "a return to political history and the apparent resurrection of totalitarianism, the interpretive view that, in different ways…revisionists sought to bury".<ref name="Kotkin 1998"/>