The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat : : M. N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians / / George M. Enteen.
Mikhail Nikolaevich bridges 19th- and 20th-century Russian culture as well as Leninism and Stalinism, and later became an instrument in Khrushchev's effort at de-Stalinization. Pokrovskii was born in Moscow in 1868. He described the years before 1905 as his time of ";democratic illusions a...
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©1980 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Historian and Revolutionary -- 2. Pokrovskii's Synthesis of Russian History -- 3. Evolution of Pokrovskii's System: The Russian Revolution -- 4. Battle Lines among Historians, 1925-28 -- 5. Cooperation Ends -- 6. The First All-Union Conference of Marxist Historians -- 7. The New Offensive on the Historical Front -- 8. The Gap between Theory and Practice -- 9. A Besieged Fortress -- 10. Renewal of Mandate -- 11. Pokrovskii's System in Ruins -- Epilogue: Pokrovskii's Double Death -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Mikhail Nikolaevich bridges 19th- and 20th-century Russian culture as well as Leninism and Stalinism, and later became an instrument in Khrushchev's effort at de-Stalinization. Pokrovskii was born in Moscow in 1868. He described the years before 1905 as his time of ";democratic illusions and economic materialism."; His interest in legal Marxism began in the 1890's but it was only with the Revolution of 1905 that he stepped into the Marxist camp.Pokrovskii was a leader in the creation of the ";historical front";-an organization of scholars authorized to work out a Marxist theory of the past. He formalized the bond between scholarship and politics through his belief that historians should assist party authorities in effecting a cultural revolution; thus he supported Stalin's collectivization of agriculture and leg a campaign to silence non-Marxist scholars, some of whom he had defended earlier. Yet his accommodation with Stalin was uneasy, and after Pokrovskii's death in 1932 his allegedly ";abstract sociological schemes"; were condemned and his career was dubbed pokrovshcina-era of the wicked deeds of Pokrovskii. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780271071855 9783110745269 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780271071855?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | George M. Enteen. |