The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat : : M. N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians / / George M. Enteen.

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• VerfasserIn: Enteen, George M.,
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• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
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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.

Table of Contents

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