M. N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series ; v.320
• Author: D. White, James.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 pages)

Focusing on the career of M.N. Pokrovskii, the author examines the evolution of Soviet Marxist historical writing in the 1920s, and explains how political imperatives determined the interpretation of Russian history.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- ‎Half-Title Page -- ‎Series Title Page -- ‎Title Page -- ‎Copyright Page -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎Introduction -- ‎Chapter 1. Pokrovskii and his Teachers -- ‎1. Family Background -- ‎2. Kliuchevskii -- ‎3. Pokrovskii's Relations with Kliuchevskii -- ‎4. Vinogradov -- ‎5. Vinogradov's Historical Views -- ‎6. Readings in Medieval History -- ‎7. Conflict with Struve -- ‎8. Teaching -- ‎9. Liberal Politics -- ‎10. Zemskii sobor and Parliament -- ‎Chapter 2. From Liberal to Bolshevik -- ‎1. Pravda -- ‎2. Idealism and the Laws of History -- ‎3. The Literary-Lecturing Group -- ‎4. The 1905 Revolution in Moscow -- ‎5. Economic Materialism -- ‎Chapter 3. Exile -- ‎1. Vpered -- ‎2. Writing Russian History -- ‎3. Trotsky -- ‎4. War -- ‎5. The 1917 Revolution -- ‎6. Brest-Litovsk -- ‎7. Deputy Commissar of Education -- ‎Chapter 4. Pre-revolutionary Historical Works -- ‎1. History of Russia in the XIX Century -- ‎2. Chapters on Russian Foreign Policy -- ‎3. Russian History from the Earliest Times -- ‎4. Study in the History of Russian Culture -- ‎Chapter 5. Istpart -- ‎1. Trotsky's From October to Brest-Litovsk -- ‎2. Istpart -- ‎3. Iakovlev -- ‎4. Pokrovskii's Debate with Trotsky -- ‎5. Local Istparts -- ‎Chapter 6. Institute of Red Professors -- ‎1. Institute of Red Professors -- ‎2. Departments -- ‎3. Russian Historiography -- ‎3.1. Ideology -- ‎3.2. Karamzin -- ‎3.3. Chicherin -- ‎3.4. Shchapov -- ‎3.5. Soloviev -- ‎3.6. Kliuchevskii -- ‎4. Stalin's Judgement -- ‎5. Genkina -- ‎6. The Society of Marxist Historians -- ‎Chapter 7. Post-revolutionary Historical Works -- ‎1. Tsarism and Revolution -- ‎2. Brief History of Russia -- ‎3. Studies in the History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement -- ‎4. The Imperialist War -- ‎Chapter 8. Debates on Imperialism -- ‎1. Slepkov -- ‎2. Vanag -- ‎3. Soviet Anniversaries.

‎4. People's Will -- ‎Chapter 9. Merchant Capitalism in Retreat -- ‎1. Merchant Capitalism -- ‎2. The Academy Case -- ‎3. Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution -- ‎4. Stalin's Letter to Proletarskaia revoliutsiia -- ‎Chapter 10. Epilogue -- ‎1. Stalin and History -- ‎2. Shestakov's Textbook -- ‎3. Against the Historical Conceptions of M.N. Pokrovskii -- ‎Conclusion -- ‎Appendix. The Debate between Pokrovskii and Trotsky on the Special Features of Russia's Historical Development -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎Index -- Back Cover.