The Soviet scholar-bureaucrat : M. N. Pokrovskii and the society of Marxist historians / George M. Enteen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Enteen, George M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pokrovskiĭ, M. N. (Mikhail Nikolaevich), 1868-1932.

Pokrovskiĭ, M. N.

Historians--Soviet Union--Biography.

Historians.

Soviet Union--Historiography.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Place of Publication:

University Park ; London : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [1978]

Language Note:

English

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [225]-232.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271071855

0271071850

OCLC:

1308391472