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

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 an...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Enteen, George M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1978]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1. Historian and Revolutionary
  • Youth and Education
  • The Revolutionary
  • The Forwardists
  • Moscow
  • 2. Pokrovskii's Synthesis of Russian History
  • The Science of History
  • The Course of Russian History
  • Pivotal Issues
  • 3. Evolution of Pokrovskii's System: The Russian Revolution
  • The October Revolution: Preliminary Explanation
  • Taming Critics
  • The Theory of Growing Over: A Revised Understanding of the October Revolution
  • 4. Battle Lines among Historians, 1925-28
  • Origins of the Society of Marxist Historians
  • Pokrovskii: His Practice and His Theory
  • 5. Cooperation Ends
  • Emerging Conflict
  • Summer Interlude
  • Campaign against Non-Marxist Historians
  • Pokrovskii in Step
  • 6. The First All-Union Conference of Marxist Historians
  • Preparation for the Conference
  • The Conference
  • Stalin's Defeat of the Right Opposition
  • 7. The New Offensive on the Historical Front
  • The Liquidation of RANION
  • Pokrovskii's New Theory of Cultural Revolution
  • Rout of the Non-Marxists
  • Expansion of the Communist Academy
  • Divergent Hypotheses
  • 8. The Gap between Theory and Practice
  • A Rival Coalition
  • The Narodnaia Volia Dispute
  • Opposition in the Communist Academy
  • Cultural Revolution and the Concept of Truth
  • 9. A Besieged Fortress
  • Rules and Issues of Conflict
  • Under Attack
  • Revolution of 1905 Reconsidered
  • Leninism and European History
  • 10. Renewal of Mandate
  • Stalin's Intervention
  • Immediate Aftermath
  • Issues
  • Leadership
  • Scholarship and Politics
  • 11. Pokrovskii's System in Ruins
  • Discussion of Socioeconomic Formations
  • Last Writings
  • Capitulation
  • Epilogue: Pokrovskii's Double Death
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index