TY  - BOOK
AU  - Enteen,George M.
TI  - The Soviet Scholar-Bureaucrat: M. N. Pokrovskii and the Society of Marxist Historians 
SN  - 9780271071855
AV  - DK38.7.P62 E57
U1  - 947/.007/2024 18
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - University Park, PA : 
PB  - Penn State University Press, 
KW  - Historians
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Biography
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
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