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Issue ? 30. February 2012Scientific Principles in Marxist Historiography of the 1920'sAlexandr V. SidorovPh.D., professor, Chair of Political History Department, School of Public Administration, Lomonosov Moscow State University. The formation of Marxist historiography in the 1920s in Russia is connected to solving a number of methodological problems, including the formation of a special understanding of the scientific principles. Marxist historians of the period, led by Mikhail Pokrovsky, regarded the concepts of “scientific” and “objective” as opposite. Based on the Marxist theory and research experience of previous generations the basic criteria for scientific research were worked out. Rightly noting the influence of the social conditions on the work of a historian, Marxist approach absolutized this influence thereby creating a theoretical justification of the intervention (and in the future – control) of the party-state institutions of “proletarian power” in the creative scientific process and the isolation of Soviet science from the global historiography.
Marxist science, historiography of the 1920’s, scientific, objectivity, scientific research principles, M.N. Pokrovsky. Comments:
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