Michaił N. Pokrowski (1868-1932). Portret uczonego i rewolucjonisty

• Authors: Jan Krzysztof Witczak

Title variants

EN

Mikhail N. Pokrovsky (1868-1932). The portrait of a scholar and a revolutionary

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky is undoubtedly one of these Russian historians, whose creative heritage has been the object of controversies for decades. Upon that, some authors write mainly on scholar’s remarkable contribution to national historiography, his original idea of Russia’s historical evolution; others – in every possible way emphasize dark sides of Pokrovsky’s work, inefficiency of his class and political approach to historical researches, “tangled by pseudo-Marxist dogmas”. The author of this paper in view of newly revealed sources has tried to present the unbiased story of Marxist historian’s life and his diligent search for an answer to “the eternal questions of existence”. The limited size of this paper does not allow to describe more thoroughly certain periods of his work and activity. The author sees his main task in approximation of main events and facts straightforwardly connected with the described personage and casting discredit on existing in scholarly literature opinions about scholar’s allegedly solely negative influence on historical studies in soviet Russia in 1920s. The outline has been written on the basis of old as well as completely new historical publications which allows to examine more carefully different facts concerning the scholar, which have emerged over a period of last decades.

Keywords

EN

new history of Russia; bolshevism; communism; political history; M. N. Pokrosvkij

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego
• Journal: Przegląd Wschodnioeuropejski
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 87-99

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Jan Krzysztof Witczak

• Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Identifiers

ISSN

2081-1128