NICKOLAY GUSHCHIN IN DISCUSSIONS ON COLLECTIVIZATION OF 1960-1990S
N.G. Kedrov
Keywords: Н.Я. Гущин, историческая наука, аграрная историография, коллективизация, советская деревня, N. Ya. Gushchin, historical science, agrarian historiography, collectivization, Soviet village
Abstract
Article is devoted to research of a creative life of a renowned Russian historian N. Ya. Gushchin. The author reconstructs Gushchin’s viewpoints in domestic historians’s disputes on collectivization. The author notices that in the 1960s Gushchin supported scientists who tried to revise the concept of “Short Course of VKP(b) history”. The historian considered collectivization as a part of objective process of the Soviet society genesis in contrast to the famous textbook on the Communist party history. Gushchin reflected this view in his candidate and doctor dissertations, books, as well as reviews of colleagues’ works. The author compares the historian’s points of view with works by F. S. Pestrikov, N. A. Ivnitsky, I. Ya. Trifonov and other researchers, and considers Gushchin’s views in a context of the agrarian historiography development.
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