ВОЙНА И ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯНАУКА: ОСОБЕННОСТИ ОТРАЖЕНИЯ ВОЕННОЙ ТЕМАТИКИ В ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ИСТОРИОГРАФИИ СТАЛИНСКОЙ ЭПОХИ (1930-Е –ПЕРВАЯ ПОЛОВИНА 1950-Х ГОДОВ)

Abstract

The article examines the features of the initial stage of the historiography of the Great Patriotic War, the tradi-tions of which were laid down in the 1930s and were directly related to the reformatting of historical science into an ideologically charged instrument of agitation and propaganda. As a result of the reforms of higher education in the 1920s and the repressions against scholars, the continuity of the academicprinciples of historical research was violat-ed, which led to a split in historical science. Those scholars who studied theevents in the modern and recent history of Russia and the USSR, including military history, found themselvesin a particularly difficult situation. Military history, which emerged as an independent direction in the 1920s, determined the topics and approaches to the analy-sis of the events of the Civil War, and later the Great Patriotic War. During the war years, acharacteristic of the stud-ies of the Great Patriotic War was their epic nature, focused on the description of the feat of the Soviet people. The conceptual model of the war was detailed in Stalin's speeches and replicated in academicworks and textbooks in the post-war period. Responding to the patriotic request of wartime, it retained its significance in the future, shaping the public consciousness and memory of the war of subsequent generations.