ПЛАГИАТ В СОВЕТСКОЙ ИСТОРИЧЕСКОЙ НАУКЕ ВТОРОЙ ПОЛОВИНЫ 1940–1950-Х ГОДОВ

Abstract

The study of ethical issues of research activitiesis an actual problem in historical science. These issues include value orientations and virtues of academics, as well asdeviations from norms, conflicts, and academic violations. The paper is devoted to the problem of plagiarism in Soviet historical science after 1945on the basis ofmaterials from the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).The article examines the conflicts of Soviet research-es: N.M.Druzhinin, T.D.Shoinbaev, L.V.Cherepnin, A.M.Karasik, A.L.Sidorov, A.I.Gukovskiy, L.I.Zubok, I.S.Zvavich, P.Ya.Bukshpan and I.A.Fedosov.The author analyzes the activities of special commissions that con-sidered cases of plagiarismand discusses what the Soviet scholars meant speaking about plagiarism. The commis-sions’ expertisewasrelated tothe academic genre/type of historiographical source. The author definestwo types of deliberateunfair borrowing: textual plagiarism and plagiarism of ideas. Attention is paid to the issue of punishment for intellectual theftand tothe requirements of the accusers.Forming commissions is regarded as a reaction of the research community to ethical conflicts, and the attempt to resolve issues related to the suspicion of plagiarism in academia.The further perspective of thetopic is connected withthe study of the motivation of scholars-plagiarists