Историческая наука Петрограда–Ленинграда в условиях социальной трансформации (1917–1934)

Abstract

Among the significant objects of research are the emergence of the discourse of the "St. Petersburg historical school" in the early Soviet period, the transformation of the system of scientific institutions and higher educational institutions of Petrograd-Leningrad associated with historical science, the evolution of the subject of historical research. The focus is also on the processes of termination of the historical-clerical and the emergence of historical-party science, the relationship of the historical community and government. The author offers the periodization of historical science in the early Soviet period. 
 The role of Petrograd/Leningrad University as the main center of historical science of the city is considered, the process of emergence and development of new "Soviet" scientific and educational centers is studied. The central element of research was prosopographic research, which made it possible to trace how the collective portrait of the corporation of historians changed. One of the directions of statistical calculations was the consideration of the dynamics and direction of political repression against historians who worked in Petrograd-Leningrad, about a third of them were subjected to repressions. Here, the most massive repressions hit the institutions of the Academy of Sciences, and, paradoxically, the new "ideological" Soviet institutions. Yet, prosopographic research shows that despite repressions and transformations, a high degree of continuity between different generations of historians was maintained in the institutions of Petrograd-Leningrad, and the main scientific schools formed in the pre-revolutionary period were also preserved. Reasonable assumption is put forward about the preservation of the traditions of professional crafts within the framework of Leningrad historical school, although subjected to significant deformation in the conditions of the totalitarian political regime.