M.N. Pokrovskii and the Origins of Soviet Historiography

James D. White is Emeritus Professor of the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is the author of Red Hamlet: The Life and Ideas of Alexander Bogdanov (2018), Marx and Russia: The Fate of a Doctrine (2018), Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution (2001), Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism (1996) and The Russian Revolution 1917-1921 (1994). He has also published many articles on Russian and Soviet history.

• PrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction1 Pokrovskii and his Teachers1 Family Background2 Kliuchevskii3 Pokrovskii’s Relations with Kliuchevskii4 Vinogradov5 Vinogradov’s Historical Views6 Readings in Medieval History7 Conflict with Struve8 Teaching9 Liberal Politics10 Zemskii sobor and Parliament2 From Liberal to Bolshevik1 Pravda2 Idealism and the Laws of History3 The Literary-Lecturing Group4 The 1905 Revolution in Moscow5 Economic Materialism3 Exile1 Vpered2 Writing Russian History3 Trotsky4 War5 The 1917 Revolution6 Brest-Litovsk7 Deputy Commissar of Education4 Pre-revolutionary Historical Works1 The History of Russia in the XIX Century2 Chapters on Foreign Policy3 Russian History from the Earliest Times4 Study in the History of Russian Culture5 Istpart1 Trotsky’s From October to Brest-Litovsk2 Istpart3 Iakovlev4 Pokrovskii’s Debate with Trotsky5 Local Istparts6 Institute of Red Professors1 Institute of Red Professors2 Departments3 Russian Historiography4 Stalin’s Judgement5 Genkina6 The Society of Marxist Historians7 Post-Revolutionary Historical Works1 Tsarism and Revolution2 The Brief History of Russia3 Studies in the History of the Russian Revolutionary Movement4 The Imperialist War8 Debates on Imperialism1 Slepkov2 Vanag3 Soviet Anniversaries4 People’s Will9 Merchant Capitalism in Retreat1 Merchant Capitalism2 The Academy Case3 Trotsky’s History of the Russian Revolution4 Stalin’s Letter to Proletarskaia revoliutsiia10 Epilogue1 Stalin and History2 Shestakov’s Textbook3 Against the Historical Conceptions of M.N.PokrovskiiConclusionAppendix: The Debate between Pokrovskii and Trotsky on the Special Features of Russia’s Historical DevelopmentBibliographyIndex