A. M. PANKRATOVA. The working class of Russia. Selected works . Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1983. 559 p.
The name of Academician A. M. Pankratova (1897-1957), a scientist, organizer of Soviet historical science and public figure, is widely known. Her creative career is organically connected with the development of Soviet historiography in the 20-50s. It reflects the characteristic features of the generation of Soviet historians who passed the school of revolution and civil war, brought up in the Institute of the red Professorship. Academicians I. I. Mints, M. V. Nechkina, A.M. Pankratova, such scientists as E. B. Genkina, S. M. Dubrovsky, B. B. Grave, A. L. Sidorov, K. F. Sidorov, D. A. Baevsky and others.,
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In the 20s and 30s, they took over the baton from the Bolshevik historians, associates of V. I. Lenin - V. V. Adoratsky, V. I. Nevsky, M. S. Olminsky, M. N. Pokrovsky - and had a great influence on the further development of Soviet historical science. Historians of this generation are characterized by a combination of scientific, teaching and social, party activities, a wide range of problems of scientific studies. At the same time, each of them had one central theme, the study of which, as a rule, is devoted to the entire creative life. Such a topic for A. M. Pankratova was the history of the working class of our country1 . This choice was determined not only by the nature of the tasks that the young Soviet historical science had to solve in the first place, but also by the previous revolutionary activity of A.M. Pankratova, a member of the Odessa underground in 1919, a party propagandist, agitator and organizer of trade union work in the Urals in the early 1920s. Research on the history of the Russian working class formed the basis for reprinting the works of A. M. Pankratova 2 . They cover a huge chronological period-from the prehistory of the proletariat in the serf era to October. The works included in the volume were written in 1925-1956 and reflect the pr ...
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