Moscow, Nauka Publishing House. 1983. 216 p. Significant progress has been made in studying the history of pre - revolutionary historical science - the views and historical concepts of its individual representatives and entire trends .1 To a much lesser extent, other components of historical science are covered, in particular, the development of special and auxiliary historical disciplines, without which it is impossible to fully present the main trends and level of development of historical science. Thus, the coverage of the state and development of historiography as a special discipline is limited to the relevant sections in " Essays on the history of Historical Science in the USSR "(vol. 2, 3. Moscow, 1960 - 1963) and an assessment of some historiographical works .2The new book by Candidate of Historical Sciences R. A. Kireeva (Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences of the USSR) is the first systematic study of the formation and development of Russian historiography as an independent historical discipline. The author is based on the study of historiographical works of representatives of mainly liberal-bourgeois and noble trends of Russian historical science in the Middle Ages.XIX-early XX. centuries. The attention paid to these areas and the chronological framework of the research are fully justified by the author (p. 15) and correspond to the actual process of formation of Russian historiography as a discipline. In the middle of the 19th century, Russian historical science, primarily represented by S. M. Solovyov, began to develop the main features of historiography. The method used as the basis of R. A. Kireeva's research combines, on the one hand, a consistent consideration of the historiographic work of individual historians (Chapter 1), which allowed us to determine the range of historiographic subjects in their works, as well as the development of historiographic problems in general; on the other, the study of some methodological problems that ... Читать далее