CAMPAIGN AGAINST COSMOPOLITISM IN SIBERIA (analysis of the contemporary Russian historiography of the problem)

• Main Author: E. S. Genina
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Kemerovo State University 2015-02-01
• Series: Вестник Кемеровского государственного университета
• Subjects: historiography of the problem, contemporary russian researchers, campaign against cosmopolitism in siberia, intelligentsia, repression
• Online Access: https://vestnik.kemsu.ru/jour/article/view/712

The paper presents the results of analysis of contemporary Russian historiography of the campaign against cosmopolitism inSiberia, developed over the past twenty years (1994 – 2014). To date, there is no complete characterization of the stated subject. The author has identified and examined the works devoted to this campaign, which constitute individual problem-clusters. These are general works of various thematic content, publications, reflecting the policy of the state in relation to the creative, scientific and educational, scientific, engineering and technical intelligentsia, doctors, and works clarifying relations between the state and Jewich communities. In this case, the researchers studied events of the campaign having taken place in the Kemerovo Region in more detail. The aspect that draws particular attention of the researchers is the policy of the state in respect to the scientific and educational intelligentsia ofSiberia. At present, there is a lack of general works on the history of the campaign in Siberian regions and the accompanying repression. The author considers creation of biographical works to be an essential and promising way of research.