Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2007
Pages: 309-346
Series: Studies in East European Thought
Full citation:
, "In pursuit of a historical tradition", Studies in East European Thought 59 (4), 2007, pp. 309-346.
In pursuit of a historical tradition
N. A. Rozhkov's scientific laws of history
pp. 309-346
in: Studies in East European Thought 59 (4), 2007.Abstract
Despite all that has been written about Russian historiography and how it profoundly changed after the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917, very little is known about the historical tradition immediately before the Soviet era. This article attempts to begin to address this issue by examining the major forces that shaped the historical and sociological thought of Nikolai Alesandrovich Rozhkov (1868–1927). It argues that as Kliuchevskii's successor and as the first professional historian to eventually present a Marxist analysis of Russian history, Rozhkov was not only the most important historian at that time but one whose work best represented the most significant transition in Russia's historical tradition. The article concludes that an examination of Rozhkov's historical methodology offers a new interpretation of the origins of Soviet historiography.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 2007
Pages: 309-346
Series: Studies in East European Thought
Full citation:
, "In pursuit of a historical tradition", Studies in East European Thought 59 (4), 2007, pp. 309-346.