Lyudmila Veniaminovna Belgorodskaya,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alexander Vladimirovich Leopa,
Doctor of Philosophy, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, e‑mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Soviet Historical Community in the Context of Education and Political Realities of the Late Stalin Era: the Potential of Ego Documents and Visual Sources
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2025-1-6
The article is devoted to identifying the features of historical education and the existence of a corporation of historians in late Stalinist Russia (1946−1953). The corpus of ego documents (memoirs, diaries, oral stories) and visual sources of the electronic resource “History of Russia in Photographs”, artistic and journalistic works were studied. Psychological features and accepted behavior patterns of teachers and students are considered. It is noted that isotests make it possible to assess behavioral and emotional behavior patterns: restraint, seriousness, modesty. Common features and specific features of the historical education of Moscow, Leningrad and peripheral students have been established. The article provides examples related to the large role of socio-political disciplines, betting on verbatim memorization of texts of classics and textbooks, taking notes on texts, following the behavioral model of the “double standard”. It was established that the metropolitan students and teachers were widely involved in the ideological campaigns of 1946−1953, and not only as a “victim”, but as active participants in the reprisals with colleagues. The features of historical education of the country’s population as a whole are highlighted.
Publishing: 24/02/2025
The article has been received by the editor on 06/11/2024
How to cite: Belgorodskaya L.V., Leopa A.V. The Soviet Historical Community in the Context of Education and Political Realities of the Late Stalin Era: the Potential of Ego Documents and Visual Sources // Historical Courier, 2025, No. 1 (39), pp. 72–84. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2025/ISTKURIER-2025-1-06.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2025
Keywords: visual turn; 1946−1953; 1949 as a “place of memory”; teachers and students; memoirs of Soviet historians; images of Soviet students in photography