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Mikhail Pokrovsky
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Russian historian (1868–1932)
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Mikhail Pokrovsky was a Russian historian and politician born in Moscow in 1868. He studied under Vasily Klyuchevsky and Paul Vinogradoff. His professional career included positions as an editor and roles at the Institute of Red Professors, Marx-Engels-Lenin Institute, Communist Academy, and Lomonosov Moscow State University. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union, and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.
Pokrovsky was affiliated with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, and the Soviet Union. He received the Order of Lenin. His notable work is *History of Russia, from the earliest times to the rise of commercial capitalism*. He died of cancer in Moscow in 1932 and was buried at the Kremlin Wall Necropolis.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1868
- Died
- 1932
- Works
- 1
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Preceded by
- Victor Nogin
- Succeeded by
- Pyotr Smidovich
- Born
- 17 August [ O.S. 29 August ] 1868
- Died
- August 29, 1932 (1932-08-29) (aged 64)
- Citizenship
- Soviet
- Party
- CPSU
- Alma mater
- Moscow State University
- Occupation
- Historian, politician
- Awards
- Order of Lenin
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mikhail
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Moscow
- Place of death
- Moscow
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- editor
- Political party
- Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
- Languages spoken
- Russian
- Native language
- Russian
- Award
- Order of Lenin
- Doctoral advisor
- Paul Vinogradoff
- Student of
- Vasily Klyuchevsky
- Field of work
- politics
- Image
- Pokrovsky 1930.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1868-08-29
- date of death
- 1932-04-10
- place of burial
- Kremlin Wall Necropolis
- member of
- Academy of Sciences of the USSR
- Commons category
- Mikhail Pokrovsky
- cause of death
- cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons Creator page
- Mikhail Pokrovsky
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Encyclopedic overview
Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (Russian: Михаи́л Никола́евич Покро́вский; August 29 [O.S. August 17] 1868 – April 10, 1932) was a Russian Marxist historian, revolutionary and a Soviet public and political figure. One of the earliest professionally trained historians to join the Russian revolutionary movement, Pokrovsky is regarded as the most influential Soviet historian of the 1920s and was known as “the head of the Marxist historical school in the USSR”.
Pokrovsky was neither a Bolshevik nor a Menshevik for nearly a decade prior to the October Revolution of 1917, instead living in European exile as an independent radical close to philosopher Alexander Bogdanov. Following the Bolshevik seizure of power, Pokrovsky rejoined the Bolshevik Party and moved to Moscow, where he became the deputy chief of the Soviet government's new department of education, the People's Commissariat of Enlightenment.
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