Feldman M.A.“How the NEP was broken”: Introductions to the books of the five-volume edition as a historiographic phenomenon (on the 100th anniversary of V.P. Danilov) // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2025. V.10. №1. P. 58-69.
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Annotation
Introductions to the books in the five-volume How the NEP Was Broken, written under the supervision of the outstanding historian V. P. Danilov, represent a special historiographic phenomenon: the availability of five volumes on the history of the NEP does not mean simplicity of understanding. The difficulty in understanding the materials of five plenums of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) in 1928–1929 is reinforced by the difficulty in understanding the NEP and the extreme difficulty in realizing the possibilities of the NEP economy as the basis for Soviet industrialization. Collecting a huge number of archival materials about five plenums of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b), selecting and systematizing documents and references, preparing thousands of pages for publication were the first steps towards the scientific feat of Danilov and his younger colleagues, while assessing the importance of published materials and defining criteria for efficiency of the social-economic course allowed Danilov to reach a new level of understanding of the New Economic Policy and to conclude about the artificial nature of abandoning it. Danilov’s argument about the far-from-exhausted potential of the NEP and its possibilities for implementing five-year plans proves Danilov’s place among the most prominent Russian historians.
Keywords
Danilov, NEP, collectivization, five-year plan, industrialization.
About the author
Mikhail A. Feldman, DSc (History), Professor, Ural Institute of Management — RANEPA Branch. 8 Marta St., 66, Ekaterinburg, 620144, Russia.
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- Submitted Friday, 20 December 2024
- Reviewed Saturday, 18 January 2025
- Copyright © Auhtors, 2025
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“My constant desire is to establish relations between the cultures of France and Russia ...”
Jan 14 2020Berelowitch A., Nikulin A.M. “My constant desire is to establish relations between the cultures of France and Russia ...” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2019. V.4. №4. P. 96-114.
DOI: 10.22394/2500-1809-2019-4-4-96-114
Annotation
In his interview, the French researcher Alexis Berelowitch considers his Russian family roots and the desire to combine French and Russian cultures in his life through different types of cooperation in the Russian and French historical-sociological projects. He first visited Russia as a teenager in a Moscow pioneer camp in the late 1950s, then he worked as a young volunteer teacher of French at the Minsk State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages in the late 1960s, and after that he chose the key topic of his research—the development of the nationalist trend among village-writers in the Soviet Union. Since perestroika Berelowitch has participated in Russian-French scientific projects of sociologists who studied the transformations of public opinion under the collapse of the USSR, and in Russian-French scientific projects of historians who studied the early Soviet period of the agrarian history of the 1920s—1930s. Alexis Berelowitch made a great contribution to the development of cultural and scientific relations between France and Russia as a cultural attaché of the French Embassy in the mid-1990s and as a director of the French Scientific Center in Moscow (2002-2006). The interview pays special attention to his personal memories of such remarkable researchers of the Russian peasantry as Basile Kerblay, Moshe Levin, Viktor Danilov and Teodor Shanin.
Keywords
Peasant Studies, perestroika, Russia, USSR, France, university science, Kerblay, Levin, Danilov, Shanin
About the authors
Alexis Berelowitch, University Paris — Sorbonne (Paris IV). France, Paris-5, Rue VictorCousin, 1.
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Alexander M. Nikulin, PhD (Economics), Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration; Head of the Chayanov Research Center, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. 119571, Moscow, Vernadskogo Prosp, 82.
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