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2025. Vol.10. №3.

Round table of the Russian Peasant Studies for the 100th anniversary of Professor Viktor Petrovich Danilov

Oct 22 2025

Round table of the Russian Peasant Studies for the 100th anniversary of Professor Viktor Petrovich Danilov // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2025. V.10. №3. P. 153-181.

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On March 25, 2025, a round table of the Russian Peasant Studies for the 100th anniversary of the outstanding agricultural historian, Professor Viktor Petrovich Danilov (1925–2004), was held. The participants noted the contribution of V. P. Danilov to the Russian and world historiography, shared personal memories of him and work with him, and discussed current issues of agricultural and social history. The following participants made presentations: Alexander V. Zhuravel, Historian, Independent Researcher; Viktor V. Kondrashin, DSc (History), Professor, Chief Researcher, Head of the Center for Economic History of the Institute of Russian History, RAS; Igor A. Kuznetsov, PhD (History), Senior Researcher, Center for Economic and Social History, RANEPA; Alexander V. Gordon, DSc (History), Chief Researcher, Head of the East and Southeast Asia Sector, INION RAS; Elena A. Tyurina, PhD (History), Head of the Russian State Archive of Economics; Igor N. Slepnev, PhD (History), Senior Researcher, Center for Economic History of the Institute of Russian History, RAS; Elena V. Danilova; Vladislav O. Afanasenkov, Junior Researcher, Center for Economic and Social History, RANEPA. The discussion was moderated by Alexander M. Nikulin, PhD (Economics), Editor-in-Chief of the Russian Peasant Studies, Head of the Center for Agrarian Studies, RANEPA. 

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Round table, outstanding agricultural historian, Viktor Petrovich Danilov, Russian and world historiography, shared personal memories, current issues of agricultural and social history.

About the authors

Alexander V. Zhuravel, Historian, Independent Researcher. Profsoyuzov St. 1, Bryansk, 241022, Russia.
Viktor V. Kondrashin, DSc (History), Chief Researcher, Head of the Center for Economic History, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russia.
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Igor A. Kuznetsov, PhD (History), Senior Researcher at the Center for Economic and Social History, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, building 1, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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Alexander V. Gordon, DSc (History), Chief Researcher, Head of the East and Southeast Asia Sector, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences. Nakhimovsky prosp., 51/21, Moscow, 117418, Russia.
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Elena A. Tyurina, PhD (History), Scientific Director of the Russian State Archive of Economics. B. Pirogovskaya St., 17, Moscow, 119435, Russia.
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Igor N. Slepnev, PhD (History), Senior Researcher of the Center for Economic History, Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences. Dmitry Ulyanov St., 19, Moscow, 117292, Russia.
Elena V. Danilova, independent researcher. Boris Galushkin St., 17, Moscow, 129301, Russia.
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Vladislav O. Afanasenkov, Junior Researcher at the Center for Economic and Social History, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, building 1, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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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. Vernadskogo Prosp., 82, bldg. 1, Moscow, 119571, Russia.
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2025. Vol.10. №1.

V.P. Danilov: Scientific opponent of the “Great Break”

May 20 2025

Krasilnikov S.A. V.P. Danilov: Scientific opponent of the “Great Break” // The Russian Peasant Studies. 2025. V.10. №1. P. 43-57.

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Annotation

The past century left a deep mark not only on the life and fate of the Russian peasantry as a civilizational social-cultural community but also on the work of historians who studied it. Among them, one of the most outstanding is Viktor Petrovich Danilov. As a historian of the Soviet era, he enjoyed well-deserved respect and reputation on both sides of the border, having developed a platform for their creative union in two successive documentary works on the tragic history of the Soviet peasantry in the era of etatization of the agrarian economy. The article aims at assessing the professional and personal experience of a participant of the famous Danilov’s projects, a representative of the next generation of historians who grew professionally while working with Danilov. The author considers some principles of collective work on serial documentary publications, difficulties of such work and ways to overcome them, which allowed to achieve the final results, focusing on the development of alternativeness in the transformations of the 1920s. Due to its consistent rejection of Stalin’s solution to the peasant question, Danilov’s legacy serves as a moral challenge to conformism as a widespread historical corporate disease.

Keywords

Peasant studies, Viktor Petrovich Danilov, N. I. Bukharin, alternative to Stalinism, serial documentary publications.

About the author

Sergey A. Krasilnikov, DSc (History), Chief Researcher, Institute of History, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Nikolaeva St., 8, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia.
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