Issue 3 (68)
| S. M. SOLOVYOV IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN DISSERTATION CULTURE ESTABLISHMENT: THE SECOND HALF OF THE 1840s | |||
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| Year | 2020 | Number | 3(68) |
| Pages | 115-123 | Type | scientific article |
| UDC | 94(47)”1845/1847” | BBK | 63.3(2)47 |
| Authors | Alevras Natalia N. |
Topic | HISTORY OF SCIENCE |
| Summary | The author focuses on the academic activities of S. M. Solovyov during the dissertation defense procedures of 1845–1847 that became a basis of his academic biography and contributed to the development of historical knowledge. The historian is considered as significant in the establishment of the dissertation system/culture in Russian universities. Solovyov was an activist in this new locus of the university space. Inspired by G. W. F. Hegel’s philosophic ideas and J. P. G. Ewers’s experience of reinterpreting the Old Russian history, he was the first to articulate novel conceptual ideas concerning the development and the meaning of Russian historical process in his dissertations. He also presented his system of methodological bases of research practice. His drastic conquest of historical academic Olympus became a logical conclusion for one of the stages in the history of historiography of the late 1810s — early 1840s, characterized by a famous debate around N. M. Karamzin’s “History” and by a phenomenon of academic authoritarianism. The young Solovyov felt that the methodological frameworks proposed by his grand predecessors (M. P. Pogodin, N. G. Ustryalov) for the interpretation of the specificities of Russia’s history were too narrow and irrelevant. Solovyov in the 1840s looks like a reformist researcher aiming at the reviewing of ideas, principles, and methods of studying the history of Russia. | ||
| Keywords | dissertation culture, dissertation dispute, dissertation, history of historiography, Moscow University, Russian history department, concept and methodology of S. M. Solovyov | ||
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