Аспирантура в Институте истории АН СССР во второй половине 1940-х – начале 1960-х гг.

Magistra Vitae: электронный журнал по историческим наукам и археологии. 2026. Т. 11. № 1. С. 114–125.

Kholmatov T.

This paper reconstructs the organization of postgraduate study at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences in the second half of 1940s — the early 1960s. The main part of the research is focused on the conditions of developing of young historians, as well as the specifics of the organization of the educational process. In particular, there are considered the requirements for examination tests and written papers taken from the individual plans. There is also given a brief characteristic of the topic of dissertations by postgraduate students. Based on statistical data, the article also reveals the dynamics of the number of graduate students. It allows the author to achieve a deeper understanding of the problems faced by the academic institution in the post-war era. In the final part of the paper it is concluded that the conditions for postgraduate studies at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences were not optimal because of the oversupply of young historians in the post-war years. The research is based on documentation sources (such as reports and plans of the academic institution, transcripts of meetings of scientists that have been deposited in the funds of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Scientific Archive of the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as orders and resolutions of government authorities, and others) and memoirs of historians.

Keywords: аспирантура, подготовка научных кадров, postgraduate studies, Институт истории АН СССР, Institute of History