ПРОБЛЕМЫ МЕТОДОЛОГИИ ИСТОРИЧЕСКИХ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЙ В ТРУДАХ ВЛАДИМИРА МИХАЙЛОВИЧА ЛАВРОВСКОГО

Диалог со временем. 2025. № 92. С. 78–93.

Klyuev A., Метель О. В.

The article is devoted to the study of the methodological views of Vladimir Mikhailovich Lavrovsky (1891–1971), a famous Soviet researcher of English agrarian history. Relying both on the historian's published works and archival materials, mainly in the personal fund of V.M. Lavrovsky in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the authors of this article examine the views of the scientist on historical science and the historian's craft. In general, the authors believe that interest in the methodology of historical research was characteristic of all stages of the Soviet scientist's scientific biography, and as early as 1918, responding to the demands of the time, he tried to comprehend the ideas of neo-Kantianism and the peculiarities of the relationship between history and sociology. However, V.M. Lavrovsky paid the greatest attention to methodological problems of historical science in the 1960s, when these problems became the focus of many Soviet historians who saw their task in overcoming the shortcomings of the previous period of development of the national research tradition. The basic attitude of V.M. Lavrovsky in this period of time did not change much in comparison with 1918–1920; he also insisted that history should study the regularities of historical development, but now he called for a more active use of quantitative methods of analyzing the material.

Keywords: методология истории, позитивизм, структурализм, soviet historiography, methodology of history, positivism, structuralism, советский марксизм, В.М. Лавровский, советская историческая наука, soviet marxism, quantitative methods in history, Vladimir Lavrovsky, количественные методы в исторических исследованиях