Academician A.M. Pankratova, a researcher of the history of Kazakhstan
Pankratova Anna M. (1897-1957) is a Soviet historian, public figure, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1953), Honored Scientist of the Kazakh SSR (1943), a member of several foreign academies of sciences. In 1917, she graduated from the Faculty of History of the University of Odessa, and in 1927, from the Institute of Red Professors. She taught at the Academy of Communist Education, Comvuz (Communist higher educational institution). She headed the History Department of Moscow and Saratov State Universities, Moscow State Pedagogical Institute named after Lenin and Academy of Social Sciences of the Central Committee of CPSU. She worked as the Head of a sector and the Deputy Director of the History Institute in 1953-1957, and the Chief Editor of the Voprosy istorii journal. She is the author of nearly 200 research papers on the history of the working class and the revolutionary movement, the head of multi-volume documentary publications on the working class and the revolution of 1905-1907. As a member of the Communist Party she took an active part in social work. At the XIX and XX Congresses of the CPSU she was elected to the Central Committee, she was a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the 4th convocation, a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. In the 1930s, she had a good relationship with historians S.D. Asfandiyarov, M.D. Vyatkin, who studied the history of Kazakhstan. During the Second World War, she was evacuated to Alma-Ata with specialists of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Under her leadership, researchers-historians from Moscow, Leningrad and Alma-Ata started writing The History of the Kazakh SSR. In the Soviet historical science it was the first experience of generalization of history in the scale of a Union Republic from the earliest times to the early years of the Second World War. During the harsh wartime, with ideological pressure and with many contentious issues, this work was of great importance. The authors were A. Baevskiy, E. Bekmahanov, A. Bernshtam, M. Vyatkin, B. Grekov, N.M. Druzhinin, N.Timofeev, A.Yakunin, M. Auezov, E. Ismailov, S. Mukanov and others. The History of the Kazakh SSR was carefully and comprehensively reviewed at special editorial meetings organized under the Propaganda Department of the CC of Kazakhstan CP. The result of this review was significant changes, corrections and additions to the book. It was edited by Secretary of the CC of Kazakhstan CP A.M. Abdykalykov and by A.M. Pankratova. Its total volume was 42 printed pages. The book with maps, diagrams, documentary and artistic illustrations became a milestone in the study of history of the peoples of the Soviet Union, and gave impetus to the scientific research and the broader range of historical sources, both of pre-Soviet and Soviet periods. But for managing the process, writing and editing individual sections of the book, Pankratova made a summary article. She took part in the writing of the first volume of The History of the Kazakh SSR, published in 1949, and in the discussion of issues related to the solution of various problems in the history of Kazakhstan, giving academic advice. The doctoral theses of historians E.B. Bekmakhanov, S.N. Pokrovsky and A.B. Tursunbayev were prepared under her supervision.
Keywords
А.М. Панкратова, Кенесары Касымов, История Казахской ССР, Институт истории Академии наук СССР, A.M. Pankratova, Kenesary Kasymov, history of Kazakh SSR, Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of USSRAuthors
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Absemetov Marat O. | National Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Astana) | m.absemetov@gmail.com |
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Academician A.M. Pankratova, a researcher of the history of Kazakhstan | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta – Tomsk State University Journal. 2016. № 402.