The study of the history of Germany in the Kemerovo state university

The formation of Historical Germanistics at Kemerovo State University began in the late 1980s under the guidance of candidates of historical sciences, associate professors Y.V. Galaktionov and L.N. Korneva, who in turn were students of the famous Tomsk historian N.S. Cherkasov. Presently, German history studies is one of the leading scientific direction of the Department of World History and Socio-Political Sciences of Kemerovo State University. The purpose of the article is to consider the development of studying of German history in the faculty of History at Kemerovo State University. The sources of the research are the works of the members of the Department of World History and Socio-Political Sciences of Kemerovo State University: dissertations, monographs, articles, manuals. The specific of German history studies at the Kemerovo University was originally determined by the founders of Historical Germanis-tics school, who were interested in the Russian and German historiography of German National Socialism, the historiographic problems of the theory of totalitarianism. The recognized expert on the Russian historiography of German fascism Y.V. Galaktionov in his works analysed its various aspects from origins until the 1990s. L.N. Korneva analysed in detail the German historiography of National Socialism of the second half of XX - beginning of XXI centuries. The works of E.V. Moroz and N.G. Kostromina are devoted to the historiography of totalitarianism. The German historiography of the "conservative revolution", a right-wing intellectual phenomenon of German history during the Weimar Republic, has become the main subject of O.E. Terekhov scientific researches. It should be noted, that over time the scientific interests of Kemerovo historians-germanists have affected the problems of world history, which is reflected in the works of S.V. Arapina, A.V. Ravnushkin, E.A. Zharonkina, A.E. Antonov devoted to various political, economic and social aspects of Germany history of the XX - early XXI centuries. A West Siberian Centre of German Studies, created in 1999 on the initiative of Y.V. Galaktionov and B. Bonvech, played significant role in the development of German history studies at Kemerovo State University and West Siberian region: under his auspices two collective manuals of Germany history and ten collections from the series "German Studies in Siberia" were published, a number of international scientific conferences were held. Thus, both the individual and collective work of Kemerovo historians made a definite contribution to the development of modern Russian historical germanistics.

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