Towards the creation of "a new scheme "of Russia national history

The article examines some attempts of understanding the national history of Russia, made in the last decade. In these works the task of creating a new scheme of national history, and not just a new interpretation of its individual periods, was set. In particular, this scientific paper analyzes the policy article of S.E. Naryshkin and fundamental monograph of A.L. Janov. On May 15, 2009 S. E. Naryshkin, who was at that time the Head of Russian Presidential Administration, was appointed the Head of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation to counter attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia's interests. As a functionary of the highest rank, S.E. Naryshkin appealed to the scientific community to set to the modernization of views on national history, and to resist "the elite of a number of newly formed states", amateurs of science, timeserving research and textbooks prepared by Russian historians who had received grants for this work from abroad. The aim of this modernization should be creating the national history standard. The latter is put into practice through the preparation of an objective historical encyclopedia of Russia, the all-Russian calendar of historical events and the biographical dictionary of major personalities in the national history. This article presents arguments in favor of the opinion that any standard in the historical science is not only undesirable but also impossible. In the article the monograph of A.L. Janov is recognized as vivid and extraordinary research, with many high virtues, but not without some fundamental shortcomings. To those in the article the following facts are attributed: firstly, the unbridled, beyond the bounds of scientific discussion criticism of the works of some authors; secondly, A.L. Janov hasn't succeeded in creating exactly a new scheme of national history; and thirdly, some of the scientific arguments presented by A.L. Yanov in favor of his theory are incorrect and beneath criticism.

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