Alexander Andreevich Guber

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Alexander Andreyevich Guber or Huber ( Russian Александр Андреевич Губер ; born March 19 . Jul / 1. April  1902 greg. In Kamenka ; † 16th June 1971 in Moscow ) was a Russian-Soviet historian of German descent.

Live and act

Alexander Guber was a great-grandson of the Evangelical Lutheran superintendent Johann Samuel Huber and the older brother of the writer Boris Andrejewitsch Guber . He grew up in what was then the Kiev governorate and studied at the Institute for Oriental Studies in Moscow until 1925 . He then took up a position as a research assistant at the Communist University for the Workers of the East in Moscow. In 1935 he was appointed professor. From 1937 he received a professorship at Moscow State University . From 1952 he became a member of the CPSU . In addition to teaching at Moscow State University, he also taught at the Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the CPSU .

In 1953 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . From 1954 to 1956 he was head of the Institute for Oriental Studies. In the sixties he headed the Department of New and Recent History of the Countries of America at the Institute of General History at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . For this academy he also took on the duties of deputy secretary of the history department from 1957 to 1971. From 1956 to 1962 he was the first editor-in-chief of the magazine Novaja i novejsaja istorija (German: New and Latest History). When the National Committee of Soviet Historians was founded in 1957, he assumed the post of chairman of the committee. From 1966 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1970 he was President of the XIII. International Congress of Historians in Moscow.

He was awarded twice (1943, 1962) with the Order of the Red Labor Banner and with the medal “For heroic work in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945” .

Scientific work

From the beginning, the focus of his interests was on the countries of the Pacific region and Southeast Asia. Here he devoted himself to topics of the history of the Philippines and the countries of Indochina . Guber did fundamental work in Russian history. His first work was published in 1932 on Indonesia . He then turned to the history of the Philippines and in 1937 published a book on the subject. A later work of his from 1948 dealt with the struggle for independence for the Philippines from 1896 to 1901 and US influence. In 1940 he first published a textbook on the history of the countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America from a Marxist perspective in the Soviet Union . He dedicated his 1949 publication Vetnamsky narod v borbe za svoyu nezavismost i Demokratieu (German: The Vietnamese people in their struggle for independence and democracy) to the independence struggle of Vietnam .

further activities

  • 1955 member of the Soviet Peace Committee
  • 1956 member of the Soviet Solidarity Committee for the countries of Asia and Africa
  • 1957 editor of the magazine Vestnik istori mirovoj kultury (German: Communications on the history of world culture)
  • 1958 Chairman of the USSR-Indonesia Society
  • 1970 election as President of the International Committee of Historians

Fonts

  • Polozenie rabochego klassa v Indonezi (German: The situation of the working class in Indonesia), 1928
  • Indoneziya , 1932
  • Novaja istorija kolonial'nych i zavisimych stran (German: New History of Colonial and Dependent Countries), 1940
  • Kriza kolonijalnog sistema posle drugog svetskog rata , Belgrade 1947 (Serbian)
  • On the question of the peculiarities of the formation of classes in colonial Indonesia (lecture at the XXIV. International Orientalist Congress), Moscow 1957 (German)
  • Agrarnaja reforma v Demokratic eskoj Respublike Vetnam , Moakau 1959
  • Distintive Features of the National-Liberation Movement in the Eastern Colonial and Dependent Countries , in: International Affairs, No. 3, vol. 5, 1959, p. 71-75
  • Respublika Indoneziya 1945-1960 (German: Republic of Indonesia 1945-1960), Moscow 1961
  • World history in ten volumes , edited with other authors, Berlin (from 1961 in German translation)
  • Introduction to Indonesia , in: Thomas Perry Thornton, The Third world in Soviet perspective: studies by Soviet writers on the developing areas, Princeton 1964, p. 61f
  • Malaya as editor, Leipzig 1964 (German)
  • Istoriia Vetnama v nobveshee vremia (1917-1965) , et al., Moscow 1970
  • History of the Mongolian People's Republic as editor, Moscow 1973 (English)

literature

  • MS Meier, DV Deopik, Akademik AA Guber, Moscow 2004 (Russian biography), ISBN 5-8463-0071-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew I. Lebed et al., Who's who in the USSR 1965-66, New York, 1966, p. 297
  2. ↑ AA Guber to commemorate, in: Zeitschrift für Geschichte, 19th year, 1971, p. 1427
  3. ↑ AA Guber to commemorate, ibid, pp. 1427–1428.
  4. ↑ Hans Koch (ed.), 5000 Soviet heads - structure and face of a leadership collective, Cologne 1959, p. 378
personal data
SURNAME Guber, Alexander Andrejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Губер, Александр Андреевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet historian
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Kamyanka
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 1971
Place of death Moscow