Alexander Moissejewitsch Nekritsch

Alexander Moiseevich Nekritsch ( Russian Александр Моисеевич Некрич , scientific transliteration Aleksandr Moiseevič Nekrič ; born March 3, 1920 in Baku ; † September 2, 1993 in Boston ) was a Soviet historian. He became particularly famous for his book on June 22, 1941 , which was banned in the USSR at the end of the de-Stalinization .

Life

Nekritsch was born in Baku and studied history at Moscow State University (MGU). He graduated in 1941. During the German-Soviet War , Nekritsch fought at the front from 1942. In 1943 he joined the CPSU .

He received his doctorate in 1949 and completed his habilitation in 1963 . He wrote both works on British foreign policy on the eve of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Since 1950 he worked at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

In October 1965 he published the book 1941, June 22 ( 1941, 22 ijunja ), which was initially largely ignored by the scientific journals in the Soviet Union. Only Nowy Mir published a - positive - review . The fact that Nekritsch saw responsibility for the Soviet defeats in the early stages of the war with Stalin quickly led to furious attacks from Stalinist hardliners. As a result, the author was expelled from the Communist Party in June 1967. Two months later, June 22nd, 1941, it was banned and removed from all Soviet libraries or placed in the "closed collections".

After the pressure on the historian persisted in the following years, among other things - unsuccessful - attempts were made to withdraw his professorship, he emigrated in 1976, first to Great Britain, later to the USA, where he taught at Harvard .

Works

• Vnešnjaja politika Anglii (1939-1941 gg.) (The foreign policy of England (1939-1941). Moscow 1963.
• 1941, 22 ijunja (1941, June 22). Moscow 1965 russ . 2nd edition 1995. In German as:

Shot in the neck. The Red Army on June 22, 1941. Ed. a. by Georges Haupt, Europe, Vienna a. a. 1969.

• Pariahs, partners, predators. German-Soviet relations, 1922-1941. New York 1997.
• Nakazannye narody ( Punished Peoples). New York 1978. russ. )
• The Punished Peoples. The Deportation and Fate of Soviet Minorities at the End of the Second World War. New York 1978.
• Renounce fear. Memories of a Historian. Ullstein et al. a. 1983. Link to the Russian title

literature

• Markwick, Roger D .: Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: the Politics of Revisionist Historiography, 1956-1974 . New York 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mark Wick, Roger D .: Rewriting History in Soviet Russia: the Politics of Revisionist Historiography, 1956-1974, New York, 2001. p 209-213.