Isaak Israelewitsch Mint

Isaac Israelewitsch Minz ( Russian Исаак Израилевич Минц ; born January 10 ^{. Jul} / 22. January  1896 ^greg. In Krinitschki , yekaterinoslav governorate , Russian Empire ; † 15. April 1991 in Moscow ) was a Soviet historian .

Life

Isaak Minz was the son of a Jewish employee. In 1917 he joined the RSDLP (later the CPSU ). 1918–1920 he took part in the Russian Civil War as political commissar of the Red Army and in 1926 he was examined at the Institute of the Red Professorship . From then on he directed several academic institutions in the Soviet Union; 1932–1949 the historical faculty of Lomonosov University , 1937–1949 the party school at the Central Committee of the CPSU and the historical faculty of the Moscow State Pedagogical University and taught at the Academy for Social Studies (1947–1950).

Since 1936 he was a corresponding and from 1946 full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences .

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Minz is considered one of the main ideologues of Stalinism and the personality cult. During his lifetime he was the most respected historian in the Soviet Union. As head of the faculty, he removed supporters of the right and left opposition from academic operations from 1932. In the course of his long academic career, he adapted his views to any change in party line and cleverly selected the politically current research fields. His areas of work were the history of the party, the October Revolution and the civil war. Minz established the idea that "world imperialism" had organized the Russian civil war.

During the Great Patriotic War he gave about a thousand lectures to army officers and men. On behalf of Stalin, he published the multilingual work “Army of the Soviet Union” for foreign readers in 1942/43. Minz was involved in the collection of material for the "Extraordinary State Commission for the Investigation of Fascist Crimes in the Soviet Union". Like Jewgeni Tarle , among others , Minz acted as a co-author of the three-volume “History of Diplomacy”, which was a standard work for the diplomats of the newly formed Eastern Bloc after the Second World War .

In 1949 he got involved in a campaign against “historian cosmopolitans ”, which meant a career break. After Stalin's death in 1953 he was co-author of the standard work "History of the CPSU", which has been amended several times. Minz wrote about 50 mostly Russian books and pamphlets.

Selection of works:

• The October Socialist Revolution . Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Moscow 1940
• with IM Rasgon and AL Sidorow: The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union . SWA-Verlag, Berlin 1947
• with WM Chwostow: History of Diplomacy . Volume 2: The Diplomacy of Modern Times (1872-1919) . Edited by WP Potjomkin . Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Moscow 1947
• History of diplomacy . Volume 3: Diplomacy in the Preparatory Period for World War II (1919–1939) . Edited by WP Potjomkin. Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Moscow 1947
• with GF Alexandrow , PN Pospelow , J J. Jaroslawski u. a .: History of the civil war in the USSR. Volume Two: The Great Proletarian Revolution (October – November 1917) . Foreign Language Literature Publishing House, Moscow 1949.
• How the October Revolution played out . APN Publishing House, Moscow 1981

Awards

• Hero of Socialist Labor 1976
• Stalin Prize 1943, 1946
• Lenin Prize 1974

literature

• Elaine McClarnand MacKinnon: Writing History for Stalin: Isaak Izrailevich Mints and the Istoriia grazhdanskoi voiny. In: Kritika. Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. Vol. 6, No. 1, Winter 2005, ISSN  1531-023X , pp. 5-54, doi : 10.1353 / kri.2005.0011 .
• Jochen Hellbeck : The Stalingrad Protocols. Soviet eyewitnesses report from the battle. Translation of the minutes from Russian by Christiane Körner and Annelore Nitschke. S. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M., 2012, 608 pp. ISBN 3100302133 (From the collection of material of a commission under I. Minz)

Web links

• Literature by and about Isaak I. Minc in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography in Russian
2. ↑ The Lenin Prize Winners of the USSR for 1974 , In: Neues Deutschland , April 23, 1974, p. 6