Sofja Davidovna Miliband

Sofja Dawidowna Miliband ( Russian Софья Давидовна Милибанд ; born July 17, 1922 in Moscow ; † February 12, 2017 ) was a Soviet - Russian orientalist and bibliographer .

Life

Miliband's ancestor was the cantonist Michl, who had settled in Reval . Her father, Dawid Ossipowitsch Miliband, came from a Warsaw family, came to Moscow and married a Jewish Estonian in 1921 . Sofya Miliband's uncle Samuil Miliband took after the October Revolution in the Red Army on the Polish-Soviet war in part, emigrated in 1920 after Belgium and fled in 1940 to the Kingdom United . Samuil Miliband's son was the Marxist political scientist Ralph Miliband , whose sons David Miliband and Ed Miliband are politicians in the United Kingdom.

Miliband studied at the University of Moscow (MGU) in the Oriental Studies department of the Faculty of History , graduating in 1945. One of her teachers was Alexander Andreevich Guber . She then worked in the State Historical Museum .

In 1948 Miliband became a bibliographer of the Moscow State Library of Foreign Literature . In 1950 she became chief bibliographer of the Institute for Oriental Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

Miliband's area of ​​research became the history of oriental studies in the USSR and Russia . To do this, she traveled to many cities in Russia and repeatedly to the republics of Central Asia and Transcaucasia . She got acquainted with many orientalists. In 1975 her bibliographic lexicon of the Soviet orientalists was published. It is a unique collection of material about the scientists who worked in the various fields of oriental studies between 1917 and 1972. It contains the bibliographic information, a list of the basic papers and dissertations as well as literature on the life and activities of the Orientalists. In 1995 her extended bibliographic lexicon of Russian Orientalists appeared in two volumes. In 2008 her Lexicon of Orientalists of Russia (20th Century to Early 21st Century) was published. From 2000 she collected materials for a lexicon of orientalists of the pre-revolutionary period (18th century to the beginning of the 19th century).

When the British Minister Ed Miliband came to Moscow on an official visit in 2009 and was heard in a radio interview , Sofja Miliband called the studio and made himself known as Ed Miliband's relative. Ed Miliband knew nothing about his relatives and visited them at their home. In an interview, she told of her youth among the Lenin pioneers , her acquaintance with Svetlana Iossifowna Allilujewa , a meeting with Stalin , the time of the Great Terror and about the difficult war years when she translated secret German documents and an uncle in the fire department in Poland in 1941 was killed by Germans, while two other uncles killed themselves before being transported to concentration camps .

Web links

• Literature by and about Sofja Dawidowna Miliband in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Catalog of the Russian National Library : Милибанд

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Софья Давидовна Милибанд (1922-2017) (Некролог) . In: Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность . No. 3 , 2017, p. 239-240 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Andrew Osborn: The Miliband family, Stalin and me - Sofia Davidovna Miliband, long-lost cousin of British Labor politicians Ed and David Miliband, tells Andrew Osborn of her life in Russia and how Europe's tumultuous politics tore her ancestors apart . In: The Telegraph . October 10, 2009 ( [1] [accessed June 18, 2020]).
3. ↑ Московская мишпуха британских министров (accessed June 17, 2020).
4. ↑ С. Д. Милибанд: Биобиблиографический словарь советских востоковедов . Nauka , Moscow 1975.
5. ↑ С. Д. Милибанд: Биобиблиографический словарь отечественных востоковедов: с 1917 г. Nauka, Moscow 1995.
6. ↑ С. Д. Милибанд: Востоковеды России, XX - начало XXI века = Russian orientalists of the 20th and Early 21st Centuries: биобиблиографический словарь  : в 2 кн . Восточная литература, Moscow 2008, ISBN 978-5-02-036364-9 .