Novosibirsk. Science. Siberian branch. 1983. 352 p. Peer-reviewed collection 1 is one of a series of similar publications outlining the results of methodological seminars of various institutes of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In the preface to it, it is noted that "the integration processes that have covered history, as well as other sciences, contribute to the creation of a unified picture of the historical process, which is given in a generalized form by historical materialism. In addition, it is precisely on the path of integration that history is presented not as a science that describes only individual historical facts, historical events and fragments of historical reality, but as a science that reveals causal relationships between them, a science that allows you to get a specific picture of each socio-economic formation and revolutionary transitions from one formation to another " (p. 4).. The collection pays great attention to historical laws, which relate, as a special to the general, to broader sociological and general sociological laws that are the subject of historical materialism, as well as to key methodological problems of historical science - the analysis of structural elements and the entire set of research methods of historical cognition. The collection opens with a section that includes articles that reveal the impact of Lenin's ideas on the study of various problems of historical science-from the history of the ancient world (article by chl.- correspondent. Academy of Sciences of the Tajik SSR V. M. Masson) to the problems of war, peace and revolution in the XX century (article by L. G. Olekh). The article by R. I. Ivanova and A. T. Moskalenko is devoted to elucidating the conditions that promote or hinder the implementation of the methodological function of Marxist - Leninist philosophy in socio-political practice. On the basis of knowledge of the laws of its development, society has the opportunity to foresee future states ... Читать далее