Essay writing This is a characteristic of history: it is always rewritten and always with the best intention-to clarify, supplement and expand existing knowledge. However, the same thing sometimes happens with other sciences. So, at the call of his heart and his native party, Academician Trofim Lysenko created a new Marxist biology from scratch. This new science was studied in schools and universities, but then it was sorted out. However, this happens more often with history, because history is a story about people and their actions, and people, unlike cows and sheep, are much more concerned with their God-given image and the opinion of their own kind about it. That's why the story has to be constantly improved. History was best improved in the Land of the Soviets, that is, very vigorously, and the scientific community even became convinced that " we have an unpredictable past." After the great collapse of 1917, the opinion of the main Marxist historian M. N. Pokrovsky prevailed that the history of Russia is insignificant and disgusting and therefore it is not even worth studying; instead of history, they studied social studies. At the same time, in the development of the Pokrovsky doctrine, People's Commissar A.V. Lunacharsky stated in print:: "Teaching history in the direction of creating national pride, national feeling, etc. should be abandoned; teaching history, which is eager to find good role models in the examples of the past, should be abandoned" [cit. by: Solzhenitsyn, 1998, p. 134]. Among the party comrades, such a categorical judgment was understood: the World Revolution was about to take place, national borders would disappear, and the world proletariat (there would be no other classes) would live in a single happy community. Who, then, will need national stories? Especially as useless as Russian history? The 20s of the XX century in Russia were marked by a merciless (as yet without bloodshed) war between internationalists and Autochthons. The internat ... Читать далее