Vasily Trofimovich Sirotenko ( November 9, 1915 - August 9, 2006 ) - Soviet, Ukrainian and Russian historian , anticologist , specialist in the history of late antiquity.
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| Date of Birth | November 9, 1915 | ||||
| Place of Birth | with. Grooming , Volyn province | ||||
| Date of death | August 9, 2006 (aged 90) | ||||
| Place of death | Armavir | ||||
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| Scientific field | historian | ||||
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Biography
Born in the village of Strizhevka of the Volyn province . He graduated from the Faculty of History and the History Department of Kiev University (1939), taught at the Chernihiv Pedagogical Institute . Since 1940 he served in the Red Army . Member of the Great Patriotic War , holder of the orders of the Patriotic War I and II degree, the Order of the Red Star , medal " For Courage ".
There are allegations in a number of publications that in January 1945, during the liberation of Krakow by Soviet troops, V.T. Sirotenko saved Karol Wojtyla - the future Pope John Paul II [1] [2] [3] .
After the war, he again taught in Chernigov , then - at the Kaluga Pedagogical Institute , defended his thesis on "Relations with Byzantium of the tribes and nationalities of the Northern Black Sea Region and the Sub-Danube in the 4th-6th centuries."
Since 1954 he worked at PSPI , since 1955 - at Molotov (Perm) University named after A. M. Gorky .
In 1969 he defended his doctoral dissertation "International Relations in Europe in the IV-VI centuries." (The degree was awarded in 1975 ), since 1974 he headed the Department of History of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages of PSU. [four]
In 1976 - 1998 - professor of the Department of General History of Dnipropetrovsk State University . Since 1998, he taught at the Armavir Pedagogical University .
Scientific activity
V.T. Sirotenko as a student became interested in the history of late antiquity. He was critical of the concept of the “slave revolution” that was widespread in Soviet historiography at the end of antiquity, which supposedly caused the fall of the Roman Empire [5] , as well as the concept of barbarians as allies of the “revolutionary” movement. In his opinion, the consequences of the barbarian invasions for the population of the Mediterranean , especially the Western Roman Empire , were negative and it should be said not about the unification of the barbarians with the "revolutionary" movements, but rather about the unification and self-organization of the Romans to fight the barbarians and the suppression of the central administration of the people movements with the help of barbarians [6] . In this assessment of the barbaric incursions, V.T. Sirotenko is close to a number of Western experts (B. Ward-Perkins, S. Mulberger).
Major works
- Introduction to the history of international relations in Europe IV-VI centuries. Part I. Sources (1973)
- The history of international relations in Europe in the second half of IV - early VI centuries. (1975)
- Popular movements in the late Roman Empire and the formation of barbarian kingdoms (1988)
- Popular Movements in North Africa and the Kingdom of Vandals and Alans (1990)
- Renaissance Culture (1993, et al.)
Notes
- ↑ Sedov N. Tiara for a prisoner in a quarry
- ↑ Sirotenko V.V. Father will certainly live to be a hundred years old, because the Pope himself prays for him!
- ↑ Resident of Armavir saved the life of the future Pope during the war
- ↑ About the Department of World History // Perm State National Research University.
- ↑ Methodological significance of the statements of I.V. Stalin about the revolution of slaves for Soviet Byzantine studies // Byzantine time book . T. III. 1950. S. 3-17.
- ↑ See V. Sirotenko, History of International Relations in Europe in the Second Half of the 4th - Early 6th Centuries Perm, 1975. pp. 75–76, 84 (“the Visigoths did not hold a single event that alleviated the situation of the masses and established the occupation terror”), 94-95 onwards.
Literature
- Problems of World History: Intern. Sat scientific and scientific ped. labor. On the 85th anniversary of the birth of V.T. Sirotenko. Vol. 6. B.M., 2000.
- The first Sirotenkov readings on world history. Armavir, 2007 (pdf) (link not available)
Links
- short biography
- Sirotenko VV Pre-war youth of the father
- Sirotenko V.V. Warrior of the Great Victory
- Turyalay S. Pope prays for a professor of history from Armavir
- Stabrovsky A. Pope prays for you (inaccessible link)