Rubach, Mikhail Abramovich

In the 1920s, he founded and served as editor of the journal " Chronicle of the Revolution " in Kharkov - the first historical magazine in the USSR. He was a member of the editorial board of the journal " Archivna on the Right ." At the same time, he headed the Central Archival Administration of the Ukrainian SSR (until 1930), led the Archaeographic Commission of the Central Archival Administration of the Ukrainian SSR , and was also the director of the Institute of Party History at the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) (from 1929 to 1932).

In 1935, on falsified charges, he was repressed and accused of "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalism." As a result, Mikhail Abramovich was released. If such happy events could take place even then, then soon they were completely excluded. However, at that time he managed to avoid death (by pure chance). The chairman of the "troika", which considered his case, was a Latvian ^{[ who? ]} , with whom Mikhail Abramovich collaborated many years ago (during the revolution) in Yekaterinoslav. He became a major figure in the government of Soviet Latvia. Seeing who was being accused, he concluded that the accusation was far-fetched, and Mikhail Abramovich was released.

After the Second World War, he works as a professor at Kiev State University. T. G. Shevchenko and is the head of the department, a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR .

In the fifties, he was again persecuted. There were many far-fetched accusations, it even came to sticking political labels, such as “a living Trotskyist who is far from a Marxist-Leninist understanding of history” ^[1] .

The author of works on the history of agrarian relations in Ukraine at the beginning of the 20th century and the history of the October Revolution and the Civil War, historiography, prepared more than thirty candidates and doctors of sciences.

He was awarded the State Prize of the Ukrainian SSR in the field of science and technology (1969) for the two-volume work “Victory of the Great October Socialist Revolution in Ukraine” (co-authored).

• History of the Ekaterinoslav Social Democratic Organization. 1889-1903 Memoirs, documents, literary and artistic materials. Compiled and edited by M.A. Chopped. Ekaterinoslav: Tipo-Lithography Ekaterinins. yellow Dor., 1923.
• “The Agrarian Revolution in Ukraine in 1917” (“Annals of the Revolution”, 1927, V — VI, 1928, I)
• "Essays on the history of the revolutionary transformation of agrarian relations in Ukraine" (1955)
• “Federalist Theories in the History of Russia” (“Russian Historical Literature in Class Illumination”, vol. II, 1930, about N. Kostomarov)
• "The victory of Soviet power in Ukraine." Science, 1967 ^[2] .

Yuri Gamretsky:

In Mikhail Abramovich Rubach organically combined the talent of a deep researcher, an excellent connoisseur of archival documents, an academic cabinet scientist and at the same time a brilliant lecturer, an acute polemicist, whose audience perceived the speech with unflagging interest ^[1] .

• Mikhail Rubach: Archivist, historian, teacher: Memories. Study. Sources / editorial: V.P. Lyakhotsky (chief editor) but others .-- K .: Udhdiasd, 2000 .-- 207 p. - (History of archiving: memoirs, research, sources; Vip. 3).
• Encyclopedia of Ukrainian Studies. In 10 tons / gl. ed. Vladimir Kubiyovich. - Paris; New York: Young Life, 1954-1989.

• Kharkov National University (inaccessible link)
• Stenogram of the prisoner by the director of the Institute of History of Ukraine of the Academy of Sciences of the Urals Republic of Ural Republic of Ukraine M.N. Petrovsky on food from history of Ukraine in the presence of propaganda of the agitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) By 22 birch trees 1945 p. m. Kiev
• MEMORY OF THE TEACHER (inaccessible link)
• Kharkiv National University named after V.N. Karazin (inaccessible link)