Genkina, Esfir Borisovna

The daughter of a sales clerk. She graduated from the Ekaterinoslav Commercial School (1919), worked in the editorial office of the newspaper and the Zvezda magazine. Since 1920 a member of the RCP (b) .

In 1920-1923 she studied at the Communist University. Ya. M. Sverdlova (lecture group), in 1925-1930 - at the Institute of Red Professors (in the seminar of M. N. Pokrovsky ). Since 1923, in pedagogical, party and scientific work:

• 1923-1925 history teacher, lecturer at the Gubsovpartshkol and at the labor school in Tula, 1925-1930 - at the Communist University. Sverdlov and the International Lenin School, in 1928-1930, an assistant professor at the pedagogical and economic faculties of Don University , gave a course of lectures on Leninism.
• 1930-1935 lecturer of the Central Committee of the CPSU (B.) In Gorky, Ivanovo, Saratov and Stalingrad.
• 1935-1941 researcher at the secretariat of the Main Edition of the History of the Civil War of the Political Publishing House .
• 1938-1941 teacher, professor MIFLI .
• 1941-1942 (in evacuation) professor at the Chelyabinsk Medical Institute .
• 1942-1945 at the Commission on the History of the Great Patriotic War under the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
• 1945-1949 Senior Researcher, Institute of History, USSR Academy of Sciences . She lost her position as a result of the "fight against cosmopolitanism . "
• 1949-1958 professor of the Department of History of the USSR (1943-1953), history of the USSR of the Soviet period (1953-1958), Faculty of History, Moscow State University .
• since 1958, senior research fellow ; since 1972, senior research fellow, consultant, Institute of History, USSR Academy of Sciences.

Doctor of Historical Sciences (1939), degree awarded for the book "The Fight for Tsaritsyn in 1918." Professor (1939).

She was buried at the Don cemetery .

• "The transition of the Soviet state to a new economic policy (1921-1922)" (M., 1954),
• "The state activity of V.I. Lenin (1921-1923)" (M., 1969)
• Marx and the proletarian revolution (Stalingrad, 1933);
• Marxism in the fight against populism (Ulyanovsk, 1936);

• About the book of V. I. Lenin "What are the friends of the people and how they fight against the Social Democrats" (L., 1936);

• Comrade Stalin’s arrival in Tsaritsyn [in 1918] (Stalingrad, 1937);
• The course of history of the USSR (M., 1938);
• About the book of V. I. Lenin "What to do?" (M., 1939);
• The fight for Tsaritsyn in 1918 (M., 1940);
• Documents on the heroic defense of Tsaritsyn in 1918 (M., 1942);
• The defeat of the German invaders in 1918: Sat. materials and documents (Comp.) (M., 1943);
• Heroic Stalingrad [Essays] (M., 1943);
• Education of the USSR (M., 1943; several ed.);
• The role of the Russian people in the creation of owls. a multinational state (Penza, 1945);
• USSR during the struggle for the collectivization of agriculture (1930-1934) (M., 1952);
• The transition of the Soviet state to a new economic policy (1921-1922) (M., 1954);
• Lenin, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars and STO (M., 1960);
• State activity of V.I. Lenin 1921-1923 (M., 1969);
• State correspondence of V.I. Lenin (M., 1970);
• From capitalism to socialism. In 2 vols. (M., 1981), et al .;
• Protocols of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR as a historical source for the study of state. the activities of V.I. Lenin (M., 1982).

Edition Editor:

• Education of the USSR: Sat. docum. 1917-1924 (M., 1949);
• The Soviet country during the period of restoration of the national economy (1921-1925) (M., 1972; 1975).

• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (06/10/1945)
• The Stalin Prize of 1943 - as part of the team of authors for the scientific work “History of the Civil War in the USSR. T. 2 "(1942).
• Prize named after B. D. Grekov of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1974) for the monograph “State activity of V. I. Lenin. 1921-1923. "

• E. B. Genkina [obituary] // Questions of history . 1978. No. 11.
• Zack L. M. The Ascetic of Historical Science. On the 100th anniversary of Esfiri Borisovna Genkina (1901-1978) // Domestic history . - 2001. - N 1. - S.. 112-116
• "The construction of the Soviet state: Sat. Art. To the 70th anniversary of E. B. Genkina ”(M., 1972).

• An article on the Chronicle of Moscow University website
• REE. Genkina Esfir Borisovna