Fadeev, Anatoly Vsevolodovich

Born May 22, 1908 (according to other sources, April 9) in Irkutsk .

After graduating from the Humanitarian and Economic Department of the A.I. Herzen Leningrad Pedagogical Institute in 1929, he worked as a social science teacher at Sukhumi secondary school. In 1929-1931 he served in the Red Army . Since 1931 he worked as a researcher at the Abkhaz Institute of Language and History of the Georgian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences . Since 1934, under the guidance of Academician V.P. Volgin, he took part in the preparation of the publication of documents on the history of the peoples of the Caucasus. In 1935 he was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences .

In the second half of the 1930s, he was transferred to the post of associate professor of the historical faculty of Odessa University , later he became head of the Department of History of the USSR OSU.

Among the first teachers of OSU voluntarily went to the front . He took part in the defense of Odessa , was awarded the Order of the Red Star and medals.

After the war, he worked for four years as deputy head of the department of military history of the Moscow Military Pedagogical Institute of the Soviet Army, and then for two years as an assistant professor of the department of history of the USSR at Rostov University .

From 1951 to 1959 he was an assistant professor, and subsequently a professor at Moscow State University . Since 1953, he was an employee of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , where in April 1954 he defended his doctoral dissertation “Russia and the Eastern Crisis of the 20s of the XIX Century.” In 1958 he received the title of professor.

He was the author of textbooks on the history of the USSR for universities and secondary schools. Since the creation of the journal History of the USSR in 1957, he has been a member of its editorial board.

Died October 4, 1965 in Moscow.

Authors of more than 150 scientific works, including 18 books, among which 5 monographs . By virtue of the general concept of Soviet historiography in the first decades - the exposure of the colonial policy of the autocracy, the main body of research by the scientist was devoted to the study of the forcible subjugation of the peoples of the Caucasus. The consequence of this was the publication of works on the history of the Abkhaz, Ossetian and Balkarian peoples in the 19th century. In the fundamental work “Russia and the Caucasus in the First Third of the XIX Century” he showed the importance of the Caucasus problem in the system of foreign policy of Russia, the attitude of various layers of Russian society to this problem and the participation of the peoples of the Caucasus in its solution. "Essays on the economic development of the Steppe Ciscaucasia in the pre-reform period" for the first time in historical literature examined the economic development of the region in the context of the struggle of feudal-serf and bourgeois trends in socio-economic development, which was of great importance for explaining the features of the genesis of capitalism in the southern outskirts of Russia.

Another vector of the historian's scientific interests was the military-patriotic theme. In the popular science book “The Patriotic War of 1812” he outlined the events, revealed the moral and political superiority of the Russian army and noted the significance of the victory of Russia in this war for the further history of Europe and Asia.

The book “Feat of Odessa” withstood three editions - 1958, 1960, 1963. The book “Heroes of Lesser Earth” devoted the feat of heroes who defended the bridgehead near Novorossiysk in 1943. The last significant contribution to the development of historical science was the participation in the publication of the multi-volume “History of the USSR from ancient times to the present day” - the head of the sector of the pre-October period. About 40 articles by the historian were included in the TSB.

• Russian tsarism and peasant reform in Abkhazia. - Sukhumi, 1932; Abkhazia in the first quarter of the 19th century // Proceedings of the OSU. T. I. - Odessa, 1939;
• Odessa University for 75 years (1865-1940). - Odessa, 1940 (member of the collective of authors);
• Decembrists in the Don and the Caucasus. Historical background. - Rostov-on-Don, 1950;
• Suvorov on the Don and in the Sea of ​​Azov. - Rostov-on-Don, 1950;
• The heroic defense of Odessa in 1941 - M., 1955;
• Heroes of Lesser Earth. - M., 1957;
• Essays on the economic development of the Steppe Ciscaucasia in the pre-reform period. - M., 1957;
• Russia and the eastern crisis of the 20s of the XIX century. - M., 1958;
• Feat of Odessa. - M., 1958;
• Russia and the Caucasus in the first third of the 19th century - M., 1960;
• Patriotic War of 1812. - M., 1962;
• Echo of the 1905 revolution. - M., 1965;
• Russia and the peoples of North Asia. Contribution of the Russian people to the economic and cultural development of Siberia. - M., 1965;
• Ideological ties and cultural life of the peoples of pre-reform Russia. - M., 1966.

• Anatoly Vsevolodovich Fadeev // History of the USSR. - 1965. - No. 6. - S. 229-232;
• Istoriya Odeskogo University for 100 rock. - K., 1968 .-- S. 336;
• Ismail-Zade D. Fadeev A.V. // SIE. - T. 14. - M., 1973. - S. 946;
• Petrovsky E. P. Kadrova situation at the historical faculty of the Odessa Sovereign University in the 1930s // Problems of the history of Ukraine: facts, judges, jokes. - VIP. 13. - K., 2005 .-- S. 261, 264.