Zimina, Valentina Dmitrievna

Valentina Dmitrievna was born on August 7, 1957 in a family of employees in the village of Kanino, Sapozhkovsky District, Ryazan Region. Russian .

After graduating in 1974 with a gold medal from secondary school, she entered the Faculty of History of Kalinin State University (now Tver State University), which she successfully graduated in 1980, having received the specialty of historian, teacher of history and social studies .

Scientific Activities

In 1980, she began working as a junior researcher at the Department of History of the USSR of Kalinin State University. Professor V.V. Komin became the head of the graduate student Zimina.

In 1983 she defended her thesis on "The Russian Monarchist Counter-Revolution and German Intervention during the Civil War (based on materials from the north-west of Russia)", she was awarded the degree of candidate of historical sciences .

November 29, 1991 V. D. Zimina was awarded the academic title of associate professor in the department of socio-political sciences.

In 1998 she defended her thesis on the topic “The White Movement and Russian Statehood during the Civil War”, she was awarded the title of Doctor of Historical Sciences .

Since November 17, 1999 - Professor at the Department of History and Theory of Politics.

Since 1999, she read the following lecture courses at the Russian State University for the Humanities ^[1] :

• "Political History of Russia",
• "Public policy and management",
• Political Theory
• “Modern migration processes”,
• "The methodology of political science" and others.

The author of more than 117 works, including 5 monographs , study guides on Russian history and political science .

Contribution to the study of the White movement

The historian S. V. Karpenko notes that V. D. Zimina laid the foundation for the study of White statehood in its modern sense, as well as “formulated original theoretical views, developed and applied innovative approaches, and outlined further ways to study this complex, multifaceted problem.” The historian writes that Zimina’s approach to the study of the White Cause was distinguished by distinguishing the White State’s statehood from the entire “white” topic, which was seen as a continuation of the statehood of the Russian Empire . The extremely important conclusions, including the thesis that “the model of the white state system of Russia combined totalitarian and democratic principles”, which “created a wide field for political combinations,” the historian Zimina was able to draw through a deep and systematic identification of the general and the special, a purposeful search for the answer to the question why the White movement was defeated ^[3] .

With all his many years of fruitful work V.D. Zimina embodied in reality the assumption that she repeatedly expressed (which soon became, in fact, a confident assertion) that the study of the history of the White movement, as well as the history of the Civil War in general, “should proceed steadily: from the regime to the region and further to Russia as a whole. This path is not from simple to complex - “in a straight line”, but rather “in a spiral”, since the ultimate goal is to determine the patterns of development of the political process in Russia. And it is unlikely that such a process can be schematized taking into account all its local and national characteristics ^[3]

- S.V. Karpenko

VD Zimina asked for the long term the direction of studying the statehood of the White movement. And this “vector”, writes the historian Karpenko, immediately threw to the sidelines many of the works that appeared in the 1990s, in the wake of the almost massive interest in the White movement ^[3] .

Family

Father - Dmitry Dmitrievich Zimin.

• The collapse of the Germanophilic monarchist counter-revolution in southern Russia during the years of the Civil War and intervention: Textbook. allowance / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna, Kalin. state un-t - Kalinin: [b. and.], 1989. - 87 p.
• Grazhdanov Yu. D., Zimina V. D. Union of eagles: White business of Russia and German intervention in 1917-1920. Volgograd, 1997.
• White movement and Russian statehood during the Civil War / [Scientific. Ed.] Stepansky A. D. - Volgograd: VAGS Publishing House, 1997
• The intelligentsia in the political processes of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna, Grazhdanov Yuri Dmitrievich, Volgogr. Acad. state service. - Volgograd: VAGS, 1999. - 101 p.
• Civil war of 1918-1922 as a political conflict in the development of Russian statehood / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna // New Historical Bulletin. - 2004. - 2004; No. 2 (11). - S. 258—279.
• Children of Russian emigration: survival for the self-preservation of Russia / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna // New Historical Bulletin. - 2004. - 2004; No. 2 (11). - S. 183—197.
• Liberal values ​​in the political management of white regimes during the Civil War in Russia [Text] / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna // “New Russia”: Power, society, management in the context of liberal values: international materials. scientific Conf., Moscow, March 22, 2004 / Ros. state Humanitarian University, Fak. history, political science and law. - M .: RSUH, 2004. - M.: RSUH, 2004; S. 46-51.
• Self-knowledge of the Russian intelligentsia in the era of the revolution of 1917 [Text] / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna. - S. 75-89.
• White case of rebellious Russia: watered. Grazhd modes. war, 1917-1920 / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna; V. D. Zimina; [Grew up. state humanitarian university]. - M .: RGGU, 2006 .-- 465 p.
• Revolutionary events in the context of the political discourse of Russia at the beginning of the XX century / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna // Bulletin of the Russian State Humanitarian University. - 2008. - 2008; No. 1. - S. 76-94.
• Political management: textbook. / Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna, Borisov Nikolay Alexandrovich; Feder. Education Agency, State. educate. institution of higher prof. Education “Ros. state humanitarian university ". - M.: Publ. Center of Russian State Humanitarian University, 2008 .-- 367 p.

• Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna (1957-2012)
• On January 8, at the 55th year of life, she died Zimina Valentina Dmitrievna
• S. V. Karpenko THE STATE OF THE WHITE MOVEMENT: FROM THE HISTORY OF STUDY