Ivanov, Leonid Mikhailovich

Leonid Mikhailovich Ivanov was born on November 8, 1909 in St. Petersburg, the Russian Empire. In 1911, the family moved to Kostroma .

Leonid Mikhailovich childhood and youth passed in the Volga cities of Central Russia . After graduating from high school in Kostroma in 1929, he entered the historical and economic department of the Yaroslavl Pedagogical University . In his second year, he began working in a number of technical schools, and in 1932, after graduating from the institute, he moved to the city of Ivanovo , where he became a teacher in the evening joint school.

In 1933 he entered the graduate school of the History Museum of Moscow , which he graduated in 1936. In the years 1936-1937. worked as a guide at the Museum of the Revolution . In the fall of 1937 he was accepted as a junior research fellow at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences . From 1926 to 1939, as a member of the Komsomol , he conducted active social work: he was an editor of the wall newspaper, secretary of the Komsomol bureau, and a propagandist.

With the outbreak of World War II, he volunteered for the front: first as a private soldier in the militia and a battalion of fighters in the city of Moscow . Since January 1942 he was in the army on the Kalinin front . In December 1941 he joined the ranks of the CPSU , in the spring of 1942 he was appointed an agitator of the regiment and received the first commander's rank - junior political instructor. In 1943 he was wounded and discharged from the army with the rank of captain. For participation in the war in 1943 he was awarded the medal "For Courage", and in 1945 the Order of the Badge of Honor.

In 1943 he returned to work at the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and until the fall of 1946 he held the position of scientific secretary. In 1946-1948 by order of the governing bodies, he was deputy director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR . At the same time, L. M. Ivanov remained a senior researcher at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences.

In 1951, by a decision of the Institute’s Directorate, Leonid Mikhailovich was appointed Acting Head of the USSR History Sector of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and from this year he became a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute. In 1958 he became head of the USSR History Sector of the period of capitalism

Since 1966, he headed the section "Basic Laws and Features of the Development of Russia in the Period of Imperialism" of the Scientific Council of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the complex problem "History of the Great October Socialist Revolution", led the Group for the Study of the History of the Russian Proletariat of the Institute of History of the USSR.

Leonid Mikhailovich Ivanov was relieved of his post as head of the sector of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences of the USSR in 1971 due to health problems.

Scientific activity

Leonid Mikhailovich began his scientific work with the study of the Russian peasantry. In 1939, he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of historical sciences on the topic "State peasants of the Moscow province and Kiselev reform." In 1946, he published a large article on this subject, published in the journal Historical Notes ^[3] .

Since the second half of the 40s, the scientist was involved in writing the collective work “History of the USSR (1856 - 1894)”, dedicated to the peoples of Russia. Based on a wide range of published sources and pre-revolutionary literature, he undertook a comprehensive analysis of the history of the peoples of the North, showed the national composition of the population in the northern provinces and the peculiarities of the peasant reform.

Since the beginning of the 1950s, the history of the bourgeois-democratic revolution in Ukraine has become the main research topic of the scientist. He publishes articles on the role of the proletariat in the international unity of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, on the struggle of the sailors of the Odessa merchant fleet in 1905-1906, on the October political strike in Ukraine, on the mass movement of the mining workers of Donbass in the summer of 1906.

In 1955, in the collection "Revolution of 1905-1907. in the national regions of Russia ”was published an article by L. M. Ivanov's “Revolution of 1905-1907 in Ukraine". This article was an abridged version of the monograph, which he defended in 1956 as a doctoral dissertation.

Another topic of scientific research by L. M. Ivanov was the history of land tenure and landowner management in Ukraine in the late XIX - early XX centuries, associated with the prerequisites of the revolution of 1905. This article is devoted to his article “Distribution of land ownership in Ukraine on the eve of the revolution of 1905–1907 ”(1957) and“ On the capitalist and developmental systems in the agriculture of landowners in Ukraine at the end of the 19th century ”(1961). In 1959 he published a source study article “Cases on holding peasants accountable under Articles 103 and 246 as a source for studying peasant sentiments on the eve of the first revolution”

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, L. M. Ivanov published a number of historiographic articles in central historical journals and collections: “On the Formation of the Industrial Proletariat in Russia”, “The State and Tasks of Studying the History of the Proletariat in Russia”, “ Studying the history of the proletariat of Russia is the most important task of Soviet historians ”,“ Some results and tasks of studying the history of a new revolutionary upsurge (1910 - 1914). ”

L. M. Ivanov conducted extensive editorial work. At various times, he was the responsible editor of 17 scientific publications. Among them are collections of documents on the labor movement in Russia in the 19th and early 20th centuries, on the history of the revolution of 1905-1907. (18 volumes were published from 1955 to 1965), on the history of the peasant movement, collective work on the history of the working class of Russia, collections of articles, monographs of employees of the sector of the Institute of History.

L. M. Ivanov was a member of the editorial boards of 20 collective scientific works, a textbook on the history of the USSR for universities, and a number of collections of articles. In 1951-1953 he was a member of the editorial board of the journal " Historical Notes ".

• Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich. State peasants of the Moscow province and Kiselev reform. - T .: Historical notes, 1946 .-- S. 17 .
• Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich. The joint struggle of the Ukrainian and Russian proletariat in the late XIX - early XX centuries. - M .: Questions of history, 1954. - No. 5 . - S. 5-7 .
• Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich. The continuity of factory labor and the formation of the proletariat in Russia // The working class and the labor movement in Russia 1861-1917. - M. , 1966.
• Ivanov L. M., Tyutyukin S. V. Some questions of the history of the working class of Russia. (Overview of areas in the study of the topic). - Bulletin of the USSR Academy of Sciences, 1968. - No. 11 . - S. 89 .
• Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich. To the question of workers' insurance in Russia // Studies on the socio-political history of Russia. Proceedings of the LOII. - L. , 1971.
• Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich. Some questions of the social development of the working class of Russia in 1900 - 1913 // The working class of Russia during the period of bourgeois-democratic revolutions. - M. , 1978.
• Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich. The 1903 Law on the Compensation of Crippled Workers and its Practical Application // Labor movement in Russia during the period of imperialism. - M. , 1982.
• Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich. The distribution of land ownership in Ukraine on the eve of the revolution of 1905–1907 - Kiev, 1995.

• Ivanova N. A. Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich: Personality and scientific heritage of a historian. Collection of articles dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth . - M: ROSSPEN , 2009 .-- 59-91 s. - to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ivanov Leonid Mikhailovich.

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