Braginsky, Joseph Samuilovich

Born June 5 (18), 1905 in the family of an employee. In the 1920s, he worked as an instructor for work among the youth of the Council of Propaganda and Action of the Peoples of the East , as the head of the club of Tatian working youth. He graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies. N. Narimanova (1931). Since 1933, the deputy head of the political department of the state farm Dangara , then transferred to the apparatus of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) of Tajikistan , rose to the post of head of the department of propaganda and agitation. Since January 1940, a senior inspector of the 7th department of the GlavPU , regimental commissar . During the war, the head of the editorial and publishing department of the 7th Directorate of GlavPU led the anti-fascist schools of German prisoners of war. Representative of the USSR in the Free Germany National Committee. Dismissed to the reserve in 1952 with the rank of colonel.

Editor-in-chief of the journal Peoples of Asia and Africa (since 1957). Yu. I. Semenov subsequently recalled that in a situation where “our top party leadership had embarked on a creeping restalinization” and at a meeting of the editorial board of the journal “the vast majority of those present opposed the publication of the article”, including a member of the editorial board and the deputy head of the international department CPSU Central Committee R. A. Ulyanovsky , Braginsky managed to defend Semenov's article “From the History of Theoretical Development by V. I. Lenin of the National Question” (“Peoples of Asia and Africa.” 1966. No. 4.) (in which Semenov they were given "thorough criticism of the work of IV Stalin " Marxism and the national question "" and "it was shown that this work is not a theoretical work, but one of many popular brochures published in those years; it does not contain a single original thought ; in the famous four-element Stalinist definition of a nation, the first three attributes are borrowed from K. Kautsky , and the fourth from O. Bauer ; this definition is theoretically completely untenable; part of the text in Stalin's work is plagiarism from the works of K. Kautsky and O. Bauer; the work contains a lot of gross inaccuracies and factual errors "), using" all his diplomatic skills to persuade the members of the editorial board to decide according to which the article was accepted, but subject to radical processing "and insisting" that he should be given the right to decide whether the article has been sufficiently revised. ” Semenov also noted that, after the publication, he learned that the leadership of the science department of the Central Committee of the CPSU made a proposal on the mandatory inclusion in the curriculum of philosophy, scientific communism and party history of this work of Stalin, indicating that “it’s with great difficulty the opponents of this proposal nevertheless, he managed to fail him ”and expressed the opinion that“ their important argument was a link to my article in which, as they pointed out, Stalin’s work was completely debunked ” ^[3] .

He was buried in Moscow, at the Vostryakovsky Jewish cemetery .

• His wife is the historian Haya Nutovna (Natanovna) Drikker (1904-1993), the author of works on the history of agriculture in Tajikistan.
  • Daughter - writer Maya Iosifovna Braginskaya (born 1936).
  • Daughter - orientalist Lenin Iosifovna Braginskaya (born 1938, her husband is a physicist and writer Viktor Yakovlevich Fayn ). ^[four]
  • Son - theoretical physicist Staly (Stanislav) Iosifovich Braginsky (born 1926), Lenin Prize laureate (1958).
  • Son - orientalist Vladimir Iosifovich Braginsky .

Criticism

• Sadriddin Aini : Materials for biography and creative characterization. Stalinabad, 1948
• From the history of Tajik folk poetry: Elements of folk poetry in the monuments of ancient and medieval writing. M., 1956
• Essays from the history of Tajik literature. Stalinabad, 1956
• The life and work of Sadriddin Aini. M., 1959 ^[5]
• Persian literature: A brief outline. M., 1963. In soavt. with D. S. Komissarov
• 12 miniatures. M., 1966 ^[6]
• From the history of Persian and Tajik literatures: Elect. work. M., 1972
• Problems of Oriental Studies: Actual Issues of Oriental Literature. M., 1974
• Problems of creativity Sadriddin Aini. Dushanbe, 1974
• Studies on Tajik culture: (On the problem of inter-literary relations between the peoples of the Soviet East). M., 1977
• From Avesta to Aini: (Studies on the history of Tajik literature). Dushanbe, 1981
• Iranian literary heritage. M., 1984
• Abu Abdallah Jafar Rudaki. M., 1989

• Braginsky Joseph Samuilovich // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ch. ed. A.M. Prokhorov . - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1969-1978.
• Braginsky, Joseph Samuilovich // Brief Literary Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. A.A. Surkov . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1962-1978.
• I. S. Braginsky. Dushanbe, 1966;
• I. S. Braginsky: a biobibliographic index. Dushanbe, 1986.

• Article on the site of the series “ Literary Monuments ”
• Curriculum Vitae