1868. The historian Mikhail Pokrovsky was born

145 years ago, on August 29, 1868, Mikhail Nikolaevich Pokrovsky, Soviet historian, deputy commander of the Education of the RSFSR, head of the Communist Academy and the Institute of Red Professors, the head of the Marxist historical school in the USSR in the 20s and early 30s in the 20th and early 30s. He argued that "in our science, a nomarxist is a penny price."

Pokrovsky died in 1932. After that, the Pokrovsky School was officially criticized "for attempts to eliminate history as a science." It was argued that Pokrovsky "has never been a real Marxist," "stood on the point of view of sociologization and often ignored a specific historical material." He was also accused of “antipatriotism” and “denoting the history of Russia”. Many students of Pokrovsky were repressed.