title: The Development of the Principles of Writing of the Official History of the Cossacks in the Ministry of War
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metadata.value: Peretyatko, Artyom Yu.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:36:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-06-21T10:36:36Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-06
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Peretyatko A. Yu. The Development of the Principles of Writing of the Official History of the Cossacks in the Ministry of War. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 2, pp. 546–571.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.214
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/10293
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: At the beginning of the 20th century the Ministry of War of the Russian Empire attempted
  to write the official history of the Russian Cossacks, which ended in complete failure. The
  article is dedicated to the first stage of the work on this project, during which the high ranks
  of the Ministry of War tried to understand how to organize scholarly research into the past
  of all Cossack troops. On the basis of the materials from the Manuscripts department in the
  National Library of Russia, the author demonstrates that at this stage the factors that predetermined
  the failure of the government project were clearly defined. Firstly, a personal factor
  is worth considering: there were no historians who were sufficiently prepared to immediately
  undertake work on such a series of books in Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. As
  a result, the development of the principles of scholarly research into the past of the Russian
  Cossacks was entrusted to the amateur historian Lieutenant-General N. A. Maslakovets. His
  extremely unsuccessful decisions gave rise to many organizational and conceptual problems.
  For example, the General denied the significance of preliminary research. He compared the
  search for sources and literature with the activity of ‘mythical Sisyphus’ explaining that during
  the process of collecting material, new books would inevitably come out and new, previously
  unknown documents, would be discovered in the archives. N. A. Maslakovets also regarded
  a unified research plan as unnecessary step on the grounds that such kind of regimentation
  would ‘constrain the creators of these works’. He perceived the journalistic conservative concept
  of a Cossack warrior as the basis for the official history of the Cossacks, which failed to accommodate
  many historical facts. Even in his ‘broad historical perspective” on the emergence
  and development of the Cossack Hosts in Russia the General went beyond the boundaries of
  this concept, having focused on such questions as the descent and origins of Cossacks. As a result
  of the research, the author concludes that personal, organizational and conceptual factors
  had foredoomed attempts to create an official history of the Cossacks to failure even before the
  search for authors for “historical descriptions” of Cossack Hosts began.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 2
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: issues of historiography of the beginning of 20th century
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ministry of War of the Russian Empire
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: official history of the Cossacks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. N. Kuropatkin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: P. O. Scherbov-Nefedovich
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: N. A. Maslakovets
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Development of the Principles of Writing of the Official History of the Cossacks in the Ministry of War
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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