title: Historian Militsa Nechkina and the Cultural and Intellectual Revolution
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metadata.value: Tikhonov, Vitaly V.
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metadata.value: 2019-05-23T20:53:24Z
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metadata.value: 2019-05-23T20:53:24Z
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metadata.value: 2019-03
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metadata.value: Tikhonov V. V. Historian Militsa Nechkina and the Cultural and Intellectual Revolution. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, issue 1, рp. 256–265.
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metadata.value: https://doi. org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.115
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15524
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metadata.value: The first third of the 20th century was the time of cultural-intellectual and scientific revolution, whose essence concerned the development of so-called modernist trends (symbolism, futurism, etc.) and the transition to a non-classical model of science. A novice historian Milica Vasilyevna Nechkina matured in these circumstances. The article shows that her intellectual development was significantly influenced by the philosophy of Freud, the theory of psychoanalysis and the scientific theories of V. I. Vernadsky and Einstein. One of Nechkina’s aspirations was an interdisciplinary synthesis of the Humanities and natural Sciences. At the same time, in the spirit of the time, she recognized the possibility of the synthesis of science and art. Nechkina was greatly impressed by the book “Essays on the theory of historical knowledge” by R. Vipper, which justified the empiricist view of historical knowledge. She agreed with the view that historical knowledge is constructed by the researcher. The article especially emphasizes Nechkina’s interest in psychoanalysis, which was her method of research, including her own inner life. A small essay by Nechkina “About love, revolution, green lamp…”, in which psychoanalysis is applied to comprehending one’s place in the world, is examined in the article. The attitude of Nechkina to some representatives of the Marxist trend is considered separately. The author comes to the conclusion that the rich cultural and intellectual background became a breeding ground for the formation of a complex theoretical and methodological position, which can be perceived as modernist. At the same time, Nechkina did not deny traditional historiographical approaches. It is stressed that “psychologism”, humanitarian synthesis characteristic of her later scholarly work was the heritage of cultural and intellectual revolution, against whose background Nechkina emerged as a historian. The study was carried out on the basis of the sources of personal origin, including materials from the personal fund of M. V. Nechkina in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences previously not introduced into the scholarship.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 1
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metadata.value: historiography
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metadata.value: intellectual revolution
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metadata.value: M. V. Nechkinа
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metadata.value: Freudianism
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metadata.value: Marxism
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metadata.value: Historian Militsa Nechkina and the Cultural and Intellectual Revolution
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