title: Defense of Dissertations by Nikolai Il’ich Pokrovskii at Leningrad University
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metadata.value: Alevras, Natalia N.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T22:17:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-06-26T22:17:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-03
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metadata.value: Alevras N. N. Defense of Dissertations by Nikolai Il’ich Pokrovskii at Leningrad University. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2023, vol. 68, issue 1, рp. 259–276. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.115 (In Russian)
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2023.115
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/41691
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metadata.value: This article is a discussion of the career path of N. I. Pokrovskii. The author attempts to uncover
  the key points of his biography and research career. Both of his defense procedures
  that took place in 1938–1939 are examples of the revival of the pre-revolutionary dissertation
  culture implemented through the practicing of the legal framework of its Soviet counterpart.
  The article focuses on the procedure and progress of the defense of the historian’s doctorate
  dissertation. The availability of the transcript enables the author to reveal the principles, style,
  atmosphere, and ideological components of this academic event typical of the early Soviet dissertation
  culture. The author highlights the specifics of the selection of opponents, the defense
  procedure and academic audit organization as well as the ensuing discussion. The opponents
  included well-known researchers from St Petersburg, I. Yu. Krachkovskii, an Arabist scholar
  acting as the candidate’s promoter, and B. D. Grekov and S. N. Valk, Doctors of history who
  were not authorities on the problems covered in the dissertation and treated the candidate
  with caution. I. P. Petrushevskii, an Orientalist historian, played a special role: he was an opponent
  during Pokrovskii’s candidate thesis defense and an unofficial expert during his doctoral
  defense debate. The debate in question involved the members of the Board of the Historical
  Faculty and the ‘public’ and demonstrated ambivalent attitudes towards the candidate’s position.
  The article attempts to understand the critical perception of Pokrovskii’s concepts and
  the impact of the political and ideological atmosphere in the pre-war USSR on the defense
  procedure and the historian’s life.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by the grant no. 22-28-00557 “Dissertation culture of the scientific community
  of Soviet historians of the 1920s–1950s: adaptation of the pre-revolutionary experience and the
  search for a new model for the training of scientists” of the Russian Science Foundation.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 68; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: N. I. Pokrovskii
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: I. Yu. Krachkovskii
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Caucasian Wars of the 19th century
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: thesis defense
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: debate
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Soviet dissertation culture
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad University
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Defense of Dissertations by Nikolai Il’ich Pokrovskii at Leningrad University
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metadata.value: Article
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