title: The Trial of the Former Dean of Leningrad State University Nikolai Kornatovsky
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Badikov, Roman A.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-04-08T14:40:04Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-04-08T14:40:04Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2024-03
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Badikov R. A. The Trial of the Former Dean of Leningrad State University Nikolai Kornatovsky. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2024, vol. 69, issue 1, pp. 22–38. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.102 (In Russian)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu02.2024.102
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45259
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines a series of events related to the criminal prosecution of Nikolai Kornatovsky,
  a prominent party historian, professor, and the former dean of the Faculty of History
  at Leningrad State University. Amidst the political purges of the 1940s and 1950s, echoing
  the “Leningrad Affair”, Kornatovsky was expelled from the party, dismissed from high administrative
  positions, and arrested in 1951 on false charges of anti-Soviet activities. The trial
  over Kornatovsky has been reconstructed on the basis of the documents of supervision
  proceedings revealed by the author and previously not used by the researchers. The study
  particularly focuses on the interconnectedness between Kornatovsky’s personal case within
  the Bolshevik Party and the initiation of criminal proceedings against him by the Ministry
  of State Security of the USSR; on the mechanisms of forming the evidentiary base during the
  preliminary investigation. The article also explores the role of expert commissions in the case
  and the significance of the examination of the historian’s scholarly works as a key procedural
  action. The article reveals the principles of compilation of witnesses’ testimonies and other
  statements during the historian’s trial. Furthermore, details of the efforts by Kornatovsky and
  his spouse, Maria Kornatovskaya, to appeal a guilty verdict are revealed Additionally, the article
  presents the outcome of the appeal in 1954, the role of the Prosecutor’s Office of the USSR,
  and administrative-party structures of the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party during
  the relevant stage, as well as the rationale behind the termination of criminal prosecution
  against Kornatovsky.
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 69; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: “Leningrad Affair”
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repressions
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: post-war purges
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political trials
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Leningrad University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party historians
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Nikolai Kornatovsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Trial of the Former Dean of Leningrad State University Nikolai Kornatovsky
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 02_Badikov.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/45259/1/02_Badikov.pdf
resources.format: Adobe PDF
resources.size: 685,77 kB