title: From a Farmhand to the Head of an Institute: Life of the Historian Otto Augustovich Lidak
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metadata.value: Barinov, D. A.
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metadata.value: Lebedev, V. A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-06-07T15:29:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-06-07T15:29:01Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.value: Barinov D. A., Lebedev V. A. ‘From a Farmhand to the Head of an Institute: Life of the Historian Otto Augustovich Lidak’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 11, no. 1, 2021, pp. 103–117.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu24.2021.107
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/29221
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metadata.value: The history of the Bolshevik party figured prominently in the reform of postrevolutionary Soviet science.
  After the Civil War, many revolutionaries who took accelerated special learning courses subsequently became
  professors and heads of newly organized academic institutions. Their aim was to prepare new ideologically
  strong specialists for the country. However, despite their considerable contribution to higher education in the prewar
  USSR, a significant number of “red professors” became victims of repression in the 1930s. Otto Augustovich
  Lidak — one of the main Leningrad historians of the Bolshevik party in the 1930s — was a bright representative
  of this generation. As a Bolshevik in the Civil war, he traveled from Lithuania to the Siberian city of Minusinsk
  and from Petrograd to Persia. Having all the necessary qualities (social background, revolutionary experience,
  connections, etc.), O. A. Lidak was able to build a successful academic career within a short period. At various
  times, he was the head of the Institute of History of the CPSU(b) and the Communist Institute of Journalism.
  He was also a professor in the Leningrad branch of the Communist Academy, Communist University, Leningrad
  State University. Finally, he was an active member of the Society of Marxist Historians, the Society of Former
  Political Prisoners and Exiles, etc. Thus, he was involved in the work of all the major party institutions that prepared
  “pro-Soviet” cadres. This article considers the milestones of Lidak’s biography and also explores his contribution
  to the historiography of the Russian Revolution.
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metadata.value: This research was supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project no. 19-011-007782A.
  “Historical science of Petrograd — Leningrad (1917–1934): centers, lines of research, collective biography”.
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metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 11; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Civil War
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian revolution
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: higher school
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: party history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: repression
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history of science
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: From a Farmhand to the Head of an Institute: Life of the Historian Otto Augustovich Lidak
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metadata.value: Article
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