Background
SIDOROV, Arkadiy was born on February 8, 1900 in Pochinki, Nizhniy Novgorod Province. Son of a peasant.
SIDOROV, Arkadiy was born on February 8, 1900 in Pochinki, Nizhniy Novgorod Province. Son of a peasant.
1923 graduated Ya. Sverdlov Communist University. 1928 graduated Institute of Red Professors, Moscow.
1929-1936 did Party work in Nizhniy Novgorod (Gorky), Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. From 1937 taught and did research at Institute of History, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences, at Moscow University, at Institute of International Relations and at Academy of Social Sciences, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union. During 1930's played a major role in the campaign against M.N.Pokrovskiy’s school of history, the glorification of Stalin and the dogmatization of Soviet historical science
1948-1952 prorector, Moscow University. From 1952 head, Chair of the History of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, Moscow University. 1953-1959 director, Institute of History, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
From 1954 also chief ed, periodical “Istoricheskiye zapiski”. Member, Main Editor Board, “Biosystems Engineering ” (Large Soviet Encyclopedia), “Sovetskaya istoricheskaya entsiklopcdiya” (Soviet Historical Encyclopedia), “Istoriya USSR" (The History of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics), and “Vsemirnaya istoriya” (World History). Company-founder and ed of an 18-volume series of documents on the 1905-1907 Revol and 10-volume series Dokumenty po istorii Velikoy Oktyabr’skoy sotsialisticheskoy revolyutsii (Documents on the History of the Great October Socialist Revolution) (1957-1963).
From 1962 chairman. Section on the General Laws and Features of the Development of Russia in the Age of Imperialism, Sciences Council for the History of the Great October Socialist Revol, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Attended 10th and 11th International Congresses of Historical Sciences. Specialized in 19thand early 20th-century Russian history.
All religions persuade people to rely on outside authority, thus preventing them to become self-reliant.
Member, Communist Party, since 1920.
Every person has rights to express his or her opinion, but the opinion could be expressed if it was in accordance with the general interests of Soviet society.
Member, Communist Party, since 1920.