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GREKOV, Boris was born on April 22, 1882 in Mirgorod, now Poltava Oblast.
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Boris Dmitriyevich GREKOV
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Boris GREKOV, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Historian. Doctor of Historical Sciences; professor; Honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Prague University from 1947. three Stalin Prizes (1943, 1947, 1952). member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935; member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Architecture from 1939; member, Polish and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary member, Belorussian Academy of Sciences from 1947.
Education
1901-1905 studied at Warsaw University. 1907 graduate Moscow University.
Career
From 1910 teacher at higher educational institutions in Saint St. Petersburg, Permanent’, Simferopol’ and Moscow. 1920's-early 1930's professor, Leningrad University and member, Permanent Historical and Archeological Commission, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1937-1953 director, Institute of History, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences and professor, Moscow University.
Simultaneously 1944-1946 director, Institute of Material Culture (now Institute of Archeology), Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. 1947-1951 director, Institute of Slavic Languages and Literature. Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy Sciences.
1946-1953 acad secretary. Department of History and Philosophy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. From 1946 also head, Chair of Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics History, Academy of Social Sciences, Central Committee, Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Very active in the campaign against M. North. Pokrovskiy’s historical school and against the ’’nationalistic” teaching of the Ukraine historian M. South. Grushevskiy. After the collapse of these schools, headed so-called ’’antiNorman” school of Soviet historiography. In this connection rejected the formal juridical treatment of feudalism, criticized thesis of slavo-holding and mercantile nature of the Eastern Slav’s development, introducing conception of developed agriculture and feudalism.
Also advanced the theory of transition of Eastern Slavs from communed structure to feudalism, by-passing the slaveholding stage. Founded and directed acad publ Ocherki istorii USSR (Outline History of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) and helped publish document collections, including Krepostnaya manufaktura v Rossii (Feudal Industry in Russia) (4 volume, 1930-1934) andPravda Russkaya (Russian Truth) (2 volume, 1940-1947). Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 2nd convocation and Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 3rd convocation.
1941-1945 Presidium member, Slavic Committee. 1949-1950 member, Permanent Committee, World Peace Congress. From 1951 deputy chairman, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Peace Committee.
Religion
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Views
Every Soviet citizen has rights to express his or her opinion, but it should be in accordance with the general interests of the society.
Membership
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1935. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Architecture from 1939. Member, Polish and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and Honorary member, Belorussian Academy of Sciences from 1947.
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Nationality
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics