Background
SMIRNOV, Ivan was born in 1909.
SMIRNOV, Ivan was born in 1909.
1930 graduate Vyatka Teachers’ Training Institute. Did postgraduate studies at Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences.
Senior associate, Leningrad Section, Institute of History, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Professor, Leningrad University. Specialized in soc and political history of medieval Russia and history of feudalism and peasant movements.
Made a special study of age of Ivan the Terrible.
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Member, Communist Party, since 1941.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.
Member, Communist Party, since 1941.