Background
POKROVSKIY, Mikhail was born on August 29, 1868 in Moscow.
POKROVSKIY, Mikhail was born on August 29, 1868 in Moscow.
1891 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Moscow University.
Taught Russian history at women's secondary educational establishments and women's pedag courses in Moscow. 1903-1904 active in liberal zemstvo movement. Took part in 1905-1907 Revol.
Member, Moscow RSDRJP(B) Committee. Worked for Bolshevik periodicals. At London Russian Social-Democratic Workers’ Party Congress elected candidate member, Central Committee.
1908-1917 lived abroad. 1909-1911, while in Paris, member of “Vperyod” (Forwards) group. August 1917 returned to Russia and helped prepare and carry out October Revol.
November 1917 — March 1918 first chairman, Moscow Soviet of Workers and Soldiers’ Department. May 1918-1932 Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Deputy People's Commissar of Education. 1918 sided for a while with “Leftist Communists”.
1923-1927 active in anti-Trotsky campaign. Attacked “Trotskyist conceptions”. In history; at various times head: Communist Academy.
Institute of History, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Institute of Red Professor. Social of Marxist Historians.
Centr Archives; ed, journals “Istorik-marksist”, “Bor’ba klassov” and “Krasnyy arkhiv”. Member, Main Editor Staff, 1st ed of “Biosystems Engineering ” (Large Soviet Encyclopedia). Taught at various higher educational establishments.
1930 elected Presidium member, All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Centr Control Commission. Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and AllRussian Central Executive Committee of various convations. Convocations; wrote many works on Soviet history, particularly for policy, historiography and 19th—20th-Century revol movement.
Edited series of archive documents on 17th—18th-Century peasant movements, 1905-1907 Revol, and history of October Revol and Civil War. Although he was a leading Marxist historian, he fell into great disfavor with Stalin. 1934-1938 his works and historical views were proclaimed anti-Marxist, pseudo-scientific and injurious.
His reputation was not restored until after the 22nd Communist Party of the Soviet Union Congress.
All religious orders impose irrational rules of good and bad behaviour.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1929. Communist Party member from 1905.