Background
PRESNYAKOV, Aleksandr was born on April 21, 1870.
PRESNYAKOV, Aleksandr was born on April 21, 1870.
Graduate Saint St. Petersburg University.
1907 — 18 associate professor, from 1918 professor, Saint St. Petersburg (Leningrad) LIniv. From 1919 also professor Archeological Institute.
Also taught at Institute of Red Professor. Specialized in history of Kiev Rus and Muscowy. Made a study of chronicles.
Adherent of sci materialism school. Criticized historical outlines of South. M. Solov’yov and V. O. Klyuchevskiy, especially the theory of “dynastic princely rule” in Kiev Rus and its “mercantile-urban” nature.
Religion is bad because it makes people base the way they run their lives on a falsehood.
Strong communist party can create a new and better society with neither rich nor poor.
Correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1920.