Background
GOT’YE, Yuriy was born on June 18, 1873.
GOT’YE, Yuriy was born on June 18, 1873.
1895 graduate History and Philology Faculty, Moscow University.
1903-1915 associate professor, 1915-1941 with some intervals, professor, Moscow University. Simultaneously taught at Moscow Higher Women's Courses (1902-1918), Land-Surveying Institute (1907-1917), Shanyavski> University (1913-1918), Institute of Eastern People's (1928-1930) and Moscow Institute of Philosophy, Literature and History (1934-1941). 1898-1930 learned secretary, later deputy director, now All-Union V. 1.
Lenin Library; 1909-1924 simultaneously chief librarian, Rumyantsev Museum. From 1922 correspondent member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences. Specialist in ccon and soc political history of 17-18th-century Russia.
From 1900 conducted archeological excavations and was one of the first to demand that a synthesis of historical and archeological materials should be adopted in research on ancient Slav history. Extracted from Swedish archives and published Pamyatniki oborony Smolenska 1609-1611 gg. (Monuments on the Defense of Smolensk 1609-1611) (1912) and translated from English Angliyskiye puteshestvenniki v Moskovskom gosudarstve 16-go v.
(English Travellers in 16th-Century Muscovy) (1937). As a follower of V. O. Klyuchevskiy’s school, adhered to the ’’Norman” theory of Kiev Rus’ origin. In late 1920's and early 1930's persecuted for this as a ’’bourgeois” historian, but subsequently, after the censure of M. North. Pokrovskiy’s historical teachings, held an eminent place in Soviet historiography.
Major religious moral codes dehumanise individuals outside their group as less worthy. Results can vary from discrimination to genocide.
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.
Member, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Academy of Sciences from 1939.