“Let's write a truthful history textbook?” (Part One)
(Ozhogin Dmitry)
"The dominance of liberals in power from the very top, in academic science, on TV, cinema, leaves no chance of objectivity of the textbook."
(There was a mammoth)
“The Bolsheviks introduced the 8 hourly working day, paid holidays and maternity leave for mothers. To you, as a fan of monarchism, I suggest that I get a job on my 10-12 hour-long working day, without holidays, with 1 days off. ”
(cast iron)
So, one of the TOPWAR site visitors poses the question: is it really so difficult to write a truthful textbook on the history of Russia? So that this question will never arise again, let's try ... well, not to write it together, but at least to present all the difficulties of such work. And then we have quite a few people who in historical science do not understand very much, but they believe that everything is easy there. “After all, history is not mathematics, everything can be learned there!” And that's not all!
I must say that this topic is very close to me personally for a number of reasons. First: I was born and raised in a large private house with a bunch of sheds, and my grandfather, who was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Badge of Honor, was the head of the city board, moreover, during the war years, thousands of refugees and children who had to be taught came to the city. Mom was a history teacher at school until she began teaching the history of the CPSU at the institute, and at home I had just a “bunch” of history textbooks for different years, starting from the 30s of the last century. At first I was attracted to them in pictures, then, somewhere from the 4 class, I began to read them and ... COMPARE! What is written in one, that in the other! Needless to say, this strange “hobby” led to the fact that I didn’t receive any grades on history in school except “5”, and was delegated to all historical Olympiads and competitions. But even then, and I studied from 1962 to 1972 a year, it struck me that many interpretations in textbooks are different! That facts appear and disappear ... Portraits of figures, too ... And this phenomenon was traced in the most vivid way. But the story itself does not change, I remember, I thought. So these changes have been made ... because someone wanted it so much ?! Or they were needed! But why?
I regret very much that later I became very stupid, I passed all these books into waste paper, although I continued to study well. The diploma for the state exam only one four - for scientific communism. Well ... this is about finding a black cat in a dark room, to put it briefly. I was asked why I believe that the world communist movement is the determining factor in the world today. And I answered: because the Communists are everywhere! “And are they in New Guinea?” “But where are they now?” I replied in a very bad tone, and almost didn’t work at all. But they put "4" and red diploma covered himself with a copper basin. Then, working on the books in the publishing house "Enlightenment", I found a lot of things in their library and ... refreshed it in my memory. If one of the readers of VO lives in Moscow and has a hunt, he can ask them there and ... read the most interesting history books of Russia and the USSR for different years. Perhaps, then he himself will try to write such a one, why not?
But back to our specific topic: a textbook of Russian history from ancient times to the present day. Can I write it so that it ... meets all the requirements, or rather, the requirements of ALL RUSSIANS? The answer is negative! Not! Not!! And no! Why? But why ...
Recently here at VO there was an article by one of the authors of the 12-volume history of the Second World War. I liked her very much. He laid out everything very carefully, and ... I immediately got on the Internet and opened the first volume that came across. Of course, “about Tanks"- what I know best. He opened, read the first paragraph and closed, and realized that I would never use this publication again! Why? The phrase met: “In 1944, the T-34/85 tank entered service, and it ... immediately ... improved,” and so on. I am sure that anyone who understands this at least a little will extend it further himself. But ... after all, this is not true! Why is it not true? But because the T-34/85 was put into service in a specific month of this year, and in a particular month it was at the front in a specific quantity on a specific sector of the front, and not immediately everywhere and on a massive scale. As, however, the German "Tiger" in the 43rd. That is, the level of generalization for me personally is extremely high! I would prefer the history of the Second World War by day. All 1418 days and descriptions of each day: how they fought, what they lost, what they destroyed, how many surrendered, how many prisoners were taken, what orders were issued, how many cows were transferred to the stew, how many, where, when, who? This really would be a work worthy of the memory of our people, who won the greatest war in the history of mankind. Does it exist? Open the Network - this is not! Moreover, it is clear that somewhere there is no information. Well, that’s how it would be necessary to write, “but there is no data”. Fair! In my opinion, this is the only possible approach to the disclosure of this topic.
Of course, this is better than the “multivolume history” of the Great Patriotic War in six volumes of the Soviet era, the preparation of which was started in 1957. However, the quality of this work may indicate at least such a fact: in its third volume Khrushchev mentioned 39 times, Stalin - 19, Zhukov - 4, and Hitler - 76! In 1966, the first volume of the History of the Second World War was released in 12 volumes (the latter appeared in 1982), but the same story repeated there: Brezhnev mentioned 24 times, Stalin - 17, Zhukov - 7, Vasilevsky - 4, Khrushchev - 7 and this is on ALL EDITION! Meanwhile, in the USA, the history of World War II was published in 99 volumes, and in Japan even in 110! But this was the "true Soviet time." “The generals determine that the Soviet people should know about the Great Patriotic War and what they should not,” wrote Nezavisimaya Gazeta 18.08.1991. 25 years passed, things seemed to change, but we still cannot jump above the 12 volumes.
And if this is the case with only one topic of our history, then ... what do you want, good citizens, from a GENERAL TEXTBOOK who would satisfy everyone and reconcile everyone? But it’s not even a matter of satisfaction (“you don’t ever give all the sisters anyway!”). And, above all, in the fact that we in historical science still do not have a precise understanding of what theoretical basis this textbook should be built on. What I mean? But the following: the economic foundation of society and how we will characterize it! Many remember that there was a primitive communal system, slaveholding, feudal, capitalism and socialism. Handsomely! Simply! Clear! But is it really true? There is another concept of the history of the development of society and it is based on the attitude to work, which, for example, seems to me more correct. At the same time, we will have a society of “natural coercion to labor” (primitive communal system), “non-economic coercion to labor” (slaveholding and feudalism combined, because they never existed in their pure form!) And “economic coercion to labor” (market relations) . And others have never been, and no - if you think about it, of course! Also in its own way beautiful and, most importantly, a logical scheme. But as far as the scientific community is ready to accept it, this is what is important. Not to mention the "masses", where awareness is at the wildest level of incompetence. And there is the theory of Malthus. By the way, nobody canceled it. And did not prove that it does not work! On the contrary, everything proves that it works very well. Interestingly, on its basis, we have published two textbooks on the history of the Ancient World and the Middle Ages of the Siberian historian S.A. Nefedova and read that one that the other as a novel. But further in relation to Russia ... it did not go further. And it's clear why, isn't it?
And if from the very beginning such “problems” have gone, then what will happen next?
And then we need to decide (for example, with the three above-mentioned problems, we somehow figured out!) What truthful sources of information we will use, taking into account the fact that they are beginning to study textbook on Russian history in 6 class in 13 years. It is clear that there are only three such sources: records, archaeological finds and ... data on haplogroups. Everything! There is no other way!
And now how to connect all this? Copy all the records in a row is unthinkable. There is a "Complete Collection of Russian Chronicles." So, give the husks? And immediately there is a problem, which has already been raised here at HE. "Knights, chained in battens, drowned in Lake Peipsi or not?" In this chronicle of this event is not! This is not the case in the article “Alexander Nevsky” in the newspaper Pravda, No. 356 for December 24, 1941, when it became patriotic to write about our heroic commanders. The author cites excerpts from the chronicles, ours and Germans, and they, these chronicles, have not changed, and have not found new ones! But he does not write about drowning! There is no such thing in Pravda on 5 on April 1942 for the anniversary, so to speak. And the number of dead? To count it according to the Livonian rhymed chronicle or according to our chronicles? In any case, this is bad, because in this way we are undermining children's confidence in the sources - the numbers are different!
I would trust the children: I would give both ours and the “Germans”, and explain why this happened. Otherwise, later, after school, the student reads a book ... of some newly-made Khrenenko, and it says there is "here is the truth." And the "bomb", while still small, will explode! So you need to explain? Everyone agrees with this? Yes? Not? And the volume of the textbook? To do it the way the English in the Osprey books do - first by the year of the event: their trip to us, ours to them ... and ... there will be a clear picture that we, too ... ... did not let anyone go. They are to us, we are to them, and vice versa. It is clear that life was like this, but this is children ... It is easy to conclude: “Our ancestors lived by robbery and robbery!” Maybe this conclusion? Completely! It is enough to compare the list of military campaigns of the old Russian state! And near hiking on us? And whose will be more? If they are - everything is clear. And if ours? Can this be explained to children? Yes you can! But not in the 6 class! And the expansion of the Russian Empire? “Mitralezes against sabers in Kokand”, “The Korenets” gunboat on the Yalu river ”,“ The sailors of the Baltic fleet are burning the Chukhon manor ”- these are all the pictures of our artists and photographs reflecting our life. Embed them in the textbook and explain? Or write ... how we were all offended, but we only gave the change, but themselves - no, no ...
However, all these questions are removed automatically if we make a SINGLE TEXTBOOK OF HISTORY and at the same time we will study the history of Russia in the global process. Here is the history of France, here is Germany, but Russia. Then - yes, it will immediately be seen that our ancestors were still very much “nothing”, and the princes, although they were poisoning each other and gouging out their eyes, but still not so fiercely, as in the same France “cursed kings”. But to do so is to change the whole curriculum! And then you have to rewrite ALL TEXTBOOKS! AND TRANSFER ALL TEACHERS!
To write about the grouse of barge haulers, what did I also write about here on HE? About the salary of officers and workers: ensign of the imperial army at the end of the 19 century - 25 p., Cool lady (without lessons) - 30 p., Turner of the first hand in 1902 at the Putilov factory - 40 ... "I lived in St. Petersburg, lived vodka and chewed bread, wore a threesome, boots started dancing in three legs ... "- the workers sang and ... V.I. Lenin in France - "nostalgia", however. But a three-piece suit could be bought for a worker from one paycheck, and also a accordion and ... get drunk - see Gorky's novel Mother. By the way, a gymnasium cap in 1905 cost 1 p. 50 cop Expensive! And two hens, plus heels of eggs, plus two buns, franzolki cost fifty dollars. A "troika", and boots bottles, and accordion? That is, not so workers and received little, and if they drank less, then ...
And now pay attention to the epigraph number 3. This also applies to the textbook, right? After all, if we begin to truthfully write about the heavy share of Russian peasants and workers, it turns out that the poverty of the former, and the latter, too, had its cause ... deep religiosity of those and others. There were so many holidays of pagan times, which later remained hidden, during which people did not work! For example, 24 of June celebrated Ivan Kupala under the cover of the day of John the Baptist, and on July 27 honored the holy martyr Panteleimon, and at the same time celebrated the summer solstice and, naturally, it was impossible to work these days. They honored Kirik's day (not to become crippled), Rusaliya (to atone for infants who died without baptism), St. Foki’s day (from fire), Simeon the Stylite’s day (so that the sky he supports does not fall to the ground), St. Nikita (for rabies), St. Procopius Day (against drought), St. Harlamp Day (against the plague), well, etc. Abundance of holidays was beneficial to whom? To the priests, because on holidays they were “carried” —which had five eggs, some had lard, some who were “little red,” so their reduction could not be considered.
The purpose of the peasant economy was to get food, not profit, although our peasants themselves were not at all as lazy and undeveloped as others say, otherwise they simply could not live. A different attitude to work, the “acquisition of wealth” seemed to them incompatible with the divine commandments, while the holiday was considered a godly deed! But the numbers that anyone can check by picking up a regular and church calendar:
BALANCE OF WORKING AND UNABLE DAYS IN THE MIDDLE 19 - THE BEGINNING OF 20 V.: 1850-ies. - 135 working days, non-working (total) - 230;
1872 g. - 125 working days, non-working (total) - 240; 1902 - 107, and 258! Accordingly, the holidays were 95,105 and 123!
Question: why the number of holidays increased? After all, church holidays no longer become? And the name of the sovereign emperor, empress empress and their family members, because the family grew! And it was all celebrated, so there were no vacations, and that’s why we worked 12 hours a day! Not all the same to celebrate, and once you have to work? And if in 1913, our peasants had as many days off as American “farmers” (as they were called in Russia at the beginning of the twentieth century), that is, 68 instead of 135, and the money that was spent on the feast on holidays would be in the economy, then it is our country for a few years would become a leading global agricultural power!
And here, in theory, we should all put it into a new history textbook. And what will be the conclusion? ROC is the main brake on the development of the Russian economy before 1917! I don’t think that its followers will have to like it, but this is because we are only at the beginning, as a matter of fact, of our textbook. And then it will be even more interesting and “worse” ... Although not all the archives are open today. For example, many military are again classified until the 2045 year. So personally I won't have to write anything on their basis!
(To be continued)
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