Russia Seven Year War Accession: Myths Of Soviet Historiography

Resumen

The urgency of the problem under study is conditioned by the fact that the issue of Russia entry into the Seven Years War leaves a field for discussion in modern Russian historiography. This discussion is largely related to the inheritance by public consciousness and the part of modern Russian historians concerning the tradition of this issue explanation, which was formed in Soviet historiography, but it was based on ideological rather than scientific postulates. The purpose of the article is to characterize the views of Soviet historians on the problem of Russian Empire entering the Seven Years' War and the evaluation of these views ideologization and mythologization degree. The leading approach to the study of this problem is a general scientific method of analysis and synthesis. The article describes the views of Soviet historians of 1940-ies - 1980-ies on the problem of Russia entry into the Seven Years' War. The ideological conditionality of these historical representations is shown. The continuity of Soviet historian views of different historical periods is given. A definite evolution of historian views on the indicated problem is revealed. The degree of Soviet historian verifiability is estimated by historical sources. The mythologization of the conception formulated in the scientific community at the subsequent stages of Soviet historical science existence is shown. The materials of the article can be useful to clarify the ideas about the foreign policy of Russian Empire in the middle of the 18th century, and also for the teaching of the course on the history of Soviet historical science.