Isaak Mints

In this name that follows East Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Izrailevich and the family name is Mints.
Isaak Mints
Исаа́к Изра́илевич Минц
Born(1896-02-03)February 3, 1896
Krynychky, Yekaterinoslav uezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedApril 5, 1991(1991-04-05) (aged 95)
Moscow, Soviet Union
OccupationHistorian

Isaak Izrailevich Mints (Russian: Исаа́к Изра́илевич Минц, Ukrainian: Ісак Ізраїльович Мінц; 3 February 1896 – 5 April 1991) was the leading Soviet historian in the early and mid-twentieth century. In 1949 he lost most of his academic positions as part of the campaign against the "rootless cosmopolitans", a Soviet euphemism for Jews. Nevertheless, he had eventually become an "ideal Soviet Jew" due to his adherence to the Soviet "party line".[1]

Biography

Isaak Mints was born in Krinichki, Russian Empire, now Krynychky, Ukraine.[1]

Mints was the leading Soviet historian in the early and mid-twentieth century. In 1949 he lost most of his academic positions following a campaign against him by his colleague Arkady Sidorov that was part of the drive by Joseph Stalin to eliminate the "rootless cosmopolitans", most of whom were Jewish.[2][1] Despite this, in 1953 he arranged for Soviet Jews to write a letter to Pravda condemning Zionism, Israel, and the "doctors' plot".[1]

Selected publications

  • Istoriia Velikogo Oktiabria (History of the Great October) (3 vols.)

References

  1. ^ a b c d Mints, Isaak Izrailevich. Vera Kaplan, translated from Russian by I. Michael Aronson, Yivo Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  2. ^ Tikhonov, V. V., "Bor'ba za vlast' v sovetskoy istoricheskoy nauke: A.L. Sidorov i I.I. Mints (1949 g.)" (The struggle for power in Soviet historical science: A. L. Sidorov and I. I. Mints (1949)) Вестник Липецкого государственного педагогического университета. Science Magazine. Humanities Series. 2011, No 2, pp. 76-80.


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