Marxist Historian

Marxist Historian
EditorAndrey Shestakov (1926–1930)
Mikhail Pokrovsky (1930–1932)
Nikolai Lukin (1933–1938)
Emelyan Yaroslavsky (1938–1941)
CategoriesScience Magazine
PublisherCommunist Academy
Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union
First issue1926
Final issue1941
CountrySoviet Union
Based inMoscow
LanguageRussian

The Marxist Historian (Russian: Историк-марксист) was a Soviet scientific journal published in Moscow in 1926–1941.[1] Merged with the "Historical Journal".[1] The first historical magazine, widely covering issues of national and world history, including the countries of the East.[1][2] The journal published research articles, reviews, documents and official materials.[3]

  1. ^ a b c Great Soviet Encyclopedia 1972.
  2. ^ Alatortseva 1979, pp. 10, 22, «It was the first Soviet historical journal with a wide profile <...> The new journal was the first Marxist periodical on both Russian and world history».
  3. ^ Alatortseva 1979, p. 15.