Rumyantseva m f theory of history textbook. M.f

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor.

In 1981 she graduated from the Moscow State Institute of History and Archives. Specialty - historian-archivist.

In 1981-1985 - Postgraduate student of the sector of source studies of the Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

‏Since 1985 - Assistant Professor, and from 2002 until liquidation in 2011 - Head of the Department of Source Studies and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State Humanitarian university.

From 1996 to 2002 - Deputy Director of the Russian-French Center for Historical Anthropology named after Mark Blok of the Russian State Humanitarian University.

From September 2011 to June 2014 - Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of the Humanities at the Institute of Philology and History of the Russian State University for the Humanities.

Since November 2012 – Associate Professor of the Department of Social History of the Faculty of History of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Associate Professor of the School of Historical Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities of the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Member of the Russian Society of Intellectual History.

‎Reading courses. Currently: at the National Research University "Higher School of Economics": "Theory and History of Historical Knowledge" (bachelor's degree), research seminar "Intellectual history as a subject field of actual historical knowledge" (bachelor's degree), "Methodology and methods of research in social history" ( master's degree), research seminar "Technology of historical research" (master's degree), "Theory of source study and practice of source analysis" (postgraduate study), "Theories and methods of modern historical knowledge" (postgraduate study); at the Russian State Humanitarian University "Theory of History" "Methodology of History". Formerly: “Source Studies”, “Comparative Source Studies” (RSUH); "Philosophy" (Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev); sporadically (mainly for master's programs at the universities of Stavropol, Petrozavodsk, Volgograd, etc.): "Methods of historical research", "Theoretical and methodological problems of historiography", "Actual historical knowledge: social functions, problem fields, methodological approaches”, etc.

Scientific interests epistemology of humanitarian knowledge, theory of history, methodology of history, history of historical knowledge, history of historical science, theory of source study, comparative source study of modern times.

Main publications:

Historical sources of the 18th - early 20th centuries // Source Studies: Theory, History, Method, Sources of Russian History: textbook for the humanities. specialties / I. N. Danilevsky, V. V. Kabanov, O. M. Medushevsky, M. F. Rumyantseva. : RGGU, 1998, pp. 318-504, same: 2000, 2004.
Public service during the formation of the Russian Empire // History of public service in Russia in the XVIII—XX centuries: textbook / T. G. Arkhipova, M. F. Rumyantseva and A. S. Senin, Moscow: RGGU, 1999, Chapter 1, pp. 13-98 .
Theory of history: textbook. M. : Aspect Press, 2002. 319 p.
Humanitarian knowledge at the beginning of the 21st century: from polydisciplinarity to unity // Bulletin of History, Literature, Art / [chief editor G.M. Bongard-Levin] ; Department of Historical and Philological Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow: Collection, Nauka, 2005, vol. 1, pp. 16-25.
"Places of Memory" in the Structure of the National Historical Myth // Dialogue with Time: Alm. Intellectual History. Moscow: LKI Publishing House , 2007. Issue 21, pp. 106-118.
OM Medushevsky and the formation of the Russian school of theoretical source studies / RB Kazakov, MF Rumyantseva // Russian History, 2009. No. 1. S. 141-150.
Linear/Nonlinear Temporality in History // Images of Time and Historical Ideas: Russia-East-West / edited by L.P. Repina, Moscow: Krug, 2010. pp. 25-47.
The Phenomenological Concept of Source Studies as Interpreted by Olga Mikhailovna Medushushskaya // Bulletin of the Russian State Humanitarian University, Ser. Historical Sciences, Moscow, 2009, No. 4, pp. 12-22 ; 2010. No. 7. P. 11-27.
Paradigmatic Mechanisms of Modern Historiographic Research // Kharkiv Historiographic Collection, Kharkiv, 2010, issue 10, pp. 186-195.
Modern source study: the search for universal foundations of scientific knowledge // Problems of historical knowledge: collection of articles / editor-in-chief K.V. Khvostova, Moscow: IVI RAN, 2011, pp. 70–82.
Regional and local history: comparative analysis // Regional History of Ukraine. Vip. 5. Kiev: Institute of History of Ukraine of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2011. P. 49-60. (co-authored with S.I. Malovichko)
Scientific heritage of Olga Mikhailovna Medushevsky // Cognitive history: concept - methods - research practices: Readings in memory of Professor Olga Mikhailovna Medushevsky: [art. and materials] / otv. ed. M.F. Rumyantseva, R.B. Kazakov. M. : RGGU, 2011. S. 9-36. (co-authored with R.B. Kazakov)
Russian version of neo-Kantianism: to the formulation of the problem // Uchen. app. Kazan. university Ser. Humanite. Sciences. 2012. Vol. 154. Book. 1. S. 130-141.
Transformation of the specific structure of historical sources as a criterion for the Transition // Transitional periods in world history: transformations of historical knowledge / ed. ed. M.S. Bobkov. M. : IVI RAN, 2012. S. 103-120.
On the cultural component of historical knowledge // Historical journal - scientific research. 2012. No. 3. S. 7-13.
Socially oriented history in the actual intellectual space: an invitation to discussion // Historical knowledge and historiographical situation at the turn of the XX — XXI centuries. M. : IVI RAN, 2012. S. 274-290. (co-authored with S.I. Malovichko)
The paradigm choice of a historian as an ethical problem // Kharkiv historiographic collection. Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Karazin, 2012. Vip. 11. S. 67-78.
The Logic of Narrative in Baden and Russian Neo-Kantianism // Izvestiya UrFU, Humanities series. 2012. No. 3 (105). pp. 258-271.
The history of the locus in classical, non-classical and post-non-classical models of historical science // Regional History of Ukraine. Collection of scientific articles. Vip. 6. Kiev, 2012. S. 9-22. (co-authored with S.I. Malovichko)
The history of the city as a historiographical phenomenon // New cultural and intellectual history of the Russian province: (On the 65th anniversary of Professor T.A. Bulygina). Stavropol: Publishing House "Bureau News", 2012. S. 158-174. (co-authored with S.I. Malovichko)
History as a rigorous science vs socially oriented historical writing. Orekhovo-Zuyevo: MGOGI Publishing House, 2013. 252 p. (co-authored with S.I. Malovichko)
Speeches by V.A. Muravyov at the annual conferences of the Department of Source Studies and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines as a Historiographic Fact // Historiographic Readings in Memory of Professor Viktor Aleksandrovich Muravyov: Sat. Art. : in 2 tons / comp. : R.B. Kazakov, S.I. Malovichko, M.F. Rumyantsev; resp. ed. : R.B. Kazakov, M.F. Rumyantsev; Ros. state humanitarian. un-t, Scientific-ped. school of source studies - site Source study.ru. M. : RGGU, 2013. T. 1. S. 70-96. (co-authored with R.B. Kazakov)
The history of the locus in classical, non-classical and post-non-classical models of historical science. Article two // Regional history of Ukraine: zb. Sciences. Art. / head. ed. V. Smolii; In-t ist. Ukraine NAS of Ukraine. Kyiv, 2013. Vip. 7. S. 39-54. (co-authored with S.I. Malovichko)
The Concept of Cognitive History by Olga Mikhailovna Medushevsky // Dialogue with Time: Almanac of Intellectual History. M. : IVI RAN, 2013. Issue. 44. P. 6-16.
Reception of the methodological concept of A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky at the Scientific and Pedagogical School of Source Studies - site Source Studies.ru // Clio: a journal for scientists. SPb. : Poltorak Publishing House, 2013. No. 12 (84). pp. 28-31.
Historical geography and new local history in the current cognitive situation // Problems of historical geography and demography of Russia / ed. ed. K.A. Averyanov. M. : IRI RAN, 2013. Issue. II. pp. 48-67. (co-authored with S.I. Malovichko)
Phenomenology vs neo-Kantianism in the concept of A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky // Dialogue with time. M. : IVI, 2014. Issue. 46. P. 7-16.
Source study: textbook. allowance / I.N. Danilevsky, D.A. Dobrovolsky, R.B. Kazakov, S.I. Malovichko, M.F. Rumyantseva, O.I. Khoruzhenko, E.N. Shveykovskaya; resp. ed. M.F. Rumyantsev; National research University "Higher School of Economics". - M.: Ed. house of the Higher School of Economics, 2015. - 685, p.
On the question of the disciplinary status of source studies / Rumyantseva M.F. // Actual problems of source studies: materials of the III International scientific and practical conference, Vitebsk, October 8–9, 2015 / Vit. state un-t; editorial board: A.N. Dulov and M.F. Rumyantseva (responsible ed.) [and others]. - Vitebsk: VSU named after P.M. Masherova, 2015. - S. 9-11.
Narrative logic of historiography from the point of view of the phenomenological concept of source studies / M.F. Rumyantsev. - Kharkiv historiographic collection. – Kh. : KhNU named after V. N. Karazin, 2015. – Vip. 14. - S. 42-53.
Hermeneutics vs interpretation from the point of view of the source study concept of the methodology of history / M.F. Rumyantsev // Cogito. Almanac of the history of ideas. - Rostov-on-Don, 2015. Issue. 6: foundation. - P. 11-25.

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Rumyantseva M.F. Problems of source study and historiography M.: 2000 (pp. 251-258).

The current epistemological situation is highly paradoxical. Let us identify the most significant, in our opinion, oppositions related both to the theories of historical knowledge and to the theory of the historical process. From the point of view of modern social existence, public consciousness wants historical certainty, it craves "true" history. But on the other hand, the modern epistemological situation - the situation of methodological pluralism and increased methodological tolerance - provokes doubts about the possibility of achieving strictly scientific, generally valid historical knowledge. In a situation where post-Soviet Russia is again choosing the path of its further movement, or rather a way of being, when the dispute between “Westerners” and “Slavophiles” is again activated, the relevance of methodological reflection is growing up to political topicality, especially in terms of substantiating comparative historical research. Social practice in recent times has generated an interest in comparative studies, but social science throughout the century has practically not developed an adequate method of comparing different societies. We can agree with the German historian T. Schieder, who writes: “... no matter how persistently the objective trends of our time dictate the need to compare the infinitely many historical and political individualities of the world and combine them into a much smaller number of higher structural units, these trends ... are not sufficient to create a solid scientific method. And further, this author states the existence of a situation of methodological crisis: “A careful analysis of the many more or less serious attempts to give a universal historical justification for the current world situation leads to the conclusion that everything that has been done so far in this area is controversial ... The immensely overgrown mass of empirical material has not yet been analyzed and ordered so that one could try to give a single and coherent picture of the history of mankind, within which everything would be comparable to everything, because everything is related to everything. So, the reason for this epistemological situation, according to Schieder, is the gap “between the bold theories of universal history and specific historical studies, as before, immersed in specific details”, and the task that follows from this is “to build a bridge that would make possible the participation of historical science and its specific areas in creating the foundations of a new universal historical theory ". The already complex epistemological situation has become aggravated in Russian historiography in recent decades: in the period when the process of self-determination of post-Soviet Russia is actively going on (and self-determination is possible when compared with other socio-political models), it was sharply rejected - primarily for ideological, and not for strictly scientific reasons - a fairly reliable criterion for comparative historical research, which was given by the Marxist paradigm of social cognition. Of course, this method is not without flaws, but within its boundaries, a professional historian could not only prove the existence of feudalism or capitalism in certain socio-political formations, but reveal their significant differences, while remaining essentially on the positions of ideography.
The fundamental grounds for the reunification of historical and source study practice with a deep theoretical understanding of historical reality can be provided by a holistic epistemological concept developed at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. Russian historian, methodologist of humanitarian knowledge A. S. Lappo-Danilevsky. Let us single out only one aspect of his cognitive system.

Methodological concept of A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky, being ideographic on its grounds, considers the historical fact not in isolation, but in the context of a "co-existential" and "evolutionary" whole. Such a formulation of the problem leads to the fact that Lappo-Danilevsky, starting from his contemporary division of sciences into nomothetic and ideographic, synthesizes these concepts, considering them as two approaches to a single object of history. He writes: “From the nomothetic point of view, the historian studies what is common between changes, from the ideographic point of view, what characterizes a given change, distinguishes it from others and, thus, gives it an individual meaning in this process.” In other words, the historian primarily studies the individual influence of the individual on the environment from an ideographic point of view, but in order to explain this influence, he must take into account the influence of the environment on the individual from the nomothetic point of view, from which he studies the action of “the environment on the individual in its leveling meaning, i.e. to the extent that it produces such changes in the psyche of individuals (and therefore in their actions and in their products), due to which they become similar in some respects ... "
The leveling, typifying influence of the social environment (collective individual) on individuality, and hence the features of this environment itself, is most consistently manifested at the level of large source complexes, first of all - the main classification unit of source studies - the type of historical sources. It is under the influence of the unifying influence of the social environment that the individual results of the realization of the human psyche (products of culture) acquire common features and can be called collectively: memoirs, periodicals, etc. So, the type of historical sources represents the forms of human activity, the totality of which constitutes the history of society in a certain period. That is why a comparison of the specific structure of the corpus of historical sources of different societies can act as a criterion in comparative historical studies. But comparison is possible and necessary not only in the co-existential, but also in the evolutionary historical space. In this sense, the task of periodization of the historical process and, accordingly, the evolution of historical sources can be considered as a task of comparative historical research.
Realizing the need to develop a methodology for comparative historical research, we will try to consider the problem of identifying the common properties of historical sources of modern times in its context.
Comparison involves the search for both differences and similarities of compared objects. This generally trivial thought should be paid attention to, if only because of the non-triviality of the differences in the focus of historians on the search for the typical or unique in historical phenomena. The dispute about where the comparison begins: from the search for commonalities or differences - would be similar to the well-known dispute about what comes first - an egg or a chicken, if not for two circumstances. Firstly, the focus on the primary search for similarities (typification) or differences (individualization) depends on the methodological attitude of the researcher - nomothetic or ideographic. On the other hand, remaining on the positions of ideography, one cannot but admit that differences are significant only when they are revealed in objects that have similarities.
It is this goal - to identify the common features of sources of various types, that we are pursuing. We note the significant relevance of this problem for the body of historical sources of modern times, since the emergence of new types of historical sources and the complication of their system make us look for additional opportunities to comprehend their integrity. This problem was covered in a number of works by I.D. Kovalchenko and scientists of his school, in particular in the generalizing work of SV. Voronkova.

Let us single out the following general properties of the historical sources of modern times:

Huge quantitative growth of historical sources;

Simplification of the content of a single historical source;

The growth in the number of varieties of historical sources;

Focus on publication and replication already at the time of creation.

Let us consider these characteristics from the point of view of the emancipation of human individuality as a system-forming factor in the changes in the corpus of historical sources in modern times.
Quantitative growth of historical sources. It is human nature to overlook the obvious. And the most important property of the corpus of historical sources of modern times in comparison with the previous period is their huge quantitative growth. Let's take a look at its causes and effects.
Undoubtedly, we note the best preservation of documents of the new time. This is especially true for Russia. Indeed, for various reasons, the corpus of historical sources left over from the Middle Ages is much smaller in Russia than in European countries. The large-scale transformation of the state apparatus during the reign of Peter I, the elimination of the system of orders and, as a result, the need to organize special storage of documents outside the office management system leads to the creation of an archival service, which affects the safety of historical sources. The safety of historical sources is significantly improved due to the fact that in modern times many historical sources are already intended for publication (replication) at the time of their creation.
But that's not the point. First of all, we should not talk about better preservation of historical sources, but about a qualitative shift in their generation.
Why is there an increasing need for documentation?
Firstly, the individualization of man, the emancipation of the human personality during the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern times, expands the circle of authors of historical sources. We do not dwell here on such an obvious factor as the growth of literacy, since it is a derivative of the circumstance considered.
Secondly, the desire of an emancipated personality to create secondary social ties leads to the fact that historical sources begin to be generated not only in the state (and church) sphere, as it has been until now, but also in the personal (memoirs, diaries, epistolary sources) and public.
Thirdly, in addition to the emergence of new spheres of generation of historical sources, their number is also increasing in the state sphere. Which is also largely due to the new nature of lawmaking and the relationship between the individual and the state. The transformation of the law into the only source of law and the conviction that through lawmaking it is possible to reorganize the life of the state and influence the formation of the individual, makes it necessary to adopt laws based on an analysis of information about the state of certain aspects of the life of society and the state. On the other hand, the discrepancy between custom and law forces us to take special care of publishing legislation and monitoring its effectiveness. All this leads to an increase in the number of business sources.
Simplifying the content of a single documentthat. The growth in the number of sources, especially in the field of office work, leads to a simplification of the content of a single document, which is accompanied by a formalization of this content, as well as a complication of the system of sources at the species and variety levels.
These trends can be noted not only in the clerical sphere. The same processes are observed in the legislation. It is no coincidence that not all legislative acts are published in the third Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire: in a number of cases, only the name is indicated for separate legislation.

The most significant formalization is in statistics.
The processes of simplifying the content of one single source are also observed in the sphere of narrative sources. By the end of the XIX century. The differentiation of the periodical press is quite obvious according to a number of criteria: according to the socio-political orientation, according to the orientation towards various professional and class groups, gender and age differentiation.
Strange as it may seem, we find the same processes in memoirs. At the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. more and more often there are memoirs dedicated to individual events or outstanding contemporaries of the memoirist. Relatively less common are unhurried narratives about all the events memorable for the author.
The growth in the number of varieties of historical sourcescov. The quantitative growth of historical sources and the simplification of the content of a single document lead to an increase in the number of varieties within species. Throughout the period, newly emerged and pre-existing species are divided into varieties. At the same time, the process of the emergence of new varieties clearly prevails over the extinction of exhausted forms, which leads to a constant complication of the structure of the corpus of historical sources.
The increase in the number of varieties is most evident in office documentation, accounting materials, act sources.
Publication and reproduction of historical sourcesnicknames. Perhaps the most significant feature of the historical sources of modern times is that the sources of most species were already intended for publication at the time of creation.
From the beginning of the XVIII century. publication of legislative acts becomes mandatory.
The types most characteristic of the corpus of historical sources of modern times, such as periodicals, essays, and memoirs, were created specifically for publication.
And if for the periodical press the expectation of publication is obvious and constant, then the inherent desire of the memoirist to publish his memoirs develops and serves as one of the criteria for the evolution of memoirs.
By the end of the XIX century. this property of historical sources reaches a new level. The current publication of legislation appears - since 1863, the “Collection of Laws and Orders Issued under the Governing Senate” has been published. With the development of historical periodicals, the publication of sources of personal origin is expanding.
The systematic publication of summary statistics begins.
At the beginning of the XX century. such a source as verbatim reports of the State Duma is also published.
During the XVIII-XIX centuries. the interconnection of types of historical sources is growing. Closely related are legislation and statistics, periodicals and journalism, memoirs and periodicals, epistolary sources and fiction. The mechanism of species interconnection is different, but we note that in a number of cases one species could influence another precisely because in modern and recent times many historical sources were originally intended for publication.

We emphasize the relationship between individual properties. The quantitative growth of historical sources largely determines the simplification of the content of one single document, which in turn gives rise to at least two consequences: an increase in the number of varieties of sources of each type and an increase in the volume of hidden (structural) information within the complex of sources.
A historical source is “a realized product of the human psyche, suitable for studying facts with historical significance” (A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky). The definition of a historical source that we have adopted makes it possible to clearly distinguish between two spheres: "source-reality" and "historian-source". The object properties of a historical source are laid down at the moment of its creation in accordance with the purpose of its creator, therefore the “source-reality” sphere is primary for our consideration. But let us immediately emphasize that each property of the sources of the new time, generated in the “source-reality” sphere, has as its consequence the features of interaction in the “source-historian” system.
The growth in the number of historical sources creates a completely new cognitive situation. The researcher is no longer able to study all the sources related to any significant topic or problem. He is forced to purposefully select historical sources in accordance with his research hypothesis, which forces him to formulate it more clearly.
Sometimes researchers claim that research is possible without a hypothesis, that the hypothesis “interferes” with the researcher, limits the field of his research attention. But it is necessary to realize that there is no research without a hypothesis. A hypothesis can only be conscious or not. And the more complex the problem, the wider the range of sources, the more strictly the researcher should approach the formation of a hypothesis. The fact is that a hypothesis is always a generalization of previously accumulated knowledge; in the process of research, it is transformed, because the researcher receives additional information. If the hypothesis has changed significantly, then it is necessary to return to the beginning of the study in order to test the new hypothesis. A historian dealing with the early periods of history sometimes remembers “his” sources almost by heart, constantly referring to the same texts. The historian of modern times in a number of cases does not have such an opportunity, especially if he works with mass sources or statistics. Imagine a researcher who reads in succession the formal lists of officials or Zemstvo statistics materials in the hope that he will be “seen” and he will see phenomena and processes behind these hundreds and thousands of figures.
So, when working with large arrays of sources, the historian always receives an answer to the question he has posed, and he is deprived of the opportunity to ask his sources again in the process of research. One can compare the communication of a medievalist historian with historical sources with an interview, and a historian of modern times with a sociological survey.
In addition, the quantitative growth of sources forces us to pose the problem of selective research. And here it is important to understand that the sampling method is a special research method that works correctly only on a mathematical and statistical basis. It is important to distinguish between the selection of examples illustrating a particular situation, and the construction of a sample that allows you to extend the results obtained to all the phenomena under study (general population).
For historical sources of modern and recent times, it is necessary to take into account the sphere of origin: personal, public, state. Then we can easily see that, for example, Russian newspapers appear not only later than European ones, but also, unlike them, in the state, and not in the public sphere.
Let us single out the educational and methodological aspect of this problem. Considering the evolution of types of sources of the Middle Ages, one can and should focus on the most notable monuments, such as the Tale of Bygone Years, Russian Truth, etc. Due to the huge quantitative growth of sources in modern and recent times, such an approach is impossible. It is necessary to build a model of the species and trace its evolution, using individual monuments as illustrations.
It is quite obvious that the simplification of the content of an individual source and the complication of the intraspecific structure creates additional difficulties in the formation of the source base of the study. The representative basis of historical work must structurally reproduce the growing complexity of the corpus of sources. For example, for the turn of the XIX -XX centuries. it is impossible to study a newspaper that expresses this or that public mentality without knowing the whole range of opinions expressed in periodicals.
The second no less important consequence of the phenomenon under consideration is an increase in the volume of hidden (latent) information. Such information is also called structural, because it can be revealed in the analysis of the structure of the corpus of sources, the relationships between their elements. For example, if we read in the official list of the mayor of the city of Kola, who came from peasants, that he had the rank of V class of the Table of Ranks, then we will receive information about one particular fact. This is something that can be directly read in the historical source. But even if we establish the validity of this information, we will not know how typical or unique such a career is. But if we analyze several hundred official lists, then we can establish how the rank of rank, the property status of an official, etc. depended on the social origin of an official. The traditional method of extracting hidden (structural information) is to build a table, but there are other methods - quantitative (mathematical) or formalized. Most often, for the analysis of dependencies, such methods of mathematical statistics as correlation and regression analysis are used.
It is quite obvious that the historian working with the sources of modern times has to take a stricter approach to determining the species nature of the source, taking into account its belonging to one or another variety within the species.
In addition to complicating the classification division of types of historical sources, their differentiation according to various parameters opens up broader opportunities for their systematization, and hence for revealing structural information. The researcher gets additional opportunities for analyzing information by compiling various (including combinatorial) tables, as well as using methods of mathematical statistics.
The second research problem is related to the development of principles for grouping varieties and the development of methods for analyzing groups. As an example of such a group of species and varieties, one can name mass sources that have been actively developed in Russian historiography in the last twenty to thirty years.
Obviously, the synchronous publication of historical sources creates fundamentally new conditions for their preservation, which brings us back to the beginning of our analysis - the quantitative growth of not only created sources, but also those that have been preserved from what was created.

In addition, when analyzing each source, the historian must be clearly aware of the information environment in which the author of the source existed. Should try to identify not only the direct sources of the text, but also the information continuum in which the author existed. For example, since European memoirists already in the 17th century. had the opportunity to include their memoirs in a historiographic context (getting acquainted with the publications of historical works, starting from ancient times, and the works of other memoirists), therefore they often considered them as the history of the present (Contemporary History), Russian memoirists back in the 18th century. wrote their autobiographical memoirs in isolation from each other.
When examining the circumstances of the creation of a source, the historian should also pay attention to whether the source was intended for publication and in what environment it should exist. That is, the calculation for publication is included in the system of goals of the source creator. At the same time, it must be remembered that the authors, to varying degrees, took into account the nature of the further existence at the time of the creation of the historical source. The degree and nature of the consideration of the potential audience depended both on the personality of the author and on the type of work being created.
We also note that many features of the analysis of the sources of modern times, arising from their nature, are also significant for the previous period. A medievalist historian, studying a chronicle or a hagiographic work, should comprehend the initial hypothesis as much as possible or ask himself a question, for example, about the nature of the existence of this source. However, for modern times, these methodological requirements must be clearly understood; without their reflection, any significant research is impossible. Here we do not specifically discuss the question of what is primary: the complication of the state apparatus or the increase in document flow. Let us only note that, in our opinion, the widespread belief that the more complex state apparatus generates a huge amount of paperwork is based on the substitution of cause for effect. We agree with B.G. Litvak is that the need for the exchange of information, and hence for documentation, leads to the complication of the state apparatus.
We distinguish between publication and reproduction. Publication in the broadest sense includes not only typographical printing, but also disclosure (such as legislation) or intended to be read by others (memoirs). The duplication of certain documents cannot be considered as publication (for example, the duplication of a form).
The calculation of the memoirist for publication is shown in the work of A. G. Tartakovsky.
Note that this distinction is purely analytical. A historical source is not only what was created by a person of the past, but also what is comprehended as such by a modern researcher.

She started working at the Higher School of Economics in 2012.
Scientific and pedagogical experience: 37 years.

Education, academic degrees and academic titles

Academic title: Associate Professor
Candidate of Historical Sciences: Institute of History of the USSR of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, specialty 07.00.09 "Historiography, source study and methods of historical research"

Specialist: Moscow State Historical and Archival Institute, specialty "Historical and Archival Studies"

Additional education / Advanced training / Internships

Scientific supervisor of dissertation research

for the degree of Candidate of Sciences

Korganova M. E. Ego-documents of Gulag prisoners as a source for studying survival strategies in forced labor camps. 1929-1939 (postgraduate study: 3rd year of study)

Training courses (2014/2015 academic year)

(Master’s programme; where it reads: ; spec. "Social History of the West and Russia"; 1 year, 3, 4 module)Rus
(Bachelor’s programme; reading: ; 4 year, 1-3 module)Rus

Research Seminar "Subject, Methods and Means of Cognition" (Master’s programme; ; , ; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus

(Master’s programme; where it reads: ; spec. "History of Knowledge in Comparative Perspective"; 2 year, 1-4 module)Rus
(Bachelor’s programme; reading: ; 3 year, 3, 4 module)Rus

Dissertations for the degree of candidate of historical sciences

1999. Yusov, Dmitry Alexandrovich . Relations of the commanders-in-chief of the Russian army during the Seven Years' War: a source study.

2001. Brykina Yulia Yakovlevna. The problem of perception and interpretation of the dramaturgy of A. N. Ostrovsky in the second half of the 19th century: the source study aspect.

2009. Druzhinin Petr Alexandrovich. Heraldic super ex libris of the 18th – early 20th centuries in Russian book collections: a source study.

2011. Meshkov Alexander Nikolaevich. Protocols of the military committees of the XI Army of the Southwestern Front (March 1917 - February 1918): source research.

2016. Waltz Maria Pavlovna. Reception of the ideas of German scientists in the work of A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky "Methodology of history".

Publications 103

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Walls and bridges - VI: the practice of interdisciplinary research in history. M. : Publishing House of the Russian State Humanitarian University, 2018. S. 188-196.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Kopytin Readings - I, II: Sat. Art. international scientific and practical conference, May 17-18, 2018, Mogilev. - Mogilev: Moscow State University. A.A. Kuleshova, 2018. Part I, II. Mogilev: Moscow State University. A.A. Kuleshova, 2018. S. 14-16.

Chapter of the book, Rumyantseva M. F. // In the book: Modern problems of book culture: main trends and development prospects: materials of the IX Intern. scientific seminar, Moscow, 24-25 Oct. 2018: at 2 h. Part 1. Minsk; M.: Center. scientific b-ka them. Yakub Kolas National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; Scientific publisher Center "Nauka" RAS, 2018. S. 211-216.

The head of the book Rumyantseva M. F. Criticism and interpretation of a historical source: the ratio of research procedures // In the book: Topical issues of studying and teaching history, social and humanitarian disciplines and law. Vitebsk: VSU named after P.M. Masherova, 2018. S. 24-26.

Chapter of the book Rumyantseva M.F., // In the book: Modern problems of book culture: main trends and development prospects: materials of the IX Intern. scientific seminar, Moscow, 24-25 Oct. 2018: at 2 h. Ch. 1 Ch. 1. Minsk: Tsentr. scientific b-ka them. Yakub Kolas National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; M. : Nauch. publisher Center "Nauka" RAS: Minsk: Center. scientific b-ka them. Yakub Kolas National Academy of Sciences of Belarus; M. : Nauch. publisher Center "Nauka" RAS, 2018. S. 440-446.

Chapter of the book, Rumyantseva M. F. Socially oriented historical writing and historical science: conflict - cooperation - gap // In the book: Dobre i zle sasiedztwa: Obce - nasze - inne. Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, 2018. – Vol. 2: Sąsiedzi w historiografii, edukacji i kulturze / red. Teresa Maresz i Katarzyna Grysińska-Jarmuła - 304 s. Vol. 2: Sąsiedzi w historiografii, edukacji i kulturze. Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, 2018, pp. 14-28.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Names of Moscow science: materials of the international scientific and practical conference (September 29, 2017) / comp. A.A. Aleksandrov, E.Yu. Koletvinova, A.S. Sukhov; Moscow Gor. Univ. Moscow government. – M. : MGUU of the Government of Moscow, 2018. M. : MGUU of the Government of Moscow, 2018. P. 87-91.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Scientific notes of VSU named after P.M. Masherova: collection of scientific papers. T. 22. Vitebsk: VSU named after P.M. Masherova, 2016. S. 15-20.

Dobre i złe sąsiedztwa. Historia kluczem do zrozumienia współczesnych relacji międzysąsiedzkich. Bydgoszcz: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Kazimierza Wielkiego, 2016, pp. 306-315.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: History, memory, identity: theoretical foundations and research practices: materials of the international scientific conference / Nauch. ed.: O. V. Vorobieva,,, O. B. Leontieva. M. : Akvilon, 2016. S. 148-151.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Source Studies. M. : HSE Publishing House, 2015. Ch. Introduction. pp. 7-13.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Source Studies. M. : HSE Publishing House, 2015. Ch. ch. 2, part 1, p. 2. S. 216-371.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Source Studies. M. : HSE Publishing House, 2015. Ch. ch. 3, part 1, p. 3. S. 610-615.

Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Source Studies. M. : HSE Publishing House, 2015. Ch. Section 1. S. 17-121.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Source Studies. M. : HSE Publishing House, 2015. Ch. ch.1, part 1, p. 3. S. 564-591.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Actual problems of source studies: materials of the III Intern. scientific-practical. conf., Vitebsk, 8-9 Oct. 2015 / Responsible ed.: . Vitebsk: VSU named after P.M. Masherova, 2015. S. 9-11.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Source Studies. M. : HSE Publishing House, 2015. Ch. part 2, p. 2. S. 463-503.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: The role of museums in the information support of historical science. M. : Eterna, 2015. S. 70-77.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M.F. 14. Kh. : KhNU named after V. N. Karazin, 2015. P. 42-53.
Book Druzhinin P. / Nauch. ed.: M. F. Rumyantseva. Vol. 2: Russian heraldic superex libris: a consolidated catalogue. M. : Truten, 2014.
Book Druzhinin P. / Nauch. ed.: M. F. Rumyantseva. T. 1: Heraldic superex libris: source research. M. : Truten, 2014.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. From the contents. : Auxiliary historical disciplines / R.B. Kazakov, M.F. Rumyantseva, O.I. Khoruzhenko. - S. 60-62; Generalizing approach / M.F. Rumyantsev. - P. 71; Hermeneutics / M.F. Rumyantsev. - P. 74-76; Hermeneutical circle / M.F. Rumyantsev. - P. 76-78; Hermeneutical approach / M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 78; Discipline of historical science / M.F. Rumyantsev. - P. 96; Individualizing approach / M.F. Rumyantsev. - P. 126-127; Historical interpretation / M.F. Rumyantsev. - P. 139-140; Historical source / M.F. Rumyantsev. – S. 199-200; Source study / M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 200-203; Source study of historiography / S.I. Malovichko, M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 203-204; Source analysis / M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 204-205; Source study synthesis / M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 205; Comparative source studies / M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 222; Criticism of the historical source / M.F. Rumyantsev. – S. 239-240; Scientific direction / R.B. Kazakov, M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 319-320; Subject field / M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 409; Psychology historical / M.F. Rumyantsev. – P. 422-423; Theory of history / M.F. Rumyantsev. - S. 481-483. // In the book: Theory and Methodology of Historical Science: Terminol. words. / Rev. ed.: . M. : Akvilon, 2014.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Kharkiv historiographic collection. – Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Karazin, 2014. - VIP. thirteen. Issue 13. Kharkov: V.N. Karazina, 2014, pp. 97-107.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M.F.,, // In the book: University Corporation: memory, identity, consolidation practices: materials of the All-Russian. scientific conf. with international participation, dedicated 210th anniversary of the foundation of Kazan. university Kazan, 27-29 Nov. 2014 Kaz. : YaZ, 2014. S. 377-380.
Chapter of the book, Rumyantseva M. F. // In the book: 150 years in the service of science and education: Sat. materials of the Anniversary International. scientific conf. Moscow, 5-6 Dec. 2013. M. : GPIBR, 2014.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Heraldry and a rare book / Nauch. ed.: . T. 1: Heraldic superex libris: source research. M. : Truten, 2014. S. 7-9.
Chapter of the book, Rumyantseva M. F. // In the book: Walls and bridges: II interdisciplinary approaches in historical research: materials of the International Scientific Conference, Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities, June 13-14, 2013 / Nauch. Ed.: M. M. Krom, B. N. Mironov, V. A. Shkuratov, E. A. Dolgova. M. : Academic project, 2014. S. 109-117.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M.F. // In the book: Scientific heritage of Professor A.P. Pronshtein and topical problems of the development of historical science (on the 95th anniversary of the birth of an outstanding Russian scientist): materials of the All-Russian (with international participation) scientific and practical conference (Rostov-on-Don, April 4–5, 2014). Rostov n / a: Publishing house Fund of science and education, 2014. S. 466-472.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M.F. // In the book: History in ego-documents: Research and sources. Yekaterinburg: AsPUr Publishing House, 2014. P. 32-40.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Actual problems of source studies: Materials of the international scientific-practical conference on the 135th anniversary of the birth of V.I. Picheta. Vitebsk: VSU named after P.M. Masherova, 2013. S. 16-20.
Chapter of the book, Rumyantseva M. F. // In the book: Historiographic readings in memory of Professor Viktor Aleksandrovich Muravyov: Sat. Art. : in 2 volumes / Comp.: , , ; resp. ed.: , . T. 1. M. : RGGU, 2013. S. 70-96.
Article, Rumyantseva M. F. // New Literary Review. 2013. No. 6(124). pp. 432-439.
Article, Rumyantseva M. F. // New Literary Review. 2013. No. 124(6/2013)
Book chapter, M.F. Rumyantseva // In the book: Library in the context of history: materials of the 10th All-Russian. with international participation of scientific conf. Moscow, 3-4 Oct. 2013. T. 1. M. : Pashkov house, 2013. S. 9-21.
Chapter of the book Rumyantseva M.F., // In the book: Problems of historical geography and demography of Russia, Issue. 2. M. : Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2013. P. 48-67.
Chapter of the book, M. Rumyantseva // In the book: Regional History of Ukraine, Vol. 7. K.: Institute ist. Ukraini NAS of Ukraine, 2013, pp. 39-54.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M.F. Professional ethics of a historian in the interdisciplinary space. Dnepropetrovsk: Dnepropetrovsk National University. O. Gonchar, 2013. S. 131-142.
Article Rumyantsev M. F. // Clio. 2013. No. 12(84). pp. 28-31.
Article by M. F. Rumyantsev // Istoriya, an electronic scientific and educational journal. 2012. No. 1 (9)
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M.F., Malovichko S.I. // In the book: New cultural and intellectual history of the Russian province: (On the 65th anniversary of Professor T.A. Bulygina). Stavropol: Bureau of News, 2012, pp. 146-162.
Chapter of the book Rumyantseva M. F. // In the book: Development of methodological research and training of historians in the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Poland. Collection of scientific articles / Nauch. ed.: A. N. Nechukhrin. Grodno: GrGU, 2012. S. 13-20.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F., Malovichko S. I. // In the book: Regional history of Ukraine. Collection of scientific articles Issue 6. Kiev: Institute of History of Ukraine NAS, 2012. P. 9-22.
Article by Rumyantsev M. F. // Proceedings of the Ural Federal University. Series 2: Humanities. 2012. No. 3. S. 258-271.
Chapter of the book, Rumyantseva M. F. // In the book: Historical science and education in Russia and the West: the fate of historians and scientific schools / Ed. ed.: L. P. Repina. Moscow: Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2012, pp. 181-184.
Chapter of the book,, Rumyantseva M.F. // In the book: Culture and intelligentsia of Russia. Personalities. Creation. Intellectual Dialogues in the Era of Political Modernizations: Materials of the VIII All-Russia. scientific conf. with international participation in the preparations for the 300th anniversary of Omsk and the celebration of the anniversary events of Russian history (Omsk, October 16-18, 2012). Omsk: Omsk State University Press, 2012, pp. 40-43.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F., Malovichko S. I. // In the book: Walls and bridges: interdisciplinary approaches in historical research: materials of the International Scientific Conference, Moscow, Russian State University for the Humanities, June 13-14, 2012 / Ed. editors: G. Ershova, E. A. Dolgova. M. : RGGU, 2012. S. 136-143.
Article by M. F. Rumyantsev // Uchenye zapiski Kazanskogo universiteta. Series: Humanities. 2012. V. 154. No. 1. S. 130-141.
Chapter of the book Rumyantseva M. F., Malovichko S. I. // In the book: Historical knowledge and historiographical situation at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries. / Rev. editors: O. V. Vorobieva, Z. A. Chekantseva. M. : Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2012. S. 274-290.
Chapter of the book Rumyantseva M. F., Malovichko S. I. // In the book: Regional history, local history, historical local history in the subject fields of modern historical knowledge: collection of articles Art. / comp., ed. A.E. Zagrebin, O.M. Melnikov. Izhevsk: Udmurt University, 2012. 622 p. Izhevsk: Udmurt University, 2012. S. 3-10.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Transitional periods in world history: transformations of historical knowledge. M. : Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2012. P. 103-118.
Article by Rumyantsev M. F. // Bulletin of the Russian State University for the Humanities. 2011. No. 12 (74). pp. 295-297.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F., Malovichko S. I. // In the book: Library in the context of history: materials of the 9th international scientific. Conf., Moscow, October 3-4, 2011. Moscow: Pashkov dom, 2011, pp. 7-18.
Chapter of the book, Rumyantseva M. F., Malovichko S. I. // In the book: Historical geography: human space vs man in space. Proceedings of the XXIII International Scientific Conference. Moscow, January 27-29, 2011. Moscow: RGGU, 2011, pp. 31-45.
Book / Rev. ed.: M. F. Rumyantseva. M. : RGGU, 2011.
Chapter of the book Rumyantsev M. F. // In the book: Problems of methodology and source studies in historical research: Sat. mater. yearly scientific seminar of the Samara regional branch of the Russian Society of Intellectual History. Samara: Samara Humanitarian Academy, 2011, pp. 97-107.
// In the book: The role of museums in the formation of historical consciousness: International scientific and practical conference. Ryazan, 25-28 Apr. 2011: materials and reports. M. : NB-Media, 2011. S. 16-26. L. P. Repina
Kopytin readings-2: international scientific and practical conference (Mogilev). Report: Source studies: from interdisciplinarity to polydisciplinarity
Walls and bridges VII: interdisciplinarity: what is required of the historian, what gives and what takes from him (Moscow). Report: “Real turn” vs source studies in the humanities at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries.
Historical Narrative: Past, Present, Future (on the occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the birth of Herodotus of Halicarnassus and the 2000th anniversary of the death of Titus Livius) (Moscow). Report: Renarrativization and Representation: Two Strategies for Overcoming the Crisis of Trust in the Historical Metanarrative
Modern Problems of Book Culture: Main Trends and Development Prospects: IX International Scientific Seminar-Conference (Moscow). Report: On the principles of compiling a list of sources and literature in a new textbook on source studies (2015)
"Walls and Bridges" - VI: the practice of interdisciplinary humanitarian research (Moscow). Report: Concepts of psychology in the "Methodology of History" by A.S. Lappo-Danilevsky
Autobiographical writings in an interdisciplinary research field - II (Moscow). Report: Memoirs of A.T. Bolotov in the context of the historical culture of modern times: a source study approach
"Constructing the European": Socio-Cultural Transfer from the Atlantic to the Urals: International Scientific Conference (Yekaterinburg). Report: Russian and Baden neo-Kantianism: opposition - integration - divergence
Beyond Totalitarianism: N.N. Kozlova. (Moscow). Report: "Story and experience" in the study of the individual: source studies aspects of the research program of N.N. Kozlova
Walls and bridges: the field of interdisciplinary interaction of historical knowledge with the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities - V (Moscow). Report: The principle of recognizing someone else's animation in the humanities of the 20th - early 21st centuries: the limits of applicability
History, memory, identity: theoretical foundations and research practices. Report: Representation of history in the neoclassical model of science: source study approach
International Scientific Conference "World History and New Challenges of Historical Science: National, Transnational and International Approaches" (Moscow). Report: On the impossibility of universal history and its prospects from the point of view of source studies
International Scientific Conference "World History and New Challenges of Historical Science: National, Transnational and International Approaches" (Moscow). Report: Historical knowledge at the turn of the 20th–21st centuries: fragmentation vs renarrativization
The role of museums in the information support of historical science (Moscow). Report: Museum exposition: representation of history or positioning of historical knowledge

Actual Problems of Source Studies (Vitebsk). Report: On the question of the disciplinary status of source studies

Methodology and methods of studying regional history: Central Volga region in the glocalization dimension (Kazan). Report: Local history and local history: the problem of determining the disciplinary status

Participation in the editorial boards of scientific journals

Since 2017: member of the editorial board of the journal “Scientific Notes of Petrozavodsk State University. Series: Social and Human Sciences.

Since 2007: member of the editorial board of the journal Dialogue with Time.

experience

November 2012 - present Associate Professor of the School of Historical Sciences of the Faculty of Humanities (until 2015 - Department of Social History of the Faculty of History) National Research University Higher School of Economics;

2011 - November 2012 - Associate Professor of the Department of Theory and History of the Humanities at the Institute of Philology and History of the Russian State University for the Humanities;

1985 - August 2011 - Lecturer, Associate Professor, Head (since 2002) of the Department of Source Studies and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines (until 1994 - Department of Auxiliary Historical Disciplines) of the Institute of History and Archives of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Professional Education "Russian State University for the Humanities" (until 1991 – Moscow State Institute of History and Archives);

1996-2002 - Deputy. Director of the Russian-French Center for Historical Anthropology named after Mark Blok at the Russian State University for the Humanities;

2006 - 2012 - Associate Professor of the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the Humanitarian and Pedagogical Faculty of the Russian State Agrarian University - Moscow Agricultural Academy named after K.A. Timiryazev.

For a number of years she gave lecture courses (specialist and magistracy) at the Volga Humanitarian Institute (a branch of the Volgograd State University), the Karelian State Pedagogical University (currently the Academy), Petrozavodsk State University, the University of Pereslavl named after. A.K. Aylamazyan.

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Reviewers: Doctor of History. sciences, prof. Moscow Pedagogical University O. V. Volobuev, doctor of history sciences, prof. Moscow Pedagogical University N, A. Proskuryakova, doctor of history sciences, prof. Russian State University for the Humanities V. A. Muravyov, doctor of philosophy, sciences, prof. Russian State University for the Humanities Ya. Ya. Kozlova

Rumyantseva M. F.

R 86 Theory of history. Tutorial / M. F. Rumyantseva, - M.: Aspect Press, 2002.- 319 p.

ISBN 5-7567-0182-6

The textbook corresponds to the "Theory of History" section of the "Theory and Methodology of History" course, provided for by the State Educational Standard of Higher Professional Education for the specialties "History" and "Historical and Archival Studies". The manual consistently examines the development of methods for constructing theories of the historical process in the 18th-20th centuries, reveals the socio-cultural conditionality of changing the goals and methods of historical writing. Particular attention is paid to the method of comparative historical research as one of the methodological foundations for constructing a historical meta-narrative. The crisis of the historical metanarrative in the situation of postmodernity is specially analyzed and the possibilities of the source study phenomenological paradigm of humanitarian knowledge in overcoming the crisis of global historical constructions are revealed.

For undergraduate and graduate students specializing in history and other humanities.

UDC 93/94 BBK63

Isbn 5-7567-0182-6

"Aspect Press", 2002

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Our tasks

"Daddy, explain to me why we need a story." With this childish question begins the famous book of the French historian, one of the founders of the Annales school, Mark Blok's Apology of History, or the Historian's Craft 1 . People have been searching for the answer to this question for centuries. Let's take part in these searches.

But the book you have in your hands is a study book. What are we going to study?

First, the simplest and most obvious, we learn how the question of the meaning of history has been answered during the last three centuries.

Having posed this problem, we will immediately notice that there is an ambiguity in its formulation, already embedded in the very word "history". Obviously, this word has many meanings from "get into history" to "enter history". As for everyday stories that you can "get into", then we are not talking about them here. But what kind of history you can “enter”, “leave your mark”. On the one hand, it is the "real historical process" itself. Why in quotes? Yes, because for our consciousness it exists only in the form of historical ideas, historical knowledge and, finally, historical science. And the way in which historical science interprets historical reality and gives history meaning.

Then you have the right to ask: why only during the last three centuries - didn't people think about this issue before? Of course we thought about it. But the modern type of European thinking, the main feature of which is rightfully considered historicism, took shape in the 17th century, starting with Galileo and Descartes, and manifested itself in its historical component in XVIII. That is why the types of historical scientific knowledge that have developed in XVIII- XX centuries, continue to be relevant. Modern scientific historical knowledge

1 Block M. Apology of History, or the Craft of the Historian: Per. from fr. 2nd ed., add. M., 1986. S. 6.

rooted in the 18th century, in the Enlightenment, and the approaches formed then not only have not lost their historical significance, but continue to dominate not only in ordinary consciousness, but also in the minds of many historians. For example, such widespread “modern” delusions that a historical fact is objective and valuable in itself, that a historical explanation is created by generalizing facts, have been successfully existing since the 18th century.

There is another verbal trap in the formulation of our first problem. "Modern" - where are the boundaries of our modernity? Not only in scientific, but also in everyday vocabulary, the concepts of “postmodernism”, “state of postmodernity” have entered. In the understanding that at the turn of the XX-XXI centuries. (or, to put it more sublimely, at the turn of the millennium) we are in a situation of transition from a historical type of culture (at least European) to a different type of culture - and this transition is the state of postmodernity, the essential difficulties of the language also assert. There is an insurmountable contradiction in the statement: "the modern situation is the situation of postmodernity." Especially if we remember that modem in English and moderne in French it is modern. This contradiction is described, for example, by N. N. Kozlova. Reflecting on the possibility of finding an adequate semantic translation of the concept of "modern", she writes:

“It is clear that Modern is a copy of European languages. Unfortunately, an adequate Russian language expression has not yet been found. English translation ModernityThe word "modern" is misleading. In Russian, modernity is what is happening here and now. 2 .

It seems to me that the essence of the problem is not terminological, but mental. In both European and Russian languages, “modern” or “modernity” is the historical space in which a person identifies himself.

The main characteristic of the postmodern state is distrust of the metanarrative, i.e. distrust of the holistic historical knowledge offered by historians. We will talk in detail about the causes and consequences of the metanarrative crisis. But from the recognition of it as a factor of modern reality, our next tasks follow.

Since you and I, like a significant part of our contemporaries, are not inclined to trust that ready-made historical picture that historians can offer, and without undue reflection "to adopt" the theory of the historical process, which

Kozlova N. N. Socio-historical anthropology. M., 1999. S. 100.

will be declared "the only true one", then our second task is to understand how and why history was written this way and not otherwise, historians and philosophers of the past built their theories.

The crisis of the metanarrative, obviously, leads to the ultimate individualization of historical memory, which disrupts its functioning as the basis of sociocultural identity with all predictable and unpredictable consequences. From here Our third task is to outline possible ways to overcome the crisis of the metanarrative.

Up to now, we have dealt mainly with metanarrative. By meta-story (meta-narrative) we mean the explication of holistic historical ideas, both scientific and non-scientific. The theory of history is a holistic, reflected (meaningful) description of the historical process, made on scientific principles. From these "working" definitions it follows, firstly, that the concept of metanarrative is broader than the theory of the historical process. Any theory of history is a metanarrative, but not any metanarrative has the properties of a theory. Secondly, it is obvious that ordinary historical ideas interact with theory in a complex way: any professional historian or philosopher - the creator of the theory - is a man of his time and, as such, is not exempt from the ordinary historical ideas of his era. On the other hand, scientific knowledge ultimately, more often through a complex system of mediation, affects the mass historical consciousness, at least through a school textbook.

So let's summarize our tasks:

* obtain systematic knowledge about the main theories of the historical process, formulated in modern times, in the XVIII-XX centuries, about their socio-cultural conditionality, tasks, structure, and ethical and political consequences;

* on this basis, develop an understanding of the mental and epistemological foundations of various historical views;

* learn to comprehend the theoretical basis of any historical research (including one's own), and even in the case when the author does not comprehend in which cognitive theoretic system he works; learn to conduct an epistemological examination of a historical meta-narrative;

» suggest one of the possible ways to overcome the crisis of the metanarrative based on the source paradigm of humanitarian knowledge;

* and finally, to demonstrate the possibilities of the proposed method in comparative historical studies.

In accordance with these tasks, the first section of the textbook discusses the goals and principles of constructing theories of the historical process; in the second, classical theories are analyzed,

created in modern times and have not lost their significance; in the third one, the source study paradigm of comparative historical research is substantiated and its capabilities in overcoming the metanarrative crisis are demonstrated.

At the end of each chapter is a list of references, including, firstly, the works analyzed in the section; secondly, literature that helps to assimilate the material of the section, and, thirdly, additional literature, allowing a broader look at the problems discussed in the section. At the same time, from all the literature it is strongly recommended to get acquainted with those works on the basis of which the theories of the historical process are described, since this will allow the reader to develop his own point of view and then consciously, with knowledge of the matter, either agree or dispute the interpretations given by the author of the textbook. After all, the book offered to you is precisely an educational allowance, those. what should help, promote independent thought.

The questions at the end of the chapters are intended to check the degree of mastering the material. You can find answers to the questions posed both in the text of the chapter and in the recommended and additional literature. Needless to say, these answers may not coincide with each other.

Tasks are divided into two groups. The first group of tasks prepares for work on the material of the following sections. The second group is predominantly creative in nature (they are marked *) and calls for independent research work.

This textbook is the result of many years of reading by the author of lecture courses on the theory and methodology of history at the Department of Source Studies and Auxiliary Historical Disciplines of the Historical and Archival Institute of the Russian State University for the Humanities. I express my gratitude for creative cooperation and constructive criticism of my constructions to the faculty of the department, and especially to Igor Nikolaevich Danilevsky, Roman Borisovich Kazakov, Olga Mikhailovna Medushevsky, Viktor Alexandrovich Muravyov, Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, Yulia Eduardovna Shustova, as well as the Doctor of Philosophical Sciences Natalya Nikitichna Kozlova. And separately - to all students of the Russian State University for the Humanities and Perelavl-Zalessky University, in communication with whom the author had the opportunity to test this course more than once. Part of the work was supported by the Russian Foundation for the Humanities: Project No. 96-01-00422.

Source: Theory. Story. Method. Sources of Russian history: Proc. allowance / I.N. Danilevsky, V.V. Kabanov, O.M. Medushevsky, M.F. Rumyantseva. - M.: Russian. state humanit. un-t, 1998. - 702 p.
ISBN 5-7281-0090-2

The textbook corresponds to the new status of source studies in the modern epistemological situation, characterized by the strengthening of polymethodology, the desire to humanize historical knowledge, and the strengthening of integration processes. object of various humanities with a variety of their subject.

Considerable attention is paid to methodological problems: the source study criterion of comparative historical research is substantiated, and interdisciplinary links in source study are revealed. Source studies are considered as an integrating discipline in the system of the humanities; various methodological approaches to solving the most significant problems are shown, as well as the development of a methodology for studying the main types of historical sources.

The review of the main types of sources of Russian history, given in the 2nd part of the textbook, is of a universal nature, since it reflects trends common to the source base of the history of different countries.

Part I. THEORY, HISTORY AND METHOD OF SOURCING

Section 2. FORMATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF SOURCE STUDIES (O.M. Medushevsky)
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Section 3. SOURCE STUDY METHOD AND INTERDISCIPLINARY ASPECTS (O.M. Medushushskaya)
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Part 2. SOURCES OF RUSSIAN HISTORY

Section 1. HISTORICAL SOURCES OF THE XI-XVII CENTURIES (I.N. Danilevsky)

Section 2. HISTORICAL SOURCES OF THE XVIII - BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURY (M.F. Rumyantseva)

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