ON STUDYING SOME PROBLEMS OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF THE SOVIET SOCIETY IN THE 1940s - 1990s

Abstract

The study reveals some controversial aspects of the Soviet social science and its study in Soviet historiography in the postwar period. The article presents the author's view about the nature of social Sciences and on their functioning in the Soviet society, about the dynamics and the basic principles of Soviet science. The work reflects new trends in Soviet humanitarian science, for example, attention to issues of methodology of history and attempts to return to the functions of the Humanities as the servant of ideology. It also highlights certain aspects of the relationship of social scientists and the authorities.

Keywords

• humanities
• social sciences
• intellectual history
• historiography
• methodology of history
• ideologization