Kozlova L.A. October Revolution as a Turning Point in the History of Social Sciences: State Regulation in the 1920s-1930s. In: The problems of scientist and scientific groups activity. International annual papers. VOLUME 3 (33). Papers of the XXXIII session of the International School for Sociology of Science and Technology “Scientific Policy: Metrics, Actors and Practices” ...

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Abstract

The nature and consequences of the state governance of Social Sciences in Russia, implemented in the post-revolutionary era (1920–1930s) as a result of the 1917 revolution and the establishment of Soviet power, are examined in the article. The external influence of Soviet power is seen as a factor that determined a turning point in further development of Social Sciences. Two qualitatively different periods of government regulation are conventionally singled out: until the mid-1920s («formal» period) – Sovietization and Bolshevization of the organization and management of science; after the mid-1920s («cognitive» period) – the change in the content and methodology of knowledge (the paradigm shift), the ideologization of science on the basis of Soviet Marxism. It is shown what measures were taken in each period and what their consequences were. As a result, the organization of social Sciences and social cognition were reoriented in accordance with the objectives of the Soviet state system. This was primarily reflected in the assertion of Marxism-Leninism as the only ideological and theoretical basis of the sciences, in the formation of party-state management of social sciences and humanities and of scientific knowledge. The conclusion is that post-revolutionary transformations formed the defining features of the Soviet social sciences in the form in which they existed until the collapse of the USSR in the early 1990s.

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