ИСТОРИЧЕСКАЯ НАУКА В КАРЕЛИИ НА ПЕРЕЛОМЕ ЭПОХ: НИКОЛАЙ АЛЕКСАНДРОВИЧ КОРАБЛЕВ
HISTORICAL SCIENCE OF KARELIA AT THE EPOCH’S TURNING POINT: CASE STUDY OF NIKOLAI ALEXANDROVICH KORABLEV

Summary/Abstract: At end of the late 1980s the Soviet Union entered a period of general decline, which lead to the collapse of the USSR and totalsocio-political and socio-economical change of the system. In the changed conditions, only skilled and faithful to the professionhistorians could fully realize themselves and take historical science to the level of new requirements. An example of the researchactivity undertaken by N. Korablev (1947–2015) is a valid illustration of the changes occurring at that time in the historical sciencein Karelia. N. A. Korablev studied the history of Karelia in 1861–1917. He was also known as a famous specialist in the field ofresearch and protection of historical and cultural monuments of Karelia. His works allowed us to reconstruct many important eventsof Karelian history from a contemporary point of view: such as the First Russian revolution of 1905–1907, the history of peasantryand business in 1861–1917, the impact of Stolypin’s agrarian reforms and of the First World War on Karelia, the urban history ofKarelia (Petrozavodsk, Olonets and Pudozh), the prosopography of Olonets Province (gubernija) governors, the current state of localmonuments and memorial places commemorating events of the Great Patriotic War, and etc. We came to a conclusion that a highlevel of professionalism and commitment to science allowed N. A. Korablev to realize himself successfully both during the Sovietand the post-Soviet period in conditions of the post-Soviet realities. He greatly contributed to the research of the history of Kareliaat the turning-point of the late 20th – early 21st centuries.

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