Спорные вопросы истории и экономики Прибалтики в контексте внутри- и внешнеполитических задач Советского государства. 1930–1950-е годы
Controversial Issues of the History and Economy of the Baltics in the Context of the Domestic and Foreign Policy Tasks of the Soviet State in the 1930s–1950s

Summary/Abstract: The author highlights issues of the history and economy of the Baltics that were important for the Soviet state and were discussed in the 1930s–1950s, highlights the problems of their actualization, and shows how the foreign policy of the USSR as a whole and relations with the Baltic countries during the period of their first independence in particular were reflected in scientific discussions devoted to issues of the economy and politics of the Baltics. Author used materials from the Russian Academy of Sciences Archive and covered some aspects of the activities of the Institute of World Economy and World Politics of the Communist Academy dedicated to the study of the politics and economy of the Baltics in the 1920s and 1930s. The substantiation of the significance of this topic in the diplomatic correspondence and diaries of Soviet plenipotentiaries in the Baltics is also highlighted. The development of interest in the history of the Baltics is illustrated by the work of the Institute of History of the Communist Academy and the USSR Academy of Sciences in the 1930s and 1940s, where Soviet historians Ya.Ya.Zutis and R.Yu.Vipper presented scientific reports on Baltic topics (medieval history and early modern history), and also N.N.Vanag, B.D.Grekov and S.D.Skazkin participated in general discussions. Among the popular issues in this period — the formation of serfdom relations in the Baltics during the years of the German conquest, the history of Livonia in the “Swedish times” and under the rule of the Russian crown, the historical background of the German onslaught on the East, criticism of “bourgeois nationalism” and “bourgeois historiography” of Latvia, which developed during the period of the independent Republic of Latvia and, after 1940, in exile.

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