DOI: 10.18503/2658-3186-2022-6-3-29-32
Abstract. The last years of scientific activity of A.A. Miller, a well-known Caucasian archaeologist, organizer of science, researcher at large scientific institutions as the State Academy of the History of Material Culture (SAHMC) and the Russian Museum, have not yet been fully studied and introduced into scientific circulation. Meanwhile, this period icludes the organization and leadership of the Taman expedition of the SAHMC (1930-1931), a large project aimed at studying and further “fixing” the monuments of the southern region to Leningrad. Works of the Taman expedition led by A.A. Miller were interrupted in the course of constant conflicts between Moscow and Leningrad researchers, insufficient funding, and the growing “Case of the Russian National Party” (RNP) (1933–1934). The case of the “Russian National Party” or “The Case of the Slavists” is a case fabricated by the OGPU about a “fascist organization of Russian and Ukrainian nationalists”, which became one of the stages of the campaign against the “bourgeois” intelligentsia during the years of the “cultural revolution” in the USSR. In total, 14 RNP cells were detected in Leningrad in scientific institutes of the USSR Academy of Sciences, museums and scientific societies. There were 37 people arrested, mostly ethnographers and art historians, as well as chemists and geologists on charges of membership in a counter-revolutionary organization. The largest number of victims fell on the two largest museums in the country: the Russian Museum and the Hermitage. At present, it seems extremely relevant to publish investigative materials concerning innocently convicted scientists of the 1930s for both the scientific and civil community.
Keywords: archival documents, State Academy of the History of Material Culture, Russian Museum, history of Soviet archeology, political repressions, A. A. Miller.
Author:
Evgenia G. Zastrozhnova (Pankratova), Candidate of History, Head of Department of Fonds Proccessing, Acquisition and Departmental Archives, the Archive of The Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch, St. Peterburg Russia, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
References
1. Ashnin F. D., Alpatov V. M. «Deloslavistov»: 30-e gody, Moscow, Nasledie, 1994, 284 p.
For citation
Zastrozhnova (Pankratova) E. G. A. A. Miller Investigatory Case (1933-1934): a General Review, Gumanitarno-pedagogicheskie issledovaniya [Humanitarian and pedagogical Research], 2022, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 29–32.