“Questions of the party and the Comintern - a guidance for a historian” (about the interaction of science and party using the example of discussion on the history of the west 1931)

Pepelina Natalia I.

The problem of the influence of politics on historical science and its subordination to government interests was examined, using the example of a discussion that took place in Soviet scientific and party institutions in the first half of 1931 and was devoted to studying Western European history.

Keywords:Western history, Marxist historians, discussion, ideology, Communist International, International Leninist School.