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On February 26 at 11:50 the NSU History Museum will open the exhibition “Life as a Vocation” dedicated to the activities of Varlen Lvovich Soskin. The exhibition is part of a series of events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Honorary Professor of NSU, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, founder of the scientific school of modern Siberian science studies and cultural studies, veteran of the Great Patriotic War Varlen Lvovich Soskin.
In addition to the exhibition, on February 26 from 10:00 to 17:00 there will be Scientific Readings “Worlds of the Domestic Intelligentsia in the 20th Century: Profession, Society, Power”. The program includes reports by leading experts in the history of the Soviet and Russian intelligentsia on current issues of modern cultural studies and science studies, as well as speeches by V. L. Soskin’s students, colleagues, and a presentation of a book of memoirs.
Detailed program of the event and registration —on the website of the Humanities Institute of NSU.
Varlen Lvovich Soskin is a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He graduated from the history department of Leningrad State University and completed his postgraduate studies at Novosibirsk State Pedagogical Institute. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation, Honored Worker of Higher Education of the Russian Federation, Honorary Professor of NSU. He worked at NSU part-time since 1964, and was one of the founders of historical training at the Humanities Department. Associate Professor (1964–1969), Professor (1969–2017) of the Department of History of the USSR/Russian History.
V. L. Soskin was the first in Russian historiography to use materials from the Siberian region to show the processes of transformation of cultural institutions in the extreme conditions of the era of wars and revolutions from the point of view of the relationship between the continuity of some and the rupture of others in cultural traditions. He was the first to develop the phenomena of cultural crises during the NEP years, the periodization of the stages of formation and development of the Soviet intelligentsia in the post-revolutionary period, and the mechanisms and factors of its socio-political differentiation in the first decade of Soviet power. V. L. Soskin’s ideas and approaches in the field of historical intelligentsia studies were further disseminated and developed in research centers that were established in the 1990s at the universities of Ivanovo, Yekaterinburg, and Omsk. A prominent researcher of the history of the formation and development of the scientific and educational potential of Siberia in the 20th century: from the emergence of the first organizational forms at the beginning of the century to the formation of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. One of the pioneers in adapting the systems approach to the tasks of historical research in the field of culture.
V. L. Soskin was the executive secretary of the Main Editorial Board of the 5-volume “History of Siberia” (1962–1968), deputy chairman of the organizing committee of the largest All-Union scientific conference of the Soviet period, “The Soviet Intelligentsia and Its Role in the Construction of Socialism and Communism” (Novosibirsk, 1979), was a member of a number of scientific councils on the theory and history of Soviet culture, and the editorial boards of the journals “Intelligentsia and the World” (Ivanovo), “Cultural Studies in Siberia” (Omsk).
V. L. Soskin is the creator of the scientific direction on the social history of Russian culture, science and intelligentsia, which gained fame and recognition not only in Siberia, but also in Russia. During his half-century of work at the Humanities Faculty, he created a permanent research seminar, in which 131 students received specialization, having defended their final qualifying works. 21 graduates of the Humanities Faculty prepared and defended candidate dissertations under the scientific supervision of V. L. Soskin. In the research works completed by students and dissertators under the supervision of V. L. Soskin, the problems of the history of the culture of Soviet society, professional detachments of the Russian intelligentsia, science and scientists were studied, including the history of the formation and development of the Siberian Branch of the Academy of Sciences. A number of students of V. L. Soskin – graduates of the Humanities Faculty became famous scientists who developed their own scientific directions, employees of research institutes and lecturers of universities.
More information about the work, scientific and educational activities of V.L. Soskin can be found here Here.
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