The myth about totalitarianism of the Soviet historical science: discussion in the soviet historiography in the second half of the 1950th and the beginning of the 1980th
The relevance of the article is determined by the process demythologization of USSR history in particular the history of the Soviet historical science. The main target of the research is to create true picture of the soviet historiography in the second half of the 1950th and the beginning of the 1980. Reconsidering the stereotype about “totalitarianism thinking” and unanimity of the soviet historians. The article contains the survey of discussions in soviet historiography in appropriate period of time. Though ideology, according to the authors thoughts, determined significantly the directions of historians work, but creativity freedom still remained. Key issues discussions and arguing was natural. At the same time controversy between new knowledge and ideological cliché took place, which later caused crisis in national historical science.