A theoretico-methodological framework for post-Soviet historical science (from the 1990s to the early 21st century)
The article aims to analyse the theoretico-methodological framework for post-Soviet historical science in the 1990s and at beginning of 21st century. The author of the article points out that this period saw significant qualitative shifts in renovating the theory and the methodology of history. However, along with positive aspects that include methodological pluralism, the development of new methods and approaches, there are excesses and problems that impede the development of historical science in the post-Soviet space. The article demonstrates that all methodological schools have the right to exist. There is a kernel of good sense in all of them, even in the subjectivist conception developed by the English historian and philosopher R.J. Collingwood, which questions the possibility of objective cognition of the past by means of historical science. The imposition of the “only correct” point of view by the West began in the last decade of the 20th century and is still felt in the development of modern historical thought. The author highlights the fact that only the combination of methodological pluralism and a tolerant attitude to different theoretico-methodological constructions should be viewed as the key to the full development of historical science.