“If there is a fierce attack on my book, don’t take it into account”: correspondence between M. Ja. Sjuzjumov and K. D. Petryaev
The article is devoted to the important development aspect of Russian historical science - the discussions, 1960-1970s, against holding XIII International Congress of Historical Sciences in Moscow. An important source is the correspondence of M. Ja. Sjuzjumov (1893 - 1982) with K. D. Petryaev (1917-1987) which is stored in the State Archive of the Sverdlovsk Region and covers the period from to 1976. The correspondence is published for the first time. The article is written based on developments in the field of everyday history. The author also used historical-functional and prosopographic methods. The author states absence special works about scientific biography of Petryaev, based on reliable archival materials now. The publication and analysis of this epistolographic complex confirms that these letters are important evidence of struggle of opinions of the 1960s and 1970s, which cast doubt on the myth of the undivided dominance of Marxist dogmas in Soviet historiography. The most important topic of the correspondence between the two historians was a common interest in historiosophical problems. M. Ja. Sjuzjumov, justifiably criticizing the structuralist approach, proposed to intensify the systematic publication of sources with detailed comments, as well as to widely involve the possibilities of auxiliary disciplines for historical research. K. D. Petryaev worked for a long time on a systematic presentation of the methodology of history, his works became a serious achievement of Soviet historiography. He argued questioning the artificial sociologization. Author of the article analyzed letters on subject of scientific everyday life, discuss monographs, exercise books, conferences. According to the author, the publication of these letters makes it possible to make certain adjustments to the scientific biography of M. Ja. Sjuzjumov. This concerns his understanding of the results of the XIII International Congress of Historical Sciences. The article is intended to focus on the scientific heritage of the Soviet historian, participant in the Great Patriotic War, K. D. Petryaev.