On issue of historiography of criminality in Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries: soviet and post-soviet periods
The article is devoted to the issue of developing historiography of criminality at the stage of Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Analysis of scientific literature testifies absence of a generally accepted approach to studying certain aspect of criminality in Russia in the late XIX - early XX centuries. The analysis resulted in identifying main tendencies in research studies of criminality in Russia during the said period by lawyer, while focusing the attention on academic figures of the Soviet era as N. M. Gernet and S. S. Ostroumov. The article notes that during the Soviet period the achievements of the Russian historical science in investigating criminality had been lost or buried in oblivion due to negligence to everything that was «tsarist». Already this stage of the modern age (at the turn of XX-XXI centuries) saw the efforts of studying criminality from a historical prospective when the above-mentioned subject was in the purview of predominantly legal disciplines. A big accent is made by modern historians on considering either regional criminality or cri9minal development within very restricted chronical frames. Nevertheless, the modern researchers again have addressed the works of pre-revolutionary national criminologists, which has allowed them to make progress in studying the topic.