In our country, go against the opinion of the currentpower has always been difficult. The opposition in any form in Russia is doomed to failure, for some reason the people are laughing and do not go for singles who oppose the government. But there is one organization in the state that does not pretend to change its power by its activities, but seeks to smooth out and prevent the authoritarian influence on society, youth and Russian consciousness. This is a Free Historical Society. This organization included prominent and recognized scientists from all over Russia, their goal is not to let the authorities put history on the service of ideology and politics.
The fact that this is a Freestyle Historical Society,the people learned in 2014, when a group of professional historians announced the creation of the Association for the Promotion and Promotion of Historical Knowledge. Their main position is based on complete independence from the influence of official state bodies. They wanted to write and distribute educational literature without the raid of a political order, educate youth not only in the spirit of love for the current government, but also with a message to develop their own, independent opinion.
The charter and manifesto of the organization was created, wherethe main criteria for the work of its members, rights and duties are set out. The main goal is to create a critically thinking society, to teach a person to make decisions regardless of the opinions of the majority. Members of the Free Historical Society expressed concern about the growing chaos in the interpretation of historical events. Free access to documents on the Internet has generated a whole flow of obscurantist understanding of history.
The organization also set itself the goal of finding andto expose pseudoscientific and imaginary professors with forged diplomas and dissertations. Scientists were seriously concerned about the large number of random people in science, discrediting it in the public eye.
At the first meeting of the Free Historysociety was derived the principles of the work of its members, written and issued a manifesto. The gathered representatives of historical and related sciences decided to create an organization that would never seek support from either government agencies or political parties. In their society, they appealed to all who are not indifferent to the true history of their country, those who are in one way or another connected with the study of the past.
The members of the free society set themselves the following tasks:
In addition, the society set itself the goal of popularizing the interest in history by publishing books, brochures and other printed publications with such information.
The Free Historical Society is headed by Nikita Sokolov, the editor of the journal Otechestvennye Zapiski, previously he worked at the Presidential Center named after. B. N. Yeltsin.
Another not less eminent founder was theDanilevsky Igor Nikolaevich, expert on the history of Ancient Rus, professor and doctor of historical sciences. The author of many works on the study of monuments of ancient Slavic culture.
Great contribution to the formation of the ideas of society was made byAlso Dyatlov Igor Innokentievich, professor of Irkutsk State University. The scientist has been studying the appearance and development of various foreign diasporas in Russia for many years.
In addition to the above people, members of the Free Historical Society are:
In terms of promoting ideas to the masses,assistance is another member of the society - Evgeny Viktorovich Anisimov, professor and doctor of historical sciences, leading researcher of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Since the beginning of the 2000s, he has been active in the educational activities on television, under his leadership, a series of programs "Palace coups" and "Cabinet of History", which were on the channel "Culture". He is the author of two textbooks on history.
All members of society live and work in differentregions of the country and meet only at scientific conferences or regular meetings of their organization. And yet there are special regulations for public and propaganda activities of scientists. Photos of Free Historical Society usually appear in the press in the context of passing various public discussions and lectures. Such events are held with the participation of authoritative public and scientific organizations: "Gaidar Foundation", "Memorial" and others. Nikolai Svanidze, a journalist and historian known in Russia, is practically irreplaceable.
Since 2015, monthly conferences onexchange of thoughts and knowledge, consideration of new methods and approaches to the study of history. The venues are different, most often Moscow or St. Petersburg, but often members of the society meet in other cities of the country.
In addition, the organization has its own website, where everyone can ask a question to any member of the Free Historical Society, as well as learn about future meetings and topics of conversation.
One of the main tasks of the newthe creation of a unified system of standards for conducting classes at school. The existing standard has a number of serious shortcomings, in particular, there are three approved textbooks that contain gross errors and shortcomings. Teachers are now offered to make a choice in favor of a particular program, when they have not actually been acquainted with it yet.
According to the members of society, theinformation delivery. Today, students are forced to cram the paragraphs and dates, and it is worthwhile to focus work on the fact that they learn to search for sources independently, read and analyze the facts.
One of the last rather criticalstatements of members of the Free Historical Society about Medinsky. Honored scientists sharply criticized his thesis, and also noted a number of violations during the commission's decision to award to Vladimir Rostislavovich Medinsky academic degree. In the claim, the Minister of Culture was incapable of working with sources, ignorance of elementary terms, and generally the groundlessness of his scientific work.
But the main perturbation of the members of the Freehistorical society was caused by the fact that the official, using his authority, conducts a disastrous policy for society in terms of acquaintance with the historical truth. Medinsky himself argued that "the authenticity of the past does not exist," thereby misleading ordinary people. At the end of his message, members of the society called on the dissertation council of the Belgorod University to deprive Medina of the degree.
Not all journalists, especially political andpublic companies, support and recognize the activities of an independent organization. Some people call the Free Historical Society the fifth column of Russia, trying to impose its opinion and influence the events in the country. Particularly fierce opponents rank them among the guild of alternative historians, without delving into the details of their true activities.
For example, members of society were accused of wantingto pull out into the light all the dirty and discrediting details of the country about the Great Patriotic War or the repression of Stalin. Journalists did not like the desire to objectively and truthfully evaluate these events, not from the point of view of today's political regime, but from reality, sometimes frightening and cruel.
More than once I asked myself who financesFree historical society. Many scholars were put in the claim of having grants and grants from foreign institutions. Evaluation of the activities of society can only give really competent in this matter bodies. But the question is really archival - what should be the historical truth in Russia.
