| Isaak Mints | |
| Native Name: | Исаа́к Изра́илевич Минц |
| Native Name Lang: | Russian |
| Birth Date: | 3 February 1896 |
| Birth Place: | Krynychky, Yekaterinoslav uezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Soviet Union |
| Nationality: | Russian |
| Occupation: | Historian |
Isaak Izrailevich Mints (Russian: Исаа́к Изра́илевич Минц, Ukrainian: Ісак Ізраїльович Мінц; 3 February 1896 – 5 April 1991) was the leading Soviet historian in the early and mid-twentieth century. In 1949 he lost most of his academic positions following a campaign against him by his colleague Arkady Sidorov that was part of the drive by Joseph Stalin to eliminate the "rootless cosmopolitans", most of whom were Jewish.
Isaak Mints was born in Krynychky.
Mints was the leading Soviet historian in the early and mid-twentieth century. In 1949 he lost most of his academic positions following a campaign against him by his colleague Arkadiĭ Sidorov that was part of the drive by Joseph Stalin to eliminate the "rootless cosmopolitans", most of whom were Jewish.[1] [2] Despite this, in 1953 he arranged for Soviet Jews to write a letter to Pravda condemning Zionism, Israel, and the "doctors' plot".[2]
Mints died in 1991.[2]