V. S. Lelchuk Explained

Vitaly Lelchuk
Native Name:Лельчук Виталий Семенович
Native Name Lang:Russian
Birth Place:Saint Petersburg
Nationality:Russian
Occupation:Historian
Alma Mater:Moscow State University (1952)
Era:Soviet and post-Soviet
Workplaces:
  • Moscow State University
  • USSR Academy of Sciences
  • State Academic University for Humanities
Notable Works:Industrializat︠s︡ii︠a︡ SSSR--istorii︠a︡, opyt, problemy (1984)

Vitaly Semenovich Lelchuk (Russian: Лельчук Виталий Семенович; born 1929) is a Russian historian who is a specialist in the Soviet model of industrialisation, scientific and technological revolution, and the history of the USSR. He graduated from Moscow State University where he also taught before moving to the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. He later joined the State Academic University for Humanities (GAUGN) in Moscow where he was deputy dean of the Faculty of History.

Early life and education

Lelchuk was born in 1929[1] to a Jewish family in Saint Petersburg.[2] He received his advanced education at Moscow State University (MSU), from which he graduated in 1952.[2]

Career

From 1952 to 1959, Lelchuk taught history at MSU and from 1959 at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences,[2] later becoming deputy dean of the Faculty of History of the State Academic University for the Humanities (GAUGN) in Moscow.[3] He was chairman of the editorial board of National History.[2]

Lelchuk specialises in the Soviet model of industrialisation, scientific and technological revolution, and the history of the USSR generally.[3] He wrote a number of books on the early industrialisation effort of the Soviet Union, starting with a study of the Soviet chemical industry, Sozdanie khimicheskoĭ promyshlennosti SSSR; iz istorii sot︠s︡ialisticheskoĭ industrializat︠s︡ii, in 1964. With respect to Lenin's New Economic Policy, Lelchuk argued that its mixed results were a consequence of a failure to set clear objectives due to ideological differences and a power struggle within the Communist Party, rather than structural problems in the Soviet economy.[4]

His 1984 survey of Soviet industrialisation in the 1920s and 30s, Industrializat︠s︡ii︠a︡ SSSR--istorii︠a︡, opyt, problemy, was praised by Hiroaki Kuromiya in The Russian Review for its innovative approach in covering not only the economic problems faced by the Soviet Union but the social ones too, making the work valuable to social historians.[5]

He wrote a short history of Soviet society with Yury Polyakov and Anatoly Protopopov that was published by Progress Publishers in 1971 and translated into French (1972) and English (1977). He took an interest in historiography and in 1988, during the period of the collapse of the USSR when the whole corpus of Soviet history was being re-evaluated under what has been called an "historical glasnost", participated in a roundtable discussion by dissident, establishment and revisionist historians[6] of pressing historiographical problems such as access to archives, the treatment of Stalinism, and political rehabilitations.[7] The same year, he edited Istoriki sporjat: Trinadcat' besed (Historians argue: Thirteen conversations).[8] [9] He also published three edited works on the Soviet Union during the Cold War (1995, 1998, 2000), part of new scholarship assisted by the opening of Soviet archives.[10]

Selected publications

Articles and chapters

Books

Notes and References

  1. http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n82230248/ Lelʹchuk, V. S. (Vitaliĭ Semenovich).
  2. http://www.rujen.ru/index.php/%D0%9B%D0%95%D0%9B%D0%AC%D0%A7%D0%A3%D0%9A_%D0%92%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%A1%D0%B5%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 ЛЕЛЬЧУК ВИТАЛИЙ СЕМЕНОВИЧ.
  3. http://ecsocman.hse.ru/text/16101337/ Лельчук Виталий Семенович.
  4. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40194839 "Blick zurück im Zorn?! Bürgerkrieg, Kriegskommunismus und Neue Ökonomische Politik"
  5. https://www.jstor.org/stable/130435 "Lel'chuk, Vitalii Semenovich. Industrializatsiia SSSR: Istoriia, opyt, problemy"
  6. The others were I. Koval'chenko, A. Samsonov, lu. Poliakov, V. Zhuravlev, and R. Medvedev.
  7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/131016 "Secondary School History Texts in the USSR: Revising the Soviet Past, 1985-1989"
  8. Book: The Palgrave Handbook of Volunteering, Civic Participation, and Nonprofit Associations . 51 . David Horton Smith . Robert A. Stebbins . Jurgen Grotz (Eds.). Palgrave Macmillan. Basingstoke. 2016. 9781137263179 .
  9. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/955398313 Istoriki sporjat: Trinadcatʹ besed.
  10. "Cold War Studies and New Archival Materials on Stalin", Norman M. Naimark, The Russian Review, Vol. 61, No. 1 (January 2002), pp. 1-15. via Jstor.

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