FROM THE HISTORY OF SOVIET ORIENTAL STUDIES AT THE BEGINNINGOF 1930: “THE AGRARIAN QUESTION IN THE COLONIAL REVOLUTION”BY O. TARKHANOV

Aim. To determine the historiographical place and significance of O. Tarkhanov's monograph "Agrarian Question in Colonial Revolutions" (ed. 1932). Methodology. The monograph is considered as a generalizing study of colonial policy by one of the brightest representatives of the generation of Orientalists-Cominterners formed at the turn of 1930s. These researchers saw their scientific mission and social duty in identifying the specifics of revolutionary movements in colonies and semi-colonies. Accordingly, the analysis of Tarkhanov's work required distinguishing between the narrative, based on historical sources, and the biased impact of the political attitudes of the Comintern. Results. O. Tarkhanov belonged to the young generation of Soviet Orientalists (P. Myth. E. Yolk, L. Mad'yar and others), whose scientific and journalistic activity lasted only ten years and was interrupted in 1937. This was a generation of Orientalists-Cominternists who saw their task in identifying the specifics of revolutionary movements in colonies and semi-colonies. The ideological and political perspective of their research was combined with a scientific approach to the analysis of sources and their own experience in revolutionary China. Research implications. This article is the first historiographical research devoted to the monograph by O. Tarkhanov. It is shown that, despite its ideological and political bias, the monograph stands out due to the author's scientific approach to the analysis of sources and reliance on his own experience of living in revolutionary China.

Soviet Oriental studies, colonial world, colonies and metropolises, economics and politics, social contradictions, anti-colonial and anti-feudal revolutionary movement

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