Yevgeny Tarle
Soviet historian and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1874-1955)
Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle (Russian: Евгений Викторович Та́рле; 27 October [O.S. 15 October] 1874 – 6 January 1955) was a Soviet historian, Marxist scholar, and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who studied and published on topics such as the Napoleonic invasion of Russia and the Crimean War. Much of his work dealt with themes of Marxist historiography, imperialism, and Russian nationalism. Tarle spent much of his professional life disagreeing with state authorities over his scholarship and was also a history reader of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (Russia's diplomatic university).
Life
Early life and education
Yevgeny Tarle born Grigory Tarle in 1874 in Kiev, Russia (modern-day Ukraine) into a Jewish family. He changed his name as a young man, before converting to the Orthodox Church. His father, Viktor Grigorievich Tarle, belonged to the Merchantry Social Estate and ran a shop in Kiev. Viktor also translated books from Russian to German, including the works of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Viktor and his wife Rozalia Arnoldovna Tarle had four children.
Early political activism
As a student, Tarle joined Marxist clubs and took an active part in the social democratic movement, frequently visiting Kievan factory workers as a lecturer and agitator. On 1 May 1900, he was arrested during a secret meeting in the middle of Anatoly Lunacharsky's speech.
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