Open AccessSOME ASPECTS OF S. VANKOV’S WORLDVIEW (ON THE MATERIALS OF HIS MEMOIRS)
Author(s) -
E.V. Tronina
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
vestnik udmurtskogo universiteta. istoriâ i filologiâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2413-2454
pISSN - 2412-9534
DOI - 10.35634/2412-9534-2019-29-4-698-704
Subject(s) - intelligentsia , memoir , relevance (law) , context (archaeology) , bourgeoisie , creed , homeland , industrialisation , power (physics) , politics , sociology , consistency (knowledge bases) , socialism , social science , aesthetics , political science , history , law , communism , philosophy , archaeology , physics , geometry , mathematics , quantum mechanics
The article examines S.N. Vankov’s worldview and life creed based on his memoirs, revealing the motivation of his professional and social activities, his attitude to work, his concepts of homeland, power and society. Throughout the lifetime of memoirs’ author, the consistency of his life principles and beliefs is traced, regardless of the change of political power in Russia. The paper focuses on the worldview of the engineering and technical intelligentsia of the late 19th and first third of the 20th century, the brightest representatives of which include Semyon Nikolaevich Vankov. The issue acquires particular relevance in the context of cooperation between the so called old bourgeois specialists and Soviet authorities, and their participation in the industrialization of the country and the tutoring of a new generation of engineers and technical specialists.