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Sokolov Boris Vadimovich - Russian literary critic, historian, literary critic. The results of his literary activity cause a lot of controversy. What is remarkable about his books and why did he become objectionable to the Russian authorities? His life path and work will be discussed in this article.
Biography: Boris Sokolov
Boris was born in Moscow on January 2, 1957. In 1979 he graduated from Moscow State University (Department of Geography), and later, in 1986, he defended his dissertation and received a PhD in History from the Institute of Ethnography of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1992 he became a doctor of philological sciences, having defended his work at the same Moscow State University.
He worked as a professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at the Russian State Social University. Boris Sokolov is a member of the Russian PEN Center and AIRO-XXI, a columnist for the Jewish Word newspaper and a permanent contributor to the Grani.ru website, the author of about 100 articles and 60 books on Russian literature and the history of the USSR. His works are presented not only in Russian, but also translated into English, Japanese, Polish, Estonian and Latvian. For a long time Boris Sokolov was a member of the Free Historical Society.
Books of a literary critic
The work of Russian literary critics covers many works, including: the books "Secrets of Russian Writers", "Deciphered Bulgakov: the secrets of the Master and Margarita", "World War II: versions and facts", "100 great wars", " Occupation: Truth and Myths”, “Secrets of the Finnish War”, “100 Great Politicians”, “Great Gandhi. Righteous of Power”, “Wolf Messing”, “Secrets of World War II”, “My book about Vladimir Sorokin”, encyclopedias “Gogol” and “Bulgakov” and others.
Described by Boris Sokolov and biographies of great personalities: Sergei Yesenin, Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Peter Wrangel, Winston Churchill, Lavrenty Beria, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Boris Pasternak, Georgy Zhukov, Nadezhda Krupskaya, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Heinrich Himmler, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Inessa Armand, Semyon Budyonny, the soothsayer Vanga and others. Many of the author's works give completely unpredictable answers to questions regarding the biographical data of his heroes.
"Did Saakashvili lose?": B. Sokolov's opinion
In 2008, after the publication of the article “Did Saakashvili lose”, he completed his cooperation with the RSSU. Sokolov argued in his publication that in any case Russia would have found a pretext for a military operation against Georgia. The government of the Russian Federation would play out a different scenario and capture Tbilisi in a day, even if there had been no Georgian attack on Tskhinval.
The author of the article in his publication called Saakashvili's actions not only "rational, but also the only right thing to save his land." Sokolov believes that Mikheil Saakashvili decided to start a war on the first day of the Olympics, where the Russian prime minister was present (the president was on vacation on the Volga at that time), in order to forestall a potential adversary. Russian troops had to retake Tskhinvali for several days, instead of immediately invading Georgian territory. Boris Sokolov assures that this plan was developed in advance, and he considers Georgia the undoubted winner in this conflict, since "it now has more chances to join NATO than ever." But Russia, according to the author, lost.
After the publication of the publication, Sokolov was asked to write a letter of resignation of his own free will. According to him, this happened after a call to the rector's office from the Presidential Administration. The article was immediately removed from the newspaper's website.
Accusing a historian of incorrectness
Boris Sokolov acted as an expert on the film The Soviet Story, which caused numerous controversies and allegations of falsification and manipulation. In 2010, he signed the opposition's appeal that Putin should leave. In 2015, he commented on the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation as follows: “Russia has taken territory that, in fact, it does not need. A territory that does not carry any value for the country - neither cultural, nor economic, nor military-strategic. Because of such frank statements in May 2016, he was accused of incorrectly quoting other people's work,mistreated sources and expelled from the Free Historical Society.
Inaccurate data: coincidence or falsification?
Some writers claim that there are many mistakes and inaccuracies in Sokolov's works. Many publicists, sociologists and historians consider the data on the losses of the Red Army during the Second World War, which Sokolov cites in his publications, to be unreliable. In the book "The Price of Victory" Sokolov counts the dead soldiers of the USSR and Nazi Germany. However, the method by which he does this is rather inaccurate and, as was later proven by other researchers, significantly distorts the real numbers. In particular, when Sokolov was counting the losses of Russian soldiers.
Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Osipov Gennady says that Boris Sokolov is a historian, so he must operate only with proven facts, and he does not understand what. He called all his calculations absurd, and he himself - "a tireless professional falsifier." Nevertheless, Sokolov's work is worthy of attention. In his books, the reader will find many interesting and new things, discover historical chronicles on the other hand, and solve many mysteries of the great works of world literature.
Instead of a conclusion
In any case, reader, you will get acquainted with the work of Boris Sokolov or someone else, draw conclusions not on the basis of other people's opinions and stereotypes, but on the basis of your own analysis and experience.
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