Arkadiĭ Sidorov
Arkady Lavrovich Sidorov ( – 11 March 1966) was a Russian Soviet Union, Soviet historian. A member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Communist Party from an early age, he was educated as a political activist and did party work before serving in the Second World War during which he was wounded. He started an academic career in Moscow and received his doctorate from Moscow State University (MSU) where he also taught before joining the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR of which he became director. He campaigned against the MSU professor and Jewish academician Isaak Mints during Joseph Stalin's anti-Semitic drive against the "rootless cosmopolitans" as a result of which Mints lost most of his academic positions. The zeal with which Sidorov opposed Mints was remembered when a position became vacant for a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and Sidorov was not elected. He edited ''Istoricheskie zapiski'' and was on the editorial boa ...
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