politicalscienceВестник РГГУ. Серия “Политология. История. Международные отношения.”RSUH/RGGU Bulletin Series "Political Science. History. International Relations"2073-6339Издательский центр Российского государственного гуманитарного университета10.28995/2073-6339-2025-2-184-197politicalscience-784Research ArticleКНИЖНАЯ ПОЛКАBOOKSHELFПолитика Коминтерна в Латинской Америке в оценках современных англоязычных историковThe policy of the Comintern in Latin America in the assessments of contemporary English-speaking historiansСуздальцевИ. А.SuzdaltsevI. A.

Илья А. Суздальцев, кандидат исторических наук

129346, Москва, ул. Коминтерна, д. 52

Ilya A. Suzdaltsev, Cand. of Sci. (History)

52, Komintern St., Moscow, 129346

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В статье анализируется современная англоязычная историография (с 1990-х гг. по настоящее время) политики Коммунистического интернационала в отношении латиноамериканского региона. Выбор англоязычных стран обусловлен тем, что значительное количество исследований, посвященных тактике Коминтерна в отношении Латинской Америки и деятельности его секций, публикуются именно в США, Великобритании, Канаде и Австралии. Главным образом историков интересует, в чем заключалось влияние Коминтерна на тактику латиноамериканских компартий и каков был характер этого влияния. Новизна исследования заключается в том, что, несмотря на актуальность изучения политики III Интернационала, отсутствуют публикации, в которых анализируются взгляды современных зарубежных историков на деятельность этой международной организации в Латинской Америке. Констатируется, что традиционалистский подход к анализу деятельности Коминтерна, который оформился до и во время холодной войны, по-прежнему значительно представлен в англоязычной историографии. Однако окончательное утверждение нового подхода («ревизионистского») способствовало определенному пересмотру существующих тенденций: в статье присутствуют оценки как отрицательного, так и положительного влияния Коминтерна на отдельно взятые компартии, на политическую ситуацию в стране или регионе. Принадлежность к этим направлениям достаточно условная, однако ключевые расхождения исследователей по основным вопросам, а также участие в дискуссиях и определение своим оппонентам вполне устоявшихся взглядов позволяют так или иначе определить научную направленность их работ.

The article analyzes the modern English-language historiography of the policy of the Communist International regarding the Latin American region. The choice of the English-speaking countries is due to the fact that a significant number of studies on the tactics of the Comintern in relation to Latin America and the activities of its sections have been published there. Historians are mainly interested in what influence the Comintern exerted on the tactics of the Latin American Communist Parties and what the nature of that influence was. The novelty of the study lies in the fact that, despite the relevance of studying the policies of the Third International, there have never been any publications to analyze the views of contemporary foreign historians on the activities of that international organization in Latin America. It is stated that the traditionalist approach to the analysis of the activities of the Comintern, which took shape before and during the Cold War, is still significantly represented in English-language historiography. However, with the new approach (the “revisionist” one) finally gaining ground, it contributed to a certain revision of the existing trends: the article contains the assessments of both the negative and the positive influence of the Comintern on the separately taken Communist parties, on the political situation in a country or region.

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