On July 13, 1977, Naum Yefimovich Zastenker, a prominent Soviet historian, former employee of the magazine "Voprosy Istorii", the oldest teacher of the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the Moscow State University Faculty of History, died. N. E. Zastenker was born on April 11, 1903 in Voronezh. In 1919, he joined the Komsomol, and in 1920 became head of the political department of the Voronezh City Committee of the RKSM. In 1923, he joined the RCP (b). After graduating from the Y. M. Sverdlov Communist University in 1923, N. E. Zastenker devoted himself to party work. He was head of the propaganda department of the Ivanovo-Voznesensky Uyezd and City Party Committee, head of the science sector of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus(b), head of the party cadres sector and deputy head of the department of leading party bodies of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU(b). From 1928 to 1931, N. E. Zastenker studied at the Institute of the Red Professorship and at the same time taught Lenin's School at the Comintern. Since that time, his almost half-century of activity in higher education begins. In 1931, he became the head of the Department of General History of the Belarusian Communist University named after V. I. Lenin, then he was the dean of the History Department of the Sverdlovsk Pedagogical Institute. From 1948 until the end of his days, he worked (since 1949 - Associate Professor) at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, having trained dozens of highly qualified specialists during this time. Many Soviet historians currently working in the fields of the workers ' and Communist movement, the history of the Paris Commune, the Resistance movement, and post-war French history are his students. A great achievement was the creation by N. E. Zastenker of the first special university course on the history of socialist thought, which he systematically taught at the ... Читать далее