About the book: 1949 / Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova (February 4 (16), 1897, Odessa - May 25, 1957, Moscow) - Soviet historian, party and public activist Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1953). Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU. From a Russian working-class family. A student of M. N. Pokrovsky, closely associated with him in all her activities. In 1937, she headed the department of history of the USSR at Saratov State University. In 1939, she publicly dissociated herself from Pokrovsky, condemned his views, acting as popularizer of party decisions in the field of historical science. From 1939 to 1947 - deputy director of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences. In 1941–1943, together with part of the staff of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, she was evacuated to Alma-Ata and joined the scientific life of the Kazakh SSR there.2 On March 1944, she sent a letter to A. A. Zhdanov, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, in which she drew his attention to the fact that “trends have emerged among workers on the ideological front”, which are based on “a complete rejection of Marxism-Leninism and pushing through - under the banner of patriotism - the most reactionary and backward theories... rejection of the class approach to questions of history, replacement of the class principle in social development with a national one, rehabilitation of idealism, pan-Slavism, etc. "Since 1953, she was editor-in-chief of the journal Questions of History».