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Tarle ’ s Soviet biographers did not mention his political views prior the Bolshevik Revolution ; he was not a Marxist and had not participated in the revolution.

“ He had even held a rather negative attitude towards it at first .” Russian historical scholarship was deeply affected by the Revolution.

Despite this, Tarle remained at the University of St. Petersburg and “ during the 1920s he was also active in the Russian Association of Scientific Institutes for Research in the Social Sciences ( RANION ).

However, in RAINON, “ most researchers were specialists who had been trained under the old regime.

The historians among them had to change their fields and study the revolutionary movement or socio-economic problems.

In 1921, he became a “ corresponding member ” of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and a “ full member ” in 1927.

From 1922 to 1924, with F. I Uspenski, he published a journal of general history under the title of Annually.

Tarle had achieved distinction as a specialist in modern history through his book Evropa v epokhu imperializma (" Europe in the Age of Imperialism ").

By the way, the 1920s witnessed the leadership of M. N. Pokrovski to the school of Marxist historians.

A group of non-Marxist historians played a significant role in RANION, and also some smaller institutions such as the State Historical Museum and the Society for History and Russian Antiquates remained in their hands for as much as a decade.

Under these circumstances it was possible for the leading representatives of Russian historical scholarship to continue until about 1928 as active scholars.

However, they suffered some political discrimination and had difficulty in obtaining funds for publishing their works.