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Historian, political scientist, member of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Kiva Lvovich Maidanik (January 18, 1929, Moscow - December 24, 2006, Moscow) - historian, political scientist, employee of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, candidate of historical sciences, author of hundreds of scientific publications. A prominent Soviet Latin Americanist, an expert on the revolutionary movements of Latin America, a former employee of the international journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism" in Prague. Father of the famous music critic Artemy Troitsky.

K. Maidanik studied the history of social movements in Latin America in direct contact with prominent figures of the Cuban, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran, Chilean and Venezuelan Bolivarian revolutions. The most famous of his acquaintances was Ernesto Che Guevara, to whom one of the last books of Kiva Lvovich “Ernesto Che Guevara: his life, his America” is dedicated (M .: Ad Marginem, 2004).

Kiva Lvovich's research has been disseminated in many countries of the world and translated into several languages. In these works, the author combined a deep academic analysis and his own emotional assessment of what was happening. As his friends say: "Kiva Maidanik is a scientist with the soul of a revolutionary."

On December 24, 2006, the famous Latin American player Kiva Lvovich Maidanik passed away. More precisely, he was killed by modern Russian commercial medicine. Kiva Lvovich went to the doctor about arthrosis of the shoulder joint (a common occurrence in old age). He was given a series of intra-articular injections. And although Maidanik's health deteriorated sharply after the first injection, and he told the doctor about it, he did not cancel the injections, but continued them, since each injection was paid. As a result, Maidanik developed acute purulent arthroosteomyelitis. He underwent surgery and cleaned out the joint. But it was too late: the infection had already spread to the lungs and brain, causing pneumonia and meningitis. The heart of Kiva Lvovich, who had suffered a heart attack in the past, could not stand it.

Russian Latin Americanist and specialist in the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, historian and political scientist, unorthodox Marxist.

In 1951 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University, but in the conditions of the “struggle against cosmopolitanism” that had begun, he was not recommended for graduate school, but was sent to work at school. Simultaneously with work at the school, he entered the correspondence graduate school, from where he was expelled as a graduate student of the academician I. M. Maisky, also under attack during the campaign to "fight against cosmopolitanism." After the end of this campaign, he was reinstated in graduate school, defended his thesis on the topic "The struggle of the Communist Party of Spain for the unity of the labor movement in the first period of the national revolutionary war (1936-1937)". From 1956 he worked at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, from 1980 until the end of his life - at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS). Initially, he specialized in the labor movement of the developed capitalist countries, then - on the problems of the "third world", primarily in Latin America. A trip to revolutionary Cuba, acquaintance with the leaders of the Cuban revolution, primarily with Ernesto Che Guevara .

In 1963-1968. worked in Prague in the editorial office of the international journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism" as deputy head of the Latin America department. During this period, he established personal contacts with most of the leaders of the communist and left socialist parties and movements in Latin America, became close friends with a number of prominent Latin American revolutionaries, such as Shafik Handal, Narciso Isa Conde, Roque Dalton. During these years, he became one of the most informed and serious Soviet Latin Americanists, while his position was increasingly at odds with the official point of view of the leadership of the CPSU. In 1968, due to disagreement with the position of the CPSU in relation to the Prague Spring, he was recalled to Moscow. In the 1970-1980s. became one of the leading specialists of the USSR on the problems of social development of the countries of the "third world", primarily in Latin America. He was the author and editor of many collective monographs, of which the most notable in scientific terms are the books Developing Countries: Patterns, Trends, Prospects (1974), Developing Countries in the Modern World. Ways of the Revolutionary Process (1986) and Social Thought in Developing Countries (1988).

In the 1970s, he entered into an increasingly visible ideological conflict with the Soviet party leadership. In the autumn of 1982, he was expelled from the CPSU and did not pass a specially arranged certification as a researcher at IMEMO, which automatically meant his dismissal from the institute. He was charged with non-reporting about the “anti-Soviet views and actions” of his graduate student A. Fadin, who was arrested by the KGB in April 1982 in the case of “young socialists”. He was also accused of participating in an "anti-Soviet conference" with Sh. Handal. These events made it impossible to defend his doctoral dissertation and turned him into a "travel restriction" until the period of perestroika. Since the late 1980s repeatedly visited the countries of Latin America and Spain, met with the leaders of many states and leftist parties and movements. He was the only Soviet Latin American who during this period was invited to lecture at universities in Latin America not about events in the USSR. With the emergence and development of the world anti-globalization movement, he took an active part in it, he attended and spoke at the World Social Forums of anti-globalists, at the III World Social Forum in Porto Alegre he was awarded a special meeting and was awarded a standing ovation by thousands.

Born into a family of lawyers. Father, Lev Abramovich Maidanik (1902-1975), was one of the founders of the Soviet bar, laid the foundation for protecting the rights of workers in disputes with the state in cases of industrial accidents. He was the first among Soviet lawyers to be awarded the title of Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR.

In 1951, K. Maidanik graduated from the Faculty of History of Moscow State University with honors, but in the conditions of the “struggle against cosmopolitanism” that had begun, he was not recommended for graduate school, but was sent to work at school. For three years Maydanik taught history at a school in the city of Nikolaev (Ukrainian SSR), the next two in Moscow.

Simultaneously with work at the school, he entered the correspondence graduate school, from where he was expelled as a graduate student of Academician I. M. Maisky, who also came under attack during the campaign to "fight against cosmopolitanism." After the end of this campaign, he was reinstated in graduate school.
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In 1963-1968, K. Maidanik worked in Prague in the editorial office of the international journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism" as deputy head of the Latin America department. During this period, he established personal contacts with most of the leaders of the communist and left socialist parties and movements in Latin America, and became close friends with a number of prominent Latin American revolutionaries.

During these years, K. Maidanik became one of the most informed and serious Soviet Latin Americanists, while his position diverged more and more from the official point of view of the leadership of the CPSU. Maidanik welcomed the emergence of new leftist movements in Latin America, including partisan ones, criticized a number of Latin American communist parties for dogmatism and predicted that their position would lead to the loss of these parties' vanguard role in the revolutionary movement. He earned a reputation as a "leftist", the leadership of the Communist Party of Argentina many times sent denunciations against Maidanik and demands to remove Maidanik from the journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism" to the Central Committee of the CPSU. In 1968, due to disagreement with the position of the CPSU in relation to the Prague Spring, Maidanik was recalled to Moscow.

In the 1970s, K. Maidanik entered into an increasingly noticeable ideological conflict with the Soviet party leadership. In the early 70s, at the direction of the party authorities, a set of books edited by M. Ya. Gefter was scattered, which contained a chapter written by K. Maidanik on the typology of social revolutions of modern and recent times, a pioneer for those years. A similar fate befell the book devoted to the problems of fascism, its genesis, features and social essence in the second half of the 20th century. The collection “Ultra-Left Trends in the National Liberation Movement of the Countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America” (1975), published “for official use”, one of the main authors and editor-in-chief of which was K. Maidanik, was burned by the leadership of IMEMO.

In the fall of 1982, K. M. Maidanik was expelled from the CPSU and did not pass a specially arranged certification as a researcher at IMEMO, which automatically meant his dismissal from the institute. Maidanik was charged with non-reporting about the “anti-Soviet views and actions” of his graduate student Andrei Fadin, who was arrested by the KGB in April 1982 in the case of “young socialists” (or, in other words, in the case of the Federation of Democratic Forces of Socialist Orientation). A. Tarasov characterizes the ideology of the “young socialists”, who published the underground magazines “Variants”, “Left Turn” and “Socialism and the Future”, as “an alloy of the ideas of Eurocommunism, leftist social democracy and the ideas of the“ new left ””

Maidanik was also accused of participating (together with A. Fadin and his other graduate student Tatyana Vorozheikina) in an “anti-Soviet meeting” with Sh. Handal (who at that moment was the head of the partisan organization of the Armed Forces of National Resistance of El Salvador) at the apartment of T. Vorozheykina, and in the systematic receipt of "anti-Soviet literature" from Fadin. However, after the death of L. I. Brezhnev and the election of Yu. V. Andropov as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the exclusion from the CPSU was replaced by Maidanik with a “severe reprimand with a personal file”, which allowed him to remain an employee of IMEMO. According to A. Tarasov, this was due to Andropov's position in relation to IMEMO as a whole.

It was known that Maidanik considers Stalinism to be a Thermidorian rebirth of the October Revolution, which determined Kiva Lvovich's oppositional attitude towards the Soviet regime.
K. Maidanik had high hopes for perestroika as an opportunity to "return to the ideals of October" and acted as an active propagandist of the ideas of perestroika in the USSR and abroad. His keynote interview in Spanish "Perestroika: A Revolution of Hope" was published in almost all Latin American countries.

K. Maidanik reacted negatively to the restoration of capitalism in the post-Soviet space and refused to participate in the projects and activities of the new government, despite financially advantageous proposals. But he participated in various activities of the left opposition, not associated with the Communist Party, since Maidanik considered this party not revolutionary, but Thermidorian and chauvinistic.

With the emergence and development of the world anti-globalization movement, K. Majdanik took an active part in it, he attended and spoke at the World Social Forums of anti-globalists, at the III World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Majdanik was awarded a special meeting and was awarded a standing ovation of many thousands. He is the author of serious works on the theory and history of the anti-globalization movement in general and in Latin America in particular.

K. Maidanik is the father of the famous music critic Artemy Troitsky.

Well-known music critic Artemy Troitsky addressed the participants of the opposition rally in a condom suit. "I dressed up as a condom because I am very concerned about the moral and physical health of the nation and its leaders," A. Troitsky said.
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The more I learn in terms of elite studies, the more I am surprised at the depth of my ignorance ....

From 1956 he worked at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, from 1980 until the end of his life - at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS). Initially, he specialized in the labor movement of developed capitalist countries, then - on the problems of the "third world", primarily in Latin America. A trip to revolutionary Cuba, acquaintance with the leaders of the Cuban revolution, primarily with Ernesto Che Guevara, had a great influence on the development of Maidanik's views.

In 1963-1968, K. Maidanik worked in Prague in the editorial office of the international journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism" as deputy head of the Latin America department. During this period, he established personal contacts with most of the leaders of the communist and left socialist parties and movements in Latin America, became close friends with a number of prominent Latin American revolutionaries, such as Shafik Handal (who later became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of El Salvador), Narciso Isa Conde (later became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Dominican Communist Party), an outstanding Salvadoran partisan poet Roque Dalton.

In the 1970s and 1980s, K. Maidanik became one of the leading specialists in the USSR on the problems of social development in the Third World countries, primarily, of course, in Latin America. He was the author and editor of many collective monographs, of which the most notable in scientific terms are the books “Developing Countries: Patterns, Trends, Prospects” (M., 1974), “Developing Countries in the Modern World. Ways of the Revolutionary Process” (M., 1986) and “Public Thought of Developing Countries” (M., 1988). Maidanik's works of this period were a new word in Soviet Latin American studies that changed its face.

In the fall of 1982, K. M. Maidanik was expelled from the CPSU and did not pass a specially arranged certification as a researcher at IMEMO, which automatically meant his dismissal from the institute. Maidanik was charged with non-reporting about the “anti-Soviet views and actions” of his graduate student Andrei Fadin, who was arrested by the KGB in April 1982 in the case of “young socialists” (or, in other words, in the case of the Federation of Democratic Forces of Socialist Orientation). A. Tarasov characterizes the ideology of the "young socialists" who published the underground magazines "Variants", "Left Turn" and "Socialism and the Future" as "an alloy of the ideas of Eurocommunism, leftist social democracy and the ideas of the" new left "".

However, these events made it impossible to defend the doctoral dissertation of K. Maidanik and turned him into a "travel restriction" until the period of perestroika. It was known that Maidanik considers Stalinism to be a Thermidorian rebirth of the October Revolution, which determined Kiva Lvovich's oppositional attitude towards the Soviet regime.

K. Maidanik had high hopes for perestroika as an opportunity to "return to the ideals of October" and acted as an active propagandist of the ideas of perestroika in the USSR and abroad. His keynote interview in Spanish "Perestroika: A Revolution of Hope" was published in almost all Latin American countries.

Since the end of the 1980s, K. Maidanik again became an "exit" and repeatedly visited the countries of Latin America and Spain, met with the leaders of many states and leftist parties and movements. He was the only Soviet (Russian) Latin American who during this period was invited to lecture at universities in Latin America not about the events in the USSR (Russia), but about Latin America. He added active journalistic and social activities to his scientific work.

Circumstances of death

In 2007, the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences published a book dedicated to the memory of Maidanik. In this book, Kiva Lvovich is called "an outstanding Latin Americanist" and "a coryphaeus of Russian Latin American studies". His friends said: "Kiva Maidanik is a scientist with the soul of a revolutionary."

K. L. Maidanik was fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, French, English, Italian, German and Czech. He is the author of several hundred articles, including those written in Spanish, Portuguese and English, published in many countries around the world.

K. Maidanik is the father of the famous music critic Artemy Troitsky.

Compositions

The Spanish proletariat in the national revolutionary war of 1936-1937. M.: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 1960.
Ernesto Che Guevara: his life, his America. Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2004. ISBN 5-93321-081-1

Kiva Lvovich Maidanik(January 18, 1929, Moscow - December 24, 2006, Moscow) - Soviet (then Russian) Latin American and specialist in the countries of the Iberian Peninsula, historian and political scientist, unorthodox Marxist.

Father of the famous music critic Artemy Troitsky.

Biography

Born into a family of lawyers. Father, Lev Abramovich Maidanik (1902-1975), was one of the founders of the Soviet advocacy, laid the foundation for protecting the rights of workers in disputes with the state in cases of industrial accidents, the author of a number of scientific papers and monographs in various fields of jurisprudence. He was the first among Soviet lawyers to be awarded the title of Honored Lawyer of the RSFSR. Mother - Adele Isaakovna Barats (1902-2000).

From 1956 he worked at the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences, from 1970 until the end of his life - at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the USSR Academy of Sciences (RAS). Initially, he specialized in the labor movement of developed capitalist countries, then - on the problems of the "third world", primarily in Latin America. A trip to revolutionary Cuba, acquaintance with the leaders of the Cuban revolution, primarily with Ernesto Che Guevara, had a great influence on the development of Maidanik's views.