Honorary Academician Stalin and Academician Marr

On the page of one of the volumes of the first edition of the Big Soviet Encyclopedia, who belonged to Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, in the fields of the text that had a direct attitude to the Academician-Linguist, the archaeologist, ethnographer, historian, the organizer and the head of many scientific and educational institutions, the traveler Nikolai Yakovlevich Marru, the Kremlin leader A few years after the Second World War, wrote: & quot, language - Material of the Spirit & Quot,. This is an unexpected statement of Doctor of Historical Sciences Boris Ilizarov decided to take as Charpecont for his new book about Stalin. The author was the first to raise all the preserved materials about the Language Epopea in the Stalinist archive, studied books with litters of the Secretary General, preserved in his personal library, as well as materials from the archive of Academician Marra, more than half a century had laid in oblivion. But the discussion itself is only an episode in the history of Russia in the middle of the XX century, as well as one of the strokes in the political biography of Stalin. It is much more important that, together with the heroes of the new book, Boris Ilizarov is trying to see the finest threads, connecting each of us born on the planet Earth, with the oldest past of humanity, with the past, when mankind lit up the first outbreaks of consciousness