ABSTRACT
The campaign to curtail scientific research in historical science in the early 1970s was headed up by Sergei Trapeznikov, who enjoyed free rein in directing science and who filled virtually all the positions under him with people who were dependent upon him and who were connected by "business" ties. A simplified, one-sided understanding of the concept of socialism led to a suppression of the negative phenomena, the dark side, the difficulties, the contradictions. The decisive significance of Brezhnev's actions in the Malaya Zemlya region was chronicled in monographs and in academic and popular articles and elaborated on to an extreme degree in collections of works and in respectable, multivolume works. In Orwell's Ministry of Truth, historical events and names of active participants in history are "forgotten" or rewritten in the interests of the present political situation.
