Soviet historians and workers in all social sciences are faced with the task of "conducting a well-reasoned critique of bourgeois ideology, right-and"left" revisionist concepts, exposing various kinds of falsifiers of history who are trying to belittle the international significance of the October Revolution, the path taken by our party and people, and resolutely rebuffing anti-communism and anti-Sovietism, opportunism of all stripes."1 . Soviet historians have already done some work to expose the bourgeois falsifiers of the Great October story. Of particular importance is the scientific development of the experience of the socialist revolution in Russia in fundamental generalizing and monographic studies. Works have appeared that critically analyze both the coverage of October 1917 in individual capitalist countries2 and bourgeois interpretations of the experience of the first socialist revolution in history3 . Foreign Marxist historians, while studying and promoting the historical experience of the October Revolution, also criticize bourgeois literature .4 Its important assessments are contained in analytical articles by Soviet historians published in periodicals dedicated to the 50th anniversary of October 5 . This article traces the trends of bourgeois historiography of the October Revolution mainly in the 70s. At the same time, bo is taken into account- 1 "On the 60th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution". Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU of January 31, 1977, Moscow, 1977, p. 29. 2 See: Yu. I. Igritsky. Myths of bourgeois historiography and the reality of history. Modern American and English Historiography of the Great October Socialist Revolution, Moscow, 1974; M. G. Zharkov. Against the bourgeois falsifications of the history of October. Minsk. 1975; N. V. Naumov. The Great October Socialist Revolution in French Bourgeois Historiography, Moscow, 1975, et al. 3 L. F. Malafeev. The light of October and the shadows of anti-communi ... Читать далее