ABSTRACT

History as an academic discipline is going through a methodological crisis, caused by the decolonising revolution in historiography. Having emerged in the 1980s–2000s, the present-day decolonial theories have created a new dominant paradigm in the public consciousness and in a whole complex of academic disciplines. The aim of the decolonisation of the mind is to liberate these disciplines, first of all the humanities, from any vestiges of Eurocentrism. However, decolonialists operate in the realm of ideas and methodologies some of which are incompatible with the existence of history as an academic discipline, and which have long been rejected by researchers. A comparison of decolonising ideas in Africa with similar ideas in Russia helps to understand their origins and the detrimental effect that their uncritical acceptance may have on history as an academic discipline and on popular consciousness and politics.

摘要

作为一门学科的历史学正在经历一场由史学的非殖民化革命引起的方法论危机。当今的非殖民理论出现于 20 世纪 80 年代至 2000 年代，在公众意识和整个学科领域创造了一种新的主​​导范式。思想非殖民化的目的是将这些学科，首先是人文学科，从欧洲中心主义的残余中解放出来。然而，非殖民主义者在思想和方法论领域运作，其中一些思想和方法与历史作为一门学科的存在不相容，并且长期以来一直被研究人员拒绝。