#2. With What Historical Science is Engaged and How | Mikhail Velichko

This cycle of videos is dedicated to the subject of history and the global historical process.

Part 2: With what is historical science engaged and how? — How is history interpreted, and how should it be interpreted? How can we say what version of history is reliable and what is not? How can we deal with the fact of the falsification of history and come to a reliable version of history?

"If we turn to history in its entirety, this is a collection of biographies of all the people who ever lived. But in this form, history is not available to any of us. Therefore, the question is in which case is the selection of facts from history is scientifically consistent, and in which case is the selection of facts from the same history is not scientifically consistent. In addition to this, questions arise about the identification of falsification in the historical past, since Herzen was right when, in the preface to one of his books, he wrote: “We are not allowed to know history yet. The Russian government, as a reverse providence, improves not the future for the better, but the past”. This has been the case throughout history. This finds expression in aphorisms about history being written by victors. But this applies not only to the victors — the warriors of the state with each other, because why Carthage was bad, we know not from the point of view of those who lived in Carthage, but from the point of view of the victorious Rome, in which the words “Carthage must be destroyed” were heard for a long time. But this also applies to internal history, because if Emperor Paul was killed, then this had to be hidden and explained by the fact that Paul was bad. The same applies to evaluations of the death of Peter the third, because in order for Catherine to reign in peace, she had to present Peter the third as a villain and a madman, and show her own virtue. Therefore, the question of how history is falsified is also a very relevant question"...

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