Yevgeny Tarle born Grigory Tarle in 1874 in Kyiv, Russia into a Jewish family.
20 Facts About Yevgeny Tarle
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Yevgeny Tarle changed his name as a young man, before converting to the Orthodox Church.
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Viktor and his wife Rozalia Arnoldovna Yevgeny Tarle had four children.
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Yevgeny Tarle was sent to Kherson under police supervision and was banned from teaching at imperial universities and gymnasiums.
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In February 1905, Yevgeny Tarle was arrested again for participating in student protests and was excluded from the university.
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Yevgeny Tarle researched in the libraries and archives of Western Europe for his early works and read a paper at the World Congress of Historical Studies held in London in 1913.
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Yevgeny Tarle soon became a professor at Moscow University and moved to Moscow.
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Yevgeny Tarle was active in the Russian Association of Scientific Institutes for Research in the Social Sciences.
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On 8 August 1931, Yevgeny Tarle was exiled to Almaty where he spent the next four years.
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Yevgeny Tarle repeated the basic ideas of Mikhail Pokrovsky on the 1812 campaign and interpreted Napoleon from the viewpoint of class struggle.
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Yevgeny Tarle stated that "there was no mass participation by the peasantry in the guerilla bands and in their activities, and their part in the campaign was strictly limited".
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Yevgeny Tarle supported his interpretation by "denying that the peasants fought against the French and describing the burning of Smolensk and Moscow as systematic acts of the Russian army in retreat".
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Yevgeny Tarle gave references to Lenin's words on Napoleon in his book.
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Yevgeny Tarle prepared a new work in a comparatively shorter time and published it in 1938 under the title Napoleon's Invasion of Russia, 1812.
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Yevgeny Tarle was accused of using foreign sources to the detriment of Russian ones, emphasizing the passive character of Kutuzov's maneuvers, and claiming that Kutuzov was continuing the tactics of Barclay de Tolly.
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Yevgeny Tarle had not been sufficiently critical of "aristocratic-bourgeois" historians and had distorted the history of the "Fatherland War".
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Yevgeny Tarle replied to Kozhukhov's criticism, stating that he had already begun work on a new book of the Napoleonic period, which would contain different interpretations than his earlier works.
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Yevgeny Tarle began working on the history of the Crimean War in the late 1930s and was given access to otherwise inaccessible Russian archives for his work.
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Yevgeny Tarle presented the Crimean War to the public as a war launched by the Western states.
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Yevgeny Viktorovich Tarle died on 6 January 1955 in Moscow, before he could fulfill his intention of writing another book on the War of 1812.