Mikhail Nikolayevich Pokrovsky was a Russian Marxist historian, revolutionary and a Soviet public and political figure. One of the earliest professionally trained historians to join the Russian revolutionary movement, Pokrovsky is regarded as the most influential Soviet historian of the 1920s and was known as “the head of the Marxist historical school in the USSR”.
- Occupation
- historian, politician
- Position held
- Member of the Russian Constituent Assembly, editor
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Soviet Union
- Born
- August 17, 1868, August 29, 1868
