Vladimir Mikhailovich Miroshevsky
Author · 1 book
Soviet historian, specialist in Latin American issues. Member of the CPSU since 1917. Veteran of the Civil War of 1918-20. In 1932 he graduated from the Institute of Red Professors. He worked at the Institute of Marxism-Leninism (1932-39), taught at Moscow State University (1939-41) and other educational institutions. The first in Soviet historiography who attempted a systematic exposition of the main problems of the history of Latin American countries (chapters on Latin America in the textbook for universities "The New History of Colonial and Dependent Countries, vol. 1, 1940). His scientific interests were mainly connected with the history of the struggle of the peoples of Latin America against the Spanish domination. He was killed at the front during the Great Patriotic War.
