The Soviet and Russian Historiography of the Wars of Spanish-American Independence (1810–1826)

This work is devoted to the main approaches and trends in the study of particular aspects ( preconditions, the role of the leaders and the masses, outcomes) the history of the War for independence in Spanish America in the Soviet and modern Russian historiography (since the 1940s). The aim of the study is to attempt to trace specific examples of the process of implementation of major software installations software for the further development of Soviet and modern Russian Latin American studies collective article of 1956. To achieve this goal, this study solves the following tasks: identifying changes in the interpretation of images of revolutionary leaders of this period, as well as the main global and local approaches to the study of the history of the national liberation movement in Latin America. For each of the studied areas, innovative conclusions are given about the gradual rejection of the interpretation of images of the leaders of the liberation struggle in Spanish America as exclusively Creole leaders, the transition from the interpretation of the war of independence as an "incomplete bourgeois revolution" to the realization of its real specifics, the implementation of the above-mentioned trend in the study of the history of a particular state. During the research, more than 100 historiographical sources (monographs, dissertations, articles and collections of essays) on the subject were analyzed.