SUMMARY:

In her tribute to the memory of renowned St. Petersburg historian, Rafail Sholomovich Ganelin (1926−2014), Irina Levinskaya draws attention to his personal and professional stance on anti-Semitism and right-wing politics. Being a convinced statist, Ganelin viewed such politics first of all as damaging to the interests of the state and political stability – in the past and in the present. In a similar vein, his personal and professional views converged when he opposed the government’s destruction of the Russian Academy of Sciences under the disguise of reforming it in 2010−2013.