The article considers strategies of interaction of historians with ideological processes, that occurred in Soviet historical science in the early 1930s. It compares the approaches of S.A. Piontkovsky and N.L. Rubinshtein. Piontkovsky is known for his tactic of active participating in these processes, while Rubinshtein follows a passive approach that involves maximizing the use of authoritative quotes
I. Slepenko (Wed,) studied this question.