Ideologization of research in the history of metallurgy in the USSR: problems, questions, disputes

The article analyzes the impact of ideologization on the development of the history of technology as a scientific and educational discipline, with an emphasis placed on the
studies in the history of metallurgy. The article examines the formation of Marxist history of technology in the 1930s. Considerable attention is given to the influence of ideological
campaigns aimed at ‘combating cosmopolitanism’ and safeguarding national priorities in science and technology in the 1940s–1950s. The role of the All-Union Society for Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge in popularizing research on the history of technology is highlighted. Particular attention is given to the process of creating a “pantheon” of domestic scientists and inventors and to the influence of this process on the preservation and studies of scientific and technical heritage.