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It's been ten years since A. Bushkov wrote "The Russia That Wasn't". Few professional historians remain indifferent at the slightest mention of this work. A new book about fakes - historical, political, scientific. The nineteenth century, in addition to a host of other dubious achievements, also gave rise to false sciences. First of all - Marxism and anthropology. In both cases, we are talking about the purest water theories that did not receive confirmation either then or later, but nevertheless self-proclaimed the status of "real" sciences, like astronomy or physics. Documents, money, works of art have always been forged. But it was not until the nineteenth century that counterfeit sciences were revealed to the world.
In general, the time has come, leaving history alone for a while, to consider in detail and thoughtfully how things are in pseudosciences, for example, anthropology, which surpasses history in the number of conjectures passed off as scientific truths.