History: science or ideology?

The article represents a response to the journal publication of S.F. Chernyakhovsky «About purposes and problems of historical research». The author, starting from the provisions formulated in it, discusses why and how to «write a history». S.F. Chernyakhovsky, on the one hand, argues that oblivion, especially the indiscriminate condemnation of the past is disastrous for the people. On the other hand, history as a process is an object, and history as a science is an instrument, a means of global competition and geopolitical rivalry. That is why history always is written in the coordinates of the interests and values of the social group with which the researcher identifies himself.