The position of the Russian scientists of scientific institutions during the civil war

Hundred years separates us from the outbreak of Civil war in Russia. This is sufficient time for a rethinking of those past events that shocked the world. The reader is provided a review of the new scientific publication of the Krasnodar researcher A.N. Eremeeva, devoted to problems of development of science and the existence of scholars in this difficult period. Covers a considerable part of the territory of the former Russian Empire, associated with the confrontation of two social systems. Identified problems encountered with the mass relocation of universities and scientific personnel of the country and their daily lives. Given the social structure of the scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel of higher schools of the prerevolutionary period. “Scientific" survival strategy allows to overcome depressive States, to implement the period of time in extraordinary circumstances, to increase professional competence, to develop optimistic model of the future life. One of the General conclusions indicates that the years of the civil war, a bloody fratricidal slaughter, as paradoxical as it sounds, was an important step in the “intellectualization" of the Russian regions. It is associated not only with civilians, but with the First world war. Materials peer-reviewed monographs can be used by students, graduate students, scientists, all interested in the history of Russian science and the Russian intelligentsia during the Civil war.