Nikolai Rubinshtein

Nikolai Leonidovich Rubinshtein (23 December 1897 – 26 January 1963) was a Soviet historian known for his historiographical works and his research into the economic history of Russia and the formation of capitalism in that country.

[1] Rubinshtein taught at higher educational institutions in Moscow from 1934 to 1959 and became a professor in 1938.

He was appointed deputy scientific director of the State Historical Museum from in 1943 in which position he served until 1949.

[1] He is best known for his historiographical works and his research into the economic history of Russia and the formation of capitalism in that country.

[1] A Jew, Rubinshtein was one of the historians that Arkadiĭ Sidorov campaigned against as part of Joseph Stalin's drive against the "rootless cosmopolitans", most of whom were Jewish.