Concerning the moral and ethical problems of some contemporary authors. About the textbooks of S.I. Tsemenkova “History of Russian archives from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century” (Yekaterinburg: Publishing House of the Ural University, 2015); “History of Russian archives: the 20th – the beginning of the 21st centuries” (Yekaterinburg: Publishing House of the Ural University, 2019); “Archival science. History of Russian archives from ancient times to the beginning of the 20th century” (Moscow: Yurait, 2021)

Abstract

The review on the textbooks of the associate professor of the Ural State University S.I. Tsemenkova is devoted to moral and ethical problems: the textual coincidences in her textbooks with the works of her predecessors – scholars of the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives – Institute for History and Archives of the Russian State University for the Humanities (MGIAI – IAI RSUH). The proofs of Tsemenkova’s plagiarism are presented. There is a rhetorical question arising: can such a teacher be demanding with students if she herself is a plagiarist?

It is noted that the behavior of the members of the Department of Records Management, Archival Science and the History of Public Administration of the Ural State University is surprising in this situation. They have not carried out a scientific examination of S.I. Tsemenkova’s textbooks and recommended them for publication. In particular, the textbook “History of Russian Archives: the 20th – the beginning of the 21st centuries”, published in Yekaterinburg, at the Publishing House of the Ural University in 2019, is not only based on the monograph “History of the Fatherland and Archives” (M.: RSUH, 1994) by T.I. Khorkhordina, but entire pages were copied verbatim from her monograph.