剪伯赞对历史学社会作用的认识,经历了一个从强调革命性(现实性)到宏扬科学性的曲折过程。大体说来,在解放前,他着重于前者,到解放后,他则把后者逐步放到突出的位置上,乃至于后来提出了“科学性第一”的卓识。翦伯赞对历史学科学性质的把握我们已作论述,为了完整地检阅他关于史学的社会作用的理论,从而从一个侧面看一下整个中国马克思主义历史学对这一问题的见解的变化,这里,我们主要论列他对于史学的革命性的阐发。新民主主义革命中的历史学是人民革命的教科书和变革现实的战斗指南,是翦伯赞对这一历史时期历史学社会功能的总体认识。在他看来,历史学从来就是一门具有高度党性和实践性的学科。他说:历史是什么?“历史是人类实践活动的记述及其指导”,“历史不是谎造的故事小说和神话,所以它不是少数人‘有趣的音乐’,而是人类在其生活的长期斗争中所展开的社会经济形态之发生发展与更替的相续的诸过程。社会 Knowing the role of historiography, Shezan Bozan has undergone a tortuous process of emphasizing revolutionary (reality) and promoting scientific. In general, before the liberation, he focused on the former, and after liberation, he gradually placed the latter in a prominent position and later put forward the “scientific first” sense of excellence.翦 Bazan’s Grasping of the Nature of Historical Science We have already discussed that in order to thoroughly review his theory of the social function of historiography, we can see from one side the changes of the whole Chinese Marxist historiography’s view on this issue. Here, , We mainly discuss his revolutionary elucidation of history. Historiography in the new democratic revolution is a textbook for the people’s revolution and a guide to combat the realities of change, and is a general understanding of the social functions of historiography in this historical period. In his view, history has always been a highly disciplinary and practical discipline. He said: What is history? “History is the account of human activities and its guiding principle.” "History is not a storyteller and myth of lies, so it is not a ’fun music’ for a few people, but a long-term The process of occurrence, development and replacement of the social and economic patterns started in the struggle.