The Theory and the History

Abstract. A theory is a system of ideas that explains the objective real and subjective ideal world and creates their images. The largest theoretical system is a person’s ideology, it is his main ideas that determine all other theoretical constructions, including historical ones. The past enters into the picture of the world of man and therefore every new ideology creates its own image of the past.
A historical theory is an ideal idea of the past of mankind. The theory is not derived from historical facts, it is based on them, and is confirmed by them. A historical fact is a theoretically meaningful historical event or a testimony about it. The theory determines the applied texture.
The theory contains a set of methods by which the image of the past can be built. The theory of history is the historian’s idea of the past. These are the basic ideas that determine the way in which the historical material is perceived, processed and interpreted, and creates an image of the past.
From the point of view of the idealistic approach, historiography does not appear as a series of errors, but a completely explainable change of stories, determined by a change in the explanations of past theories.

Keywords: theory in history, idealistic approach to history, theory and facts, methodology of history, ideology, theory of history, truth in history, ideology, theory, past.