2. The specific background is the big stage for the activities of historical figures. What a historical figure has done cannot surpass his time. Treating and evaluating historical figures should be placed in his specific historical time.
3. Historical materialism advocates that historical analysis methods and class analysis methods should be adhered to in evaluating historical figures. Historical analysis requires that historical figures should be investigated under certain historical background, social relations and historical conditions, and truly reflect the historical role of historical figures.
Extended data:
History is the process of the development of human society. In dealing with history and historical issues, our party has always adhered to the basic position, viewpoint and method of historical materialism and the scientific attitude of seeking truth from facts.
There are several basic dimensions to evaluate a person, namely, talent, personality, social and historical role and influence. For a historical figure at the top of social power, his words and deeds will have a great impact on the development and progress of social history.
Therefore, it is impossible to objectively reflect the whole picture of a historical figure only by using the standards of the first two aspects, and it must be evaluated by the standards of talent, personality, role and influence on social history.
The so-called role and influence of historical figures on society and history mainly refers to whether a historical figure brings good news or disaster to his society, whether his role accelerates or promotes the progress of social history, or hinders or even retrogresses the historical process.
As a historical figure, you must always maintain awe and respect for society and history. History will give you due status and respect, otherwise, selfless history will tell you: you can't.
References:
People's Network-Comprehensive and Dialectical View of History and Historical Figures