In the present work we will try to make a critical approach to the treatment, by the russian formalism, of the category of history. To the extent that russian formalism resists, because of its heterogeneous nature, to be reduced to a lax set of principles, we will try to observe the way in which the category of the history was worked (with their respective revisions and mutations) throughout the years of formal school activity. In this framework, we will highlight the epistemological implications of each of these positions, without losing sight of the set of philosophical and scientific discourses in vogue in the Soviet Union of the 1920s.