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Berlin debates: the Jews and the Russian Revolution
Ch. 8. P. 111–126, 194-196.
Budnitskii O.
This chapter analyzes the inflamed political debates that took place among prominent Jewish publicists in Weimar Berlin. The "Berlin debates" articulated the tragic dilemma of the Jews as being simultaneously the subjects and the victims of the Russian Revolution.
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Beisswenger M., Россия и современный мир 2025 № 4 С. 316–325
The reviewed collection of articles presents a multifaceted study of the life and work of the outstanding Russian historian Robert Yuryevich Vipper (1859–1954). The focus is on his unique destiny as a “historian at a crossroads,” who passed through three distinct political and cultural contexts: imperial and revolutionary Russia, emigration to independent Latvia, and return ...
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Kildyushov O., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2026 Т. 35 № 2 С. 6–21
This article examines a heuristic framework for analyzing the significance of Russian themes in Max Weber’s corpus, in connection with the completion of the complete edition of his works as a comprehensive source base. It highlights the ambivalent position of Russian themes in the his legacy: while Russia was never central to his scholarship, the issue ...
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Andrey Ganin, Journal of Slavic Military Studies 2026 Vol. 39 No. 1 P. 95–107
This article is devoted to the remarkable fate of the Russian officer and Yugoslav general Fyodor Makhin. He was born in the family of an Orenburg Cossack exiled to penal servitude, later returned home, managed to get a brilliant education, including graduating from Nicholas military Academy, participated in the First World War, and in 1918 ...
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Perna A., Revolutionary Russia 2025 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 63–82
The Bratstvo Russkoi Pravdy (BRP) was a self-proclaimed terrorist organization that emerged among the Russian emigration in the interwar period. Their grandiose claims of terrorist activities inside the USSR put the BRP at the centre of much controversy during its existence and are still a matter of debate, which has at times eclipsed the analysis of other ...
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Perna A., Canadian-American Slavic Studies 2025 Vol. 59 No. 3 P. 278–300
The article deals with the perception and portrayal of Fascism by a group of extraparty Mensheviks, led by Semën Portugeis, that coalesced around the journal Zaria. Focusing on this publication, the article traces the evolution of their views on this phenomenon, from Mussolini’s seizure of power in Italy to its transformation into a pan-European threat, and ...
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Федоровский А. О., Телескоп: журнал социологических и маркетинговых исследований 2024 № 3 (15) С. 186–194
The article considers the Smart City Berlin project as an example of successful city management using innovative technologies. Berlin is actively implementing digital solutions, improving the quality of life, sustainable development and solving urban problems. Examples of initiatives show how the city copes with challenges in the fields of transport, ecology and social services. An ...
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Budnitskii O., В кн.: «Викторианский сборник»: К юбилею Виктории Мочаловой.: М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025. Гл. 10 С. 109–122.
The chapter is devoted to the role of Jews in Stalinist cinema art. ...
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М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025.
The volume includes the latest works of Russian and foreign Slavists and Hebraists, researchers of Jewish classical texts, history, literature, art and folklore. ...
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Правовое регулирование еврейской винной торговли в Российской империи в конце XVIII – начале XIX вв.
Абакумова Е. В., Юридический мир 2022 № 2 С. 59–64
The article examines he legal status of Jews in late 18th – early 19th century Russian Empire with regard to their capacity to practice wine production and wine trade, researches the evolution of the legal prohibitions in this sphere, analyses the causes and the consequences of this prohibitions. ...
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Мартынов А. В., Литературный факт 2023 № 4(30) С. 62–70
The paper deals with the post-war period of I.A. Bunin’s life. These were years of difficult financial situation and serious health problems for the writer, which also involved additional expenses. The author examines how the Nobel Laureate tried to publish translations of his book “The Liberation of Tolstoy.” The translations significantly expanded the market and ...
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Gužvica S., Europe-Asia Studies 2023 Vol. 75 No. 8 P. 1419–1421
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Gužvica S., (Хорватия) 2021 Vol. 4 No. 1 P. 102–133
By the spring of 1917, tens of thousands of South Slavic prisoners of war had found themselves on the territory of the (former) Russian Empire, and many of them took an active part in the revolutionary events which had begun with the collapse of the monarchy in February. After the October Revolution, thousands of Bulgarians, ...
Added: November 17, 2023
Andrei B. Moroz, , in: The belarusian shtetl. History and memory.: Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023. Ch. 4 P. 95–114.
Based on field data, the article discusses folkloric versions explaining Hitler's hatred of Jews. The texts in question were recorded mainly in the territories that were part of the Pale of Settlement, from older people who either themselves had contacts with Jews, mainly before the World War II, or heard a lot about them from ...
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Kildyushov O., Мир России: Социология, этнология 2023 Т. 32 № 2 С. 188–196
This review discusses a collection of documentary materials on the nineteenth-century Narodnik movement. The collection was compiled by the Soviet historian Mikhail Gefter and his associates in the second half of the 1970s. It was an attempt at a “new reading” of the (pre)history of the Russian Revolution and an alternative to the official historiography. In doing ...
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Estraikh G., Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2022 Vol. 36 No. 1 P. 60–73
A strict ban on organized Jewish activities apart from those of a limited number of religious bodies, coupled with the state monopoly on all publishing, simplified the Soviet Union’s control over Holocaust-related publication. The appearance of any such work was an idiosyncratic event, associated with concurrent political and cultural contexts and official agendas. The relatively ...
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Лукоянов И. В., Российская история 2022 № 4 С. 124–131
Статья является рецензией на посмертно изданный двухтомник А.В. Островского "Росия. Самодержавие. Революция". Посвященный в основном истории 1905 г., текст претендует на то, чтобы предложить новые оценки революционных событий и смене государственного строя в России. Несмотря на то, что автор использовал обширную документальную базу, ему не вполне удалось это сделать. Воспроизводство схемы советской историографии, дополненное приёмами ...
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Moroz A., Judaic-Slavic Journal 2021 № 2(6) С. 155–172
Based on field data, the article discusses folkloric versions explaining Hitler’s
hatred of Jews. The texts in question were recorded mainly in the territories that were
part of the Pale of Settlement, from older people who either themselves had contacts
with Jews, mainly before the World War II, or heard a lot about them from their parents.
The versions ...
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Димитриев В. М., Русская литература 2022 № 3 С. 63–73
The article deals with the artistic technique of the émigré writer V. S. Yanovsky (1906–1989) and the extent to which it was influenced by his medical education and medical practice. Apart from biographical reasons, literary trends of the interwar period seem to account for the medical themes and plots in his prose. For the first ...
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David-Fox M., Russian History 2021 Vol. 47 No. 4 P. 239–253
This article discusses Jeffrey Brooks’ metaphor of an integrated ecosystem to describe Russian cultural history in the late imperial and early Soviet periods. Brooks’s Firebird and the Fox describes an interlocking cultural system marked by high-low interactions, as a rich Russian folkloric tradition based on fable and popular tales was reworked with remarkable creativity in ...
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Beisswenger M., , in: Law and the Christian Tradition in Modern Russia.: Routledge, 2021. Ch. 13 P. 286–305.
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Budnitskii O., Slavic Review 2021 Vol. 80 No. 2 P. 428–430
Review of the Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution. By Brendan McGeever. Cambridge,
Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xi, 247 pp. ...
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Loukianov M., , in: A Companion to the Russian Revolution.: NY: Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. P. 43–50.
The First World War intensified the negative attitude of a number of representatives of the Russian Right to the dualistic political system consolidated by the Fundamental Laws of 1906. Russian status‐quo became an object of the hard critique not from the Left only, but from the Right, as well. The extreme Right wingers tried to ...
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The Russian revolution of 1917 reverberated throughout an empire that covered one-sixth of the world. It altered the geo-political landscape of not only Eurasia, but of the entire globe. The impact of this immense event is still felt in the present day. The historiography of the last two decades has challenged conceptions of the 1917 ...
Added: January 31, 2021