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Review of Janet M. Hartley. Siberia: A History of the People. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 289
American Historical Review. 2016. Vol. 121. No. 2. P. 678–679.
This book’s claim to difference is its focus on “how people lived” and it clearly achieves this goal in a concise but holistic English-language account of Siberian history. It is not quite social history but rather a depiction of the pragmatic aspects of life. Janet M. Hartley covers housing, diets, and coping with long-distance travel in conjunction with key historical events from Yermak Timofoyevich’s expedition in the 1580s and Mikhail Speranski’s reforms of the 1820s to Soviet socialism. Equally important, the book does not aim to be comprehensive but to provide a sense of the diversity of ways of life in different locations (villages, towns, garrisons); among different population groups (Cossacks, exiles, explorers, missionaries, Soviet workers, and academics); and around projects such as railway construction, collectivization, and the making of the new Soviet citizen.
Паникар М. М., Polar Journal 2026
The article attempts to explore the process of formation of a new sphere of relations between the USSR and the countries of the Arctic region in the period from 1986 to 1990. The April Plenum of the Communist Party Central Committee in 1985 laid the groundwork for a profound transformation in both the domestic and ...
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Кузнецова А. Д., Славяноведение 2025 № 6 С. 5–18
The article examines the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth`s description in «Opisanie sveta», a Russian translation of the Latin cosmography «Descriptio Orbis» by Luca de Linda. This description, to which Luca de Linda paid special attention, has been changed in the translation: the parts about geography, ranks, and Polish kings are reworked and contain details absent in the original. ...
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Loshkareva M. E., Шестакова Н. Ф., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 98–11
The article is devoted to the problem of constructing one of the important elements of the historical memory of Wales, the alleged abduction of Princess Nest. The myth surrounding Nest originated in the Middle Ages and, despite the rarity of female figures in historical chronicles, she emerged as a prominent heroine within the national narrative. ...
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Vinogradov A., Slovĕne 2025 Т. 14 № 2 С. 38–55
The article deals with the reconstruction of the political governance in Novgorod from the first half to mid-11th century, which was being interpreted very differently due to significant discrepancies in the sources. The Novgorod prince was usually the son of the Kiev one, but not necessarily the eldest (who could also occupy another see, e.g., ...
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Bodrova M., Археология евразийских степей 2026 № 1 С. 287–292
The article examines a Neo-Babylonian seal discovered among the grave goods of a Sarmatian burial in Kurgan No. 3 near the village of Tbilisskaya (Pre-Caucasus region). Although the burial itself dates to the late 1st – early 2nd century CE, the seal’s iconography and carving technique indicate its origin in the Neo-Babylonian cultural sphere of the ...
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Gužvica S., Tokovi Istorije 2026 No. 1 P. 15–52
The paper analyzes the intellectual climate and political circumstances that shaped and heavily influenced the literary imagination and the semantic horizon of two novels—The Optimists: the Novel of a Revolution by Ervin Sinkó and Like a Tear in the Ocean: A Trilogy by Manès Sperber. Besides introductory remarks and conclusion, the paper’s structure is threefold, ...
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Крол А. А., Кузнецов Д. А., Ladynin I. A., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 Т. 1 С. 244–261
The publication presents a new translation and commentary of the Quban Stela of Ramesses II (Musée des beaux-arts Grenoble, Collection égyptienne, inv. 1937, 1969, 3565). This monument dates to the beginning of his reign (ca. 1287 BC); it was found near the ruins of the fortress of Baki, close to the Nubian village of Kuban. The composers of the ...
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Ladynin I. A., Дашкина А. Р., Проблемы истории, филологии, культуры 2026 № 1 (91) С. 24–37
The article examines two aspects of the integration of Nubia (with particular attention to Lower Nubia) into the statehood of ancient Egypt during early antiquity (up to the end of the 2nd millennium BC). During the First and Second Intermediate Periods, Nubia demonstrates the adoption of Egyptian traditions of royal power, incorporating its territory into ...
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Ladynin I. A., Вестник древней истории 2024 Т. 84 № 1 С. 5–26
The article analyses a set of Classical evidence reflecting the Egyptian conquest of Bactria or its attempt (Diod. I. 46–47; Tac. Ann. II. 60. 3; Strabo XVII. 1. 46), a statement of Manetho of Sebennytos on the vast conquests of king Sethos-Ramesses (I) (Manetho. Frg. 50 = Ios. C.Ap. I. 15. § 98–102), and the ...
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Ladynin I. A., Немировский А. А., Social Evolution & History 2025 Vol. 24 No. 2 P. 162–167
The article deals with the problem of the state formation in the two key areas of the early civilizations, i.e. Egypt and Mesopotamia. In Egypt the stage of the so-called nome states was largely avoided, as the local polities had probably the nature of chiefdoms and the state emerged when they were integrated into larger ...
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Medakin S., Новое прошлое 2026 № 1 С. 129–147
The article deals with the peculiarities of the representation of history and culture of the XIX century on the pages of the magazine “Krokodil” in 1941–1945. It was the 19th century, excluding the events of the 20th century, that received the most coverage in “Krokodil” during this period — a little less than a third ...
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Zemlyakov M., Средние века 2026 № 87 (1) С. 168–175
The publication establishes a full text of a report made by Professor Vladimir M. Lavrovsky at Lomonosov Moscow State University (Faculty of History). This report focuses on the results of his scientific mission to the Anglo-Soviet Conference (London, September 1958). Lavrovsky describes in details the discussion on his own report and accentuates the advantages of ...
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Прошин А. В., Vox Medii Aevi 2025 Т. 1 (12) С. 13–36
Поскольку древнерусским князьям приходилось постоянно принимать участие в походах и сражениях, идеал правителя должен был, несомненно, отражать представления о них как о воинах. Предполагаемая рядом исследователей первостепенная важность воинского образа
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Новикова А. Д., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 2(160)
This article examines the residence of the British envoy James Harris in St. Petersburg (1777—1783) as an instrument of his diplomatic mission. Despite growing scholarly interest in informal diplomacy, the embassy house as a space for representation and everyday sociability has rarely been the subject of dedicated research. Drawing on a wide range of sources, ...
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Гребенников Н. Ю., Ежегодник финно-угорских исследований 2025 Т. 19 № 4 С. 628–634
The article examines an inconspicuous episode that occurred during Batu's second campaign against Rus’, which is usually dated by researchers to 1239–1241. The author puts forward and substantiates the possible reasons that prompted the Mongol military leaders to send a second military expedition to North-Eastern Rus’ in the winter of 1239/1240, which also affected the ...
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Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
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Kanaev E., Tawares J. A., Drugov A. Y. et al., M.: IOS RAS, 2025.
The year 2025 is marked by two significant anniversaries – the 80th anniversary of Indonesia's independence and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Republic of Indonesia. The monograph offers the reader an in-depth analysis of the dynamics and features of the interaction between CCCH/Russia and Indonesia, ...
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Kanaev E., Попов А. В., Другов А. Ю. et al., М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2025.
The year 2025 was marked by two significant anniversaries – the 80th anniversary of Indonesia's independence and the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Soviet Union and the Republic of Indonesia. The monograph offers the reader an in-depth analysis of the dynamics and features of the interaction between CCCH/Russia and Indonesia, ...
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Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
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Archaeology and history of Bosporus ...
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Kozylov I., Россия в глобальной политике 2026 Т. 24 № 1 С. 152–171
The article analyzes the evolution of Siberia’s role in Russian–Chinese relations from the seventeenth century to the early 2010s, that is, up to the stage of institutionalization of Russia’s course toward a “Turn to the East”. On the basis of the historical-genetic and systemic approaches, as well as an analysis of Russian- and Chinese-language bibliography, ...
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Hoyer D., Holder S., Bennett J. et al., Social Science History 2025 P. 1–33
Societal “crises” are periods of turmoil and destabilization in sociocultural, political, economic, and other systems, often accompanied by violent power struggles, and sometimes significant changes in social structure. The extensive literature analyzing societal crises has concentrated on a relatively small sample of well-known cases (such as the fall of the Roman Empire), emphasizing separate aspects ...
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Glushkov A., Козлова К. О., Новые исследования Тувы 2025 № 4 С. 107–121
The analysis conducted in the study allowed the authors to trace the evolution of Soviet agitation in the first post-war decade, identify the main campaigning techniques that were notable for their diversity, and conclude that at the turn of the 1940s and 1950s, in the context of voluntary resettlement campaigns, the state was forced to ...
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Liu Y., Leostrin A., Seregin A. et al., Phytotaxa 2025 Vol. 701 No. 2 P. 216–222
Artemisia transbaicalensis Leonova, a species widely accepted in important biodiversity databases, is shown to be
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