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Impossible rehabilitation - The 1956 revision commissions and the uncertainties of the thaw
Osteuropa. 2007. Vol. 57. No. 6. P. 369–386.
Elie M.
On the periphery of the XXth Party Congress in 1956, Khrushchev introduced revision commissions. These were to review in decentralised fashion the countless prisoners in custody who were innocent. The commissions fulfilled their tasks only conditionally. They may have released a large number of prisoners, but they rehabilitated only very few. The members of the revision commissions were led by various considerations. As a result, there was no consensus about how to deal with prisoners who were convicted during the Second World War for "nationalism" or "treason," the majority of political prisoners in custody in 1956. In late 1956, the work of the commissions came to an end amid a tense political atmosphere. Soviet leaders, unsettled by the uprisings in Poland and Hungary, began imprisoning without trial a good number of those who had been released, in order to make them scapegoats for a crisis-ridden year and to draw attention away from policy failures.
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
князей, включающего их ратные и полководческие качества, однако, не находит подтверждения среди летописных некрологов (посмертных панегириков). Эти текст конструируют посмертный образ князя, отмечая его важнейшие качества ...
Added: April 29, 2026
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, ...
Added: April 29, 2026
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 ...
Added: April 27, 2026
Mustafin A., Russian Journal of Economics 2026 No. 1 P. 137–152
This article examines archival records on crop yields and recruit numbers in eighteenth-century Russia, analyzing their dynamics and comparing them with data on recruits’ height as an indicator of changes in the standard of living. The study uses more than one hundred and ten archival sources, enabling the construction of time series. The resulting numbers ...
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Sharova A. V., Средние века 2025 Т. 86 № 4 С. 148–170
"IMPACT THEMES" FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF MEDIEVAL STUDIES IN THE INSTITTE OF HISTORY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE USSR: THE YEAR 1937
The article is devoted to the story about the beginning of the work of the Department of Medieval studies of the Institute of History of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the ...
Added: April 19, 2026
М.: ИВИ РАН, 2026.
Выпуск содержит статьи участников XXXVIII Чтений па мяти чл.-корр. АН СССР В.Т. Пашуто, посвященных формам «проявления» будущего в настоящем; месту и роли «будущего в настоящем» в литературном тексте; жанровым особенностям «текстов о будущем»; влиянию предсказаний на реальное бу дущее; социокультурному значению «будущего в настоящем». Эта проблематика раскрывается на материале европейских и азиатских обществ Древности и ...
Added: April 17, 2026
Alla P., Наука в мегаполисе 2023 № 4
The unprecedented «liberalization» of economic relations, which began in the conditions of perestroika, has put society before a choice – to change the way of life or stick to the old foundations. The author examines the functioning of Soviet society during the period of Gorbachev's economic reforms, which influenced the emergence of a stratum of ...
Added: April 17, 2026
Alla P., Малышева О. Г., Исторический журнал: научные исследования 2025 № 2 С. 118–131
In the early 1990s, the press was one of the main sources of information for the Russian population, so the central newspapers contain a large amount of information about the events of those years. The subject of the research is the publications of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, which was founded by the Moscow City Council before its ...
Added: April 17, 2026
Alla P., Вестник Московского городского педагогического университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2024 № 4 С. 131–142
The article examines the problem of coverage of the political crisis of autumn 1993 in Russia by Runet bloggers. In the last decade, new media have grown significantly stronger and gained authority for a wide audience to whom they tell and attempt to explain the past and present. The main provisions of videos about the ...
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Alla P., Манускрипт 2024 Т. 17 № 4 С. 525–531
The study aims to examine the views of Russian researchers on socio-political processes at the regional level during the constitutional-political crisis of 1992-1993. The article discusses scholars' works on the problem of political confrontation in 1992-1993, when the subjects of the Russian Federation became one of the parties to this process. As the confrontation between ...
Added: April 17, 2026
Alla P., Genesis: исторические исследования 2024 № 7 С. 51–61
The article is devoted to the reflection of the political crisis of the end of 1993 in the provincial periodical of Murom, Vladimir region. The author refers to the journalistic articles of the local newspaper "Muromsky Krai" from September 23, when the first information about the events in Moscow was published, to December 23, when ...
Added: April 17, 2026
Alla P., Вопросы национальных и федеративных отношений 2025 Т. 15 № 3 С. 439–445
Crisis forces countries to look for options to improve the lives of citizens and the functioning of the political system. Russia is no exception in this regard. The article analyzes the socio-political processes in the USSR and the Russian Federation in 1985-1993 through the prism of modernization theory. The study is based on the principles ...
Added: April 17, 2026
Loktionov A., Tsipileva A., Journal of Language Pedagogy and Innovative Applied Linguistics 2025 Vol. 3 No. 2 P. 39–44
Historically Russia has enjoyed a rich Egyptological tradition, but currently suffers from a shortage of qualified scholars in this field. This is connected to a lack of modern resources for teaching Ancient Egyptian language geared towards Russian students, which means that even though Russia has impressive museum collections in the subject, the country finds it ...
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Дёмин Ю. А., Iranian Studies 2026 Vol. 59 No. 1 P. 55–72
The first decade after the end of the revolutionary events in Gilan (1920-21) was a period of active attempts by the Bolsheviks, the Communist International and the Communist Party of Iran to gain a solid social foothold in Iran. Thispaper, based mainly on Russian archival sources, focuses on studying the dynamics of the guidelines of the CommunistInternational and the Communist Party of Iran, the attempts and features of their implementation, as well as on therelationship of the Iranian Communists with the Bolsheviks and the leadership of the Communist International. The studydemonstrates that the main efforts of the Reds in 1922-25 were aimed at building an inter-class coalition, wherecooperation with Reza Khan became only part of these broader efforts. The failures led the Reds to a previously testedcourse of fomenting the agrarian revolution in Iran and repeated fiascos. Throughout this period, the leadership of the Communist Party of Iran was not a simple executor of directives, but took an active part in the decision-making process,involved the Bolsheviks in its internal party struggle and challenged high-ranking functionaries of the Communist International. ...
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Федоров Р. Ю., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2026 № 1(72) С. 170–180
Ethnocultural processes among Molokans living in rural areas of Omsk region and the city of Omsk in the 20th – the first quarter of the 21st century are considered. The research sources used were materials from ethnographic expeditions conducted in the Odessa and Novovarshavsky districts of the Omsk region, as well as documentary sources stored ...
Added: April 5, 2026
Mazhinskiy S., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2026 № 1 С. 218–230
he article is devoted to one of the most pressing social phenomena in modern China –involution. This term appeared in public discourse in 2017 and has not lost its relevance to thisday. Involution in the socio-cultural dimension of Chinese society means irrational competition,rivalry until complete victory. This entails heightened social competition, which brings Chinesesociety to ...
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Ганин А. В., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025.
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Фокин А. А., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026.
The Soviet project existed not merely in slogans: it was materialized in metal, plastic, paper,sound, and rituals. This collection demonstrates how material objects and infrastructuresserved as mediators between the state, society, and everyday life—ranging from theelectrification drive and the dream of a unified power grid to the humble ballot and ballotbox, from “Muzprom” to a children’s toy, from a homemade board game to a vodka label.
What were the roles, networks, and practices of production, consumption, and exchangethrough which the material system of the USSR was created and reproduced?
The historians, anthropologists, and art historians whose contributions make up this volumeinvite us to see material things as full‑fledged participants in political, aesthetic, and socialprocesses. These processes explain why certain technologies became symbols of thefuture, others reinforced civic rituals, and still others have returned today to museums, fleamarkets, and television shows. ...
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Son Z., Brill, 2025.
This book offers the first comprehensive exploration of the history of Soviet Koreans (1920s-1930s), focusing into their experiences in the USSR. It examines the impact of Stalin's foreign and domestic policies on
Soviet Koreans, their role in the socio-economic development of the Far East, and their contributions to the Red Army, as well as the cultural ...
Added: December 25, 2025
Young P. I., Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2025 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 269–296
This article integrates an examination of major philosophies of the will, their interpretations by Bolshevik theorists, and their manifestations in the Stakhanovite movement. Through empirical analysis, it has distilled three major non-Marxist philosophical currents in the discourse on the Stakhanovite movement: Nietzsche’s will to power, Kant’s will as practical reason, and Rousseau’s general will. Each ...
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Perry Ivie Young, Vanderbilt Historical Review 2018 No. 3 P. 12–20
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Obukhov A., Попова П. Е., Филимонова С. А., Вестник РГГУ. Серия «Литературоведение. Языкознание. Культурология» 2024 № 7 С. 12–27
The homemade anthology book is a little-studied didactic genre today, although it represents an important source of empirical material for studying cross-sections of the era, the availability of information and its selectivity in the context of local and general social history. One of the relevant resources for searching for materials may be a Soviet textbook ...
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Апальков Д. И., М.: АИРО-XXI, 2022.
На основе архивных документов, многие из которых впервые введены в научный оборот, в книге исследована борьба в высших эшелонах большевистской
партии в 1920-е – начале 1930-х гг. Автор рассматривает внутрипартийную
борьбу как процесс разрушения режима «коллективного руководства». Изучены
перипетии политической борьбы, факторы эскалации и сдерживания конфликтов внутри большевистского руководства. Книга может быть полезна историкам, политологам, студентам соответствующих направлений, ...
Added: September 11, 2024