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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.
Popov A., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2025 Vol. 95 No. 6 P. 689–699
The article examines the export of Soviet oil to the CMEA countries in 1965–1985, relying on statistical data from declassified collections of Foreign Trade of CMEA Member Countries, which are being made available to scholars for the first time. The author argues that economic motives played a significant role in the expansion of Soviet oil ...
Added: October 8, 2026
Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143
The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...
Added: October 7, 2026
Khlevniuk O. V., Journal of Slavic Military Studies 2026 Vol. 39 No. 3 P. 447–466
The Gulag as a system of terror and forced labor was the
cornerstone of Soviet mobilization efforts in the 1930s.
Paradoxically, during the war with Nazi Germany, the
Gulag’s capacities and economic significance did not grow,
but in fact declined, contrary to what one would expect. The
massive use of prisoners as a source for replenishing the
army and the huge ...
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Selin A. A., Яблокова И. В., Вспомогательные исторические дисциплины 2026 Т. 45 № 3 С. 609–619
This article examines the possibility of reconstructing the archives of the Novgorod Prikaznaya Izba (office) from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the materials of which were partially destroyed and partially scattered across various archival repositories. Some of these materials have been introduced into scholarly circulation, while others remain unidentified. There is a debate ...
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Popov A., Pivovarov N. Y., Russian Review 2026 Vol. 85 No. 4 P. 461–477
This article challenges the conventional narrative that the transferable ruble was conceived as a Soviet means of challenging Western financial hegemony. Drawing on previously unpublished archival mate rial from Russian state archives, it argues that the currency emerged primarily from a pragmatic need to settle accumulated debts within the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). ...
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This collection presents papers from the 17th All-Russian Scientific Conference (2026), attended by staff and students from Russian higher education institutions, school teachers, and professionals from libraries and archives engaged in research on national history and historiography. ...
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Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2026 Т. 25 № 3 С. 318–353
In the concluding part of the Second Anti-Critique (1910), Max Weber summarizes the substantive
findings of his own contributions to the debate with the historian Felix Rachfahl. In doing so, he uses the response to his relentless critic as an opportunity to articulate once again, in an explicit manner and for both his own benefit and that of the ...
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Kamenskii A. B., Екатеринбург: Издательство Уральского университета, 2026.
This volume has been prepared to mark the anniversary of the distinguished Ural scholar Dmitry Alekseyevich Redin. It presents research and published source texts contributed by Dmitry Alekseyevich’s colleagues, friends, and students. The diverse range of studies—covering various aspects of Russian social history from the late 16th through the 18th century, as well as issues ...
Added: October 3, 2026
Kamenskii A. B., Quaestio Rossica 2026 Т. 14 № 3 С. 939–959
This article examines one of the significant figures in the system of governance of Russia during the reign of Catherine II: Prince Alexander Alekseevich Vyazemsky, Prosecutor General of the Senate, who held this post for approximately thirty years. During this period, the scope of his activities continually expanded to encompass the administration of finances; various construction ...
Added: October 3, 2026
Grishina D., Исаева В. М., Journal of Sinographic Philologies and Legacies 2026 Vol. 2 No. 3 P. 47–64
The second half of the nineteenth century became a time of many dramatic events on the Korean peninsula. With opening the country to trade and diplomacy with Westernized (Japan) or Western (USA, France, Great Britain) countries led to a division within Korean society, since the 1880s Chosŏn (Korea) has entered the age of political and ...
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Крестьянников Е. А., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 174–201
This article continues previously published research (Krest’yannikov, E. A. (2025) “‘Kubki vlasti’ Petra Vologodskogo: kar’ernye stupeni yurista v usloviyakh revolyutsii i Grazhdanskoi voiny (1917–1919). Chast’ I” [“Petr Vologodskii ‘Cups of Power’: Career Steps of a Lawyer in the Time of Revolutions and Civil War (1917–1919). Part I”], Territoriya: zhurnal istoricheskikh issledovanii, 2, pp. 164–200) and ...
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Boyarchenkov V., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 61–94
В статье рассматривается место, которое занимали в структуре и практиках московского Общества истории и древностей российских (ОИДР) исследователи из других городов. Установлено, что руководство Общества, на протяжении многих десятилетий декларируя в уставе заинтересованность в привлечении знатоков старины со всей России, в то же время крайне неохотно предоставляло им полноправный статус действительных членов. Опора на патронажные ...
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Parsamov V., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 240–254
Рецензия на книгу: Лямина Е., Самовер Н. Иван Крылов – Superstar. Феномен русского баснописца. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2024. 760 с. ...
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Chronopoulos D., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 225–239
Рецензия на книгу: Миллер А. И. Имперская нация в Российской империи. М.: ИНИОН РАН, 2025. 201 с. ...
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Egorova G., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 212–228
Рецензия на книгу: Попов А. Д. Созвездие немеркнущей славы: города-герои Юга России и советская память о Великой Отечественной войне. Симферополь: Н. Орiанда, 2025. 276 с. ...
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Gorelov R., Территория: журнал исторических исследований 2026 Т. 2 № 1 С. 200–211
Рецензия на книгу: Быстрова И. В. Британский союзник: организация военно-экономических поставок в СССР в 1941–1945 гг. Документальное исследование. М.: Весь мир, 2022. 576 с. ...
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Алымов С. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 2(160) Статья 21
The article discusses the development of the philosophy of history, i.e. the most general ideas about history and its patterns in the USSR in the 1920s - 1980s. It considers the debates on history that unfolded around O. Spengler's civilizational approach and the criticism of mechanism in the 1920s, the philosophy of history of V. ...
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Ганин А. В., Диалог со временем 2026 № 96 С. 451–454
The article provides an overview of the new book by the famous historian and philosopher S.A. Ekshtut, "The Daily Life of the Russian Intelligentsia during the Decline of the Empire," which is the result of the author's many years of research on the history of the Russian intelligentsia of the XIX – early XX century. The ideas, sometimes ...
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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 ...
Added: May 27, 2025
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 ...
Added: October 1, 2024