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The Personal File of Jin Richeng (Kim Il-sung): New Information on the Early Years of the First Ruler of North Korea
Acta Koreana. 2019. Vol. 22. No. 1. P. 111–128.
Tertitski Konstantin, Tertitskiy F.
This article studies an important period 1929-1931 in the life of Kim Il-sung (C. Jin Richeng), the first leader of North Korea, through an analysis of his previously unknown personal file written by officials of the Communist International in the Soviet Union in 1941 after Kim had escaped to the USSR from Manchukuo. It is possibly the first biography of Kim Il-sung ever written. The document sheds new light on some aspects of Kim's early life, including his arrest in 1929, his service in the Chinese People's National Salvation Army, and the events surrounding his admission into the Chinese Communist Party. On the basis of this file and other documents of the era, such as diaries of Kim's superior Zhou Baozhong and Comintern chief Dimitrov, this paper presents an account of Kim Il-sung's life and career in the late 1920s - early 1930s and reveals the distortions of the official North Korean biography of Kim Il-sung in service to the ideological goals of the state.
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2026.
This collection of papers explores the epic traditions of the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean, bringing together insights from remarkable scholars. Topics range from the cuneiform epic of Erra to Homeric epics and Greco-Roman literature, shedding light on the role of epic texts in shaping collective identities and understanding ancient societies. The validity of ...
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Soloshcheva M., Российское китаеведение 2026 Vol. 14 No. 1 P. 6–23
This article examines the conceptualization of Chinese soft power and the implementation
of the PRC’s soft power strategy in Africa. First introduced into academic
discourse by American political scientist Joseph Nye in 1990, the concept was subsequently
adopted and critically re-evaluated by Chinese political theorists, most notably
Wang Huning, Yan Xuetong, Yang Shengping and Zhang Guozuo. The term has ...
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Веретёнов В. А., Технологос 2023 № 2 С. 115–123
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Верняев И. И., Уральский исторический вестник 2026 Т. 92 № 3 С. 24–33
This article explores the factors driving the regional differentiation of judicial activity in the post-reform Russian Empire. The historiography is currently divided between two poles: the paradigm of legal dualism, which postulates the alienation of rural and non-Russian (inorodtsy) populations from the Crown courts, and the opposing thesis of mass grassroots legalism, large- ly verified ...
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Chronopoulos D., Вестник Омского университета. Серия: Исторические науки 2027 № 1
В 1863 г. в России отметили тысячелетие славянской письменности. Имперские власти и церковные деятели осознавали общеславянский характер праздника и его важность для «славянского вопроса». В общественной дискуссии фигуры Кирилла и Мефодия были мобилизованы для осмысления ключевых вопросов — от народного просвещения до обострившегося в связи с восстанием «Польского вопроса». Парадоксальным образом обращение к «общеславянскому» прошлому ...
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Pochekaev R. Y., Тутаев И. В., Христианское чтение 2026 № 3 С. 254–269
The article presents an attempt to clarify the general trends and analyze some specific examples of how the form and content of canon law documents in the 13th-15th centuries were affected by the fact that Russian lands were under the rule of the Golden Horde khans. The discussion covers such aspects as the types of ...
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Stoyanov R., Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia 2026 Vol. 32 No. 1 P. 1–13
This study examines the fragment of an architectural block adorned with vegetal ornamentation which was discovered at the ancient settlement of Kepoi, situated in the Asiatic Bosporus on the northern coast of the Black Sea (fig. 1). The block’s façade features a spiraling vegetal motif rendered in high relief with exceptional detail (fig. 2). The ...
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Ivantchik A., Зайцев А. В., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 86 No. 1 P. 141–152
This article publishes the inscriptions preserved on the funerary stele from Parion, discussed in the preceding article. The stele was used twice, and the Greek inscription, carved at the same time as the stele was created in the late second – early first century BC, was partly erased when it was re-used. It was reconstructed ...
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Istanbul: Ege Yayınları, 2025.
This volume presents the results of the first season of a Turkish–Russian–French research project at Parion, one of the most important Greek poleis on the southern shore of the Propontis, in the northern Troad. Archaeological excavations were carried out in July and August 2021 as part of an international project devoted to the multidisciplinary study ...
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Данилочкина К. С., Индоевропейское языкознание и классическая филология 2026 Т. 1 № 30 С. 537–546
The article examines the issue of naming the wooden writing tablets from the Roman fort Vindolanda (late 1st - first quarter of the 2nd century AD), which represent a unique corpus of epistolary and documentary sources for the history of Roman Britain. Since their discovery in the 1970s, over a thousand specimens have been found, ...
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Щавелев А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 6(164) Статья 3
The present study considers a suite of insignia recovered from the large burial mound C‐74 (Serg‐1900) within the Gnezdovo archaeological complex, dated to the 10th century. The interment was performed in situ according to the cremation‐in‐boat rite. The richness of the grave assemblage, notably the presence of several paired high‐status items (two sets of horse ...
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Романенко А. А., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2026 Т. 9 № 2 С. 71–95
В статье представлен опыт анализа славянофильского понимания «народа» — одной из ключевых тем учения славянофилов и одного из важнейших понятий их политической доктрины. Славянофильство нами рассматривается в «узком» смысле слова, как идейное объединение А.С. Хомякова, И.В. Киреевского, Ю.Ф. Самарина, К.С. и И.С. Аксаковых, А.И. Кошелева и других, сформировавшееся в начале 1840-х гг.; анализ нами доводится ...
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Kirilov D., Диалог со временем 2026 № 96 С. 146–160
This article examines Irish November 5th sermons published between 1691 and 1711. These government-issued texts are considered as instruments for shaping cultural memory and symbolic authority. Through teleological narratives grounded in a substantive philosophy of history, preachers drew parallels between biblical stories and the situation of Protestants in Ireland, transforming sacred history into lessons and ...
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Abilova R., Вестник Томского государственного университета. История 2023 № 85 С. 141–148
The article is devoted to the photographs of Lubinskis, taken in the Soviet Union in the summer of 1928. The author reconstructs the context of the creation and existence of photographs. The research is based on digital photography collections of Spaarnestad Photo Foundation and Ullstein Bildarchiv, Kurt Lubinski`s travelogue book “This is our world” (1938), ...
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Young P. I., Журнал фронтирных исследований 2026 Т. 11 № 3 С. 85–106
In 1876, a group of Swedish ironworkers arrived at the Urals in order to construct modern Swedish blast furnaces and modernize the local metal production. On the Ural frontier, they encountered a multiethnic environment populated by Russians, Germans, and Bashkirs. The present article examines the relations between the Swedish colonists and the local population with ...
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Шистерова А. Д., Сибирские исторические исследования 2026 № 2 С. 213–231
The article analyzes the sources that were presented in the emissaries’ accounts of the first two embassies from the Muscovite kingdom to China. This analysis identifies key trends that influenced the languages of space and China description development. It emphasizes the uniqueness of each emissaries’ account and the distinctive methods ambassadors used for working with ...
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Mitina E., Гуманитарные исследования в Восточной Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке 2026 № 77 С. 22–30
The article is devoted to the practice of wearing national costume in the Russian Empire in the first third of the 19th century. Two types of the national costume are analyzed: the Russian dress (women's court dress) and stylized Russian costume with a sarafan. A tradition of using Russian court dress during the celebration of ...
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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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Gužvica S., , in: Political Transformations in the Interwar Period: The Case of Slovenian Political Thought.: Ljubljana: Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino, 2026. P. 127–135.
Albert Hlebec is a paradigmatic representative of a Slovenian independentist current within the Yugoslav communist movement. Given that the Yugoslav socialist state had eventually been formed on a federal basis, the independentist currents within various local sections of the party withered away after the intro-duction of the Popular Front policy in 1935. The Popular Front ...
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Grishina D., Аксентьев Д. А., Корееведение 2025 № 4(13) С. 55–66
The article examines the emergence of the Seoul Faction on the Korean Peninsula during the 1920s. The Seoul Faction, also known as the Seoul Group, was one of the major groups within the Korean communist movement. The article analyzes the activities of representatives of the Seoul Faction and their relationships with the Co
mintern and other Korean communist ...
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Gužvica S., Historical Materialism 2025 Vol. 33 No. 2 P. 43–80
This article is a reassessment of the ‘right faction’ in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (kpj) in the 1920s. This group confronted the party leadership and the Comintern over the applicability in Yugoslavia of Leninist self-determination until secession. As such, they had been variously described as either Austro-Marxists or Serbian nationalists. However, the right faction’s ...
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Vukliš V., Gužvica S., , in: Jugoslovenski dobrovoljci u odbrani Španske republike: tematski zbornik radova.: Beograd: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2024. P. 187–249.
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Beograd: Institut za noviju istoriju Srbije, 2024.
The collection contains works that contribute to existing analyzes of the causes, course and consequences of the war in Spain. The peculiarity of the approach is reflected in the choice of Yugoslavs as a paradigmatic group of participants in the war. The anthology complements the previous histories of the war through new research on the ...
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Gužvica S., , in: Taming the Yugoslav Space: Continuities and Discontinuities in Coping with the Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th Century.: Beograd, Regensburg: Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, 2023. P. 185–211.
This article will examine the theoretical and practical continuities of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ) from Tito’s struggle to become general secretary in 1938 until the Tito-Stalin Split in 1948. I argue that the overarching political strategy of Tito and his closest associates, which remained fundamentally unchanged throughout this period, was a major, if ...
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