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Мы и Африка. К 50-летию Центра африканских исследований Института всеобщей истории РАН
Academic editor: Filatova I. I., Балезин А. С., Мазов С. В.
Editor-in-chief: Davidson A. B.
The book was prepared for the 50th anniversary of the Center for African Studies at IVI RAS. It contains scientific articles by the staff of the Center, congratulations from a colleague of friends, memories of the difficult path of this scientific team. It completes the list of collective and individual works published by the Center for 50 years.
Chapters
Voevodskiy A., В кн.: Мы и Африка. К 50-летию Центра африканских исследований Института всеобщей истории РАН.: М.: Институт всеобщей истории РАН, 2021. С. 122–132.
The author analyzes the perception of Soviet-Chinese contradictions by representatives of the anti-colonial movements in Southern Africa on the basis of documents from the archival collection of the International Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU of the Russian State Archive of Contemporary History. As archival documents show, the confrontation between the USSR and ...
Added: July 7, 2022
Filatova I. I., В кн.: Мы и Африка. К 50-летию Центра африканских исследований Института всеобщей истории РАН.: М.: Институт всеобщей истории РАН, 2021. Гл. 3 С. 43–59.
The chapter is devoted to the history of the Centre of African Studies at the Institute of General History of the Russian Academu of Sciences and to the author's personal participation in its work. ...
Added: August 10, 2022
Боголюбов Е. А., Попов А. К., Ежегодник финно-угорских исследований 2026 Т. 20 № 3 С. 387–397
The article examines the problems of nation-building in the North-West of the RSFSR, describes the shortcomings of native legislation in relation to the Autonomous Region of Komi (Zyryan) in the 1920s. Tribal councils were established in the RSFSR as early as the first half of the 1920s. At the same time, individual regions adopted their ...
Added: October 18, 2026
Nikolay Sarkisyan, Revolutionary Russia 2025 Vol. 38 No. 1 P. 1–23
This article examines the emergence and evolution of revolutionary museology in Imperial Russia between 1901 and 1917, addressing a previously understudied aspect of revolutionary culture. By analysing four successive attempts to establish revolutionary museums – the Russian Museum in Geneva (1901–1902), Maxim Gorky’s initiative on Capri (1912–1913), Vladimir Burtsev’s various projects, and the Petrograd House ...
Added: October 14, 2026
ИДВ РАН, 2026.
This paper addresses the issue perceiving the national Vietnamese costume as a tool of cultural representation in the context of official state events held in Vietnam and abroad. The study focuses on specific cases of protocol visits, meetings, forums, and beauty contests, where the ao dai and other types and elements of national clothing are ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Dadykina M., Известия Российской академии образования 2026 Т. 2 № 74 С. 50–65
In modern economic law, the concept of "business entity" refers to an individual or legal entity (or association) en- gaged in economic activity for profit. Since the concept of a legal entity in Russia only fully developed in the late 18th century, the use of this term in the context of the Russian economy of ...
Added: October 12, 2026
Kanaev A. A., Вестник Пермского университета. Серия: История 2026 № 3(74) С. 159–168
The current article is dedicated to the specifics of how the image of the “East” correlated with Russian national identity in the political languages of Russian nationalists in the 1990s. The focus is on situations in which certain positive features of the imaginary “East,” as opposed to the “West,” were associated with the Russian nation. ...
Added: October 10, 2026
Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592
The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of
4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous
references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the
1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran
studies after the official ...
Added: October 9, 2026
Абзалов Л. Ф., Гатин М., Мустакимов И. А. et al., Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья 2026 № 22 С. 395–406
The article is devoted to the analysis of the office of mushrif in the states of traditional Orient. The sources and researches characterize this institution in different ways. One authors consider mushrif as a representative of a treasure office, others states that he was a kind of ‘undercover agent” who fulfilled ruler’s secret orders in ...
Added: October 8, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 7, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 5, 2026
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). ...
Added: October 5, 2026
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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. ...
Added: October 5, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 4, 2026
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 ...
Added: October 2, 2026
М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2025.
Представленная коллективная монография включает в себя мате риалы международной научной конференции «Бартольдовские чтения», проходившей в Институте востоковедения РАН 24–26 апреля 2024 г. Это издание объединяет авторов, изучающих самые разные регионы Азии, Африки и Мезоамерики, научные интересы которых связаны в том числе с проблемой интерпретации, трансформации, политического и социаль ного значения «титула» и «титулатуры» в оседлых ...
Added: September 23, 2025
М.: Институт всеобщей истории РАН, 2023.
The collective monograph examines different types and types of primary sources on the history of Tropical and Southern Africa, in some cases using specific examples. In particular, we are talking about archival materials, the press, memoirs, oral historical tradition, and visual primary sources. The current state of the primary source base for African studies and ...
Added: January 21, 2024
Chikina V., Стренадько Т. В., Квадрат, 2023.
Книга "Немножко Африки. Экспедиция к подножию Килиманджаро 1888 года в путевых рисунках А.А. Чикина" подготовлена по материалам выставки в ФГБУК Музей-заповедник "Музей Мирового океана" в 2023. ...
Added: December 2, 2023
Chikina V., Петербургские исследования 2016 № 6 С. 196–207
The article investigates the St. Petersburg addresses associated with the life and work of Alexander Andreevich Chikin, painter, inventor and traveler of St. Petersburg. А. A. Chikin is the inventor of a parabolic mirror in Russia. He was in expedition by equatorial Africa in 1888 year. He was the first Russian man camped at Mount ...
Added: December 2, 2023
Vasiliev Alexey M., Degterev Denis A., Shaw T. et al., Cham: Springer, 2023.
In light of the growing number of African summits and a new awareness of international interdependence during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Africa’s international relations (IR). Leading IR scholars from Africa and around the world examine international cooperation with African countries in areas such as health ...
Added: October 4, 2023
Abramova Irina O., Amuhaya Clare Ayuma, Apuuli K. et al., Cham: Springer, 2021.
This book discusses the prospects for the development of the African continent as part of the emerging system of international relations in the twenty-first century. African countries are playing an increasingly important part in the current system of international relations. Nevertheless, even 60 years after gaining their independence, most of them are confronted with regional ...
Added: September 7, 2023
Filatova I. I., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2022 Т. 13 № 3(113) Статья 2
The article looks at the most important tendencies and trends in foreign (mostly English language), Soviet and Russian African Studies, from the 1960s (and even earlier, as far as Soviet African studies are concerned) util today. It offers a comparative analysis of their trajectories and assesses them from the point of view of their contribution ...
Added: August 10, 2022