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A Folk Legend of the Meeting of Stalin with Christ in the Kremlin (Based on OGPU Materials)

Stalin’s Catechism: Interview with historians David Brandenberger and Mikhail Zelenov about ‘Stalin’s Master Narrative’

The article discusses a book by the well-known St. Petersburg scholar and Doctor of History, Professor Petr Bazanov that explores the life and activity of the Russian émigré historian and thinker Nikolay Uljanov (1904– 1985). This book was published in 2018 in St. Peter...

The paper analyzes the main landmarks in the historiography of Russia’s Civil War, both Russian and foreign, those most important and prominent projects and editions as an experience and foundation for a new and fundamental collective research of this subject. The author cha...

During the Cold War, the superpowers used their ideologies as symbolic capital in the struggle for new spheres of influence. The United States emphasized slogans of freedom and democratic values, and the USSR propagated ideas of socialism. One of the key “messages” exploited...

In this article, the authors, using the rich historical path traversed by China, analyze the influence of the October Revolution of 1917 on this country in terms of the spread of the Russian language on its territory. They note that the first attempts to spread...

The article explores the transformations of Petrograd institutions in charge of press censorship carried out in 1919. The author pays attention to previously little-known facts about the transfer of supervisory functions in the field of publishing. It was established that the Com...

The article explores the life and activities of the prominent regional economic manager Nikolai Smirnov (1906–1962), who served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council in 1954–1962. Smirnov was a colorful and talented person. At the same time, he...

The article examines some early Soviet contacts with Indian planners to show effects on economists and economic ideas in both countries. Using documents from Soviet and Indian archives, this article traces effects of Soviet advisors working with the Indian Planning Commission at&...

This article analyses the formation and development of personality cults in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Taking the idea of the mutual influence between ideology and broad masses as its basis, the author’s objective is a better understanding of the evolution of the&#x...

The longstanding friendship between the Yakovlev and Ulyanov families is a wide-ranging topic. The Ulyanov family has been thoroughly studied by historians, but the Yakovlevs did not enjoy comparable attention. The most renowned of this last clan was Alexey Ivanovich Yakovlev, wh...

Archival materials on the criminal case against Omsk priest V. F. Infantev provides potentially important insights into political repression in the USSR. Because the reliability of various documents in this case might not be of equal validity, it is necessary initially to as...

In the territory of the Vladimir province in 1905–1914 there were thirty local organizations of the “Union of the Russian People.” However, after the end of the First Russian Revolution, activists of monarchist organizations, having considered their mission accomplished, began to ...

The present article analyses a unique historical source: diaries, letters, and notes by Barguzin gold entrepreneur Yakov Friser (1869–1932). Friser’s archive depicted not only his outstanding personality, but also the peculiarities of the gold industry in Eastern Siberia at the turn&#...