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Saint Petersburg State University

This article investigates perceptions of Japan’s policies as an ally of the anti-Bolshevik movement in the socio-political press of West Siberia during the Civil War. The article discusses features of the coverage of Japanese politics and uncertainty about it in the pages of variou...

The article examines the activities of the “Petrograd Mutual Aid Society” (OVP) in Omsk during the Civil War. Using unique documents from collection R4673 of the State Archive of the Russian Federation (GARF), as well as the periodical press, this article provides the first ri...

Using the materials from periodicals from 1917, as well as the documents and memoirs devoted to the “Berdychiv episode” of the Kornilov Affair, this article covers one of the episodes of the Kornilov Affair (or Kornilov Putsch) at the Southwestern Front. The arrests of Lieuten...

This article presents an analytical review of most recent historical discourse on the Russian Revolution of 1917. Drawing on contemporary historical scholarship, it analyzes the main trends and elements of modern historiography, focusing on the most recent events that preceded the 100th ...

Review on: Kuzminykh A. L. “Military Captivity and Internment in the USSR (1939–1956)”

The article represents reflections on A. A. Ivanov's “A Case of Honor”: Deputies of the State Duma and Duel Scandals (1906–1917)"(“Delo chesti”: deputaty Gosudarstvennoi dumy i duel’nye skandaly (1906–1917)). The general structure of Ivanov's monograph may lead one to the conclusion&...

This article examines the international conference “The Civil War and Russian Regions: contemporary perceptions, new approaches and assessments held by the Institute of History and State Administration of Bashkir State University in Ufa, November 29–30, 2018. Co-organizers of the conference were&...

This article discusses criminal myths in the Russian public consciousness as an element of social mythology that arises and evolves in the process of society’s historical development and reflects social reality and changes. Using Soviet propaganda literature, archival materials, Soviet films,...

This article provides one of the first studies of nation-building in Yakutia from 1922 to the end of the 1930s. The largest ethnic community in this region became the subject of a global process of activating national movements at the site of disintegrated multinational empire...

After the October Revolution, those peoples who did not agree with revolutionary changes decided to go into emigration, and among those were North Caucasian refugees. This article aims to describe the vectors of migration taken by North Caucasian refugees in the 1920s and 1930s,&#x...

This article investigates urban water infrastructures in the Russian Empire and USSR during the “Long 20th Century” and focuses on prospects for further development in infrastructural and environmental history within the framework of this subject. Infrastructural history has been particularly not...

This article investigates the history of Russian émigrés and Soviet intelligence personnel in Shanghai in 1945–1949. Using historical documents recently discovered in the Shanghai Municipal Archives (S. M. A.), the author analyzes the activities of Soviet and Shanghai intelligence and counterinte...

The article is explore the "case" in 1938–1940 of the famous historian Sergei Valerianovich Voznesenskii. Genuine archival materials—investigative case files from the FSB archive for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region—provide reasons for his arrest and circumstances of this scholar’s&#x...

The article describes the fate of the unique archives of the headquarters of the Russian Squadron, which was located at the port of Bizerte from 1921 to 1924. After evacuating of the Crimea and spending a short time in Constantinople, the Russian military fleet was sent&#...