Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.18
Iliyana Atanasova (Marcheva)
{"title":"Celebration the 140th anniversary of the Russo-Turkish liberation war of 1877-1878 in the context of Bulgaria-Russia relations 2007-2018","authors":"Iliyana Atanasova (Marcheva)","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.18","url":null,"abstract":"Considering anniversaries as part of the so-called «politics of memory» executed by the state which in fact is a tool used to construct Bulgarian identity, the author analyses three celebrations, i.e. the 130th (2008), the 135th (2013) and the 140th (2018) anniversaries of the end of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 that took place in Bulgaria in the form of national events. The article shows gradual formation of the offi cial interpretation of ‘March 3rd' that proceeded from 1991 to 2018 as well as attitudes of historians and expert discussions' contents. Special attention is paid to the three international conferences devoted to Liberation of Bulgaria that took place in 2008-2018. It is concluded that the anniversaries in question refl ect the official «politics of memory» exercised in Bulgaria taking into account all stages of modern Bulgaria-Russia relations (normalization, cooling, stagnation) and the authorities' desire not to come down to outspoken Russophobia.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126528148","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.22
E. Guskova
{"title":"Yugoslavia on the brink of break-up: was it possible to avoid the war?","authors":"E. Guskova","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.22","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the times when the foreign policy of the USSR in relation to socialist countries changed, and the “Gorbachev Doctrine” appeared in perestroika. M. S. Gorbachev was actively engaged in foreign policy issues, lying his particular attention to Europe. The author tries to fi nd an answer to the question: to what extent was he interested in the Balkans? To answer this question, the author refers to one of the signifi cant events of that time - M. S. Gorbachev's visit to Yugoslavia in 1988. It was then when the foundations of the country's Balkan policy were laid, which manifested itself in the 1990s. The visit gave Mikhail Gorbachev an opportunity to get to know Yugoslavia better, to get a better idea of the life of the peoples of this country, to feel the love of the Yugoslavs for Russia and the Russian people. As Gorbachev's close party comrades supposed, it was during the years of perestroika that a full understanding was reached between the leadership of the USSR and Yugoslavia. The contents of the conversations, and the fi nal documents gave the Yugoslav side the assurance that mutual understanding reached will in case of possible difficulties allow it to be provided with Soviet help and support. It is this kind of assistance that Yugoslavia would need in two years, when the country began to fall apart, when Slovenia and Croatia decided to leave the Federation on their own and received full support from Germany and the United States. But Moscow refused to help.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131160733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.19
Svetlozar Eldarov
{"title":"A review of the military and historical studies of World War I in Bulgaria","authors":"Svetlozar Eldarov","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.19","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reviews the development of the Bulgarian historiography of the First World War, which can be divided into three totally different periods. The publications from the 1920s and 1930s can be viewed as a product of a national school that is strongly marked with the trauma from the political catastrophes and unrealised national projects. The second period covers the Communist era or the totalitarian government of Bulgaria (September 9, 1944 - November 10, 1989) and includes an evolution from a total denial of the past historiographic schools, i.e. a complete ignoring of the topic of the ideological and political motives, to its gradual rehabilitation. In the last three decades, since there have been many jubilee celebrations of the World War I end and Bulgaria's participation in it, the interest of historians towards this topic has risen as well as acquirement of new research areas.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132170116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.1
V. Kashirin
{"title":"\"The Tartar raid in great multitude was committed\": Khan Qirim Girai's incursion into the Russian Empire province of Yelisavetgrad in the winter of 1769","authors":"V. Kashirin","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.1","url":null,"abstract":"The article is devoted to the depredatory and massive incursion of the Crimean Khanate forces commanded by Khan Qirim Girai into Yelisavetgrad province of the Russian Empire (former Novoserbia) in January 1769, at the very beginning of the Russo-Turkish war of 1768-1774. 2019 was marked by the 250th anniversary of this milestone event that became the last full-scale Tatar raid into Russian lands. There has been no special research devoted to this topic so far while in the existing historical works the assessments of the consequences of the Khan Qirim Girai's incursion and the actions of Russian military commanders, general en chef Pyotr Rumyantsev in particular, seem one-sided and biased. The article covers the prerequisites and preparations for the incursion, Russian military commanders' intelligence data, parties' plans and forces, their actions as well as recreation of detailed timeline and geographical scope; disputes among Russian military leaders and the reasons for their misfortunes are also analysed; records of losses and material damage are presented in this paper. Along with the well-known sources the author uses the documents from the Russian State Military Historical Archive and the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library that have not been introduced into scientifi c discourse.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133146108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2021
{"title":"Russia: A Look at the Balkans. Eighteenth - Nineteenth Centuries. On the 100th anniversary of Irina S. Dostyan's","authors":"","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124545167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.15
N. Gusev
{"title":"Appeals to the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 in times of military conflicts of the first half of the 20th century","authors":"N. Gusev","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.15","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the emergence of the memory of the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 in Russia in the fi rst half of the twentieth century. It considers the three key, non-anniversary, and therefore in their true colours, mentions of the war - the Balkan wars, the First World War and the entrance of the Red army into the territory of Bulgaria in 1944. The difference between those moments is traced, the instrumental nature of historical memory is also high-lighted.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131086339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.9
O. Petrunina
{"title":"Great Eastern Crisis of 1875-1878 covered by the Constantinople newspaper «Βυζαντίς» (“Byzantis”)","authors":"O. Petrunina","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.9","url":null,"abstract":"The article deals with the events of the Great Eastern Crisis, which took place in the 1870s, covered by the newspaper «Βυζαντίς» that appeared to be one of few Greek newspapers in Constantinople coming out regularly at that time. Dimitrios Xenis's attitude, who was its owner and chief editor, was de-termined by the need to keep balance between his loyalty to the Great Porte and his wish to preserve good relations with Russia. One more factor affecting the paper's course was its sympathy to the expansionist endeavours of the Kingdom of Greece.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121126206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.3
O. Alpeev
{"title":"Russian Planning a War against the Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and Turkey Coalition in 1878","authors":"O. Alpeev","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.3","url":null,"abstract":"The article considers Russia planning a war against the coalition of Great Britain, Austria-Hungary and Turkey in 1878. When the Russo-Turkish war of 1877-1878 was over, the Russian high military command attempted to resolve the Eastern Question and seize the Strait of Bosphorus and Constantinople. Having faced the opposition from Great Britain and Austria-Hungary, the Rus-sian command hesitated to capture Constantinople and the Bosphorus, which led to Russia's failure at the Congress of Berlin. War plans worked out by the General Staff and two-star general N.N. Obruchev, meant to help conduct military operations in the Balkans and Galicia were never realised.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128081204","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.21
T. Volokitina
{"title":"Between Scylla and Charybdis: Bulgaria in geopolitical calculations of Germany and the USSR at the early stage of World War II","authors":"T. Volokitina","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.21","url":null,"abstract":"The article covers the position of Bulgaria, which found itself at the cross-roads of geopolitical interests of Germany and the Soviet Union in the initial period of the Second world war and was forced to employ the tactics of maneuvering and dragging its heels choosing its strategic partner and ally. Having declared complete and consistent neutrality, Bulgarian leadership in practice tended to turn the country into a «Pro-German» unit, which was greatly facilitated by the assistance of Berlin in the transfer of Southern Dobrudja to Bulgaria. In addition to the willingness of the German leadership to guarantee territorial increments of Bulgaria, Sofia's position was to a great extent influenced by the fear of Bolshevism and the so-called «Baltic scenario» implemented by that time. Bulgaria's entry into the Triple Pact in March of 1941 meant that the USSR lost the diplomatic battle for Bulgaria.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131235553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Slavs and RussiaPub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.31168/2618-8570.2019.12
O. Sokolovskaya
{"title":"One hundred years of Greece's struggle for territorial expansion (1820-1920)","authors":"O. Sokolovskaya","doi":"10.31168/2618-8570.2019.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31168/2618-8570.2019.12","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a brief overview of the Greeks' consistent state activities to expand their territory, guided by nationalist principles, which proceeded over a hundred years in the 19th and early 20th century.","PeriodicalId":156102,"journal":{"name":"Slavs and Russia","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123029241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}