{"title":"The Historic-Genealogical Society in Moscow, Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries","authors":"O. Naumov","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2016.1194644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2016.1194644","url":null,"abstract":"Despite political upheaval and intellectual disagreements between scholars in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russian studies of genealogy made great strides in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, especially through the efforts of the Historico-Genealogical Society.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"55 1","pages":"10 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2016.1194644","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59604065","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}
{"title":"Russian Cultural History Lost and Found","authors":"Katia Dianina","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2016.1182835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2016.1182835","url":null,"abstract":"Revival is a key concept for post-Soviet cultural identity, and “Lost and Found” has become a familiar theme in contemporary culture. Following decades of ruthless destruction and neglect, the first post-Soviet decades have seen the most conscientious effort to regain those losses, with remarkable results. The current research in Museum Studies addresses the dispersal of the Russian cultural heritage that took place during the Soviet era.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"141 1","pages":"279 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2016.1182835","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59604013","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}
{"title":"Twentieth-Century Museums of National History and Literature in Contemporary Russia","authors":"Sofia Tchouikina","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169128","url":null,"abstract":"The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 forced museums and other guardians of the nation's cultural heritage to reassess their priorities and develop new, nonideological missions in presenting their collections to the public.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"350 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59603891","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}
{"title":"The Rosenberg Task Force and the Export of Cultural Assets from the USSR","authors":"M. S. Zinich","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169134","url":null,"abstract":"The Reichsleiter Rosenberg Task Force (ERR) was most energetically engaged in the theft and expropriation of Russian cultural assets. Captured documents, now declassified, held in the former Special Archive and the Central State Archive of Ukraine, contain valuable information on its activity.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"328 - 339"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169134","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59603959","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}
{"title":"Between State and Church","authors":"E. Nikiforenko","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169131","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the controversial relations between the museum and the Church in post-Soviet Russia. The study and detailed analysis of past experience pertaining to those relations are essential if a way is to be found for the museums and the Church to work together going forward. The conflict between Church and museum that is grounded in the apportioning of church property is characteristic of both Russia and other countries formerly in the Soviet sphere of influence. St. Sampson's Cathedral, a unique historical and architectural monument of the first half of the eighteenth century, was a test case for a policy of fruitful, conflict-free coexistence between a museum and a functioning place of worship.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"313 - 327"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59603916","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}
{"title":"Russia and Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century","authors":"Iurii V. Rodovich","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169132","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of restitution, of returning illicitly exported items of cultural value, is examined in the context of Russo-German relations of the 1990s and the early twenty-first century, with analysis of the respective stance of both states on the issue.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"340 - 349"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59603925","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}
{"title":"The Nationalization of Private Collections as a State Project","authors":"M. L. Kharlova","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169129","url":null,"abstract":"The nationalization of private collections after October 1917, their inevitable dissolution, and their subsequent exportation, took place against the background of political instability and the destruction of old state structures, not to mention the separation of Church and state. As a result, all the icon collections became the property of the new regime. The Education Commissariat took the lead in centralizing the collecting and inventorying process.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"286 - 312"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169129","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59603904","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}
{"title":"I.A. Vyshnegradskii and S.Iu. Witte","authors":"V. Stepanov","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169122","url":null,"abstract":"The competitive partnership between Ivan Vyshnegradskii and Sergei Witte reveals much about the future prime minister's complex personality.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"210 - 237"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59603663","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}
{"title":"Guest Editor's Introduction","authors":"V. Stepanov","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169120","url":null,"abstract":"The complex and controversial figure of Prime Minister Sergei Witte, long a favorite subject for historians, continues to attract attention 150 years after his birth.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"183 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59604105","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}
{"title":"On the Socio-Political and Government Activity of S.Iu. Witte in 1914–Early 1915","authors":"V. Strakhov","doi":"10.1080/10611983.2015.1169124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169124","url":null,"abstract":"Despite accurately predicting that Russia's entry into World War I would lead to the destruction of both the Russian and the German monarchies, Sergei Witte hoped to see his former political power restored in late 1914 and early 1915.","PeriodicalId":89267,"journal":{"name":"Russian studies in history","volume":"54 1","pages":"238 - 256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/10611983.2015.1169124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59603678","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}