CONTENTS
Source studies
V.A. Kuchkin (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
«Akhmat’s word to Ivan» (on the Letter of 1480 from Akhmat the Khan of the Great Horde
to Ivan III) ..................................................................................................................
Moscovite Tsars’ enterntainments
A.B. Mazurov (State Social and Humanitarian University, Kolomna, Russia)
Kolomna «fun» of Ivan the Terrible in 1546: some new strokes to the portrait of the young
Grand Duke ................................................................................................................
S.M. Shamin (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow),
C.R. Jensen (Departament of Slavic Languages & Literatures, University of Washington,
Seattle, USA)
Foreign entertainers at the court of the first Moscow Tsars ...............................................
Searching for economic solutions
A.V. Efimov (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
Peter’s I monetary reform in historiography .....................................................................
E.G. Neklyudov (Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of
Sciences, Ekaterinburg)
Forgotten reform of mining industry in the 1860s: conception and implementation...........
M.Yu. Mukhin (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
The financial relationships between the aviation industry and the Ministry of Armed Forces
in 1945–1950 ..............................................................................................................
Russia and the world
D.B. Pavlov (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Russia’s lease of Chinese Kwantung (1898–1905): a case of modernizing colonialism? .....
E.N. Nazemtseva (Military History Research Institute Military Academy of General Staff,
Russian Armed Forces, Moscow)
On the Threshold of War: Causes and Consequences of the Dismissal of Russian Personnel
from the Chinese Eastern Railway in 1925 ................................................................... 109
History of power
V.L. Stepanov (Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Count D.M. Solsky: the Path of a liberal bureaucrat .........................................................
Institutes and communities
V.V. Kerov (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia)
Old Believers in 1917 ........................................................................................................ 143
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Professional community
V.V. Shelokhaev, K.A. Soloviev (both – Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Moscow)
February in the shadow of October (historiography and tasks for the further research) ...... 161
F.A. Seleznev (National Research Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, Russia)
Revolution of 1917 in the light of modern theories ............................................................ 172
B.I. Kolonitskiy (European University at Saint Petersburg; Saint Petersburg Institute for
History, Russian Academy of Sciences)
The year of Jubilee and historians of revolution ................................................................ 181
Reviews
V.V. Tikhonov (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Rec. ad op.: V.A. Muraviev. Teorii feodalizma v russkoy istoriografii kontsa XIX –
nachala XX v. .............................................................................................................. 188
I.N. Grebenkin (Esenin Ryazan State University, Russia)
On the Western Borders of the Empire: The First Steps of P.A. Stolypin’s Career ............. 192
V.B. Aksenov (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow)
Rec. ad op.: B.I. Kolonitskii. «Tovarishch Kerenskii»: antimonarkhicheskaia revoliutsiia i
formirovanie kul'ta «vozhdia naroda» (mart–iiun’ 1917 goda) ...................................... 195
O.S. Nagornaya (South Ural Institute of management and economics, Chelyabinsk, Russia)
Rec. ad op.: D. Beyrau. Krieg und Revolution. Russische Erfahrungen ............................. 203
V.S. Khristoforov (Institute of Russian History, Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian State
University for the Humanities, Moscow)
Rec. ad op.: Glazami razvedki. SSSR i Evropa. 1919–1938 gody. Sbornik dokumentov iz
rossiyskikh arkhivov ..................................................................................................... 206
F.A. Gayda (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
Rec. ad op.: Krizisy v sfere politiki i gosudarstvennogo upravleniia: mezhdistsiplinarniy
analiz .......................................................................................................................... 209
A.V. Korolenkov («Novaia i Noveishaia istoriia» journal, Moscow, Russia)
Rec. ad op.: B.A. Engel, J. Martin. Russia in World History ............................................. 211
D.A. Andreev (Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia)
S. Yu. Witte and public opinion in pre-revolutionary Russia ............................................. 215
Contributors to this issue ................................................................................................. 218
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