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PHJ № 1 (37) 2023 – А. I. Bogomolov. Another forgotten genocide. Review of the book: Soviet Prisoners of War in the Second World War on Polish Soil: Collected Articles. Edited by J. Wojtkowiak

The history of Soviet prisoners of War in World War II remains poorly studied, but certain aspects of this history do not coincide with the next general line of historical policy every time and are doomed to oblivion. The research of modern Polish historians collected in the reviewed book and are intended to familiarize readers with this complex problem.

PHJ No 4 (36) 2022 – V.L. Piankevich. Review of the collection of documents: Blockade in the decisions of the leading party bodies of Leningrad. 1941–1944. Parts I–III. STPb. 2019–2022

The collection of documents is a continuation of the work on the publication of official documents on the World War II and the blockade. Together with published documents of personal origin, the new edition significantly expands the source base for research on the history of the defense and Leningrad blockade. This is a unique, first, complete, specific publication of the most important documents of the highest regional authorities and administration, almost all of which (98%) were previously kept in secret. The published documents make it possible to study the most important issues of military production, the supply and distribution of food, the management of Leningrad and the Leningrad Region, the economy and urban economy, etc.

PHJ No 4 (36) 2022 – S.N.Iskyul. Review of the book: Gorshkov D.I. La Garde au feu! Napoleon’s Imperial Guard during the Retreat of 1812: Condition, Efficiency and Inter-Regimental Communication: Scientific monograph. Moscow. 2022

The review is devoted to a critical analysis of D. I. Gorshkov’s monograph “La Garde au feu! Napoleon’s Imperial Guard during the Retreat of 1812: Condition, Efficiency and Inter-Regimental Communication”.

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PHJ № 2 (34) 2022 — P. V. Krylov. “GET BEHIND SOMEONE ELSE’S GAME”. BOOK REVIEW: TRAVIN D. YA. WHY HAS RUSSIA LAGGED BEHIND? ST. PETERSBURG: EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY IN ST. PETERSBURG, 2021

The review analyzes a polemical book that examines the history of Russia in the Middle Ages and early Modern times in the context of modernization theory. The author of the reviewed work convincingly proves the objective reasons for the lower intensity of modernization of Russia against the background of neighboring countries.

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PHJ № 2 (34) 2022 — P. A. Avakov. A NEW STUDY ABOUT THE RUSSIAN-TURKISH WAR OF 1710–1713 (REVIEW OF THE MONOGRAPH: ARTAMONOV V. A. THE TURKISH-RUSSIAN WAR OF 1710–1713. MOSCOW: KUCHKOVO POLE, 2019. 448 P.)

The monograph under review is a serious contribution to the study of the foreign policy and military history of Russia in the first decades of the 18th сentury. V. A. Artamonov used a large array of historical sources (primarily archival ones) and offered a number of innovative assessments and conclusions.

PHJ № 3 (35) 2022 – I. K. Bogomolov. Review of monograph: McGeever B. Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution. Cambridge. 2019

The review analyzes the monograph of the Doctor of Philosophy, professor of Sociology at Birkbeck (University of London) Brendan McGeever on anti-Semitism in revolutionary Russia and in the first years of Soviet power. It is stated that the title of the book — “Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution” — does not fully correspond to the content. Nevertheless, the study of the Bolshevik response to antisemitism during the Russian Civil War was carried out at a high level with the involvement of a large number of archival sources. 

PHJ № 3 (35) 2022 – A. Yu. Bendin. Reviewed in: Journals of the Committee of Western Provinces / Ed. by T. V. Andreeva, I. N. Wibe, B. P. Milovidov, D. N. Shilov. Vol. 1-2. St. Petersburg. 2017-2021

For Russian historical science, the western provinces of Russia still remain a topic in many ways. It will require many years of efforts by a large number of researchers whose will have extensive work to identify new arrays of sources, assimilate new research approaches and develop new concepts in it study. The idea that the Western Edge of the Russian Empire was one of the most problematic for the policy of the imperial center has a long history. Historiographical schools and traditions of studying this region began to form in the XIX century In Russia, having been developed after the Polish rebellion of 1863-1864.

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PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — I. V. Zimin, A. A. Zhuravlev. REVIEW OF THE BOOK: GRAND DUCAL RESIDENCES OF THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE IN 1826–1917: CONSTRUCTION ECONOMICS. STUDY AND DOCUMENTS / COMP. A. A. EFIMOV. ST. PETERSBURG, ISTORICHESKAYA ILLUSTRATSIYA, 2020. 288 P.

Review of the collection of research and documents prepared by the group of authors consisting of A. A. Efimov, S. S. Kurochkin and O. A. Lyubeznikov under the leadership of A. A. Efimov. The publication examines and publishes documents reflecting certain aspects of the participation of the august customers in the administration and financing of palace construction. Its main advantage lies in the introduction of archival documents into scientific circulation, which significantly supplement the history of the creation of a number of palaces of the members of the House of Romanov both in St. Petersburg and in the regions of Russia.

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PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — S. N. Iskul. REVIEW OF THE MONOGRAPH: TROITSKIY N. A. NAPOLEON THE GREAT: IN 2 VOLS. [EDITED BY M. V. KOVALEV, V. G. STEPANOV]. M.: POLITICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2020. (THE WORLD OF FRENCH REVOLUTION). Т. 1: CITIZEN BONAPARTE. 526 С. Т. 2: EMPEROR NAPOLEON. 549 С.

The review is devoted to a critical analysis of the biographical study of Professor N. A. Troitsky “Napoleon the Great”, published in 2 volumes in Moscow, by the Publishing House “Political Encyclopedia” (2021).

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PHJ № 1 (33) 2022 — E. K. Piotrovskaya. REVIEW OF THE BOOK: “THE CHURCH OF HAGIA SOPHIA IN CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE LIGHT OF THE BYZANTINE SOURCES”

The book presents the corpus of Byzantine texts on the Church of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople translated into Russian and accompanied by commentary. There are translations of all the main Byzantine sources on Hagia Sophia from the 6th to the 12th c.: Procopius, Agathias, John Malala, Theophanes the Confessor, Paul the Silentiary, Michael of Thessaloniki. The translations are preceded chapters surveying the history and architecture of the Great Church. The book is interested not only for scholars, but all of them who wants to know more about Byzantine.