Department of History

The Head of the department — Igor K. Bogomolov.

Focus of research:

Research conducted by the department spans several fields, such as the philosophy and methodology of history, Russian and world history, the history of international relations, and areas including archaeology, anthropology, and ethnology. The department's tasks also include monitoring current trends in historical studies within Russia and abroad, and offering informational and methodological support for historical education in Russia.

The department publishes the academic journal Social Sciences and Humanities. Domestic and Foreign Literature. Series 5: History, which includes research articles, review articles, book reviews, translations, and abstracts covering topics such as Russian and world history, source studies, historiography, ethnology, anthropology, archaeology, and auxiliary sciences of history.

Researchers: 

• Olga L. Aleksandri, senior editor;
• Aleksandr V. Apanasenok, Dr.Sc. (History), leading researcher;
• Oksana V. Babenko, PhD (History) senior researcher;
• Igor K. Bogomolov, PhD. (History), head of the department;
• Ekaterina A. Buzdalina, research assistant;
• Julia V. Dunaeva, PhD (History), senior researcher;
• Irina E. Eman, researcher;
• Elena N. Emelianova, PhD (History), senior researcher;
• Tatiana M. Fadeeva, PhD (History), leading researcher;
• Anna A. Komzolova, PhD (History), senior researcher;
• Valerii P. Liubin, Dr.Sc. (History), chief researcher;
• Aleksandr E. Medovichev, senior editor;
• Mikhail M. Mints, PhD (History), senior researcher;
• Daria V. Petrukhina, researcher;
• Aleksei F. Savchenko, research assistant;
• Tatiana B. Uvarova, Dr.Sc. (History), chief researcher.

Latest major publications

Books:

• Babenko O. V. Istoriia russkogo opernogo teatra v pravlenie Aleksandra I i Nikolaia I: Otechestvennaia i zarubezhnaia istoriografiia: Analiticheskii obzor [The history of the Russian opera theatre in the reign of Alexander I and Nicholas I: Russian and foreign historiography: An analytical review]. Moscow: INION RAN, 2023.
• Bogomolov I. K., and M. M. Mints, eds. Sto let SSSR: Sovremennaia istoriografiia: Sbornik obzorov i referatov [The centenary of the USSR: Contemporary historiography: A collection of review articles and abstracts]. Moscow: INION RAN, 2023.
• Bolshakova O. V., ed. Imperskii povorot v izuchenii istorii Rossii: Sovremennaia istoriografiia: Sbornik obzorov i referatov [Imperial turn in the studies in Russian history: Contemporary historiography: A collection of review articles and abstracts]. Moscow: INION RAN, 2019.
• Fadeeva T. M. V krymskom izgnanii: N. N. Raevskii-ml. i M. S. Vorontsov v pis’makh i v zhizni, 1834–1844 gg.: Po materialam “Arkhiva Raevskikh” [In Crimean exile: N. N. Raevskii, Jr., and M. S. Vorontsov in their letters and life, 1834–1844: Based on materials of “Raevsky Archive”]. Moscow: INION RAN, 2023.
• Liubin V. P., and I. E. Eman, eds. Ital’ianskii fashizm: Sto let izucheniia: Vzgliad iz Rossii i Italii [Italian fascism: Hundred years of study: Views from Russia and Italy]. Moscow: INION RAN, 2023.
• Liubin V. P., T. M. Fadeeva, R. Kipke, and V. I. Novikov. Kratkaia istoriia Kryma: Ot drevnosli do nachala XXI v. [Short history of Crimea: From antiquity to the early 21st century]. 2nd ed. Moscow: INION RAN, 2023.
• Medushevskii A. N., and I. K. Bogomolov, eds. Ot imperskoi k sovetskoi i postsovetskoi gosudarstvennosti: Deklariruemyi razryv ili real’naia preemstvennost’? [From imperial to Soviet and post-Soviet state system: A break or a continuity?] Moscow: INION RAN, 2024.
• Mints M. M. Bibliografiia Sredizem’ia: Tvorchestvo Dzh. R. R. Tolkina i ego izucheniie v Rossii i za rubezhom: Ukazatel’ istochnikov i literatury [The bibliography of Middle-earth: The creative legacy of J. R. R. Tolkien and its study in Russia and abroad: An index of primary sources and research literature]. Moscow: INION RAN, 2022.

Articles:

• Alonzi R., and V. P. Liubin. “Italia: Zazory vneshnei politiki pravitel’stva Meloni (mezhdu atlantizmom, evropeizmom i poiskami samoopredeleniia)” [The gaps in the foreign policy of the Meloni government (between Atlanticism, Europeanism and the search for self-determination)]. Kontury global’nykh transformatsii [Outlines of global transformations] 17, no. 1 (2024): 54–68.
• Apanasenok A. V. “Tema patriotizma v obshchestvenno-politicheskoi ritorike predstavitelei Russkoi pravoslavnoi tserkvi v brezhnevskom SSSR” [The theme of patriotism in the rhetoric of the Russian Orthodox Church clerics in the USSR under Brezhnev]. Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seriia 12, Politicheskie nauki [The Moscow University herald. Series 12, Political science], no. 1 (2024): 43–64.
• Babenko O. V. “Contemporary Russian Historiography on the Origins of Ukrainian Nationalism (2013–2023)”. Social Sciences 55, no. 2 (2024): 89–101.
• Bogomolov I. K. “Doklad general-maiora D. P. Strukova o postanovke voennoi tsenzury v Petrograde i Petrogradskom voennom okruge, 1915 g.” [The report of Major General D. P. Strukov about the military censorship in Petrograd Military District, 1915]. Vestnik arkhivista [The archivist’s herald], no. 2 (2024): 536–49.
• Bogomolov I. K. “ ‘Grazhdanskaia’ tsenzura perioda Pervoi mirovoi voiny v dokumentakh federal’nykh i regional’nykh arkhivov” [“Civilian” censorship of the World War I period as reflected in the documents of federal and regional archives]. Otechestvennye arkhivy [National archives], no. 5 (2024): 74–83.
• Bogomolov I. K. “K istorii publikatsii broshiury N. I. Kareeva Iuzhnye slaviane na Adriatike, 1916 g.” [Publication history of the brochure by N. I. Kareev, Southern Slavs in the Adriatic, 1916]. Vestnik arkhivista [The archivist’s herald], no. 1 (2023): 172–83.
• Bogomolov I. K. “Tsenzura kinematografa v Rossii v 1898–1914 gg.” [Film censorship in Russia in 1898–1914]. Rossiiskaia istoriia [Russian history], no. 5 (2024): 105–120.
• Emelianova E. N. “Otrazhenie politicheskoi bor’by v Italii v dokumentakh Kommunisticheskogo Internatsionala (1919–1923)” [Political struggle in Italy as reflected in the documents of the Communist International (1919–1923)]. Nauchnyi dialog [Academic dialogue] 13, no. 1 (2024): 332–53.
• Emelianova E. N. “Sovetsko-pol’skaia voina 1919–1920 gg. v kontekste mezhdunarodnoi politiki” [Polish–Soviet War of 1919–1920 in the context of international politics]. Rossiia i sovremennyi mir [Russia and the modern world], no. 4 (2023): 154–67.
• Fadeeva T. M. “Realpolitik: dialog po obe storony Atlantiki” [Realpolitik: a dialogue on both sides of the Atlantic]. Novaia i noveishaia istoriia [Modern and contemporary history], no. 5 (2023): 247–50.
• Komzolova A. A. “Graf E. F. Kankrin i Nikolai I vo vremia russko-pol’skoi voiny 1830–1831 gg.” [Count E. F. Kankrin and Nicholas I during Polish-Russian War 1830–31]. Rossiiskaia istoria [Russian history], no. 2 (2024): 78–89.
• Komzolova A. A. “Kak Rossii ‘ne povezlo’ v Litve” [How Russia had “bad luck” in Lithuania]. Rossiiskaia istoria [Russian history], no. 6 (2022): 226–32.