Series 2
HISTORY

Issue 4, 2016

Contents Pages
HISTORIOGRAPHY, SOURCE STUDIES AND METHODS OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
School of I. Ya. Froyanov (to the 80-anniversary of the scientist)
1 The Place of the Kievan Rus in history
Dvornichenko A. Yu.
5-17
2 City-states in medieval Russia and the Great Russian state system
Krivosheev Y. V.
18-30
3 Rus’, Byzantium and Western Europe in the late twelfth — early thirteenth centuries
Maiorov A. V.
31-43
4 Social and political evolution of Novgorod the great in the veche period
Petrov A. V.
44-57
5 Factors and characteristics of east Slavic politogenesis
Puzanov V. V.
58-68
HISTORY OF RUSSIA
6 Ivan IV consults his elite subjects
Halperin Charles J.
69-76
7 Russian popular eschatology and the legend of Peter the Great as antichrist
Perrie M.
77-86
8 Female Monasticism in an Age of Challenge: The Convent of the Intercession in Suzdal (1700–1800))
Miller M.
87-103
9 “Russian Washington” or siberian dictator? Images and evaluation of A. V. Kolchak as supreme ruler in American press (1918–1920)
Volkov E. V., Irvin D. D.
104-123
10 Prewar Peterhof: museum mission and state ideology
Bondarev S. V.
124-141
11 The USSR as a multinational state from the revolution to the death of Stalin: western scholarship since 1991
Sunderland W.
142-158
WORLD HISTORY
12 Demades: pacis suasor, belli dissuasor
Kudryavtseva T. V.
159-173
13 Septimius Severus et senatores once again. A Debate with Cesare Letta
Okon D.
174-185
14 The question of the Balkans on the eve of the First world war according to the ideas of Maksim Kovalevsky
Savin S. D.
186-197
15 Subcarpathian Rus in the context of cultural plurality of the first Czechoslovak republic
Egorova K. B.
198-210
16 Alexander Kukulevsky’s reform project of the American orthodox exarchate
Tereshina O. V.
211-222
17 Manchester and Leningrad: from fraternal allies to partner cities
Danks Catherine J.
223-236
DOCUMENTARY PUBLICATIONS
18 Boris Dmitrievich Grekov and the “case of the academicians”
Krivosheev Yu. V.
237-258
DISCUSSIONS
19 Modern trends in classical studies at the all-Russian conference in St. Petersburg University
Frolov E. D., Klimov O. Yu.
259-270
REVIEWS
20 Russia and Russian studies. Refl ections of the Hungarian historian about the times and himself
Alekseev A. I.
271-277