Istoriceskaja Ekspertiza. The Historical Expertise Nr. 1 (38) 2024

"Historical Expertise" is a professional journal of the Russian historical community in Russia and abroad. The first issue was published in 2014. Since 2015 four issues have been published annually. After the Putin¿s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 the journal was relocated to Moldova. Each issue has 300+ pages. The editorial board and editorial council include prominent historians from Russia, Moldova, Europe and the USA. All articles are peer-reviewed.

The main subject of the journal is memory studies: ¿Global memory¿, "Problems of national memory of foreign countries", "Memory of trauma", "Historical politics", "How it really was". The journal has regularly published translations of articles and interviews with leading foreign researchers in the field of memory. Much attention is paid to reviewing historical literature. Each issue contains 10-15 reviews. There are also materials devoted to the experience of outstanding historians (the rubric "Time of a Historian"), social problems of historical corporation ("Social Problems of Science" and "Problems of Self-Organisation of Science").

The 100th Anniversary of Lenin¿s Death

9 Alexander Shubin: ¿When we moved into open agitation for self-governing, non-Marxist socialism in the late 1980s, Lenin was honestly cast out of our pantheon¿.

20 P.A. DRUZHININ On the Falsification of Lenin¿s Manuscripts in Modern Time

40 S.E. EHRLICH Lenin and Now. Why left thought has fallen into squalor at the moment when it is so necessary?

NATIONAL MEMORY

Terminology of Historical Ploitics

59 K.Yu. ERUSALIMSKII Origins of the Saint Rus Visions of the Past: History in the Movies

91 I.M. BELIAEV ¿Shadow Country¿. Deportations of Germans in Czechoslovak and Czech film

BAROMETER OF PUBLIC OPINION

111 V.B. ZVONOVSKIY, The Continuum of Assessments of the RussianA.V. KHODYKIN Ukrainian Conflict on Russian Public Opinion

PRISON NOTEBOOKS

136 V.V. KARA-MURZA The correspondence polemics between congressmen and Duma members regarding the Russian-American trade agreement in 1911¿1912.

HOW IT REALLY WAS

144 A.A. RYBALKA Several blows to the head. The background of the duel between P.D. Kiselev and I.N. Mordvinov

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