Kirillov Alexey K.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
More than a Period: About the Shortest Epoch in the Russian History
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2018-2-1
Remarks of the editor of the journal’s 2nd issue concern its theme: “Capitalist Russia: from the Great reforms to the Great revolution”. Touching upon the term “Capitalist Russia” (for many historians related to ideological clichés of the Soviet time) the author explains that it is used in this case not as a characteristic of the epoch but as its name free of ideology and not restricted to social an economic relations. Thus the term “Capitalist Russia” is proposed as an alternative to the expression “Russia of the second half of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century”. Stressing high potential of the Capitalist Russia as an object for historical studies the author draws special attention to the history of the pre-revolutionary Siberia. Siberia in his understanding is not a kind of outskirts lagging behind the European Russia but an example of a region offering new perspectives in understanding the All-Russian phenomena.
Publishing: 19/12/2018
How to cite: Kirillov A.K. More than a Period: About the Shortest Epoch in the Russian History // Historical Courier, 2018, # 2. Article 1. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2018/ISTKURIER-2018-2-01.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2018
Keywords: Russia of the second half of the 19th – beginning of the 20th century; post-reform Russia; pre-revolutionary Russia; late imperial Russia