''Voprosy Istorii'' (

Russian Russian(s) may refer to: *Russians (), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *A citizen of Russia *Russian language, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages *''The Russians'', a b ...

: ''Вопросы истории'', translated ''Questions of History'') is a Russian

academic journal An academic journal (or scholarly journal or scientific journal) is a periodical publication in which Scholarly method, scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published. They serve as permanent and transparent forums for the ...

for historical studies. It is published monthly by the Institute of General History of the

Russian Academy of Sciences The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS; ''Rossíyskaya akadémiya naúk'') consists of the national academy of Russia; a network of scientific research institutes from across the Russian Federation; and additional scientific and social units such ...

. The journal covers both Russian and world history.About ''Voprosy Istorii''
East View

History

The current publication started as two separate journals. The first publication, '' Istorik-Marksist'' () was published from 1926 to 1941. The second publication, begun in 1931, was known as ''Bor'ba Klassov'' (), but in 1937 changed its name to ''Istoricheskii Zhurnal'' (). ''Istorik-Marksist'' was merged into ''Istoricheskii Zhurnal'' in 1941. In 1945 the journal's name was changed to the current ''Voprosy Istorii''. In 1957 the Russian historian

Édourd Burdzhalov Eduard Nikolaevich Burdzhalov (Russian: Эдуард Николаевич Бурджалов) (1906 – 13 December 1985) was a Soviet historian. Burdzhalov graduated from Moscow Institute of History, Philosophy, and Literature in 1932. He then ...

was dismissed as deputy editor of the journal after he published an article about the

Bolshevik The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, were a radical Faction (political), faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the 2nd Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party, ...

's confusion following the

February Revolution The February Revolution (), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup was the first of Russian Revolution, two revolutions which took place in Russia ...

in 1917. At that time, it was one of just three journals available to Soviet historians, the others being '' Istoricheskie Zapiski'', which specialised in medieval and modern Russian history, and '' Vestnik Drevnei Istorii'' which dealt with ancient history. In 2004, East View began to digitise the journal from its 200,000 pages in 950 issues.

List of editors-in-chief

The editors-in-chief of ''Voprosy Istorii'' have been:

Historian-Marxist

* 1926–1930: Andrei Vasilievich Shestakov * 1930–1932: Mikhail Nikolaevich Pokrovskiy * 1933–1938: Nikolai Mikhailovich Lukin * 1938–1944: Emeliyan Mikhailovich Yaroslavskiy

Problems of History

* 1945–1949: Vyacheslav Petrovich Volgin * 1949–1950: Alexander Dmitrievich Udaltsov *1950–1953: Petr Nikolaevich Tretyakov * 1953–1957: Anna Mikhailovna Pankratova * 1958–1960: Sergei Fedorovich Naida * 1960–1987: Vladimir Grigorievich Trukhanovskiy * 1987–2017:

Akhmed Akhmedovich Iskenderov Ahmad () is an Arabic male given name common in most parts of the Muslim world. Other English language, English spellings of the name include Ahmed. It is also used as a surname. Etymology The word derives from the root (Ḥ-M-D, ḥ-m-d), f ...

*Since 2017: P. A. Iskenderov

Editions available on line

* No. 7, 1947

References

External links

''The history of Voprosy istorii'' by E. A. Yastrzhembskaya
History journals Russian Academy of Sciences academic journals Russian-language journals {{history-journal-stub