ʻIvan the Terrible showing his treasures to Jerome Horsey, the English Ambassadorʼ by Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1835–1890). The painting was made in 1875 and belongs to the State Russian Musem in St Petersburg
ʻThe Play Regiment of Peter I at Kozhukovoʼ by Aleksey Danilovich Kivshenko (1851–1895). Watercolour, paper. The painting belongs to the Central Naval Museum in St Petersburg.
ʻThe Bolshevikʼ by Boris Mikhaylovich Kustodiev (1878–1927) was painted in 1920. However, it wasn’t exhibited until 1923. It’s currently located at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.
The painting was made in 1924-25 by Kliment Red’ko (1897-1956). Red’ko first thought to call it ‘RCP’, then changed its name to ‘Revolution’, and finally ended up with ‘Uprising’. It was exhibited for the first and only time – for decades – on April 11, 1926. Before it arrived at the Tretyakov Gallery, the painting was in the collection of George (Georgios) Costakis – one of the greatest collectors of Russian avant-gard – who donated it to the gallery. Currently, it's exhibited at the New Tretyakov Gallery.
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Russian Studies. It uses double-blind peer review and, since 2021, has published two
issues a year, with online content being continually expanded throughout the year.
Besides being accessible on the periodical’s own website, issues are freely accessible
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any language. RussianStudiesHu welcomes authors who can provide an academic
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Our “Guest Column” is a space for scholars of Russian Studies in the widest
possible meaning of the term, while our “Opuscula Prima” column offers a publication
opportunity to the winners of the Hungarian national “Russian Studies Thesis of the
Year” competition and other Russian Studies scholars just starting out.
RussianStudiesHu does not give preferential treatment to any ‘genre,’ method or
trend in historiography. However, the direction of the periodical’s endeavors is clearly
demonstrated by its “Historiographies of Russia’s History (2000–2020)” series launched
in 2021, a series that spanned several issues. The material in the themed section of the
current issue examines the various forms Russia’s image has taken in history.
The russianstudies.hu webpage, which provides the web platform for
RussianStudiesHu, was established in the autumn of 2019 by members of the body
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from society’ to the best of our knowledge and expertise.
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Gyula Szvák – Editor-in-Chief
Our history
- Institute for Russian Studies (1990-1995)
“I still recall the place and time when the idea of an institute for Russian studies was first dreamt up. It happened in the summer of 1989, during sunbathing on the beach of a small holiday resort called Ronchi on the coast of the Tyrrhenian Sea. The blazing sun can wake strange thoughts and lights in one’s head. Around that time, I was chiefly occupied with the dealings of a publishing house called Maecenas, but the business went so smoothly that I had some spare energy and organisational potential. Notably, the system in which I had been socialized, had recently collapsed. Besides a number of drawbacks—which I am not pointing out only now, but I started to write about these in the spring of 1990—there were two advantages, nevertheless. There was freedom of association and anyone could launch even professional organisations; besides, research into the now adversary Soviet Union seemed more and more appreciated—or at least that is how I felt at that time. However, there was an unforeseeable error in my calculations. A scenario not even the most ingenious Kremlinologists would have expected, turned into reality: the Soviet Union collapsed. Funding allocated for its research was withdrawn. In our case, this money was not even invested.
However, by that time we—the hard core, that is, Tamás Krausz, Ákos Szilágyi, Zoltán Sz. Bíró, and myself—had already funded the society called Hungarian Association for Russian Studies, as well as its research organisation, the Hungarian Institute for Russian Studies. This happened in a quaint conference room of the Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities on Pesti Barnabás Street, in the presence of an enthusiastic and massive crowd of participants. Of course, our dealings were immediately reported to Ferenc Pölöskei, the university’s dean, but he was sympathetic and provided our association with a room. Armed with a fax machine and Ildikó Lehr, our secretary—or rather, a maid of all work—we started working in the next spring.
I do not want to go into details about the heydays; anyone can get an impression from the series we launched at that time, the Booklets on Soviet and Post-Soviet History, Politics, Economics and Society. The most memorable moment, the case through which our names became widely known, had, however, nothing to do with our academic endeavours. From one day to the other, a Russian TV broadcast that used to be freely and publicly accessible was made unavailable by the Hungarian authorities. According to the quite unconvincing official explanation, there was simply no one to pay the broadcast fee. The Institute for Russian Studies started a fundraising and money was quickly coming in—mostly 500–1000 Forint bills from low-income pensioners. Government communication left much to desire even then; they finally confessed that the broadcast cost only one million Forints. Narrow-mindedness was basking in the glory of its success! It was by no accident that we received considerable support from the otherwise everything but Russian-friendly media. Eventually, someone among the decision-makers woke up and the broadcast fee was paid by the authorities —I still don’t know how much it exactly was. Thus, we had to send back by post the money that had been sent to us in the fundraising campaign, in small bills.” (Excerpts from Gyula Szvák, Kis magyar ruszisztika. Russica Pannonicana (2011), pp. 110–112)
- Centre for Russian Studies (1995-2006)
“It became clear in no time that an association pursuing academic goals cannot operate as an NGO run by volunteers. Research is a costly enterprise, and the Hungarian capital was not eager to give us a helping hand (not to mention its Russian counterpart). There were complications at the Faculty as well. At that time, Károly Manherz was the dean and he decided to put in order the Faculty that survived the years of the regime change in a run-down state. To be honest, our institute was the odd one out: we were inside physically, but we were outsiders from an administrative point of view. Therefore, the dean proposed to make us into a new organisational unit that answered directly to him, in the form of a ‘centre’, as it was fashionably called then. All this sounded wonderful, but to make it into reality, one thing was missing: funding.
It was the Ministry that came to help us in the end, as it provided the Eötvös Loránd University with one full-time and one half-time salaried position. That’s how I became the head of the centre, and Ildi Lehr a single-person secretariat. In fact, the Centre for Russian Studies came into being, and has operated to this very day, through my friendship with Tamás Krausz (and our ‘partnership in crime’). I wouldn’t say it was a premature birth, but the centre had, beyond doubt, some handicap.
First of all, our name. In 1989, the Department of Russian Language and Literature still used the name Department of Russian Studies, and so we chose a name that distinguished us from them. [In Hungarian, the Department was called Orosz Tanszék, while the centre’s name was Ruszisztikai Központ.] In the period of the regime change, the Department of Russian Studies was renamed Department of Eastern Slavic and Baltic Language and Literature, but we kept this strange Hungarian name, Ruszisztikai Központ, hardly understood by anyone except the initiated members of our circle. Moreover, our special programme soon to be launched was christened Historical Russistics and Modern Sovietology, in order to differentiate between educational competences. Ten courses were launched, and we taught for free as volunteers, simply because we had a name but no salaried teaching positions. No wonder that people jealous of us were not particularly numerous. Most people don’t like working for free, especially not if they have to sail against adverse winds, like scholars of Russian studies had to after 1989.
The breakthrough came in 1998, when we organised our first international conference (or rather, symposium). Since then, this assembly has been held every second year. Scholars of international distinction came to participate, crossing the Atlantic; the doyen of international Russian studies, Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, was among the distinguished guests, and other globally acknowledged scholars followed in his footsteps. We owe thanks to the connection network of Ruslan Grigorievich Skrynnikov, which helped us immensely during organisation. Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachov also supported us indirectly, as I was able to meet Professor Riasanovsky at Berkeley thanks to a reference from him. As I look back, it seems that the Centre for Russian Studies gained a foothold at an international level first. No one is a prophet in his own land, and this also applies to scholars of Russian studies.
Creating the Research Group for Historical Russistics in 2002, based on the Centre itself and embedded in the Network of Research Sites of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, was the next major step. First there were only five, later 15 members, and a few additional employment positions, in cooperation with colleagues in Pécs. In these years, this research group provided funding for our extra-curricular activities, such as publishing books. The number of publications in the series Books on Russistics grew steadily in the early 2000s, partly due to this support.
A series of events titled ‘Hungarian-Russian Cultural Seasons’, as well as a general and spectacular improvement of Hungarian-Russian relations in the middle of the decade brought vital changes for the Centre. In 2006, the Foundation for Russian Language and Culture was established.”
(Excerpts from Gyula Szvák, Kis magyar ruszisztika. Russica Pannonicana (2011), pp. 112–114)
- Department of Historical Russistics (2006-2018)
We had a foundation, in which we had invested 500,000 Forints. And so we tried to make ourselves useful. We started handing out scholarly awards [….] the “Russian studies scholar of the year”, the “Russian language teacher of the year”, the Pro Cultura Hungaro-Russica Award, as well as the Best Papers in Russistics and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The ‘good’—or at least, the stubbornly tenacious—will sometimes really be rewarded. We started reaping the harvest of our hard work in 2007. When Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov, then prime minister came to visit Budapest and I put forward the idea of a virtual university of Russian studies, Igor Sergeevich Savolsky showed no interest. However, in December Ambassador Valeriy Leonidovich Musatov expressed to Péter Kiss, head of the Prime Minister’s Office, his support of this plan, and Igor Sergeevich Savolsky also declared similar intentions through diplomatic channels. By this time the original idea was considerably modified, and now only MA courses were planned (with Russian as the language of instruction) within the framework of an enlarged centre for Russian studies; however, we were immensely grateful. Finally, the Hungarian government was willing to make a gesture in this matter; by that time, popularizing the Russian language around the globe had become part of the government programme in Russia. (And, to put it frankly, this is still the cheapest way to make a gesture in bilateral relations.) Thanks to these efforts, the Research and Methodological Centre for Russian Studies started to operate on the 2nd of October 2008 at the Eötvös Loránd University, and had the opportunity to facilitate Russistics-related infrastructural developments. The Russian government contributed to the project through the Russkiy Mir Foundation. Thanks to their donation, the Research and Methodological Cabinet and Library for Russian Studies opened on the 25th of February 2009.”
Launching the Master’s Programme in Russistics was the next step. “To become a scholar of Russian studies, I propose to get enrolled in the Master’s Programme in Russian Studies at Eötvös Loránd University. This programme is unprecedented; it started in the autumn of 2010 at the Budapest Faculty of Humanities. No other similar course exists in Hungary, or anywhere else in the world. No wonder that its creation was a demanding and heroic endeavour.
I started organising this 27 or 28 years ago. First I submitted a proposal for the programme to the re-organised University of Pécs, and at the end of the decade I tried my luck with the Soros Foundation. In 1997 the proposal was presented to the Hungarian Accreditation Committee, only to remain unapproved. Later on I planned to launch a so-called “programme C” at ELTE—besides the then existing “A” and “B” programmes—however, this plan had to be abandoned due to the educational reform. My fifth attempt, four years ago, failed because the partner Corvinus University had little faith in our success. So, if my math is right, success came on the sixth try, and I had to wait almost three decades for it.
The curriculum made into reality through such difficulties is called Master’s Programme in Russistics. The certificate itself says, “expert specialised in Russian studies”. We call our graduating students “experts on Russia”, and by the way, a recent decision by the Faculty Council allows us to use this name officially from the next year on. For those speaking Russian, the name is an easy matter: in Russian it is called rossievedenie [россиеведение].
This is a 120-credits programme, just as any other. The MA thesis is worth 20 credits, and the curriculum is based on a tripartite system of introductory studies, basic training, and specialisation. One third of the classes are centred on the periods of Russian-Soviet history, another third on art and cultural history, and the remaining third focuses on the complex study of present-day Russia. Anyone enrolled in a programme on history, Russian language, political science or international relations can come and participate, from any institution in the country that grants BA degrees. Others may also be enrolled on certain conditions.
What do we offer to those who choose the Master’s Programme in Russian Studies and finish the four semesters? Nothing less than the ability to
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- have a firm understanding of Russian and Soviet history;
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- do research into any questions of Russian and Soviet history;
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- orientate themselves and others in questions concerning present-day Russia;
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- analyse events and developments in present-day Russian society, politics, culture, media, economy, and mentality;
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- conduct research into and improve the relations between Russia and the European Union;
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- cooperate with the written press and the electronic media.
The aim of the programme is no less than to foster a generation of specialists who can mediate between Hungary (and the European Union) and Russia, and of highly trained professionals with theoretical knowledge and pragmatic skills, well-prepared to deal with Russia-related business, who will be employed in state administration, at local governments, in cultural and other types of diplomacy, in the media, as well as in the private sector.
To sum it up, the aim is to offer marketable knowledge and a valuable certificate.
This path is difficult and leads through catharsis. Hopefully, the novelty of this programme will last long, and will attract and inspire students as well as professors. In Hungary, no one had ever received an MA degree in Russistics, and this curriculum is unknown in other parts of the world. All involved parties know how special this programme is; this experience makes the department a place of dedication and loftiness.
And it goes without saying that we are working on the next move.” The Russian Studies Doctoral Programme started in 2010.
(Excerpts from Gyula Szvák, Kis magyar ruszisztika. Russica Pannonicana (2011), pp. 106–110, 115–116)
Those who want to know how the story continues, shall visit the centre’s website (www.russtudies.hu, in Hungarian and Russian), and check the News section edited by Zsuzsanna Gyimesi until 2019.
A summary of the centre’s scholarly achievements is published on pp. 13–34 in the volume Our Russistics: Studies on 20th/25th Anniversary (no. 40 in the series Books on Russistics).
- The First Decade
Historical Russistics in Budapest – The First Decade
10 Years in 10 Phrases
1990 – Ten historians and literary historians initiated the Hungarian Association for Russian Studies and its autonomous scholarly workshop, the Hungarian Institute for Russian Studies, under the leadership of Gyula Szvák; the Association was housed in the building of the Faculty of Humanities on Pesti Barnabás Street, Budapest
1991 – The first issue of the Soviet (later, Post-Soviet) Booklets, titled The End of the Perestroika? (in Hungarian: A peresztrojka vége?) came out, followed by three other reports in the same year
1992 – The Institute launched an experimental PhD programme – even before PhD programmes were officially introduced in Hungary – and organised a successful campaign to reinstate Russian-language TV programmes in the country
1993 – The book Yeltsin and Yeltsinism (in Hungarian: Jelcin és a jelcinizmus) was published; it was translated into Russian in the same year, titled Ельцинщина; the book received lots of attention in Russian intellectual circles
1994 – The book Regime Change: A Personal Experience (in Hungarian: Megélt rendszerváltás) was published by Tamás Krausz
1995 – The Centre for Russian Studies was launched (with Gyula Szvák as head of the Centre), hosted by the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University; the first one of the 48 volumes of the Books on Russistics (Ruszisztikai Könyvek), edited by Tamás Krausz and Ákos Szilágyi, was put in print
1996 – Tamás Krausz’s DSc dissertation, titled Soviet Thermidor: Intellectual Preludes of the Stalinist Turn, 1917–1928 (in Hungarian: Szovjet thermidor. A sztálini fordulat szellemi előzményei, 1917–1928), was published as a book and received wide critical acclaim
1997 – A comprehensive history of Russia, the first such study written by Hungarian scholars since 1945, was prepared in the Centre with Gyula Szvák as the main editor; a special programme, named Historical Russistics and Modern Soviet Studies, was launched as a complementary course for MA students
1998 – The first biannual conference, titled Russia’s Place in Europe, was organised in the Centre; up to the present day, eleven such conferences were held
1999 – The three-year-long research programme Fundamental Research into Historical Russistics, led by Gyula Szvák and endorsed by the Ministry of Education, was launched; another four-year-long research project, the Fundamental Research into Soviet Historical Studies, led by Tamás Krausz and supported by the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), also started
- The second decade
Historical Russistics in Budapest – The Second Decade
10 Years in 10 Phrases
2000 – Documents on Historical Russistics (in Hungarian: Dokumentumok történeti ruszisztikánk tárgyköréből), a volume summarising the achievements of the first decade and the plans for the years to come, edited by Ferenc Havas, was published; the conference Russia’s Place in Eurasia, featuring ca. 30 guest lecturers from abroad, was held with great success
2001 – A volume of studies and documents edited by Tamás Krausz and Eszter Bartha, titled GULAG – A History of the Soviet Labour Camp System, as well as the monograph The Legacy of Ivan IV and Peter I by Gyula Szvák, was put in print
2002 – The first history of the House of Romanov written by Hungarian scholars, a joint publication by Emil Niederhauser and Gyula Szvák, came out
2003 – The Research Group for Historical Russistics of the Eötvös Loránd University and the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was set up, with a statistical staff of “1.5 members”; the Group was led by Gyula Szvák and they published 51 books, 133 studies and 4 PhD dissertations in the years to come, until the team was dissolved after nine years of operation
2004 – The Year of Hungarian Culture in Russia (scheduled for 2005) started with a “warm-up festival” in September 2004; Gyula Szvák was appointed as main trustee for the series of events and performances; the Centre for Russistics played a crucial role in organising the festival
2005 – The volume Medieval Russian Sources, edited by Sándor Szili, was published as the first item in a series of source publications (The Selected Sources of Russian History, in Hungarian: Az orosz történelem forrásai); other important publications of the year included Everyday Life under Stalinism (in Hungarian: A sztálinizmus hétköznapjai), a volume of scholarly studies and documents, edited by Tamás Krausz, and a bilingual publication titled Twelve Centuries of Russian-Hungarian Relations; as part of the Year of Hungarian Culture in Russia, a series of conferences on history were organised by Tamás Krausz in Moscow
2006 – Professors on the Faculty of Humanities launched the Foundation for Russian Language and Culture; the TARKI Social Research Institute, on the commission of the Centre and the Foundation, conducted a national poll to survey the Hungarians’ relationship with the Russians; the Centre was renamed as Department of Historical Russistics; Gyula Szvák was inaugurated as an honorary doctor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and received the Medal of Pushkin from Vladimir Putin for his work as the main trustee of the Year of Hungarian Culture in Russia in 2004–2005
2007 – The Russistics awards were handed out for the first time: Lajos Vass was given the Pro Cultura Hungaro-Russica Award; Inessza Vujovits received the Lifetime Award for Russian Teachers; Anna Han was named the Russistics Scholar of the Year; the Russian Teacher of the Year was Péter Dancz, while the Best Russistics Paper Award was given to Enhzaya Sárköziné Vandan; the monograph Religious struggle and the crisis of traditionalism in 17th-century Russia (in Russian: Религиозная борьба и кризис традиционализма в России XVII века) by Szergej Filippov (Sergei Filippov) was also published
2008 – Professional monitoring was initiated at the Department; the Centre for Research and Methodology of Russian Studies was launched. Ferenc Hudecz, the university’s rector joined Gyula Szvák in traveling to Russia and signing a series of cooperation agreements with Russian universities; Tamás Krausz’s lengthy monograph on Lenin, which was later translated into many languages, came out this year
2009 – Early this year, Ferenc Hudecz and Viateslav Nikonov inaugurated the Russian Studies Methodological Cabinet and Library, created with support from the Russkiy Mir Foundation; the first summer camp focusing on Russistics was organised in Balatonfüred; the Fortocska (Fortochka) Gallery opened (with Zsuzsanna Gyimesi as main curator), and the periodical Orosz Negyed (Russian Quarters) was started (with Ilona Kiss as editor-in-chief)
- The third decade
Historical Russistics in Budapest – The third decade
10 years in 10 phrases
2010 – The MA in Russian Studies, a so-far unprecedented course in the country, was launched, and the Doctoral School of History initiated a separate Russian Studies Programme; the Days of Russian Studies were organised for the first time; the Post-Soviet news e-zine oroszvilag.hu was also introduced; on the 20th anniversary, a large-scale international conference was held, and the Socius Honoris Causa Award was handed out; the Centre hosted the first meeting of “Russian Centres” in Europe, and it also made a debut in Brussels
2011 – A mass event commemorated the 50th anniversary of Gagarin’s spaceflight; astronauts Bertalan Farkas, Valery Kubasov and Sergei Krikalev were invited as special guests; the ‘Methodological Saturdays’ seminars, which still continue today, were organised for the first time, led by Irina Oszipova (Irina Osipova); the Centre participated in the European Researchers’ Night; at the conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the invasion of the Soviet Union, the Russian ambassador spoke up against the forgery of WWII history
2012 – TARKI Social Research Institute conducted another poll on Hungarian attitudes toward Russians; with help from the Russkiy Mir Foundation, ten university textbooks to be used by the MA course were prepared, and the MA in International Russian Studies was accredited; the 2009 book on the twelve greatest Russians, edited by Gyula Szvák, was translated into Russian
2013 – The Russian Studies workshop of Budapest made a presentation in the Russian Centre in Pisa; the volume Clio, the Treacherous Flatterer (in Hungarian: Klió, a csalfa széptevő) was published by Gyula Szvák
2014 – The Cabinet celebrated its 5th anniversary with an event where the managing director of Russkiy Mir Foundation was also present; the PhD programme in Russian Studies organised the first International Conference of Young Scholars of Russian Studies, in which 63 researchers from ten countries participated; two of the Department’s professors were included on the University’s Excellence List
2015 – The Institute celebrated its 25th and the Centre for Russian Studies its 20th anniversary; participants of the anniversary conference planted the Tree of Russian Studies in the University’s Garden (Trefort Garden); the volume Our Russian Studies (in Hungarian: A mi ruszisztikánk) was also published to commemorate the event; a cooperation agreement was signed with the Russian Social Science Research Fund, and Tamás Krausz received the Isaac Deutscher Award for his monograph on Lenin
2016 – The last of the eight volumes of the Canadian-American Slavic Studies, dedicated to the memory of R. G. Skrynnikov, was put out, partially edited by Gyula Szvák; ten years after the first poll, a third survey was made to see how Hungarian attitudes towards Russia had changed; the research results of the last decade were published in the Post-Soviet Booklets series
2017 – The international conference commemorating the centenary of the 1917 Revolution hosted 48 papers, presented by scholars from 22 cities in 13 different countries; the Lenin monograph by Tamás Krausz was translated into Portuguese and published in Brazil; a three-year-long research project kicked off in cooperation with the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2018 – After almost 23 years of service, Gyula Szvák resigned as head of department; József Juhász became the new head of the Department of Historical Russistics; a volume of collected studies honouring Tamás Krausz’s 70th birthday, titled Tertium Datur, was published; The Political History of Medieval Novgorod (in Hungarian: A középkori Novgorod politikatörténete) by Gábor Gyóni also came out this year
2019 – The Department of Historical Russistics merged with the Department of Eastern European History, the new unit was named the Department of Eastern and Central European History and Historical Russistics, and within it, the Russian Studies Centre was set up; the Centre launched the open-access online journal RussianStudiesHu; the ʻVasily Klyuchevskyʼ Seminar was established on the initiative of Gyula Szvák; the international conference titled “Russia and Hungary in World Culture: The Source and its Interpretation” closed the three-year-long research programme conducted jointly with Russian partners
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Holders of the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’
The title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ has been awarded to those representatives of the Hungarian and international science community who have given the most effective and efficient contribution in any field to the development of the Institute / Centre for Russian Studies.
On May 8, 2020, at the 30th anniversary of the Institute for Russian Studies, the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ was awarded posthumously to
Ruslan Skrynnikov
(1931–2009),
historian, Professor at the Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) State University for his school-founding activity in developing the Russian studies in Hungary;
Emil Niederhauser
(1923–2010),
historian, member of HAS, professor emeritus at ELTE (Budapest) for his school-founding activity in developing the Eastern Europe related historical researches;
Nicholas V. Riasanovsky (1923–2011),
historian, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley for highly effectively and efficiently fostering the international reputation of the Institute / Centre for Russian Studies.
On May 17, 2000, at the 20th anniversary celebration of the Institute for Russian Studies, the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ was awarded to
Professor Philip Longworth,
historian (London), the doyen of British-American academic Russian studies, for his 80th birthday;
Member of RAS Andrei Sakharov,
historian (Moscow), long-time Director of the Institute of the History of Russia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for his 80th birthday;
Member of RAS Yurii Pivovarov,
historian (Moscow), Director of the Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, for his 60th birthday;
Professor Károly Manherz,
philologist (Budapest), long-time Dean of the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University, for his outstanding contribution to the foundation of the ELTE Centre for Russian Studies.
On April 19, 2011 at the official opening of the series of events ‘Days of Russian Studies’, organised for the second time by the ELTE Centre for Russian Studies,
Corresponding Member of HAS Ferenc Hudecz,
chemist (Budapest), former Rector of the Eötvös Loránd University, was awarded the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ for his outstanding contribution to the foundation of the Research and Methodological Cabinet and Library for Russian Studies.
On May 21, 2012 at the international conference on ‘Historians and the World – the World of Historians in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe’,
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Professor Ann M. Kleimola,
historian (Lincoln) was awarded the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ for her continuous participation and outstanding lectures held at the biennial conferences organised by the Centre For Russian Studies since 1998.
On November 30, 2012,
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Vyacheslav Nikonov,
historian, political scientist (Moscow), Head of the Russkiy Mir Foundation, was awarded the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ for highly effectively and efficiently fostering the Russian studies in Hungary and the fruitful work of the Research and Methodological Cabinet and Library for Russian Studies in Budapest.
On May 17, 2017,
Maya Petrova D.Sc.,
historian, Head of the Centre for Gender Studies of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, was awarded the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ for her outstanding contribution in fostering the bilateral academic researches.
On May 8, 2020,
Paul Dukes,
historian, professor emeritus (Aberdeen) was awarded the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ for highly effectively and efficiently fostering the international reputation of the Institute / Centre for Russian Studies.
On May 8, 2020,
József Juhász,
historian, professor and head of department (Budapest) was awarded the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ for his devoted work in providing for the continuity of the Budapest-based research group in historical Russistics.
On September 30, 2021
Dmitrii Redin,
historian, professor (Yekaterinburg) was awarded the title ‘Socius Honoris Causa’ for highly effectively and efficiently fostering the international reputation of the Institute / Centre for Russian Studies.
At the 30th anniversary celebration of the Institute for Russian Studies its former members and current researchers have decided to establish the ‘Medal of Russistics’ to be awarded once a year for fostering the Russian studies in Hungary.
For the first time, on May 8, 2020,
Igor Sergeyevich Savolsky,
ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in Hungary (2006–2009) was awarded the ‘Medal of Russistics’.
For the second time, on September 22, 2022
László Csorba professor emeritus,
the former director of the Hungarian National Museum was awarded the ‘Medal of Russistics’.
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RussianStudies.Hu
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Русско-французская торговля на Балтике в условиях шведской блокады «нарвского плавания» в 1570-е годы(pdf)
(Russian-French Trade in the Baltic Sea during the Swedish Blockade of the “Narva Navigation” in the 1570s)
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Казаки и иноземные солдаты под знаменами самозванцев в смутное время начала XVII столетия (pdf)
(The Cossacks and Foreign Soldiers under the Banners of Impostors in the Time of Troubles of the Early 17th Century)
- Interconnections between Europe and Russia up to 1794
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Первые советские конституции в восприятии русских эмигрантов первой волны (pdf)
First-Wave Russian Émigrés’ Perception of the First Soviet Constitutions
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Визуализация Pоссии в эпоху Петра I: на материале панегирических драм (pdf)
The Visualization of Russia in the Era of Peter I: On the Contribution of Panegyric Dramas
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Практики найма иноземцев на русскую службу при Алексее Михайловиче и Петре Великом (pdf)
The Practice of Hiring Foreigners for the Russian Civil and Military Service Under Alexei Mikhailovich and Peter the Great
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«Нам жаль русских, …нужно помочь страдальцам» (pdf)
(“We Feel Sorry for the Russians, ...We Need to Help the Sufferers”)
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Замечания о природе современной русо- и советофобии (pdf)
(Remarks on the Nature of Modern Russo- and Sovietophobia)
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«Звездные моменты» венгерской русофобии (pdf)
(“Key Moments” in Hungarian Russophobia)
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Так называемая русофобия иностранных путешественников по Московии(pdf)
(The So-Called Russophobia of Foreign Travelers to Muscovy)
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Русская Америка – глазами венгров (pdf)
(Russian America Through Hungarian Eyes)
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«Московское смятение продолжается до сегодняшнего дня» (рецензия)(pdf)
(“The Moscow Confusion Continues to This Day” (Review))
- The Various Forms of Russia’s Image in History
- Essays on Russophobia
- Opuscula prima
- Review Articles
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Советский проект социального конструирования: переосмысление опыта в сравнительной перспективе (pdf)
(Soviet Project of Social Constructivism: The Rethinking of Historical Experience)
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Основные черты смены общественного строя как передела собственности (pdf)
(The Basic Features of System Change as The Redistribution of Ownership)
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Миграционный кризис конца XX — начала XXI века: демографический аспект (pdf)
(The Migration Crisis of the Late XX — Early XXI Century: Demographic Aspect)
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Диаспоры русской эмиграции: типология и правовое положение (pdf)
(Diasporas of Russian Emigration: Typology and Legal Status)
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«Песню дружбы запевает молодежь»: успехи и неудачи советской международной молодежной политики (1957-1985) (pdf)
("The Youth Sings the Song of Friendship": Successes and Failures of Soviet International Youth Policy (1957-1985))
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Добровольные ассоциации имперской России и формирование публичной сферы в Западной Европе (pdf)
(Voluntary Associations of Imperial Russia and the Formation of the Public Sphere in Western Europe)
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Русские дворяне-эмигранты на Северо-Западе Китая (САР Синьцзян и провинция Ганьсу) после Октябрьской революции (pdf)
(Russian Noble Emigrants in the North-West of China (Xinjiang SAR and Gansu Province) After the October Revolution
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Betelepülés vagy betelepítés? Az orosz lakosság kérdése a Szovjetunió balti köztársaságaiban 1945 és 1991 között (pdf)
(Spontaneous Immigration or Government-Directed Settlement? The Question of the Russian Population in the Baltic Republics of the Soviet Union Between 1945 and 1991)
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«Шахрайская» конституция 1993 года: особенности реализации и толкования (pdf)
(The “Shakhrai” Constitution of 1993: Features of Implementation and Interpretation)
- Russian History in Terms of World History
- Essays
- Review Articles
- Opuscula prima
- Guest page
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Политическое использование памяти о «лихих девяностых» в современной России: конфликты и сопряжения интерпретаций (pdf)
(Political Uses of Memory in Relation to “The Hard 1990s” in Contemporary Russia: Conflicts and Conjunctions of Interpretations)
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Политика памяти на Балканах: бывшие югославские республики в поисках идентичности (pdf)
(Memory Politics in the Balkans: The Former Yugoslav Republics in Search of Identity)
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Презентация Богдана Хмельницкого и Ивана Мазепы в политике памяти современной Украины (pdf)
(The Presentation of Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Ivan Mazepa in Modern Ukraine’s Memory Politics)
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Академическая наука и политика памяти: новейшие тенденции в исследовании ранней истории мадьяр в Венгрии (pdf)
(Academic Science and Memory Politics: The Latest Trends in the Study of the Early History of the Magyars in Hungary)
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Французский роман Виктора Гюго «Отверженные», или, почему этот роман нравился cлавянофилу Федору Достоевскому? Размышления историка-русиста (pdf)
(Victor Hugo’s French Novel Les Misérables, Or Why Did the Slavophile Fyodor Dostoevsky Like this Novel? Reflections of a Russian Historian)
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Российская Карелия oт Великого Петра до Великой Революции: cовременная историография истории Российской Карелии в 1700–1917 годах (pdf)
(Russian Karelia from Peter the Great to the Great Revolution: Contemporary Historiography of Russian Karelian History in the Period 1700–1917)
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Новосибирская школа исторических исследований в начале XXI века (2000–2020 годы) (pdf)
(The “Novosibirsk School” of Historical Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2000–2020))
- Memory Politics
- Essays
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История России до конца XVIII века в исследованиях словацких и чешских историков в 2000–2020 гг. (pdf)
(The History of Russia until the End of the 18th Century in Studies by Slovak and Czech Historians between 2000 and 2020)
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Россия XVIII века в современной венгерской историографии (2000–2020 гг.) (pdf)
(18th-Century Russia in Modern Hungarian Historiography (2000–2020))
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Россия XVIII века в польской историографии (pdf)
(18th-Century Russia in Polish Historiography)
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Мифология вождей революции в политическом контексте середины 20-х годов (pdf)
(The Mythology of the Leaders of the Revolution in the Political Context of the Mid-20s)
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Női sorsok a Gulag táboraiban (1934–1953) (pdf)
(Fates of Women in the Camps of the Gulag (1934–1953)
- Peter the Great - 350
- Historiographies
- Essays
- Opuscula prima
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Начало Русского государства и летописания в российских работах 2000–2020-х гг. (pdf)
(The Beginning of the Russian State and Chronicles in the Russian Works of the 2000–2020s)
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Проблемы источниковедения памятников древнерусской письменности и историографии социально-политического развития Руси XI–XII вв. в российской исторической науке 2000–2020 гг.(pdf)
(Problems of Source Study of the Old Russian Writing Monuments and Historiography of the Socio-Political Development of Russia in the XI–XII Centuries in the Russian Historical Science 2000–2020)
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Современная российская историография эпохи татаро-монгольского завоевания Руси (2000–2020)(pdf)
(Modern Russian Historiography of the Era of the Tatar-Mongol Conquest of Russia (2000–2020))
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Древняя Русь в украинской историографии (2000–2020): контексты и достижения (pdf)
(Old Rus’ in Ukrainian Historiography (2000–2020): Contexts and Achievements)
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«Древнерусское наследие» соседей: Южная Русь под властью Литвы, Польши и Венгрии в 1340–1430‑х гг. Современная украинская историография (2001–2021 гг.) (pdf)
(The “Legacy of Old Russia” in her Neighbours’ Heritage: Southern Russia under the Rule of Lithuania, Poland and Hungary in the 1340–1430s. Contemporary Ukrainian Historiography (2001–2021))
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Средневековая Русь в современной венгерской историографии (2000–2020 гг.) (pdf)
(Hungarian Historiography of Medieval Rus’ (2000–2020))
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„A szoknyás bombázó ezred”
A Vörös Hadsereg Légierejének női ezrede a második világháború idején. Az 588. éjszakai könnyűbombázó ezred története (pdf)(“The Bomber Regiment in Skirts”
Female Regiment of the Red Army Air Force during World War II. The Story of the 588th Night Bomber Regiment)
- Historiographies
- Opuscula prima
- Guest page
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≪Московия≫ в венгерской историографии (с 2000 г.) (pdf)
(“Muscovy” in Hungarian Historiography since 2000)
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Россия XVI – XVII веков в исследованиях российских историков новейшего времени (2000–2020). Часть II (pdf)
(Russia of the 16th – 17th Centuries in the Explorations of Modern Russian Historians (2000–2020). Part 1)
Россия XVI – XVII веков в исследованиях российских историков новейшего времени (2000–2020). Часть III (pdf)
(Russia of the 16th – 17th Centuries in the Explorations of Modern Russian Historians (2000–2020). Part 2)
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От советского до западного трансфера (pdf)
(From Soviet to Western Transfer)
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«Подпольная типография» и «военный заговор» как аргументы Сталина в борьбе против объединенной оппозиции (1927) (pdf)
(The "underground typography" and "military conspiracy" as Stalin's arguments against the united opposition (1927))
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Русская карта Карела Крамаржа (pdf)
(Karel Kramář and the Russian Card)
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Ekvivalenciák Dosztojevszkij prózájában: A hasonmás (pdf)
(Equivalences in Dostoevsky’s The Double)
- Historiographies
- Essays
- Opuscula prima
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„Az orosz történetet az oroszoknak kell írniuk, miért avatkoznak ebbe bele a magyarok?”
(Mikrohistoriográfiai etűd) (pdf)(“Russian History Should Be Written by Russians. Why Do Hungarians Intervene in This Matter?” Etude in Micro-Historiography)
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Сталин-«ученый». Дискуссия о марризме (pdf)
(Stalin, the Scientist: The Debate on Marrism)
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Венгры в ГУЛАГе (по воспоминаниям инженера-конструктора И. А. Маханова) (pdf)
(Hungarians in the GULAG (on the Memoirs of the Design-Engineer I. A. Makhanov))
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Слепой свидетель: американский посол Джозеф Э. Дэвис в Москве, 1936–1938 (pdf)
(The Blind Eyewitness: U.S. Ambassador Joseph Edward Davies in Moscow, 1936–1938)
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Целую руки вашему величеству. Oб одном несостоявшемся жесте (pdf)
(“I Beg Leave to Kiss Your Majesty’s Hand!” About a Gesture Which Never Happened)
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A Volgográdi Állami Egyetem Történeti, Regionális Tudományi és Nemzetközi Kapcsolati Értesítőjének elmúlt évtizede (2010–2019) a számok tükrében(pdf)
(Quantitative Analyses of the Last Decade of Vestnik VolSU Series 4. History, Regional Studies and International Relations (2010–2019))
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Quaestio Rossica – Egy fiatalkorú folyóirat felnőtté válásának folyamata (pdf)
(Quaestio Rossica – Process of a Juvenile Journal of Becoming an Adult)
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Уральский исторический вестник (pdf)
(Ural Historical Journal)
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Egy év a szláv történeti tanulmányok jegyében – a Canadian–American Slavic Studies 2019-es évfolyamának bemutatása (pdf)
(An Overview of a Year in the Field of Slavic Historical Studies – Introduction to the 2019 Issues of Canadian–American Slavic Studies)
- Essays
- Review Articles
- Guest page
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Magyar és orosz panteonok (pdf)
(Hungarian and Russian Pantheons)
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Отношения между историографиeй и политикой памяти(pdf)
(The Connections Between Historiography and Memory Politics)
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1941 problematikája az orosz historiográfiában (pdf)
(The Controversy Surrounding 1941 in Russian Historiography)
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Holdudvarból börtönbe: Háy Gyula magyarországi karrierje, 1945–1965 (pdf)
(From the Inner Circle to Prison: Gyula Háy’s Career in Hungary, 1945–1965)
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Kirill Hlebnyikov, Orosz-Amerika történésze és tisztviselője (pdf)
(Kirill Khlebnikov, the Historian of Russian America and the Chief Manager of the Russian-American Company)
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Древний русский Крым в творчестве Георгия Вернадского (к публикации статьи Г. В. Вернадского «Корсунь в русско-византийских отношениях») (pdf)
(The Ancient Russian Crimea in the Works of George Vernadsky (for Publication of the Article of G. V. Vernadsky “Korsun in Russian-Byzantine Relations”))
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Микросообщество и устная история: венгерские ветераны Закарпатья в афганской войне (pdf)
(Micro-Communities and Oral History: Transcarpathian Hungarian Veterans of the Soviet Union’s War in Afghanistan)
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Hősök és antihősök kapcsolatrendszere a klasszikus orosz irodalomban (pdf)
(Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Classic Russian Literature)
- Essays
- Guest page
Editorial board
Member of Russian Academy of Sciences Veniamin Alekseev – Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Вranch of the RAS (Ekaterinburg, Russia) • Professor Evgenii Anisimov – St. Petersburg Historical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) • Professor Dániel Bagi – University of Eötvös Loránd (Budapest, Hungary) • Professor Emeritus Chester S. L. Dunning – Texas A&M University (College Station, USA) • Professor Márta Font – University of Pécs (Pécs, Hungary) • Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor Wendy Z. Goldman – Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, USA) • Corresponding Member of RAS Andrei Golovnev – Kunstkamera. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) • Professor Hieronim Grala -University of Warsaw (Warsaw, Poland) • Professor Claudio S. Ingerflom – National University of General San Martín (Buenos Aires, Argentina) • Professor Emeritus Tamás Krausz – Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) • Professor Andrei Medushevsky – National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow, Russia) • Professor Emeritus Peter Pastor – Montclair State University (Montclair, USA) • Professor Dmitrii Redin – Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Вranch of the RAS (Ekaterinburg, Russia) • Corresponding Member of RAS Lorina Repina – Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia) • Professor Richard Sakwa – University of Kent (Canterbury, Great Britain) • Professor Endre Sashalmi – University of Pécs (Pécs, Hungary) • Professor Ludwig Steindorff – Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel (Kiel, Germany) • Professor Emeritus Léna Szilárd – University of Sassari (Sassari, Italy) • Professor Emeritus Gyula Szvák – Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) • Professor Igor Tyumentsev - Volgograd State University (Volgograd, Russia) • Professor Andrei Yurganov – Russian State University for the Humanities (Moscow, Russia) • Professor Jianhua Zhang – Director of the Center for World History, Beijing Normal University (Beijing, China)
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