TY - JOUR AU - Kaminsky, Valery PY - 2016/07/04 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Fifth Anniversary of the Contemporary History of Russia: Scholarly Potential, New Sources, and Audacious Ideas JF - Quaestio Rossica JA - QR VL - 4 IS - 2 SE - Vox redactoris DO - 10.15826/qr.2016.2.168 UR - https://qr.urfu.ru/ojs/index.php/qr/article/view/168 SP - 233-266 AB - <p>The article is devoted to the fifth anniversary of the interdisciplinary Russian journal The Contemporary History of Russia. The journal started publication in June 2011. Before the end of 2015, nearly 300 articles and other items have appeared. NIR differs from other academic and historical publications in a number of ways. Firstly, the journal initially declared that its aim was to ‘combine on its pages the efforts of historians, political scientists, economists, sociologists, psychologists, and all of those who research 20th-century Russian history in an attempt to overcome one-dimensional accounts of Russian historical development’. Secondly, while the items published in NIR have a strictly academic character, they are of interest to the general public. Thirdly, the approach of the editorial board to selected publications is distinguished by academic impartiality, objectivity, and a high level of tolerance. The article attempts to collectively analyse a large number of the scholarly papers published by the journal between 2011 and 2015. The author categorises these materials into several thematic sections related to methodology, sources, and the subject of study.</p> ER -