Open AccessHistoriographical Research on Russian History: A View from Central Europe (Szvák Gyula. Opyt Mikroistoriografii. Moscow, Akvilon, 2019. 288 p.)
Author(s) -
Endre Sashalmi
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vestnik volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. seriâ 4. istoriâ, regionovedenie, meždunarodnye otnošeniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 2312-8704
pISSN - 1998-9938
DOI - 10.15688/jvolsu4.2020.5.19
Subject(s) - historiography , russian history , history , field (mathematics) , comparative historical research , focus (optics) , classics , ancient history , sociology , social science , archaeology , physics , mathematics , pure mathematics , optics
The review presents the analysis of Gyula Szvák’s essays and studies written on Russian historiography over more than thirty years. His main field of research, the reigns of Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great, and their importance in the course of Russian History stand in the focus of the collected works. His method, called by him “historical microphilology”, is reminiscent of the approaches used by some scholars of conceptual history. He argues that by using this method some paradigms can be revealed which can help us better understand the flow of Russian History.