Novaya i Novejshaya Istoriya
ISSN (print): 0130-3864
Media registration certificate: No. 0110133 dated 02/05/1993
Founder: Institute of General History RAS, Russian Academy of Sciences
Editor-in-Chief: Mirzekhanov Velikhan Salmankhanovich
Number of issues per year: 6
Indexation: RISC, list of Higher Attestation Commissions, CrossRef, White List (level 2nd), Scopus
«Modern and Contemporary History» is a leading Russian historical periodical devoted to the problems of modern and contemporary history, methodology, source studies and historiography of world history, as well as the history of international relations and foreign policy. The Journal brings together professional historians from all over the world dealing with the problems of world history, introduces readers to the most up-to-date research in both Russian and international historical science, and informs them of the most important scholarly events.
The Journal was founded by the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow) itself. It is published six times a year and covers the problems of international political, economic, and social history, the theory and methodology of historical science, the history of international relations, and historiography. Considerable attention is paid to the publication of historical sources (documents, memoirs), coverage of events academic life, and scholarly criticism.
The Journal is included in the List of leading peer-reviewed scientific journals and publications recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission for the publication of doctoral theses. All articles published in the journal correspond to the Nomenclature of Specialties of Scientists, approved by Order No. 1027 of the of Ministry of Education and Science of Russia of October 23, 2017:
- 00.00 Historical Sciences and Archeology:
- 00.03 World History
- 00.09 Historiography, Source Study and Methods of Historical Research
- 00.10 History of Science and Technology
- 00.15 History of International Relations and Foreign Policy
Articles published in the journal are indexed by Scopus, the Russian Scientific Citations Index and RSCI Web of Science. In accordance with the international standard of scientific periodicals, each published article receives its unique DOI code (Digital Object Identifier).
Current Issue
No 6 (2025)
Theory and methodology of history
The Fate of the Holy Roman Empire and Russian Foreign Policy in the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: A Historiographical Perspective
Abstract
5-18
The Texture of Time and Temporalities in the Historical Culture of the Twenty-First Century
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19-31
Modern history
Collective Political Violence in Napoleonic Italy: A Historical and Sociological Study of Popular Uprisings in Piedmont, 1797–1801
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32-46
Geopolitical Rivalry between Russia and Austria-Hungary in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: A Factor Analysis
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47-59
The Tenassur Incidents in Ottoman and Russian Accounts: The Trabzon Case
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60-71
Imperial Citizenship and the Rule of Difference: Historical Institutionalism and the Case of Ottoman Empire
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72-90
20th century
The Periodical Press in England and Russia during the First World War: A Comparative Perspective
Abstract
91-101
“Escape Impossible to Stay”: Prisoners of War and the Practice of Escape in Russia during the First World War, 1914–1917
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102-112
The League of Nations and the “East Karelian Question” in the Early 1920s
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113-121
“Nikolashka Was Better Able to Manage than Stalin”: Peasant Socio-Political Sentiments in Soviet Russia, 1934–1936
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122-137
“A Kite Waiting for the Wind”: The USSR and the Founding of UNESCO, 1942–1945
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138-153
Classical Music as a Bridge: Soviet-Portuguese Cultural Encounters in the 1950s–1960s and the Vianna da Motta International Piano Competition
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154–169
Afghanistan and the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, 1978–1989: Forms and Dynamics of Interaction
Abstract
170-178
The Adoption of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the Position of the United States
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179-189
Contemporary history
Balancing Interests: Economic Cooperation and Ideological Divergence in Turkish-Egyptian Relations since 1948
Abstract
190-202
The United States Military Base in Okinawa: Origins, Local Narratives, and Historical Memory
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203–213
Messages
Patrice Lumumba at One Hundred: A Biographical Reappraisal
Abstract
214-228
Samuel Nujoma: “Father of the Nation” in Namibia
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229-244
Reviews
Born of Revolution Rec. ad op.: D.V. Zaitseva. JEAN-LAMBERT TALLIEN: THE UNLOVED SON OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Saint-Petersburg: Nauka Publishing House, 2024. 266 p.
245-246
IN SEARCH OF SUPPORTS AND PROPS: COLONIAL EMPIRES IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD Rec ad op.: S.G. Malkin, E.Yu. Sergeev, A.B. Larin, S.O. Buranok, D.A. Nesterov. TRANSFERS OF THE COLONIAL ORDER: MODELS OF INTERNAL SECURITY AFTER THE GREAT WAR. Samara: Publishing House SamNTS RAS, 2024. 268 p.
247-251
“THE BONMOT THAT ‘SISYPHUS WAS ACTUALLY A HAPPY MAN’ WAS CLEARLY NOT INVENTED BY SOMEONE WHO HAPPENED TO WRITE A REVIEW MONOGRAPH ON MODERN HISTORY” Rec. ad op.: U. Herbert. THE HISTORY OF GERMANY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY / translated from the German by K. Levinson. Moscow: New Literary Review Publishing House, 2024. Vol. 1. 616 p.; Vol. 2. 896 p. (Historia mundi series).
251-254
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