Abstract
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.
Highlights
The name of Gyula Szvák has been inextricably linked with the development of Russian Historical Studies in Hungary, and it is no exaggeration to say that through the founding of the Centre of Russian Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), and through the biennial international conferences held there continuously from 1998 on, he has created an institutionalized integration of Russian Studies in Hungary into the international scholarly network
The essays themselves fall into two categories, the historiography of important themes in Early Modern Russian studies and the work of individual historians, preceded by an introduction contextualizing these studies and followed by a piece perhaps best described as culturology
The first presents what I would call the historiographical biography of Skrynnikov (2012), while the second compares the careers of the two mentors, offering a unique opportunity to observe how the different, and from time to time changing, political atmosphere in two communist countries affected the study of Russian History: it is a study providing an insight into the Zeitgeist of Hungarian and the Soviet history-writing
Summary
The name of Gyula Szvák has been inextricably linked with the development of Russian Historical Studies in Hungary, and it is no exaggeration to say that through the founding of the Centre of Russian Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), and through the biennial international conferences held there continuously from 1998 on, he has created an institutionalized integration of Russian Studies in Hungary into the international scholarly network.Materials. Historiographical Research on Russian History: A View from Central Europe ИСТОРИОГРАФИЧЕСКИЕ ИССЛЕДОВАНИЯ ИСТОРИИ РОССИИ: ВЗГЛЯД ИЗ ЦЕНТРАЛЬНОЙ ЕВРОПЫ
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