Writing More about More Various Topics

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the articles and books about Russian history published in 2013~2014 in South Korea. During two years 75 research articles, 21 books including translations, and 5 reviews were get out. It means that the amount of literary publications of Russian history increased considerably, comparing to that of 2011~2012, although number of scholars working on that field stayed almost unchanged. Moreover, the topics that they dealt with became more various. They cover very diverse aspects of Russian history such as politics, economy, society and culture from medieval Russia to contemporary post-Soviet countries. The quantitative expansion, however, does not ensure qualitative improvements. It is very difficult to find monographs written in Korean language which focus on the specific themes about Russian history. Seemingly, many of the published literatures prove only to introduce discussions and arguments from Russian and Western scholars or at most to add some opinions to them. All this appears to come from their relative negligence of archival and primary sources, when authors wrote articles and books. It is now necessary to pay closer attention to them so as to produce more creative literatures about Russian history.