The Russian Review

The Russian Review
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Title	The Russian Review
Discipline	Russian studies
Language	English
Abbreviation	Russ. Rev.
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Country	United States
History	1941–present
Frequency	Quarterly

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The Russian Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia with emphasis on history, politics, culture, and society. Founded amid World War II, it has published scholarship engaging figures and events from Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin and Boris Yeltsin, and has featured analyses intersecting with topics such as the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, the Crimean War (1853–1856), and the Russo-Japanese War. The journal is associated with major organizations and institutions including the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Wiley-Blackwell, and prominent universities like Harvard University, University of Oxford, and Columbia University.

History

The journal was established in 1941 during the era of the Second World War and the shifting alliances that culminated in the Yalta Conference and the Potsdam Conference, responding to increased scholarly interest in the Soviet Union, Imperial Russia, and the unfolding Eastern Front (World War II). Early contributors included historians who wrote on subjects such as Nicholas II of Russia, Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and analyses tied to the Russian Civil War and the Bolshevik Revolution. Over decades the journal reflected changing historiographical debates involving scholars influenced by institutions like the Institute of Slavic Studies (USSR), Cambridge University, Princeton University, Stanford University, and research centers linked to the Kennan Institute and the Hoover Institution. During the Cold War the journal hosted debates that connected research on the Red Army, NKVD, KGB (Committee for State Security), and the Soviet-Afghan War to international relations involving the United States Department of State and NATO partners like United Kingdom and France. In the post-Soviet era it published work on topics including the Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Chechen Wars, European Union relations, and analyses of energy politics involving Gazprom and Rosneft.

The journal publishes articles, review essays, and book reviews covering historical periods from Kievan Rus' through the Tsardom of Russia to contemporary studies of the Russian Federation and neighboring polities such as Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Georgia (country), Baltic states, and the Caucasus. Contributions engage with primary sources from archives like the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political History, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, and foreign collections including the British Library, Library of Congress, and the State Archives of Finland. Interdisciplinary work links research on figures such as Catherine the Great, Mikhail Gorbachev, Alexei Navalny, and Anna Politkovskaya with studies on revolutions, nationalism, legal transformations exemplified by texts like the Soviet Constitution of 1936, economic transitions after the 1998 Russian financial crisis, and cultural production including the writings of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, and composers like Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.

The editorial board draws scholars affiliated with universities and institutions including Yale University, Princeton University, University of Chicago, Brown University, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Toronto, Australian National University, and research centers such as the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the International Institute of Social History. Articles undergo anonymous peer review by specialists in fields covering intellectual history, diplomatic history, social history, cultural studies, and legal history with referees often drawn from networks connected to the American Historical Association, the Modern Language Association, and the American Political Science Association. Editorial practices have evolved alongside digital workflows employed by publishers like Wiley-Blackwell and editorial policies that respond to citation standards set by indexing services including Scopus and Web of Science.

Published quarterly, the journal is distributed in print and online through platforms operated by Wiley-Blackwell and accessed via academic libraries at institutions such as Oxford University Press subscribers, the British Library, New York Public Library, and university consortia including the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Russell Group. Subscription models include institutional and individual access, and digitization projects have made back issues available in digital repositories used by researchers at JSTOR, Project MUSE, and national libraries in Russia, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada.

The journal is indexed in major bibliographic databases and citation indexes including Scopus, Web of Science, JSTOR, EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and the Directory of Open Access Journals listings for humanities and social science periodicals; it is also cataloged in national bibliographies such as the Library of Congress and the Russian State Library union catalogs. Abstracting services and citation trackers connect its articles to scholarly profiles on platforms like ORCID, Google Scholar, and research repositories maintained by universities including Columbia University and University of California system.

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