Egy év a szláv történeti tanulmányok jegyében – a Canadian–American Slavic Studies 2019-es évfolyamának bemutatása
A Year in the Slavic Historical Studies – Introduction of the Volumes of Canadian–American Slavic Studies in 2019

Summary/Abstract: Canadian–American Slavic Studies (hereinafter CASS) published four impressive and interesting volumes in 2019 related to Russian and Soviet historical research. Two of them, entitled New Approaches to the Opposition to Stalin, focused on the current results of international cooperation between the members of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies (ASEES) and the British Study Group on the Russian Revolution. The outcomes of this joint venture were first presented at a symposium at the University of Texas in 2016 were eventually published in the CASS volume no. 1–2 in 2019. These volumes contained altogether eight articles with different kinds of historical approaches to the interpretation and explanation of the 1920s–1950s Soviet Era. The second volume (no. 3), Contact, Conflict, and Crisis in Eastern Christianity, dealt with questions concerning the relationship faced by the Russian State and the Orthodox Church from sixteenth century to modern times and the challenges of Russian and American Orthodox communities throughout the centuries. This volume enjoyed institutional support from the Association for the Study of Eastern Christian History and Culture (ASEC). And finally, the fourth volume (no. 4) is a miscellaneous one, which represents different types of research fields. The present article endeavours to highlight the main contemporary trends in modern research on Russia and the Soviet Union, and to draw up a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the said volumes.

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