Egy év a szláv történeti tanulmányok jegyében – a Canadian–American Slavic Studies 2019-es évfolyamának bemutatása

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