Russian History-histoire Russe 

About: Russian History-histoire Russe is an academic journal published by Brill. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Modern history & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0094-288X. Over the lifetime, 575 publications have been published receiving 2791 citations. The journal is also known as: Histoire russe & RUHI.

BOOK REVIEWS - The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine

Abstract: Introduction 1. The Ukrainian Cossacks 2. The Religious Crisis 3. Warriors for the Faith 4. Order, Religion, and Nation 5. A War of Religion: Orthodoxy in the Khmelnytsky Uprising 6. A Hetman Sent by God 7. Hetmans and Metropolitans 8. In Search of an Orthodox Monarch Bibliography Index

The role of jews in early russian civilization in the light of a new discovery and new controversies

Abstract: We have very few indubitable facts concerning medieval Jewish settlements in Eastern Europe.1 The presence of a Jewish community, as well as the existence of syncretic beliefs influenced by Judaism, is attested on the northern shores of the Black Sea, in the Bospor kingdom, in the first centuries A.D.2 Another fact which implies the existence of a considerable Jewish community is the conversion to Judaism of the rulers of Khazaria, the empire that preceded Rus' in its dominance over Eastern Europe. The conversion happened perhaps at the end of the eighth or beginning of the ninth century; however, the extent of Judaism's dissemination in the Khazarian people is subject to dispute.3 Finally, Russian4 and Hebrew5 sources contain some few and vague notions of the presence of supposedly pre-Ashkenazic Jews or rather a Judaic element in Rus' in the eleventh and twelfth centuries (as well as in late medieval Crimea and Caucasus). Yet there is an established opinion