Russian historical encyclopedia. Volume 8

The new modern "Russian historical encyclopedia" in 18 volumes is published by a team of authors under the general editorship of academician A.O. Chubaryan. This grandiose project will fill the gap, formed in Russian historical science - after all, the publication of the previous 16 -volume "Soviet historical encyclopedia" ended in 1976. And this means that scientific workers, teachers, students, and ordinary people, among whom were a lot of sincerely interested in history, were deprived of more than 30 years old. Over these decades, much has changed both in our country and in the world. The previous economic and military-political unions were a thing of the past, and new ones arose in their place, the problems that bothered humanity in the mid-1970s were successfully resolved, and their place was taken by the most acute challenges of our time. Finally, the information technology that developed at the most historical time, on the one hand, deduced the knowledge from the silence of scientific rooms, and on the other hand, gave rise to unprecedented collectibility and frivolity in relation to knowledge, including the historical one. Today, more than ever before, it is important for our country to have a serious, truly scientific, fundamental, not chasing a momentary publication that covers the past and present of mankind - after all, without the past there is no future.
"Russian Historical Encyclopedia" is published under the auspices of the Russian Military Historical Society