About the Journal
Central-European Studies is an interdisciplinary yearbook devoted to Central Europe and neighbouring regions viewed from a comparative perspective. Olga V. Khavanova is the editor-in-chief.
The Central-European Studies series was founded in 1999 at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences by Tofik. M. Ismailov and Aleksandr S. Stykalin. The early issues of the series contained the proceedings of conferences devoted to Central-European history and culture from the Middle Ages to the present day or were festschrifts in honour of Russian historians who had made a significant contribution to the research of the region. In total, 9 issues were published between 1999 and 2017. In 2018, the publication was transformed into a yearbook intended to publish both the proceedings of conferences held under the auspices of the Interdisciplinary Central-European Seminar and articles complying with the scope of the yearbook.
Founder and publisher — Institute of Slavic Studies RAS, Leninskii Prospekt, 32A, Moscow, Russia, 119334
Current Issue
No. 8 (2025): Central-European Studies
Issue Eight of the yearbook Central European Studies is devoted to the theme of the city. It covers not only the history of individual cities and settlements, but also images of cities in fiction, journalism and letters, as well as their place and role as political, administrative, cultural and religious centres. The issue features twentieth-century Naples through the eyes of a Polish émigré writer, or Warsaw, which reminded Russian travellers in the early nineteenth century of both Capua and Kostroma, or Russian cities during the Civil War as seen from the perspective of Czech legionnaires. Articles about Red Moscow in the 1920s and 1930s, as viewed by political emigrants and visiting Western European intellectuals, are juxtaposed with studies on the symbolic politics of the communist authorities in Budapest in the 1950s and on the role of cities in the pre-election debate in contemporary Poland. The image of the city as the focus of national historiography is revealed through the example of Prague. The traditional sections “Biography and Creative Legacy” and “Review Articles” are supplemented by a new one — “Scholarly Life”. Thus, the journal opens up the floor for a dialogue among researchers and the exchange of scholarly experience.
Published:
2025-12-30
