World History Volume 6. The Nuremberg trials: the lessons of history. World history: a view from the 21st century

MAIN EDITORIAL BOARD:

Academician A. O. CHUBARYAN ( Chief Editor) Corresponding Member of the RAS V. I. VASILYEV (Deputy Chief Editor) Corresponding Member of the RAS P. Yu. UVAROV (Deputy Editor-in-Chief) Candidate of Historical Sciences M. A. LIPKIN (Executive Secretary) Corresponding Member of the RAS Kh. Academician B.V. V. V. NAUMKIN Academician A. D. NEKIPELOV Doctor of Historical Sciences K. V. NIKIFOROV Academician Yu. V. TORKUNOV Academician I. Kh. URILOV

Editorial board of the first volume:

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences A. I. Ivanchik,

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Kh. A. Amirkhanov,

Doctor of Historical Sciences G. A. Koshelenko,

Doctor of Historical Sciences O. V. Sidorovich

Reviewers:

Doctor of Historical Sciences A. A. Bokshchanin,

Doctor of Historical Sciences P. P. Shkarenkov

WORLD HISTORY: VIEW FROM THE XXI CENTURY

The Russian reader is offered a new six-volume edition of World History. The previous 13-volume edition was published in the 60s of the XX century. It presented a lot of factual material, but the whole concept of the publication, historical assessments, of course, reflected the ideological postulates of that time. The idea of development and change of socio-economic formations permeated all volumes (from antiquity to modern times). Since then in historical science Russia, and indeed the whole world, has undergone enormous fundamental changes. With the refusal of Russian historians from the formational paradigm as a universal and the only criterion for revealing and understanding the history of mankind, the possibility of a pluralistic view of the course of world history opened up before Russian historiography. The publication in Russia of the works of the most prominent representatives of world philosophical and historical knowledge - Max Weber and Arnold Toynbee, Fernand Braudel and Karl Jaspers - allowed historians to get acquainted with alternative explanations of world history.

IN modern society increased interest in history. In Russia and in many other countries, there are heated discussions around the assessments of many historical events especially in relation to the 20th century. The acuteness of the controversy is also caused by the fact that in a number of countries there has been a tendency to revise the existing assessments of the history of Russia and other countries, problems international relations And social conflicts. According to some historians and political scientists, public figures and journalists in different countries"politicization" and "nationalization" of history are clearly traced, which make it difficult to search for and disseminate historical knowledge and the truth about real events national and world history.

All this raises the social status and importance of historical science; at the same time, criticism of professional historians from various circles of the population is also increasing. Moreover, these phenomena are characteristic both for Russia and for other countries. On this basis, there is a growing interest in comprehending historical experience, in understanding its role in modern life. Historical science acquires everything greater value and as a source of knowledge about the past, about national and international traditions, and as a battery historical memory And historical path passed by humanity.

In this regard, history is an important, if not the most important, tool for shaping the personality and educating the younger generation, affirming value orientations among young people, in which modern life organically connects with the historical experience and heritage of the past. It supports genetic connection with previous generations, which is superimposed on the knowledge and information obtained in schools, in higher educational institutions and through the media.

Behind last years thousands of fundamental works have been published in many states, revealing the world, regional and national history. Reissue of world famous publications, such as cambridge history constantly stimulates the study of theoretical problems of world history.

Over the course of 15–20 years, new areas of scientific development and research have emerged in this area. First of all, we are talking about the so-called "global history". This term appeared in historical science as a result of worldwide interest in the problems of globalization and in the universality of the historical process. The spread of the topic of "global history" has led to the publication of a significant number of works on this issue; a special Association for Global History was created, in many countries began to publish scientific journals, the topic of global history was included in the program International Congress historical sciences.

The main thing is that "global history" has become a kind of new confirmation of the "universality" of the historical process, its integrity and, to some extent, universality, thereby obtaining a new impetus and legitimacy in the study of its problems. At the same time, the past years have shown that the concept and the term “global history” itself are by no means universal and, moreover, the only criterion for cognition and disclosure. historical development. The concept of "global history" only points to the interconnection of continents, regions and states in different historical eras, to common processes and similar phases of development.

In world history, globalism and universality, universalism and macrohistory have always attracted considerable attention from the historical community. In this context, topics such as the formation and collapse of empires, integration processes in history, the interconnection of continents, comparative studies, the economic aspect of internationalization, are actively studied by specialists in different countries.

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And with this post, I open a regular column "Samizdat "Nota Bene", in which I will talk about the books that I printed and bound, I will show a short video of them appearance, I will give a link to download these same books. And maybe in the future I will make some videos about how I print and bind books. I confess, I promised such a video for a long time, but it still didn’t work out, something interfered. And, to be honest, I still see little point in this - these videos on YouTube are a wagon and a small cart. One more, one less, and they are all the same. If you, the readers, are interested, I will make such a movie.

And the first book, or rather books in this section, will be five hefty volumes « The World History» under reaction Alexander Oganovich Chubaryan from the Moscow publishing house "Nauka". There are actually six volumes in the series, but only five have been released to date. Therefore, here I am talking about only five volumes. When the sixth volume will be released is still unknown.

Chubaryan, Alexander Oganovich- Russian historian, specialist in modern and contemporary European history, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences. Director of the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. First Rector and President State University Humanities. The president Russian Society archivist historians. Member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the National Science Assistance Foundation award in the category "Outstanding Scientists" (2004). Since 2009, he has been a member of the Commission for Counteracting Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia's Interests.

I have been looking for these books for a very long time in order to buy them. And I was not stopped by the price of them - in different places for that they asked from two to six thousand rubles. For example, at Ozone, these volumes are sold out of order, and for one of them they want three thousand rubles. And this is in Russia, and the delivery of such a volume to my area will cost about half the cost of the book, so for one volume I will have to pay about five thousand. And for five volumes - 25,000 rubles. Simple math, right? Where do I get that kind of money? Well, one thousand still all right, the books are worthy, but five - it hurts.

They saved the torrents and now I have digitized copies of books in DJVU format on my computer. Simple manipulations that I described in articles on layout and printing books at home. Then a few evenings spent on binding and binding books, and now I am the owner of five hefty volumes of World History. The books are really big.

I decided to abandon the original appearance of the covers and went the most simple way - the path of minimalism. What difference does it make to me whether there will be some kind of indistinct picture on the cover or its name will simply be written on it. In the original, the books are black, covered with multi-colored dust jackets, which seemed superfluous to me. And I chose red because ... because I had red paper. And the books came out in a slightly smaller format than the originals: this is due to the limitations of home printing on A4. Of course, the font size has decreased, but remains readable. At first I thought to print books with magnification - one page on a whole sheet of A4, it would be great to read: large letters, large pictures, but the books would be simply huge and just because of this it would be impossible to read them. Less is better.

But be that as it may, I have not yet begun to read these books: not because there is no time, or because they are so huge, but because I am not yet ready for such literature. It is necessary to study several books simpler, at a lower level, and then take on such giants. And the very fact that I have these books warms my soul. So download these books and join the wonderful world of history.

Moscow: 2011 - 2014

The new six-volume edition of "World History" sums up the work of historians over the past decades. For historians and a wide range of readers.

This volume covers the history of the emergence of man and society, the formation of the first civilizations. A comprehensive consideration of the civilizations of the Ancient East, the ancient world and the periphery, their typological commonality and specificity with special attention to cultural and historical aspects is proposed. The main idea underlying the concept this volume, - the universality of the development trends of the ancient world with a variety of specific historical forms of their manifestation.

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