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Volume 9 Issue 9 (73)

The international conference “Three dates in the tragic fifty years of Europe (1598—1618—1648): Russia and the West during the Time of Troubles, religious conflicts, and the Thirty Years’ War” was held at the Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, on September 19—21, 2018. The conference was jointly organized by the Institute of World History and the Institute for Advanced Research in History with financial assistance from “Transneft” JSC. The organizing committee, besides the staff of the Institute of World History, included specialists from the Institute of Slavonic Studies and the Institute of Russian History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from the German Historical Institute in Moscow and the University of Warsaw (Poland). The conference was attended by more than 100 Russian and foreign scholars, historians from the Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Austria, Belarus, Germany, USA, Belgium, Poland, as well as representatives of leading scientific centers of Moscow and St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Smolensk, Rostov-on-Don, Oryol, Petrozavodsk, Volgograd, Lipetsk, and other cities of the Russian Federation. The main theme of the conference was the multifaceted interaction of Russia and the leading countries of Western and Central Europe (“Russia in the World”). However, the topic was defined broadly enough to embrace the important fourty-year period: from the ‘appeasement’ of 1598 (the Edict of Nantes in France and the Peace of Vervins between France and Spain) to the Troubles in Russia and the military conflict in which almost all European countries were involved, resulting in the Peace of Westphalia (1648). This approach made it possible to address deeper problems — from the characteristics of absolute monarchy in different countries and the interaction of monarchical regimes striving for absolutism with representative bodies to confessionalization and millenarian expectations. Conference participants emphasized the importance of the synchronic-historical approach that provides opportunities for scholarly communication between specialists in the history of different countries as well as between researchers specializing in different areas of historical knowledge (political history, history of religious movements, military history, history of diplomacy).

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