Istoriceskaja Ekspertiza. The Historical Expertise Nr. 1 (38) 2024

Historical Expertise is a professional journal of the Russian historical community in Russia and abroad. The first issue was published in 2014. Since 2015 four issues have been published annually. After the Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 the journal was relocated to Moldova. Each issue has 300+ pages. The editorial board and editorial council include prominent historians from Russia Moldova Europe and the USA. All articles are peer-reviewed. The main subject of the journal is memory studies: Global memory Problems of national memory of foreign countries Memory of trauma Historical politics How it really was. The journal has regularly published translations of articles and interviews with leading foreign researchers in the field of memory. Much attention is paid to reviewing historical literature. Each issue contains 10-15 reviews. There are also materials devoted to the experience of outstanding historians (the rubric Time of a Historian) social problems of historical corporation (Social Problems of Science and Problems of Self-Organisation of Science).The 100th Anniversary of Lenin's Death 9 Alexander Shubin: When we moved into open agitation for self-governing non-Marxist socialism in the late 1980s Lenin was honestly cast out of our pantheon. 20 P.A. DRUZHININ On the Falsification of Lenin's Manuscripts in Modern Time 40 S.E. EHRLICH Lenin and Now. Why left thought has fallen into squalor at the moment when it is so necessary? NATIONAL MEMORY Terminology of Historical Ploitics 59 K.Yu. ERUSALIMSKII Origins of the Saint Rus Visions of the Past: History in the Movies 91 I.M. BELIAEV 'Shadow Country'. Deportations of Germans in Czechoslovak and Czech film BAROMETER OF PUBLIC OPINION 111 V.B. ZVONOVSKIY The Continuum of Assessments of the RussianA.V. KHODYKIN Ukrainian Conflict on Russian Public Opinion PRISON NOTEBOOKS 136 V.V. KARA-MURZA The correspondence polemics between congressmen and Duma members r