Peer-reviewed scientific journal “Texts and History” (Slovesnost’ i istoriia) is published by the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and is dedicated not only to the oral or written text in history, but also to the history of the text, its language, the history of the plot, the topos and literary device, the history of the book. The journal deals with the issues of cultural history, the reflection of history in literature, and the connection between literature and historical processes.
The journal promptly responds to new ideas and current events. We accept for publication both scientific articles and literary texts and historical sources prepared for publication, as well as reviews of new books, polemical notes, bibliographic thematic reviews, conference chronicles.
The audience of the journal “Texts and History” is historians of literature and language, folklorists, specialists in the field of medieval musical text, paleographers, book historians, cultural historians.
The publication was founded in 2020.
Periodicity: 4 issues per year
Languages: we accept for publication articles in Russian, English, German, French, Italian, as well as in all Slavic languages
Editor-in-chief: Svetlana A. Semyachko
Founder: Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkinskii Dom) of the Russian Academy of Sciences
ISSN 2712-7591
Journal pages in databases
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Russian Science Citation Index: https://elibrary.ru/contents.asp?id=44038148
Scientific electronic library CyberLeninka: https://cyberleninka.ru/journal/n/slovesnost-i-istoriya?i=1129945
The journal is a member of the Association of Humanitarian Scientific Journals (Declaration on the establishment of the Association).
The journal is included in the List of the Higher Attestation Commission (“List of the refereed scientific publications in which the main scientific results of dissertations for the Doctorate academic degree and Phd should be published”) in the following specialties
5.9.1. Russian literature and literatures of the peoples of the Russian Federation (philological sciences);
5.9.4. Folkloristics (philological sciences);
5.10.1. Theory and history of culture, art (culturology);
5.6.5. Historiography, source study, methods of historical research (historical sciences).
Open Access Policy
The journal “Texts and History” has joined the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), which aims to provide open access to peer-reviewed scientific literature. An electronic version of each issue appears on the journal’s website immediately after being printed. There is no fee for publication in the journal or for access to the full-text version of the journal.
Articles of the journal “Texts and History” are published under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
This license gives users permission to read, copy and distribute the publication in any medium or format, as long as the publication is used non-commercially and provided that proper attribution is given to the publication’s authors. The Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license does not grant the user the right to transform material covered by the license or distribute the converted material.
The journal is distributed by subscription. Subscription index BH018606 according to the Ural-Press agency catalog.