Vitalii Ivanovich Startsev, an Outstanding Researcher of the Political History of Twentieth-Century Russia and the Russian Revolution of 1917 Review of Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al. (St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023)

The reviewer analyzes a collection of scientific articles Political History of Twentieth-Century Russia. The collection contains the proceedings of the international scientific conference dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev, which was held on September 14–15, 2021 by the Department of Russian History (19th–21st Centuries) of the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Herzen State Pedagogical University. The reviewer considers the recollections of V. Startsev and the key articles in the collection on problems that were in the focus of his attention and notes the importance of the collection under review from historiographical and source-study points of view. It is emphasized that the articles included in the collection help to evaluate the contribution of outstanding historian V. Startsev to the study of the problems of political history of twentieth-century Russia and the Russian revolution of 1917, introduce novelty into the interpretation of the events of the revolutionary period, and contribute to the rethinking of some previous historiographical provisions. In addition, in many articles of the collection, new sources on various aspects of the political history of Russia of the early 20th century are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time.

Buldakov, V.P. “Vspominaya Vitaliya Ivanovicha…” [Remembering Vitalii Ivanovich...]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 16–18. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Gaida, F.A. “Predsedatel' Soveta ministrov I.L. Goremykin: politicheskie virazhi gosudarstvennogo startsa (1914–1915)” [Chairman of the Council of Ministers I.L. Goremykin: Political turns of the state elder (1914–1915)]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev:
A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 149–56. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Ganin, A.V. “‘Mozhet byt' moi perezhivaniya v eto urodlivoe vremya posluzhat urokom…’. Nachal'nik General'nogo shtaba general V.V. Marushevskii o revolyutsionnykh sobytiyakh 1917 g.” [‘Maybe my experiences in this ugly time will serve as a lesson...’. Chief of the General Staff General V.V. Marushevskii on the revolutionary events of 1917]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 110–16. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian).
Goldin, V.I. “O V.I. Startseve: uchenom i cheloveke” [About V.I. Startsev: a scholar and a person]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 13–16. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Gordeev, P.N. “Dva aresta A.I. Ziloti: iz istorii ‘sabotazha’ v gosudarstvennykh teatrakh (dekabr' 1917 g. – yanvar' 1918 g.)” [Two arrests of A.I. Siloti: From the history of ‘sabotage’ in state theaters (December 1917 – January 1918)]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev:
A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 117–33. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Hasegawa, Ts. “Pamyati Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva” [In memory of Vitalii Ivanovich Startsev]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 19–23. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)  
Kalashnikov, V.V. “O taktike bol'shevikov letom – osen'yu 1917 goda (razmyshleniya nad rabotami V.I. Startseva)” [On the tactics of the Bolsheviks in the summer–autumn of 1917 (reflections on the works of V.I. Startsev)]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev:
A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 24–41. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Musaev, V.I. “Veroispovednaya politika Vremennogo pravitel'stva i polozhenie inoslavnykh obshchin v Rossii v 1917 g.” [Confessional policy of the Provisional Government and the situation of non-Orthodox communities in Russia in 1917]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 89–97. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Nikolaev, A.B. “Petrogradskaya ‘ulitsa’ protiv A.F. Kerenskogo (mart – iyul' 1917 goda)” [Petrograd “street” against A.F. Kerensky (March–July 1917)]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 98–105. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Nikolaev, A.B. “Predislovie” [Foreword]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev:
A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 3–5. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Rogushina, L.G. “Podgotovka voenno-narodnogo prazdnika v Rossii v 1914–1915 gg.” [Preparation of the military national holiday in Russia in 1914–1915]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 157–62. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Shelokhaev, V.V. “Fevral'skaya revolyutsiya i pereformatirovanie partiinogo prostranstva” [The February Revolution and the reformatting of the party space]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 41–54. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Shvedova, V.V. “Militsionery rabochei militsii 3-go Vyborgskogo (Polyustrovskogo) podraiona g. Petrograda – zhertvy soldatskogo i obyvatel'skogo nasiliya (mart – oktyabr' 1917 goda)” [Militiamen of the workers’ militia of the 3rd Vyborg (Polyustrovsky) sub-district of Petrograd as victims of soldiers’ and residents’ violence (March–October 1917)]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 105–10. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Sirenov, A.V. “Privetstvie uchastnikam mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii k 90-letiyu professora V.I. Startseva” [Welcoming address to the participants of the international scientific conference on the 90th anniversary of Professor V.I. Startsev]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al.,
7–9. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Sokolov, A.V. “Velikii Vostok narodov Rossii v fevrale – oktyabre 1917 goda” [The Great East of the peoples of Russia in February–October 1917]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 54–70. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Sokolov R.A. “Privetstvennoe slovo uchastnikam mezhdunarodnoi nauchnoi konferentsii pamyati V.I. Startseva” [Welcoming address to the participants of the international scientific conference in memory of V.I. Startsev]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev:
A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 6–7. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Sverdlov, M.B. “V.I. Startsev – chelovek i issledovatel'. Vospominaniya” [V.I. Startsev, a person and a researcher. Memoirs]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 9–12. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Solov'ev, K.A. “Studencheskii lokomotiv istorii. Rossiya rubezha XIX–XX vv.” [Student locomotive of history. Russia at the turn of the 20th century]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 134–49. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)
Tarasov, K.A. “‘Tem luchshe, napishem sami.’ Obstoyatel'stva poyavleniya Prikaza № 1” [‘All the better, we’ll write it ourselves.’ The emergence of Order no. 1]. In Politicheskaya istoriya Rossii XX veka: k 90-letiyu professora Vitaliya Ivanovicha Startseva: Sbornik vospominanii i nauchnykh statei [Political history of twentieth-century Russia: On the 90th anniversary of Professor
Vitalii I. Startsev: A collection of memoirs and scientific articles], edited by A.B. Nikolaev et al., 70–89. St Petersburg: Asterion, 2023. (In Russian)