Aleksandr Vershinin
Biographic Data
| ID | 6154139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aleksandr Vershinin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aleksandr |
| FAMILY NAME | Vershinin |
| SIGNATURE | VERSHININ A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5206-8013 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Phantom Menace
Moscow’s sharp pivot in late 2021–early 2022 was seemingly meant to finally change things. One can speculate about how events would have developed if Russia had achieved quick success in Ukraine. However, the conflict’s transformation into a protracted confrontation has once again revived the topic of Russia’s weakness and served as a key justification for Western military, economic, and political mobilization. The prospect of exhausting Moscow’s…
Russian Strategic Culture in Retrospect
The article analyzes the transformation of Russian strategic culture over the past 100 years. During this period, Russia veered away from the strategic goal-setting practices that its elite had implemented previously. Since the end of the 18th century, Russia was an integral part of the Concert of Europe, and its ruling circles absorbed the European ideas of peace, language of diplomacy, and approaches to military planning. Soviet power essential…
Failed Alliance
This article considers the course and results of Soviet-French negotiations on the conclusion of a military convention in 1935–1937. The question of creating a full-fledged military alliance between the two countries arose immediately after they signed a mutual assistance pact in 1935, but initially neither side was fully prepared for this. The impetus for the intensification of negotiations was the events of March 1936 when the Soviet leadership…
My task is to get into the French army’
This article is about the first attempts of Soviet-French rapprochement in the military sphere in the early 1930s. It is based largely upon unpublished documents from the Soviet foreign policy (AVPRF), military (RGVA) and the communist party (RGASPI) archives in Moscow. It contends that for the top leadership of the USSR the political rapprochement with France did not necessarily lead to making a fully-fledged military alliance. Despite the attit…
General Maurice Gamelin and the French Military Development Before World War II
The article is devoted to one of the pressing issues in the background of the Second World War - military development in France. Having won the First World War, the country faced the problem of ensuring national security in the new conditions. Germany was weakened, but not deprived of opportunities to make a rematch. The problem had become ever more acute after the Nazis came to power. The absence of an immediate threat to the country’s territory…
The Empire and the Nation in the 20th Century
This article studies the development of empires in the 20th century and ways of their interaction with nation-states. That century began as an age of empires. The elites of the world's leading countries were certain that only empires possessing the resources of entire continents had the prospects of full-fledged development. World War I ruined the continental empires and discredited the very notion of imperialism, but it by no means devalued the …
Sudeten Crisis of 1938 in the Eyes of Soviet Diplomats in Paris
In the article, based on the analysis of unpublished archival materials, an attempt to find out how the Soviet representatives in France considered the causes, course and consequences of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1938 was made. The key factor of the crisis, in their opinion, was the helplessness of France as a guarantee of the security of Czechoslovakia. As far as during the military negotiations in 1937 the information they transmitted convince…
French far Leftists at the turn of the century
FYODOROV V. Colonization of Europe: possible scenario RUBINSKIY Yu. France at the crossroads VERNIKOV V. To win the election but to lose power. Surprises of "the Spanish party" ROGINKO S. Results of
Russian Strategic Culture in Retrospect
The article analyzes the transformation of Russian strategic culture over the past 100 years. During this period, Russia veered away from the strategic goal-setting practices that its elite had implemented previously. Since the end of the 18th century, Russia was an integral part of the Concert of Europe, and its ruling circles absorbed the European ideas of peace, language of diplomacy, and approaches to military planning. Soviet power essential…
French far Leftists at the turn of the century
FYODOROV V. Colonization of Europe: possible scenario RUBINSKIY Yu. France at the crossroads VERNIKOV V. To win the election but to lose power. Surprises of "the Spanish party" ROGINKO S. Results of
Sudeten Crisis of 1938 in the Eyes of Soviet Diplomats in Paris
In the article, based on the analysis of unpublished archival materials, an attempt to find out how the Soviet representatives in France considered the causes, course and consequences of the Czechoslovak crisis of 1938 was made. The key factor of the crisis, in their opinion, was the helplessness of France as a guarantee of the security of Czechoslovakia. As far as during the military negotiations in 1937 the information they transmitted convince…
General Maurice Gamelin and the French Military Development Before World War II
The article is devoted to one of the pressing issues in the background of the Second World War - military development in France. Having won the First World War, the country faced the problem of ensuring national security in the new conditions. Germany was weakened, but not deprived of opportunities to make a rematch. The problem had become ever more acute after the Nazis came to power. The absence of an immediate threat to the country’s territory…
The Empire and the Nation in the 20th Century
This article studies the development of empires in the 20th century and ways of their interaction with nation-states. That century began as an age of empires. The elites of the world's leading countries were certain that only empires possessing the resources of entire continents had the prospects of full-fledged development. World War I ruined the continental empires and discredited the very notion of imperialism, but it by no means devalued the …
My task is to get into the French army’
This article is about the first attempts of Soviet-French rapprochement in the military sphere in the early 1930s. It is based largely upon unpublished documents from the Soviet foreign policy (AVPRF), military (RGVA) and the communist party (RGASPI) archives in Moscow. It contends that for the top leadership of the USSR the political rapprochement with France did not necessarily lead to making a fully-fledged military alliance. Despite the attit…
Failed Alliance
This article considers the course and results of Soviet-French negotiations on the conclusion of a military convention in 1935–1937. The question of creating a full-fledged military alliance between the two countries arose immediately after they signed a mutual assistance pact in 1935, but initially neither side was fully prepared for this. The impetus for the intensification of negotiations was the events of March 1936 when the Soviet leadership…
Russian Strategic Culture in Retrospect
The article analyzes the transformation of Russian strategic culture over the past 100 years. During this period, Russia veered away from the strategic goal-setting practices that its elite had implemented previously. Since the end of the 18th century, Russia was an integral part of the Concert of Europe, and its ruling circles absorbed the European ideas of peace, language of diplomacy, and approaches to military planning. Soviet power essential…
The Phantom Menace
Moscow’s sharp pivot in late 2021–early 2022 was seemingly meant to finally change things. One can speculate about how events would have developed if Russia had achieved quick success in Ukraine. However, the conflict’s transformation into a protracted confrontation has once again revived the topic of Russia’s weakness and served as a key justification for Western military, economic, and political mobilization. The prospect of exhausting Moscow’s…
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