E. V. Tarle: personal attitude (B. S. Kaganovich. Evgueny Viktorovich Tarle. Historian and Time. St-Petersburg: Publishing House of the European University in St. Petersburg, 2014. - 357 p.)
More than twenty years B. S. Kaganovich explores the biography of the famous historian, professor at Leningrad University, academician E. V. Tarle (1874-1955). In his new book he examines achievements and failures of Tarle, his relations with the authorities, focusing the reader’s attention on the contradictions of historian’s fate. The author gives an interesting psychological characteristics to his hero. The book is based on a rich historiographical and epistolary material. The list of Terle’s unpublished works is added to this review.