East European Historical Society (2015–2025): A Review of Its Work

This paper commemorates the 10th anniversary of the East European Historical Society. It goes over the key areas of the Society’s work, including its publication activity, its own mass media, its projects designed to popularize academic knowledge, and its contests for the best research work. The work leans on four groups of sources – (1) collections of published documents, (2) materials from the Society’s official website, (3) materials from the citation database Web of Science, and (4) commemorative and other publications. The study’s findings reveal that in the 10-year period of its existence the East European Historical Society has achieved a number of significant outcomes. Its members have published nearly 70 articles, with at least 40 of those appearing in journals indexed by Web of Science. The most significant of the publications is the 850-page ‘The Circassian Slave Narratives (A Documentary Collection)’, a work which would doubtless be a credit to any modern academic institution. The Society has produced mass media of its own. Specifically, it published the journal East European History from 2015 to 2020 and has produced the journal Recorder since 2025. In addition, since 2018 the Society has stewarded a news-focused academic project known as the Eastern European Scientific Information Agency. The Society has given serious attention to organizational work as well. From 2015 to 2019, the Society was among the organizers of six contests for the best research work – an anniversary commemorative contest (2015) and five ‘Slavery in the Past and Present’ annual events (2015–2019). © 2025 by Cherkas Global University.