Russia at International Forums and Congresses of the XVII ‒ early XX century

In the review of the collective monograph “Russia at international forums and congresses of the XVII ‒ early twentieth century”, published at the Institute of Russian History in 2021, the main task was to study the contribution of scientists in the development of concept of the Russian foreign policy history during the 4th centuries. The work, compositionally constructed according to the problem-chronological principle, identifies the key problems of Russia's foreign policy at each stage of its development. The indisputable merit of the authors is the disclosure on concrete historical material of the conference diplomacy, presented in the form of tools for the implementation of strategic tasks facing the Russian state in each historical period. The researchers described in detail the system of international congresses and conferences in which Russia participated, analyzed the most significant achieved results. The strong point of the work is the use by the authors of a wide range of domestic and foreign literature, as well as documents from Russian archives, introduced for the first time into scientific circulation.