Boris Yulin: biography, books

A lot of interesting people work in the modern historical field, but one of the names occurs more and more often in the Internet space. This Yulin Boris Vitalievich is a historian-erudite, extremely popular for today because of his informative Internet videos, as well as a military expert, economist and political scientist. Surely you are already familiar with numerous articles, videos or books of this author.

Biography

Boris Yulin is a historian whose biography is not very well known. But maybe it does not matter. Here are some facts that are known to readers: Boris Yulin was born in Khabarovsk in 1961, graduated from a local school, and then served in the army. He has two higher educations: he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, and then the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute. He leads his own historical forum on "Tupichka", the author of a very popular live magazine. Anyone who is interested in history, perhaps, should know Boris Vitalievich and his work.

Military historian

His historic career Boris Yulin began by collaborating with the historian Svetlana Samchenko. First he wrote works about the armored fleet of the First World War, as well as Russian-Japanese. For the most part, Boris Vitalievich was always interested in military equipment, this can be traced in his bibliography. And although they were not created much books (about them - a little later), but a lot of small arguments, posts, videos and interviews with this historian appears in the Internet space regularly.

Other activities

It's interesting that Boris Yulin is a historian who collaborated with several computer game developers, conducting military-historical consultations. Yes, and he, as the readers of his pages in LJ, often likes to plunge into the atmosphere of virtual battles.

In addition, Boris Yulina is very interested in pedagogy in Russia and the problems of its development. He worked for a long time in his alma mater on the development of new methods of teaching history. He also joined the list of co-authors in the modern textbook on economics. It's hard not to agree with the fact that the topic is very topical now.

This writer has his own money on the Internet, Boris Yulin called it "Razvedopros". There he in the form of an interview answers questions about Russian and Soviet history to the notorious Dmitry Puchkov.

Criticism

Judging by how the web users respond to this historian, he has enough ill-wishers. The most controversial topic that Boris Yulin touched upon is Ukraine and its modern politics. But at the same time, his videos are scanned very quickly, and there are a lot of subscribers to his pages in social networks. Constructive critical comments are very few, and therefore we can conclude that it is not worth paying attention to them. It is better to make your own opinion by reading the author's publications.

Bibliography

To date, Boris Yulin is the author of many articles and books on Russian history. In doing so, most of all in his work he pays attention to military aspects. If your interests in historical science coincide with the interests of this author, then you should familiarize yourself with the list of books he created during his career. By the way, now the author has again returned to science and is working on serious projects, therefore we should expect a soon-growing list of the bibliography of the writer. Boris Yulin, whose books are very famous in the Russian historical community, worthy of the reader's attention.

"Battle of Borodino"

The first book that I would like to discuss is the "Borodino Battle", published in 2008. The edition is small (only 176 pages of text), but large-format and illustrated, and also belongs to the category of rare, see the circulation was only 4 thousand copies. For the first time the book was presented in Moscow, now it can be found on the shelves of the largest bookstores or read the text in online libraries.

The Battle of Borodino is the most massive and bloody battle of the Patriotic War of 1812, it is often described as the main battle of Russian history, and it is often said about it as a symbol of Russian military glory. It was she who dedicated hundreds of paintings and colorful descriptions in fiction. Only now the controversial issues that arise regarding the battle of Borodino, is still very much. And this is even if you do not touch the works of Western historians. What is the real statistics about the balance of forces before the battle, and what are the losses of both sides after it? Until now, researchers can not come to a consensus. But the most important, paradoxically, is the question of who did win after all. This was debated in the nineteenth century, and they are still arguing now.

So what is the difference between Boris Yulin's book and numerous works on the same issue? The fact that the author approaches these issues from a very unexpected side. The writer's view is very fresh, innovative, many, perhaps, it will seem fiction. But Yulin very intelligibly explains his position, backing it up with historical sources. After analyzing the plans of Bonaparte and Kutuzov, their decisions regarding the battle, he correlates this information with the real maps of the terrain, not forgetting to characterize the armament of both sides. The conclusions turned out to be very nontrivial.

Initially, the author himself wanted to name the book in another way: "Borodino: Stand and die." But the publishers, having read the text, decided that a more concise version is more suitable. The book is replete with quotations from the historical community, as well as the commanders themselves of the Russian and French armies. All quotes have author's comments, and in the reference material you will be able to find the most interesting facts about the arming of both sides. And this is without exaggeration, since the author is well versed in this issue. Surprised readers and the abundance of illustrations that appropriately complement the narrative, some of them painted personally by Boris Vitalievich, for example the scheme of some battles in stages.

Critics' comments turned out to be very benevolent.

"Myths of the Great Patriotic War II"

Boris Yulin wrote this book in co-authorship with other modern historians. She came out in 2009 and won many positive reviews from critics. Although there are plenty of ill-wishers in the publication.

What do modern pseudo-historians not invent to blacken the Soviet period of Russian history. This is especially true of the history of the Great Patriotic War. This book was created in order to refute the terrible slander that is spreading in the pages of magazines, as well as on radio waves and wanderings of Internet publications. The Holy War - the so-called these terrible four years, to blacken the generals or the facts - is a low business. We must honor our history, protecting the truth and memory of our great-grandfathers. Defend your past, and not slander him - that's the purpose of this book and its authors.

"Economic security"

The book is completely new, written last year, has a large circulation and unconditional popularity among economists. This textbook was created by a group of authors, including Boris Vitalievich Yulin.

This is a very good guide to economics, which is devoted to a very topical issue of economic security. In this textbook there is a discussion of the organization of the security system, it introduces the readers to the main strategic and regulatory legal documents. What is important, this edition corresponds to all the parameters of the modern educational standard. And it will be appropriate for in-depth study of the subject.

Yulin Boris Vitalievich is a modern and unusual author with atypical views. It is definitely worth getting acquainted with his works in order to broaden his horizons.