История и теория: “Return to the real”

The theory of history is again undergoing yet another transformation. Linguistic and cultural turns have occurred and have been completed. A new paradigm which, with certain precaution, could have been named “back to reality” is on its way. The ongoing metamorphose of epistemological foundations is characterized by unprecedented interest of historians to the problems of historical time. At the same time, this change allows a discussion not only about considerably new vision of historical time but also that of historical space. In the first part of this article we discuss several indicators of radical innovations in the theoretical history which occurred just in the past few years. In the second part we analyze new approaches to historical time.