On July 8, 2008, the Ulyanovsk Law Court acknowledged as extremist material the book of English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, :Hitler's Table Talks. 1941-1944;.

The monograph, published in Russian in 2005, appeared in one of the city's bookstores in the summer of 2007. In the opinion of the prosecutors, :on the pages of the book, one could find texts of an anti-Slav and anti-Semitic character;.

The expert investigation of :The Table Talks; concluded that :we can see in the book a number of statements of Hitler, which degrade the merit of the Russian and Jewish peoples, and which express in ethnic terms the inferiority and primitiveness of the people ("the Russians are beasts'; "the Slavs are a mass born to be slaves'; "the Jews are parasites'). It is noted as well that :in the Russian conscience, Hitler's personality is firmly associated with criminal aggression, millions of victims, and mass destruction. His figure is the symbol of Nazism, indisputably condemned by the sentence of the Nuremberg Tribunal on October 1, 1946.;
In his book, republished many times in the West, Hugh Trevor-Roper frequently speaks of a certain political :genius; of the leader of Nazi Germany; at the same time however, the researcher notes that this :genius; led to tragedy for the Western world, taking away millions of lives. Furthermore, extensive quoting of Hitler's reasoning in the book is the specific feature of the historical study, published as a collection of Hitler's speeches.

Contemporary Russian legislation strictly prohibits the publication of texts pertaining to German national-socialists or Italian fascists, without differentiating between propagandistic and scientific literature. This is problematic because it makes it impossible to publish, and, more importantly, study history in Russia, using quotations from fascist leaders and fascist text as historical primary sources.

A precedent to this court's decision occurred in January 2008, in Volgograd, where the prosecutors found signs of extremism in Joachim Fest's book :Hitler. A Biography;, which is considered a classical biography of Hitler, translated into many languages and repeatedly republished.