History and Historians in the Context of the Time

68-73

Authors: Igor A. Melnichuk

The article analyses the reasons and consequences of gradual evolution of worldview and political positions of the senior elite in the course of wars between Zaporozhian Army and Poland in 20-40s of the XVII century from the self-identification as a special social group and military caste within Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth till understanding of their liberation mission and formation of autonomous ideology and politics.

92-97

Authors: Sergei V. Yanush, Sergei I. Linets

Russia is in high need of professionals, meeting the requirements of international standards, highly skilled, well-informed, legally savvy specialists, patriots of their work, having civil maturity and high moral and ethic qualities. Modern Russian society wants the employers of all levels to have deep understanding of civil importance and social significance of their activities, strong moral and spiritual basis, high cultural behavior. Training of such specialists is closely related to patriotic upbringing, creation of value-motivational core of the society and resource base of Russia’s restoration through the reproduction of a man of culture, citizen, patriot, moral, responsible, composite and spiritual personality, having distinct guidelines, ideas and ideals of the Russian patriotism. According to the president of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin: ‘We need the strategy of national policy, based on civil patriotism. High patriotic idea, the idea of statehood is the backbone, the foundation of the spirituality of modern Russian society and its future.” Nowadays, when Russia ‘gathers stones’ of its history, patriotism as the phenomenon of national spirituality and the component of public consciousness is as crucial for Russian reality as it was many centuries ago. The power of any country is mainly determined by the depth of patriotism of its citizens.

108-116

Authors: Irina G. Tazhidinova

The paper examines the specific character of combatants’ leisure activities during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. The article, using private sources (private correspondence, diaries, memoirs), considers such form of leisure activities as frontline concerts. On the one hand, recollections of live performances by actors themselves, on the other – impressions and estimations by frontline soldiers are performed. Special attention is attached to the amateur performances by army amateur-talent groups.