History and Historians in the Context of the Time

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Authors: Aleksandr P. Skorik, Irina M. Fedina

The article discloses the process of Cossack khutor establishment and development in the Kuban Region as the adapted social and economic world order of the migrated agricultural population. The change of the generations, which laid the basis of Cossack khutor prosperity by the early XX century is shown. The cause and effect relationship of decay of khutor household in the Kuban Region by the end of 1920s is indicated.

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Authors: Nikolai P. Kalmykov

The article cites a small quantity of archive data, concerning repressions in the Don Region during collectivization. The description of events of the early 30s of the XX century is presented on the basis of a certain fate.

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Authors: Iryna Y. Sklokina

The article presents the Nazi occupation in the public space of Soviet period, which highlighted the success of the economic recovery and motivated the population on new achievements. Specific method of occupation representation inseparably linked the urban identity of Kharkov and its Soviet character, while the celebration rituals used mostly the rhetoric of population’s gratitude for liberation. This fact promoted the reintegration of the postwar society on the base of Stalinist political culture. Despite the fact that after 1948 there were no days-off in commemoration of the war, war reminiscences were celebrated at the local level during the postwar period, but they mostly related to mobilization and propaganda, rather than to recreation and entertainment.

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Authors: Valeriya V. Shaparenko

The article analyses the reasons of actual inaction of UN in arrangement of international conflicts after the ‘Cold War’ termination, the stages of UN operation in early 90s of the XX century. The UN Charter as a major legal regulator of states’ responsibility for international security violation is considered.