Bylye Gody

296-305

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko, Tatiana P. Khlynina

Article is devoted to the domestic historiography of the First World War. For a long time it was considered the «forgotten war» in Russian history. However, over the last century in Russia published thousands of papers on the problem. The authors analyzed the major trends and stages in the study of the First World War in the Soviet and modern Russian historiography. Directly in the war years and in the first decades after the war the study of the events of 1914–1918 was largely dictated by practical problems. After Great Patriotic War applied orientation disappeared. This reflected the changes in the forms and practices of studying the problem. At the same time the influence of politics and ideology in the Soviet historiography of World War survived. In modern Russia studying the events of the First World War is becoming more varied. The appearance of new approaches greatly expands problems and research possibilities.

311-315

Authors: Olga A. Kharus

The article presents the approach to the detection of the role and place of provincial organizations of All-Russian Union of Cities in the social life of the Siberia, which is based on the analysis of the social practices, concerned with their establishment in the context of the regional identity construction. The paper detects the specific character of the forms and methods of Siberian identity representation, used by the liberal initiative minority in the First World War. The reasons, preventing the implementation of the project of creating of broad coalition of the public, based on the development of self-government institutions development are determined.

320-326

Authors: Svetlana A. Khubulova

The extracts from the personal correspondence of the career soldier of the Russian Army E.I. Denisov and his spouse E.I. Denisova-Gerlih are published for the first time. The information, obtained from the letters, enables to reconstruct some spheres of everyday life of the servicemen of the Russian Army and the wives of combatants, trace back the change of worldview attitudes, individual and social behavioral aspects of the population in the First World War. Modern challenges allow us to raise new, unpublished data, analyze the problems beyond the research survey. Letters of the contemporaries contain the data, concerning new realities in Russian citizens’ worldview formation in wartime. They enable to feel the war through people’s impressions, to see the emotional experience of the ordinary person, to penetrate into his inner world with its worries, thoughts and emotions. Personal correspondence fills the gap in our knowledge of the changes in mass and personal strategy of survival. The letters reflect the full extent of the personal values of wartime period. The study of the wartime letters helps us to get the idea of contemporaries’ inner world, understand the deep origins of selflessness, fortitude, mass heroism.

335-340

Authors: Vladimir P. Trut

The article, basing on the analysis of different source and historiographic data, considers some important aspects of the participation of Russia’s Cossack troops in the First World War. The scale of the Cossacks mobilization is shown, the data, concerning the amount of Cossack units are presented. The issues, concerning the Cossacks’ participation in the most important battles are highlighted. The fortitude and heroism, displayed by them in wartime are analyzed. The data, concerning the number of St. George awards, awarded to the Cossacks and their battle honors are revealed.

348-353

Authors: Dmitry N. Shevelev

The article, using the data of official and pro-government periodical press, issued in the east of Russia since summer of 1918 to 1919, considers the propaganda, made by the Omsk government out of the recollections of the First World War. The author came to the conclusion that the whole set of propaganda texts, presented in numerous declarations, booklets, newspaper articles, interviews, reviews, notes and feuilletons should be considered as a specific narrative with own actualization contexts, representation composition and scenario. The political discourse of the White Siberia presented the First World War as a specific starting point, backbone, structuring the political space. Besides, the ‘Great War’ played the significant role in the construction of the new political identity, based on the national, sovereign and patriotic values and the memory of the former glories of Russia.

361-368

Authors: Olga N. Senyutkina, Aron Ronald Frederick Gebkhardt

The article compares the reflection of the First World War events in the historic memory and educational space of two societies: the Netherlandian and the Russian ones. Some new historic sources of archive origin, disclosing the little-known moments in the history of the World War are introduced for the scientific use. The conclusion contains the information of the factors, influencing the materials introduction. The idea that all objective information delivery on the First World War leads to the elimination of stereotypes in the perception of the events at the time and the appropriate reflection in the educational space and as a result, promotes the understanding between the nations is justified.

372-381

Authors: Dmitry E. Martynov, Yulia A. Martynova

The article deals with the views of J.Gobineau of China and the term of the ‘Yellow Threat’. Gobineau denied the progress and the social equality and considered China the most sociable community of the world and at the same time developed the concept of the ‘Yellow Threat’. Being the logical pessimist, he considered that the major conflict of the XX century will be the conflict between the white and the yellow races. After his death, the views of Gobineau were adopted by R.Wagner’s and spread across kaiser Germany. They were also adopted by the imperial Japan, followed by Konoe Atsumaro and Mori Ogai. Despite the attention of Gobineau to the problems of China, his views didn’t spread across China.

387-391

Authors: Yuliya A. Lysenko

The article features attempts on analyzing the cultural – historic situation, which conditioned the formation of orthodox population and institutions of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan in XVIII – beginning of XX centuries. The article also features the construction techniques of diocesan, parochial schools in the region and the main activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in Kazakhstan. The results of complex analysis let determine the decree of integration effectiveness in cultural-religious space of the region, to reveal influential objective and subjective factors.

399-404

Authors: Sergei L. Dudarev, Olga V. Ktitorova, Anastasiya A. Tsybulnikova

The article features the development of State control over marriages between the Russian and mountainous population during the conquest of South Caucasus by the Russian Empire. The goals, objectives and peculiarities of marriage policy are analyzed. The marriage is regarded here as a tool of stabilization of interethnic relations in the Regions.

410-416

Authors: Svetlana I. Grahova 2 Almaz R. Gapsalamov

The paper considers modern oral stories about the merchants, existing in Elabuzhsky District of the Republic of Tatarstan, determines their genre features, offers thematic classification, detects style peculiarities. These stories are valued due to the significant potential in the historic reconstruction of the personalities and events of this region. They also contain the general trend of the domestic literature, which is to overcome the one-sided view of the past, perceive and estimate everything from the positions of truth, welfare and beauty.

423-429

Authors: Tatyana K. Ryabinina, Helen A. Grokhotova

The article considers the prerequisites for the establishment of the world court in Russia, which is one of the results of the judicial reform of 1864, held by Alexander II. The periodization of the establishment and formation processes of this institute is presented. The analysis of the requirements to the potential justices of peace is made. It should be noted that justices of peace were formed as a state structure, related to the common population.

437-443

Authors: Tatyana G. Sudakova

The article deals with legal foundations of extreme justice system since 1917 to 1923 and the issues related to organization of Vladikavkaz High Court Division VTSIK. The research states, that after adoption and introduction of the PC and CPC in the judicial practice in 1922, the centralized control over high courts was enhanced.

453-459

Authors: Vladimir Korovin

On the basis of archive documents circulated in RF Federal Security Service, the article reveals different aspects of NKVD’s participation in formation of guerrilla armed groups and networks of commando-type reconnaissance activities on the temporally occupied areas of Central Black Earth Region in 1941. The published material improves our knowledge of State Political Bodies of USSR during the Great Patriotic War.

466-471

Authors: Luydmila V. Klimovich

Russian emigration developed a complex of ideological and political concepts on changing system in Soviet Russia. The focus of the article is on the political program of the National Union of the New Generation. The union was formed in 1930 in Yugoslavia and had offices in many countries. It proclaimed the overthrow of the Bolshevik government. On the base of the involvement of archive documents of the People Labor Union of Russian Solidarists (Frankfurt am Main), the author concludes that this organization does not define the future of political structure of Russia, adopted the position called "nepredreshenchestvo". The analysis shows that the program of this organization was perceived ambiguously.

479-482

Authors: Osman A. Zhansitov

The article studies the problems of the development of the industry of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic in the course of ‘Kosygin’ reform of 1965 realization. The difficulties of the transformation of command-and-control system into more democratic forms of economic administration, which is one of the reasons of reformist initiatives ‘bulk’ are considered.