Russkii Arkhiv

177-192

Authors: Oleg A. Grom

The articles of Bessarabian intellectuals from the Moldavian press of the early 20th century are published in Russian for the first time. The texts deal with the issues of language, history and national identity of Bessarabian Moldavians or Romanians, as they were treated by the authors. The publication may be useful for the comparative analysis of the national movements in the Russian Empire.

204-219

Authors: Evgeny F. Krinko, Maxim V. Medvedev

This publication describes the formation of the Russian-Ukrainian border in the Priazov Area and Donbass in 1920s. The territorial dispute was completed in 1925, when the greater part of the Taganrog and Shakhtinsky Districts were acceded to the North Caucasus Region of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Published documents are extracted from the fund of the North Caucasian Regional Committee of the Party of the Documentation Center of the Modern History of the Rostov Region. They talk about the difficulty of reconciling the circumstances of the transfer of the territories between the authorities of the South-East (North Caucasus) Region and Donbass (Donetsk Province).

236-252

Authors: Alla V. Shadrina

After 1941, in the Soviet Union, many churches were reopened due to the Great Patriotic War, and as a consequence of it, the clerical social group began to form again. The selected questionnaires of the priests of the Rostov Region published for the first time, show that the clergy of the Rostov Diocese of the 1940s and 1950s was characterized by heterogeneity. The priests who became members of the clergy of that time, in their majority, considered their service as a survival strategy.