Russkii Arkhiv

97-106

Authors: Alla V. Shadrina

The article deals with the analysis of the information resources and specific features of the criminal investigative cases of the Archive of the Rostov Oblast Department of the Russian Federal Security Service as a source on the history of the church schisms of the 1920s and 1930s. Among the set of the cases that have been studied, the most informative and substantial are the criminal investigative cases of the Don clergy of 1922 through 1924, which give a representative factual materials and ideas of the hierarchs and priests who participated either in the renovationist schism or in its opposition. The criminal investigative cases of 1937 and 1938, which contain information on the counter-revolutionary church and monarchic organizations fabricated by the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), make it possible to partially solve the problem of identification of the priests’ belonging either to the renovationist schism or to the Patriarch’s Church. The 1930s’ sources contain information on the Gregorian schism and its leaders. The study of the criminal investigative cases of that period allows making a contribution to the development of one of today’s pressing problems: the history of the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church. Despite the fact that the Archive of the Rostov Oblast Department of the Russian Federal Security Service also has criminal investigative cases containing information on the priests from Rostov Oblast who belonged to the Lubny schism, the sources criticism allows us to state that in the parishes of the Don and Novocherkassk Diocese there were no priests involved in that schism.

116-121

Authors: Piyotr A. Avakov

The report of Field Marshal Count B.Ch. Münnich to Empress Anna Ioannovna on the successful assault on the Perekop line defending the passage to the Crimean peninsula is published for the first time. This action of 1736 initiated the first ever invasion of the Russian army into the Crimea, marking the beginning of a new stage in the centuries-old confrontation between Russia and the Crimean Khanate. The document is stored in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA). The conciseness of the report is due to the fact that it was written in the coming hours after the Russian troops broke through the shaft of Perekop, before the completion of the military operation.

137-154

Authors: Oleg A. Grom

The article contains a set of publications from the military periodicals published in the South of Russia during the First World War: “Listok Voiny” (Leaflet of War), two editions from Rostov-on-Don and Ekaterinodar, “Voennyi Vestik” (Military Bulletin, Ekaterinodar), and “Severo-Kavkazskii Listok Voiny” (The North Caucasian Leaflet of War, Stavropol). The published texts give an account of the participation of the region’s population in the wartime events, reactions on the issues of refugees, captivity, everyday life in the home front cities. The eyewitnesses accounts (for example the letters of Iliya Gammal) are of an especial interest. The newspapers were main source of information on the war, and the study of this type of historical sources allows us to understand better how the reading public in the South of Russia imagined the war.

165-174

Authors: Igor G. Ivantsov

The events of the Great Patriotic War, the occupation of large parts of the country by the enemy armies have become an ordeal in the destiny of the peoples of the USSR. The issue of the study of the history of the fighting partisan detachments and connections in the rear of the enemy are still relevant today. The all contemporary Russian society is interesting in this issue. The historical archival study of the documents on the guerilla groups in all the country as well as in the Kuban region is one of the most important directions in the study of guerilla movement. The work on detecting information about guerrilla movement is maintained for a long time. There is a large amount of literature on this topic, but there are many disclosed issues and pending discussions. However, the new archival documents on these issues are being declassified, which contributes to the further study of the history of the guerrilla movement in their entirety

4-19

Authors: Nicholas W. Mitiukov

The manuscripts written in the 1920s by local historians P. Luppov, F. Streltsov and V. Stupishin on the issues of Votkinsk’s shipbuilding stored in the funds of the Votkinsk’s Museum of History and Culture are published for the first time. Luppov's manuscript is of exceptional cultural value being the first survey of the history of the Votkinsk’s shipbuilding. Streltsov's manuscript is based on archival documents, published statistical reports, but mainly on oral tradition, which predetermined a series of mistakes in numbers and facts, especially as regards the years of construction and the number of boats built. The manuscript of Stupishin is based on a limited number of archival sources, but mostly on published documents and periodicals, and contains clearly politicized assessments regarding the unprofitability of the Votkinsk’s shipbuilding and the reasons for it. The analysis of the manuscript and the published book shows that there are numerous abbreviations in the printed version. Despite the frequency of these manuscripts citing, it should be recognized that as a source on the history of the Votkinsk’s shipbuilding, they have a limited significance.

26-36

Authors: Olga V. Rvacheva

In the 1930s in the Don Cossack areas there quite often occurred sharp increases in protest attitudes and actions due to aggravating social and political contradictions. Starting from 1927 such cases were investigated by the Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU) and investigative files were opened on the participants. Those files were rather thick and often consisted of more than one volume. They contain valuable information that makes it possible to reveal and analyze the mechanism of formation of such files as well as to see the historical details of the social and political life of the Don Cossacks. The investigative files as a historical source have a number of specificities caused by the circumstances of their formation. In this connection they require a special approach on the part of a research worker and a scrupulous analysis. The article focuses on analysis of some sections in the investigative files that reveal peculiarities of the social and political conflicts in the Cossack villages.

45-71

Authors: Igor O. Tyumentsev

A fragment of prison memoirs of chief designer of Kirov factory of artillery weapons I.A. Makhanov is presented in the article. The memoirs were not published yet. Until recently memoirist was presumed dead in Stalin's torture chambers, but as it turned out, he survived and even described in details his prison odyssey. As a Bolshevik-Leninist from the “children of the revolution” generation he got good education, took one of the key positions in the military industrial complex of the USSR, and was well received in the highest echelons of power in Soviet Russia. Through access to information, including classified materials, he viewed firsthand the events occurred in the country. Presented fragment gives overview of his memoirs and describes the imprisonment of I.A. Makhanov in Sukhanovo, which was almost unknown until today.