History and Historians in the Context of the Time

68-75

Authors: Sergey S. Belousov

This article examines the Russian government’s state policy on the formation of a network of stationary settlements on Kalmyk lands in the second half of the 18th-19th centuries. The author explores its aims, character, and results. In the end, the author comes to the conclusion that the settlers did not have a major impact on the economic scheme of life of the Kalmyk people, its lifeway and culture and that the Kalmyks, likewise, had little impact on them as well. The events in Kalmykia once again substantiated the axiom that it is impossible to achieve changes in the scheme of life of nomads through just settling with them sedentary landowners or via incentive, much less administrative, measures.

84-91

Authors: Anna N. Eremeeva

This article attempts to reconstruct the emotional state of the intelligentsia of cities in Kuban and the Black Sea area in the early 1920s. The subject of the study is, above all, the capital’s intelligentsia who fled to the South during the Civil War, and after its close were doing their best to return.

101-105

Authors: Igor' A. Tveritinov

This article, based on archive documents and materials from print media and monographic literature, examines the struggle against the so-called “German stranglehold” in the territory of the Black Sea Governorate during World War I. In the end, the author notes that the campaign for the struggle against the “German stranglehold” was a manifestation of political speculation aimed at ousting from power the so-called “pro-German circles” and as well liquidating German landownership in Russia.

109-112

Authors: Andrey A. Kibrik

Рецензируемая монография принадлежит перу Александра Юрьевича Петрова, ведущего сотрудника Института всеобщей истории РАН, известного историка Русской Америки. Книга посвящена персоналии Наталии Алексеевны Шелиховой (1762–1810), жены и партнера одного из основателей Русской Америки купца Григория Ивановича Шелихова (1748–1795).

4-11

Authors: Elena Krymskaja

On the strength of analysis of legislative acts passed in the Russian Empire and a whole range of archive materials, the author attempts to mark out the characteristics of and changes in land relations in the towns and boroughs of the Podolia Governorate for the period from the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries.

24-36

Authors: Michael N. Saiko

The mortgage contracts engraved on the bronze plaques found in the Italian region Veleia and called Tabula «Veleia» are in the focus of investigation of the present paper. These are the agreements between authorities of the Imperial alimentary fund in Gallia Cispadana and Liguria and land owners of Veleia, Placentia, Luca, Parma and Libarna about granting loans on land lending. Money got on interest payments were directed towards orphans and poor parents free-born children support till their adulthood. Tabula «Veleia» contains 52 loan contracts, 15 of which are translated into Russian in full, others are given in brief. The structure and content of these mortgages are determined and some mistakes in calculations are found in the documents and some publications. The land domain size the square of which ranges from some dozens jugerum till more than 1000 jugerum is analyzed. The attention is also paid to the owners’ estates consisted of separate manors the square of which ranged within considerable limits (from 2 till 490 jugerum) and their names are studied. It is determined that the manors’ names which end with «anus» belonged to the Roman names, others – to the Celt-Ligurian. Tabula «Veleia» allows becoming more familiar with finance and credit documents and the conclusions made on the basis of its analysis promote the deep insight in the social-economic relations of Ancient Rome.

48-54

Authors: Irina G. Tazhidinova

The turn to the cultural-anthropological dimension of the past leads to re-evaluation of the significance of literature as a historical source. The article brings to light the potential of lyric poetry for the study of the emotions of the man of the 1930s and the history of the Soviet everyday. The work analyzes the verses of young poets (P. Kogan, N. Mayorov, and N. Ovsyannikov), which can be treated as “declarations of emotional independence”. In them, the authors declaim against hypocrisy and asexuality, which were being cultivated in Soviet society, and advocate for freedom of expressing emotions – above all, love feelings.

62-64

Authors: Sergey I. Degtyarev

Проблема украинской политической истории начала ХХ в. уже неоднократно становилась предметом исследований учеными – историками, политологами. Ими изучались события, которые происходили в период Первой российской революции; история формирования первых украинских политических партий, объединений, кружков и т.п.; деятельность на территории Украины в это время российских партий; роль отдельных общественных и политических деятелей в процессах, которые протекали в Украине.