History and Historians in the Context of the Time

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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.

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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.