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Historiography of the history about Civil war is currently on the rise. In many ways, this is connected with the 100th anniversary of the beginning of large-scale military operations on the territory of Russia in the spring of 1918. Recently, a significant number of historiographical works on the history of Civil war have been published and need to be evaluated. The aim of the article is to present the results of the study of the topic, reveal the problems of discussion, note the most important directions that req...

This report presents the continuation of our studies on the topic of nomadism in Northern Yakutia, which were conducted with the support of RFBR, project 17-11-14003. The previous work considered the influence of the Soviet state policy on the economy of reindeer herding. Our new work is focused on nomadism as a way of life which has its own intrinsic value. The ethno-cultural phenomenon of nomadic way of life in Yakutia has long been considered as one of the limiting factors of the development of the indigenous p...

In the first part of my paper, I will present the project В‘Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy, c. 1350-c. 1650В’ and its provisional research findings. This project, founded for 3 years, starting January 2017, by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, aims to reconstruct the corpus of all the exegetical works on PetrarchВ’s Italian literary production. This vast and variegated material includes commentaries, academic lectures, glossaries, annotations, and all the other forms of exegetical wo...

This paper orders the facts relevant to the functioning of Jewish schools in the city of a particular significance for Jews, considered to be 'the mainstay of Jews'. Jewish school-ing in Lviv in the times of the Austrian Partition of Poland reflects the principal prob-lems of Jewish schooling in 19th and at the beginning of 20th century, in Central-Eastern Europe. In the paper, (were indicated) three original stages of the formation of schooling among the Jews were indicated. The first of those stages was connecte...

This paper is to present Polish-Ukrainian-Jewish relations in Galician education in 1867-1914. The activity of the Land Education Council in Galicia for the development of public education from the point of view of the above-mentioned nations was present-ed in it. It was demonstrated that its composition did not reflect that of Galician popula-tion. The LEC was dominated by Poles, which caused the protests for the part of Ukrainians, and its activity was largely determined by politics, and not conducive to de-velo...

The paper deals with the issue of collecting rainwater in Roman times on the example of two cities: Termessos and Phaselis. These cities are ruins located in the coastal area of the Antalia district in Turkey (Antalya Province in Turkey). In the 1st c. B.C. the Pisidian Termesoos and Phaselis - belonging to the Lycian federation - came under the rule of the Roman state, experiencing intense spatial development during this period. These towns represent two types of cities whose inhabitants had to adapt the urban st...

The article deals with issues related to the charitable activities of zemstvos on the example of the Vladimir zemstvo in the second half of the XIX – the beginning of the XX century. The zemstvo budget is analyzed in terms of its revenue and expenditure: sources, amounts, revenue dynamics, directions and expenditures, and sources for covering the budget deficit of the Vladimir zemstvo. The description of the financial security of social institutions, whose activities were controlled by the Vladimir zemstvo is gi...

The publication examines the history of state and legal regulation in the field of forming the revenue side of the treasury, the procedure for the work of the local authorities of the administration of regalia incomes in 1719-1724. A historical legal analysis of the special legal status of officials with powers in this area is conducted: representatives of the Chamber Chambers in the counties - Zemsky commissars, chamberers and renters. It is proved that civil servants in the field of finance in Russia in 1719-172...

The D?browa Basin is a socio-economic region established in the 19th century. It is located in southern Poland. The time periods cover the years 1975-1989. The initial date is 1975 - under the act of the Sejm [lower chamber of the Polish parliament] of the People's Republic of Poland of 28 May 1975 on the national administrative reform, 49 provinces were established in place of the then 17 ones. In turn, the closing date is marked by 1989 - the beginning of the political transformation in Poland. A basic research ...

The article is devoted to the analysis of the evolution of Soviet policy on enhancing industrial development in the context of social transformations led by the Communist Party. Authors introduce new periodization of industrial policy, give a brief analysis of its stages. The main goal of the study is to analyze the historical experience of the Soviet state in transformation and adjusting of industrial policy. The study is based modernization theory, as well as on the method of statistical and comparative analysis...

In the article the author on the basis of comparison of tamg signs on medievial Turkic tribes proves unity of their ethnohistorical and political development. The important role in moving of these tamg signs migratory processes and special mechanisms of formation of Turkic tribes, characteristic for a nomadic way of life have played. Thereupon the author comes to conclusion, that the generality of historical destinies of the Turkic people is defined by the unity of historical ways, since an epoch of ancient Turkic...

The celebration of the Holy Easter is in the center of the Christian cult, in the middle of the church year (from this holiday many others depends on), it is in the center of Christianity but, sadly, the date of this celebration is still under the sign of uncertainty, of division...We want a united Europe, we often talk about globalization, about a "single state", we are voting for constitutions of the European Union, we want to lead according to the same economic and social principles and desiderata, but the Chri...

There are already abundant articles, studies, and even monographs that try - some with godliness, others with methodical acreditation - reconstruct the presence, work and contribution of the Romanian Orthodox Church as a whole or of its people to the fulfillment of fundamental national ideas such as the Unification of the Principalities, obtaining Independence or the Great Union of 1918. We can not neglect the importance of these scientific achievements, but we can say that some of them have been preoccupied to pr...

The metropolitan see of Marcianopolis (today’s Devnya, in Bulgaria) is referenced in six Notitiae episcopatuum of the Patriarchate of Constantinople. However, although Marcianopolis used to be the metropolis of the Roman province of Moesia Secunda until 536, its ecclesiastical province is referred to as ?Haemimontus?, ?Haemimontus II? or even ?Thracia? in Notitiae. Besides, in Notitia 3 there are displayed the paragraphs of two provinces – ?Haemimontus II? and ?Moesia I? – whose sees were located in the terri...

Engineer and painter François Albanis Beaumont (1753-1811) travels on the most famous routes of the Grand Tour. Albanis Beaumont writes and draws. His approach to the region was different. In fact, the great Italian cities, their buildings and famous antiquities, seem relegated to second place, nevertheless he is a critical observer. The descriptions of the trips of Albanis Beaumont across the Alps are rich of topographical, economic, geological, anthropological and historical information. The traveller, however,...

The cult of the Virgin Mary as the patroness of the Livonian Order played an important role in the history of medieval Livonia. Through the use of different subjects and symbols associated with the Holy Mother, the Order unambiguously declared its claims for the leadership in the region. However, the peculiarities of her worship in the OrderВ’s domain and among its authorities differed greatly. This research is trying to the find those differences. In the work were complexly used general scientific and special his...

The objective of this paper is to present complementary schooling in Cz?stochowa in the years since 1918 until 1939. The submitted text presents the difficult situation of schooling for males and females in the interwar period, among others, in the aspect of legal status, financial situation and finding premises. The authoress used the method of historical research constituted by the analysis of documents. In the course of research, it was established that, until the year 1937, there had been no legal regulations ...

It is here, in Oriental Hotel Bangkok (now Mandarin Oriental) in Thailand, that one gathers, around the Regio Parco Dusit Park, the stupendous fruit of the meeting between Italy and the Orient. An important story but not very famous story. An eclectic artistic-architectural treasure, in some ways fabulous, which developed in a few decades in the independent Kingdom of Siam. In fact, at the end of XIX century the rivalry between Britain and France in South West Asia ensures the survival of the Kingdom of Siam. The ...

The agronomist Arthur Young wasnВ’t a traditional Grand Tourtraveler. The report of his journey in France and Italy is published inTravels during the years 1787, 1788 and 1789. Undertaken more particularly with a View of ascertaining the cultivation, wealth, resources, and national prosperity of the Kingdom of France. The pages written by Young about the Piedmont are very interesting. His approach to the region was different.Infact, the great Italian cities, their buildings and famous antiquities, seem relegated t...

The Second Vatican Council was followed with concern and with interest in communist countries, especially by those responsible for managing the relationship between State and Church. The works of the Council, its decisions and documents and then the implementation of those documents had the potential to affect and destabilize the religious policies of this regimes declared atheist. The communist regime in Bucharest was no exception and tried that the "aggiornamento" targeted by the Catholic Church would not spread...

In the 1990s post-Soviet countries had to face an immensely unstable economic situation and were bound to cope with all difficulties of social adaptation to the new reality. Proceeded from the fact that an adaptive process often takes long and its fixation in the collective consciousness appears only after two of three generations, the problem of adaptation is worth investigating and thinking over. Moreover, this kind of radical transformation has had a lot of precedents in Russian history that is why the authors ...

The Paralympic movement in Poland was shaped in the 1960s. The first stage of the birth of the Polish Paralympic movement was the establishment in 1961 within the structures of "Start" Sports Association of a committee for physical education and sport of the disabled. The formation of the committee made it possible to build organizational and legal structures and to coordinate and finance sport of people with disabilities at central, regional and local levels. The next stage of the development of the Paralympic mo...

It is interesting to follow the process of modernization in industrial metallurgy of the Ural and how it has been realized for three hundred years of its existence and what characteristic features it has had in each period of its development. However, until recently, there was no common, scientifically accepted historical periodization of the metallurgy industry in the Urals, although a number of authors considered the problem. To the authors questions of the periodization of the history of metallurgy in the Urals...

The period of 1970-1985 became that period of the highest development of the SPhTI. SPhTI was the countryВ’s leading academic institute in the development of scientific areas related to the solution practically significant problems in the promising fields of science and technology. Among these fields the following should be mentioned the theory of alloys and the development of cold-resistant materials; The theory and development of methods for receiving weak optical radiation, methods for amplifying radio signals ...

The victory in the Great Patriotic War was achieved not only due to the military potential of the Soviet Union and fighting on the fronts, but also due to the efforts of the whole society: the situation of socio-economic, political, cultural and leisure spheres played an essential role in winning the victory. At the same time, the emergency war atmosphere inevitably led to the deterioration of living conditions of the entire countryВ’s population, including Southern Russia, where the Stalingrad battle occurred, wh...

Although the most loyal of the socialist satellite states in the 50, a decade later Romania dared to challenge soviet commandments in some crucial moments of the international arena. Among the episodes that characterized the independent impulses of the Romanian foreign policy in the second half of the `60, we can include the Six-Day War, in June 1967. Relying on archive documents, official statements, and media sources of that particular year, we can assert that the Romanian government, its leaders practiced a qui...

The Great Patriotic War demanded an utmost exertion of powers of the whole population of the Soviet Union both in and behind the front lines. This article confirms the hypothesis of unity between the front and rear. All people of the USSR joined their forces to repulse the act of fascist aggression. And small nations, wherever they lived, were not exclusion and contributed to the Victory. New approaches to studying of demographic losses in Yakutia revealed a probable number of people mobilized to the front line, t...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the determinants of global competitive intelligence development and analyse the competitive environment in Latvia in historical perspective. The development of the market is a lasting historical process that exists in interaction with all the other markets. Competitive Intelligence (CI) obtained its present pattern in the mid-1990s, and, according to Bergeron and Hiller, it was influenced by several factors relating to social experience and historical precedents. In order to...

After the military collapse of Romania, in the Autumn of 1916, the entire country - except a small part of Moldavia, with Ia?i as main city - fell under Central Powers occupation. Dobrudja was invaded by German and Bulgarian troops and divided. Bulgaria take Southern Dobrudja (lost as a consequence of the second Balkan war, from 1913) and the administration of the rest of the province, for a short time, followed by an effective German administration. In the Summer of 1918, after the Treaties of Buftea and Buchares...

Purges of the governmental apparatus became one of the character phenomena of the soviet society in the 1920-es. They acted as a part of the transformation of society by eliminating “class alien” employees from the soviet service. The aim of this study is to estimate a purges scale and to identify how decisions on the “former people” fate were made. The problem is studied on the example of Vladimir region. Research is based on the documents from Vladimir state archive. These documents reflect the implement...

The issue of spreading of radical Islam in East Africa is one of the most important in regionВ’s development trends studies. In this regard, it is quite important to study the genesis, ideological and social background of the most active Islamist groups. Somalia plays key role in this process in East Africa. The spread of radical fundamental ideology in this country was determined by several factors such as specific mentality and social values of Somalia tribes, clan structure of the society, total impoverishment ...

The article shows the changes in the population on the present territory of the Republic of Tatarstan from ancient times to the end of the XIX century. The article pays a special attention to the peculiarities of settlement before including the Kazan Khanate to the Russian state. It was at that time when a constant network of settlements began to emerge on the territory of present Tatarstan. The paper investigates the ethnic aspects of the historical and geographical settlement and identifies the main types of dis...

The historical consciousness of the nation is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Under the historical consciousness in science is understood as system of knowledge, the totality of ideas, views, traditions, rituals, customs, ideas, concepts, on the basis of which representatives of the people form their worldview, ideals, beliefs and value orientations, awareness of their place in the world. The idea of self-government of the Yakut people passed a long historical path - from the entry of Yakutia into the Russi...

Based on the eyewitnesses and contemporariesВ’ memoirs, the paper shows the image of Stalingrad in 1942-1943, when German troops reached the Volga and the city got involved in a fierce battle. The analysis of eyewitnessesВ’ accounts revealed everyday problems of the local population during the occupation. The food problem worsened significantly, food was extremely scarce, the population of the city starved. The paper presents the policy of the occupational authorities in Stalingrad. Most of the city's enterprises ...

The article presents a comparative analysis of the official industrial discourse in the late Imperial and early Soviet periods on the basis of "new political history" methodological approaches. There are different points of view in the historiography on the problem of genetic continuity of the "old" and "new" Russia. The study of production processes of the industrial discourse, its structures and context makes it possible to reveal the continuity of pre-revolutionary and Soviet industrial projects. The external b...

Industrial heritage contains two large components: industrial architecture i.e. buildings, which were used like industrial sites, and techno-technological heritage i.e. technique which was used generally in the 19 th – beginning of the 20 th centuries. The preserving industrial heritage arose before countries of Europe, America and Australia as early as in the 50 – 60s of the last century, during the process of rapid technological changes, when the level of industrial production was being changed. First discus...

Notitae episcopatuum of the Church of Constantinople are some of the most difficult historical documents to interpret. This is due to the fact that none of these old lists of the sees under the Patriarchate of Constantinople is a clean document. In fact, data relating to different historical periods are mixed together in the preserved Notitiae. This is why scholarly consensus in dating the information exposed in these documents does not exist. In this paper, the author offers a new interpretation key for the parag...

The D?browa Basin is a geographical and historical area established in the 19th century and located in southern Poland, with rich sports traditions. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present the profiles of sportspeople from the D?browa Basin who in the period of communism won medals for Poland at the Olympic Games. They are competitors born on the territory of the D?browa Basin or in a given Olympic year representing sports clubs, associations and organizations from the area of the Basin. A basic research me...

Based on the original documentary materials of the Croatian State Archives and the analysis of dailies and periodicals, the paper gives an overview of Ustasha war and political propaganda in 1944, on the example of Normandy landings of the Western Allies in the summer of 1944. Special emphasis is given to the consequences of the successful warfare by the Allies on the military and political situation in the Independent State of Croatia, a satellite creation of the Third Reich, as well as on the dominant contents o...

This paper presents the preliminary results of scientific survey on unique social phenomenon – the nomadic way of life of reindeer herders in Yakutia. Main trends of nomadic way of life’ changes in Yakutia were outlined on base of collected archival and published sources, statistical data and field materials. Firstly, the situation with conceptual approaches on nomadic way of life was analyzed. Authors recognize that from the very beginning of the Russian Arctic exploration the lifestyle of nomads was in the sp...

The article presents a brief overview of organisation and activity arrangement of the Soviet Union penal institutions and detention camps for Soviet citizens and foreigners convicted of especially dangerous crimes against the State from historical and legal perspectives. The main source of information used by the authors was provided by the State Archive of the Russian Federation (abbreviated GARF). The authors of the article managed to reconstruct the system of detention places for dangerous state prisoners, whic...

The article is devoted to the category ‘Slavic paganism’ which is very popular in modern culture. The author discovers two main meanings of the term – ‘paganism’ as a scientific and ideological construct which derives from 17th century and ‘pogani’ (heathens) as historiosophical concept in the literature of Old Russia. The last can determine any group of people connected with ‘alien’ environment mostly in religious and cultural sense. Also the concept had a strong socio-political context, that’s why ‘p...

Based on the presently known demographic data for the period of the Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945, the author identifies and analyzes the aspects (mobilization to the front, high mortality rate) that have influenced on the change in the population size of the Yakut Republic and also makes a comparison with the respective data concerning the population of Russia and Siberia. The problem of the population size in the regions during wartime was studied by such scientists as V.B. Zhiromskaya, V.V. Alekseev, V.?. Isup...

Government regulation of migration has proved to be very important in periods of wars, military conflicts, natural disasters and technological catastrophes. In this connection, the article is not only of scientific but practical interest. It is dedicated to the historical experience of solving refugeesВ’ problems. The evacuation occurred in the USSR in 1941-1945 was unprecedented in scale and it has remained unique in the world history. The aim of the article is to determine the quantitative and qualitative struct...

The article analyses the key areas of cooperation between Belarus and the states of the African continent, which include a wide range of projects - from joint military-technical enterprises to cooperation in the fields of agriculture and education. The relevance of the research topic due to the fact that the African continent is a prospective region to deepen cooperation in many areas. The efforts of Belarus in this area suggests that there is the interest of the countries in interregional cooperation. Among the m...

This paper identified three academic perspectives for organizational learning studies, which are cognitive perspective, process perspective and capacity perspective. The basic hypotheses, the achievements and problems, as well as the latest trends of organizational learning study under different perspectives were discussed respectively. Based on the analysis of Chinese and English literatures on organizational learning from 2006 to 2015, this paper found that there is not such a general theory of organizational le...

The issue of Russian influence in the Romanian Principalities, one of the most delicate and nebulous, with great emotional impact until today, was often the subject of many spiteful reactions, but unfortunately, only the few truly specialized studies documented and analytical. Political, legal and institutional Russian influence, defined today in the formula „political culture”, it was seen from the angle of positive-negative, without understanding the nature and its role to generate a constant concern and stud...

The article presents the problems of RussiaВ’s foreign policy governance between the February and October revolutions of 1917 in the Russian liberalsВ’ opinion. The liberal opposition supported the government in the main issues of tactics and strategy of the foreign policy activity. One can speak about the identity of positions of the Russian liberals and autocratic government and Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a range of foreign policy issues only in the context of the time period of years 1907-1914. The liberals...

At the beginning of World War II, Hungary was still keeping its neutrality. However, in June 1941, it entered the war against the Soviet Union as a result of urging by the Germans and pushing by the Hungarian military leadership. The government was afraid that Hitler would support the neighbouring states (Romania, Slovakia) in their territorial disputes against Hungary if Hungary did not take part in the war. Hungary did not have any conflict with the Western Powers. In December, 1941, however, Great-Britain procl...

The aim of the article is to analyze the impact and importance of social solidarity in Polish political and socio-economic thought in the period 1918-1939. The article explores the source of the idea of solidarity in Poland, with particular reference to the French and German concepts of social solidarity at the end of the 19th century, as well as the attitude towards them in selected political spheres during the development of regeneration after the period of the partitions of the Polish State. The idea of social ...