The article explores the process of relationship development between the state and the Russian Orthodox Church in the second half of the XIX century. The article considers the legislative activity of the state against the Church. Changes in the religious life of society in the post-reform period are shown
The article deals with the problem of assessing the
quality of land settlements of Krestetsky uyezd in
Novgorod province since the time of cadaster
descriptions of Novgorod land to fieldworks of
Russian soil scientists. The comparative aspect studies
information of cadastres in the middle of the XVI
century, Economic notes to the General landsurveying
of the Russian Empire in the second half of
the XVIII century and "Soil and Geological essay of
Krestetsky uyezd" at the beginning of the XX century.
Due to this research a database included information
about the settlements having existed in the territory for
centuries, with the description of land quality and
fertility was compiled. The analysis revealed that
according to field studies, mechanical and physical
composition of soils in Krestetsky uyezd within the
same soil type was very diverse. General land
surveying described soil based on the predominance of
muddy substances, sand or clay, but at the same time
the characteristic of grain yields played an important
role. In the XVI century the categories of good,
medium and poor lands could have the lands with the
same composition of the soil, and the probability of it
was especially strengthened by the prevalence of
certain soils in the region. However, at the micro level
of individual settlements of graveyards certain
regularities in land assessment shown in the objective
signs that can be identified on the country are traced.
The graveyards of Derevskaya pyatina included in
Krestezkiy uyezd deals with such objective indicators
as worsening assessment of the quality of land
including the availability of various types of clay
which are subsoils of many local soils
Current processes in socio-economic life of our
state make contact to the historical experience
accumulated by Russia for centuries. The rapid
development of the state, modernization of all
spheres of public life at the beginning of XXth
century still interfaced with a mass of adverse
events, balking a dynamic development of the
state. In the Siberian upcountry the situation was
exacerbated by a number of “chronic” issues such
as a high percentage of the exiles among the local
society, the total corruption of the bureaucracy, etc.
The article deals with the socio-economic status of
the Yenisei province in the early twentieth century.
Analysing the state of agriculture and individual
industries, existing in the region, it identifies the
challenges that they faced. The author cites some
quantitative characteristics that reveal the real state
of affairs in such crucial sectors of the economy
such as agriculture, animal husbandry. Moreover,
the article marks issues concerning carrier’s trade
and other specific crafts. As a research source was
taken the information provided by the “Siberian
observer” magazine – the edition, which bore
clearly oppositional character and did not have the
goal to put the best face forward the existing
situation in the region, and consequently – the
actions of the local authorities
The social and political events of the civil war in the North Caucasus region are considered in the given article. Their influence on the daily life and social consciousness of the region population is investigated. The author analyzes the process of destruction of the traditional consciousness of the North-Caucasian society, which finds its expression in the crisis of the whole system of values and ideological orientations of the region population. The process of dissolution of the traditional values during the Civil War and development of the new one, which has become a product of the crisis historical time, is also considered in the article
The article investigates the activities of public-political
organizations of the Donetsk region, defended the idea
of federalization of Ukraine and integration with
Russia. A review was done for similar organizations
operating in the region since the early 1990-ies to
2014. Based on the research activities of these
organizations, the authors come to the conclusion
about the regularity of the split of Ukraine in 2014,
however, they believe that the separation of Donbass
was not only due to the activities of separatist
organizations, but first and foremost, because of the
policy of the Ukrainian government
One of the actual directions of studying the history in
modern world is the history of day-to-day life.
Studying the industrial day-to-day life of builders on
shock Komsomol building let us analyze their
problems and the ways to solve them. The author
gives the economic and political pre-conditions of
organizing the patronage under the building of
industrial objects on the South Ural. The concept
“shock Komsomol building” and the classification of
buildings are given. The main objects of Komsomol
patronage which were situated on the territory of
Orenburg area at that time are enumerated. The
problems of women working at the building are
viewed on the materials of Orenburg area. On the
basis of archives the per cent ratio of youth and
women working on the building is given. The
industrial facts influencing on their socialization are
examined. The main attention is given to the
characteristics of industry, providing the builders with
sanitary and domestic conditions of the objects and
uniforms. The important aspect was also maintenance
of safety measures on the building. The hard work of
women who did not have the building education is
stressed. The main spheres of professional
employment of women on the building are
enumerated
The article is devoted to source base of Khan-Girey
works. Two types of the sources used by Khan-Girey
are allocated: historical and historiographic. In its turn,
historical sources are conditionally subdivided in
written, material and sources of the oral origin. The
relation of Khan-Girey to the problem of reliability of
sources, the responsibility of authors on the provided
data are considered. It is concluded, that in the works
of Khan-Girey oral sources are predominant, all
others, including historiographical, act as subsidaries.
It is emphasized, that in this period there were only
oral sources, came from the Adyghe environment, all
the others were the evidences of other cultures. The
relation of Khan-Girey to folklore as to a historical
source is revealed. We have identified other types of
oral sources, such as personal knowledge and KhanGirey
memories, and eyewitness evidences. The
analysis of the working methods of Khan-Girey with
historiographical sources is carried out. At the end of
the article, the conclusion is made that the source base
of Khan-Girey works, for objective reasons, is limited,
although the use of most sources, found by him, were
confirmed in historiography
This article analyses the state religious policy in regard
to the Russian Orthodox Church in the first post Great
Patriotic War years. The characteristic of the religious
life during the above-mentioned period in the
Krasnodar Territory is given. The main resource of this
research was documents of the Authorized Board on
Russian Orthodox Church Affairs of the USSR
Ministerial Council in Krasnodar Territory. Some
positive changes in state- church relations took place.
New churches began to open. Revitalization of the
religious life came into being. It was shown in peoples’
participating in religious holidays, making orthodox
ceremonies. Christening was the most popular
ceremony. The less popular was the religious wedding.
In that period of time, women were active participants
of the religious life of the region. Among believers
there were soldiers demobilized from the army.
However from 1948 first signs of estrangement in state
– church relations began to appear
The article investigates the processes of transformation of the traditional spiritual and socio-political culture of the rural population of the Kuban in the socialist modernization time in 1950-1980's
In this article we study the evolution of the Russian state policy in the context of the market reforms of the 1990s