The article is devoted to the little
investigated problem: different aspects of
Russia's participation in the War of the Austrian
Succession as considered in foreign (English-
speaking) historiography. The author
comes to the conclusion that the main problems
which are analyzed in foreign historiography
are the following: the political struggle
in Russia, Russia' international orientation
during the War, Russian-Austrian alliance
and Russia's participation in the military actions.
The author believes that the material
presented by the foreign historians does not
allow to imagine the complex picture of the
Russia's participation in the war

In the article we are looking at
issues with nobility presented in Suvorins
work, who was a publisher of one of the most
influential pre-revolution Russian newspaper
«Novoye Vremya» («The New Time). Suvorin
often expressed his views on social and public
life of that time on the newspaper pages.
We are exposed to a brief literature overview
about Suvorin with an analysis on his opinions
about landlords impoverishment, on the expansion
of the bourgeois land ownership and
its growing influence as well as nobilitys predicaments,
to which Suvotrin allocates the key
role in his concept of Russias development.

The phenomenon of an early sound
recording in the context of the general history
of the beginning of the XX-th century has not
been studied yet. The role of an early sound recording,
created a wide thematic spectrum of
soundtracks - from samples of high art before
records of politicians and educational audiogrants
- in change of the life of a society is
rather considerable. It is some kind of the mirror
which has reflected the life and the interests
of people out of political priorities, is an
invaluable source in aspect of history of daily
occurrence. It is impossible to overestimate
and cultural-historical value of an early audio
record to what the set of historical names in
various spheres of art testifies. At last, the
early audioindustry and audioproduction market
have created a primary information field
and have begun an information society. In the
creation of this historical phenomenon the decisive
role belongs to Russia and Russian early
recordings. The study of the history of Gramophone
Company and its production as the basic
source, allows to follow the formation of the
world audioindustry and the audiomarket and
the formation on their basis of a primary information
field.

In this article the author performs
a historiographical analysis of USSR state of
readiness to the potential war with Germany.
The author pays attention to the character of
Wehrmacht attack on the 22 of June, 1941,
which in any case can be described as a preventive
action. As for the Soviet Defense Planning,
it is necessary to stress the point that all
the accusations against Soviet leaders in preparing
the preventive attack against Germany
are groundless

In this research the author analyses
all the treatments of the Cossackss phenomena
appeared in the postgraduate and doctoral
theses in the Russian educational science
over lasr few years. The Cossackss renaissance
viewed in the contemporal Russian history attracts
the large scientific and public interest.
The problem taking the central stage in the
contemporal historiography is the Cossackss
ethnical and social identity. The author shows
that this matter is the determinant for treatments
of the Cossackss phenomena not only
among historians but among teachers too. As
in the historical science educational researchers
can be divided into two basic parties. The
scientists in the first one suppose the Cossacks
the separated ethnic group while the others
characterize them as sociocultural phenomena
inside of Russian culture.

The author of the article gives a
metrical description of one of accessories of
medieval sabers from the area of the Zolotaryovskoe
Settlement - a blades collar. The author
also analyses the technologies and methods
that were used to make such collars. It is the
first time some of the terms are introduced for
scientific use. All the examined issues are made
of a single iron plate. Some of the collars are
asymmetrical, and a front and back sides of the
collar can be distinguished. The front side has
often an ornament on it, and on the back side of
all issues is a seam of the two sides of the iron
plate having been combined to make the collar.
Generally, there are several types of collars,
that can be differed from the point of quality
and extent of decoration and whether they were
assembled directly on the saber or not. The quality
of the ornamented collars is better.

In the first quarter of XVIII century
radical changes took place in the social
status of Russian nobility. It represented itself
another social category than social class
of people in the 17th century.
The investigation of the sources of formation,
the class compound and the change of
numeration of Russian nobility allows to light
the terms of social politics of governmental
authorities.
By the middle of the XVIII-th century there
was another class group of smallholders whose
status left to be uncertain till the time of Ekaterina
II. Contradictory interpretations of origin
and social status of the group are given in
objective accounts.
Nobility included not only original hereditary
nobility and titled one but sometimes external
even artificial characteristics so it was
on the way to a complete class consolidation.

The city is considered within the
framework of the regional approach. It means
the study of a city, as a part of the uniform city
network inherent in an independent region,
and as a result of the distribution of the functions
in the region, the formation of its city
network. Social stratification is the distribution
of layers in the city network in what the
role and a city place, its character are shown.

The article is devoted to the research
of mutual relations of zemsky establishments
with credit and loan-and-savings
associations in the late XIX-th -early in the
XX-th centuries on the example of Ryazan
province. Scales, the maintenance and the results
of work of zemstvo on formation and development
of the cooperative credit are studied.
The circle of the questions characterising
directions of cooperation and knots of contradictions
between specified establishments is
considered. The reasons of the reserved relation
of the Ryazan zemstvo to credit cooperation
are analyzed.

This article is devoted to the activity
of city self-government institutions in
the sphere of Charity. On the basis of Moscow
and Tula province (funds 85 «The Tula
city guardianship», 778 «Guardianship of the
Tula almshouse poor», printing reports about
activity of cities guardianship of Moscow district)
the comparative analysis of the capital
and provincial charity is carried out: kinds,
conditions and the sizes of the help rendered
by cities guardianship are compared. In the
conditions of the modernization of the second
half of the XIX-th century which has entailed
property stratification in the society, guardianship
activity promoted in many respects social
adaptation of a poor part of the population
to new economic conditions. The lack of money
resources directed on charity in a province
was compensated by attempts to create more
branched system of the address help, and also
by the cooperation with church guardianship.

In the article the problem of the
Czech and Slovak prisoners of war during
World War the First, stationed in various military
districts of Russia, is investigated. Based
on the materials of Russian archives the policy
of Russian authorities towards the prisoners
of war is covered. The aspects of this policy
included the following issues: regulations by
laws and regulations by the labor of the prisoners
of the war on Russian enterprises and
agricultural work, the relationship between
the local population and the prisoners of the
war, the concern about their health, the possibility
of the Russian prisoners of the war to
gain Russian citizenship, the cooperation between
official authorities and the Red Cross in
order to provide assistance. The article shows
that in the works of our historians the materials
of Russian archives are not adequately
used, so one of the objectives of this article is
to increase the source base.

The article is devoted to the contradictions
concerning conservation of antique
and art monuments in Soviet Russia in
the second half of the 1930s. Cultural heritage
was put under protection by the rule of the legislative
acts. However, in spite of this, monuments
were destroyed. Efforts of the specialists
were aimed at saving the most valuable
works of art.

The subject of our research is the
study of domestic diamond problem, i.e. history
of exploration and discovery of diamond
deposits in our country, which has been out of
attention of historical science because of data
security. At the same time the discovery of
Yakutsky next Arkhangelsky diamondiferous
provinces and the establishment of domestic
diamond industry on their basis represent an
outstanding event in the history of Russia.
The diamond problem in our country is that
up to now there is no any authentic scientific
description of the history of Russian diamond
deposits prospecting and discovery

The present article shows the
process of the formation of the management
institute of rural settlements in the years of
Nazi occupation. In the given paper the contingent
of rural heads is analyzed, the estimation
of the effectiveness of their work in the
interests of the invaders is considered.

The article gives an analysis of
the punishments directed to the regional elite
of technocracy. The official typology included
a reprimand, a severe reprimand, and exclusion
from the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. The author also indicated the means
which were used at the regional level to confirm
and support the superiority of the bureaucracy
of the Party. These latent punishments
included barriers of elections into the
highest communistic bodies, refusal to grant a
reward of governmental importance; dissatisfaction
of the highest State bodies by the work
of the particular leader, critics in the official
press editions of the Communist Party.

The author adduces evidence from
the mortuary temple of Amenhotep III., which
confirms, in his opinion, the fact that the
place-name %T.t in the New Kingdom includes
not only the regions of Syria-Palestine, but
those that are traditionally considered as the
homeland of the Sea Peoples too (the Aegean,
the Southern Greece, the North-Western Asia
Minor). Based on this evidence the author supposes
that the mercenaries from the %t.tw mentioned
in the text of Elephantine stele as the
enemies of the Pharaoh Sethnakhte could be
the Philistines and the other groups of the Sea
Peoples which appear in Egypt and Palestine
at the end of the 13 - beginning 12 BC according
to the archaeological data (the excavations
in Tell es-Sa‛idiyeh by J. Tubb) and the textual
evidences (P. Louvre 3136, the inscription of
Ramses III. 5th regnal year in Medinet Habu).

This article is dedicated to comparative
study of two important evidences
about the suppression of the cult of Bacchus
in 186 B.C. in Rome. This is so-called senatus
consultum de Bacchanalibus, the epigraphic
testimony from south-Italian site Tirioli and
the report of Titus Livius about persecution
of the Bacchanals, which is contained in 18-th
chapter of 39-th book of his historical work.
The main purpose of this article is to determine,
how the inscription and three senates
decisions about Bacchanals, which are mentioned
by Livy, correspond one another: which
of three senates decrees had become a basis of
the Tiriolis inscription; and what character
has the so-called senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus
- is it concluding and final decision
in the persecution of the Bacchanals or
this inscription is simply pure compilation of
different decisions of the roman senate, which
is deprived of all sense as a document, which
had put a point in the process of 186 B.C.

The article explored some of the social
aspects of the early Quakers activity in the
XVII century England: the degree of integration
of Quaker and Quaker communities in the
local community, surrounding them; attitude
of english society to the Quakers and Quaker
movement as a whole (and attitude of members
of Quaker community to the members of local
English society); Quaker ideological struggle
with public authorities and the official Church
of England (attitude to public liturgy, basic sacraments:
christening, wedding and funeral ceremonies
etc); peculiarity of religious thought
and way of Quaker public liturgy; the rules of
conduct inside the Quaker community: attitude
to the family, marriage, personal contacts.

Article examines mechanisms of
transformation swastika from solar symbol to
symbol of national-socialism, via propaganda
and manipulations on social consciousness of
citizens of the Third Reich. Peculiarities of
human psychic and usage of this peculiarities
for various changes in society are scrutinized.
Their aim was mixing national and party culture.

This paper deals with the socio-political
views of one of the most famous representatives
of the right wing of modern American
conservatism P. Buchanan. This article
gives a brief description of modern American
conservatism, but also discusses the stages of
political biography, P. Buchanan.

In the present article some conceptual
aspects of the Russian-American relations
in 1992-1996 and problems of their practical
realization are considered. In the given
work the strategy of expansion which have
been put forward during the first presidency
by B.Klinton in which basis the old aspiration
the US A to world(global) leadership laid is analyzed.
From its part, Russia has proclaimed a
policy(politics) of partnership with the United
States which has undergone the certain evolution
and transformation by way of definition
and aspirations to protection of the Russian
national interests.

In the article given is devoted to
the problem of the usage of propaganda in the
Bush's war against Iraq and it's spreading
through American mass media. This propaganda
had to assist the creation of favorable
conditions for the beginning of the second war
in the Persian Gulf. Receptions and methods
of the ideological treatment of the world and
American society are described in the article.

The collapse of the Soviet Union
in 1991 led not only of sovereignty of former
Soviet republics, but also some of the autonomous
republics of Russia, one of whom was the
RT . The process of adopting a local constitution
and its provisions have provoked heated
debate both in the republic, and at the federal
level, as some provisions of the Basic Law of
Tatarstan had no parallel in the history of domestic
constitutional thought. The political
atmosphere of the Constitution of Tatarstan
was characterized on the one hand the pressure
of the federal center, speaking for the
signing of the federal republic of the contract,
and presentations by the radical nationalist
organizations, spoke for the independence of
the republic.

Interpreting «globalization» in
the terms of unification of the world by means
of a civilization, the author suggests some
critics concerning the universalisation of the
western values. The most fatal in the western
way of developing is a sort of sfumato-effect:
deficiency decompensates profit.
The features of functional brutality of turbocapitalism
are limits of consumption; disbalanced
essence of industrial progress, which
destroys the assimilation capacity of environment;
strengthening of social polarization, regional
differentiation; degradation of human
qualities.

This article tells about military-
patriotic breeding of young people in
modern Russia, related problems and their
backgrounds. It analyses the activity of progovernment
youth movements «Our» and
«Young Guard of United Russia» in the sphere
of military-patriotic breeding. The article
evaluates the success of organized events and
offers the ways to increase the effectiveness of
movements work with the youth.

The article is devoted to the analysis
of the ideas, concepts of different authors
in the field of agrarian politics of Russia.
Their variety and inconsistent nature are emphasized,
and as the effect it is difficult to develop
of the theorist-methodological grounds
of realization of the agrarian politics of Russia
in the condition of the transformation of
the socialist system of the management in the
market system. The author tells about the necessity
of the critical comprehension of the
both the soviet experience in the undertaking
of the agrarian politics, and the recommendations
of the western experts. In this connection
the necessity of careful readiness regarding
the methodological basis of agrarian
politics in the crisis conditions, of the usage of
a market mechanism, of a state regulation and
support is provided. The importance of the adjustment
of the course of the agrarian politics
of the country in the condition of the radical
market transformation is argued.

The main focus of this paper is the
problem of parliamentarism as the institute of
the state power, its nature, characteristics,
sources of formation and its current functions.
The paper proves that a parliamentary
system forms an integral part of any democratic
society, at the same time maintaining
specific features of a particular country (conceptualized
through the national context).
The study of parliamentarism in this context
promotes mutual cooperation between the
state and the public with the observance of human
and political values. The subject of the
research is parliamentarism as the state institution;
the research question is the current
functions of this institution. The author uses
different methodologies based on the theory
of division of power: classical school, system
analysis, structurual analysis, comparative
analysis and historical analysis as well as some
elements of institutional approach.

This article discusses the transformation
of public administration, the impact
of spatial factors on the specifics of the
economic structure of the country, the types
of territories of the Russian empire, with different
levels of autonomy. The character of the
development of attached territories, the organization
of self-management there, the migratory
processes are analyzed in the present
paper. Conclusions are made about the specifics
of the administrative-territorial structure
of the Russian Empire, of the divergent areas
of responsibility of the administration and the
areas affected by the financial, judicial and
military agencies.

The article is devoted to the actual
topic of theory-methodological analysis
of the movement of alterglobalism. The author
investigates the theory of the movement
of alterglobalism, the reasons and sources of
origin of this movement, the main groups and
their ideological visions, which compose the
movement of alterglobalism. The most important
factor is a process of neoliberal globalization
in XXI century, which forms new threats
of security, such as the spread of the weapon
of massive destruction, environmental contamination,
world economic crisis, growing
inequality between developed and developing
countries. Alterglobalism proposes new ways
and decisions to prevent such threats, that´s
why the investigation of the alternatives of
neoliberal model of development, seems an
important aspect in further elaboration of the
programmes to escape from the world financial
crisis.

The effective decision of social
problems today depends not only and not so
much from the centralized policy of the state,
how many from a level of social interaction.
Prospects of the European social policy are
connected with decentralization of the system
of the government and activization of civil
participation.

The present article is devoted
the questions connected with disintegration
of the USSR . The role of Russian nationalists,
and also political forces and figures, to
them ranked, in the given process is analysed.
Conclusions are drawn on groundlessness of
claims to Russian nationalists concerning
their participation in the country disorder.
Low level of ethnic consciousness, characteristic
for representatives of Russian people on
a boundary 1980 - is noted 1990th years. Last
circumstance at all did not promote the aspiration
of Russophiles to creation of Russian
mononational state.

The article is devoted to Federalism,
its modern status and the nearest perspectives.
Correlation between the ideal forms
of Federalism (dual federalism, cooperative
federalism) and different real federations is
the main subject. The author captures the dynamics
of evolving debates about Federalism,
examines the factors and forces that led to the
federal union. This article is an essential guide
to Federalism in the context of globalization
and regional integration.