The article studies the activities of Italian allied troops of Nazi Germany in the occupied during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 of the USSR Soviet territories. The material contained in the article allows to compare the Italian occupation administration policy and its features as well as its involvement in war crimes on Soviet territory. This article also gives a possibility to trace the organizing role of Germany in terms of organization of the occupation regime on the Soviet territory and its relations with its allies and satellites on the Eastern Front. The work is based primarily on unexplored archival documents.

The article regards the questions connected with the political straggle in the State Council and the State Duma during World War I, the peculiarities of organization work of the «Progressive Bloсk» during the social and political crisis in 1915-1917, the influence of some matters on the integrity of its political existence.

The article is devoted to foreign policy views of Russian conservatives mid 19th century. On the concept of F. Tutchev, one of the biggest personalities of Russian conservatism, the author explores the problem of the historic confrontation between Russia and Western Europe, a theme which became prevalent in the doctrine of foreign policy of Russian conservatives of the 19th century.

The article dwells on the organization and activities of the Soviet advisors group, which assisted to the South China government of Sun Yatsen, its participation in financing Kuomintang political and military projects. The author pointed out that the main aim of the advisors group efforts was to form new Kuomintang power institutions and to bring its policy and army under control, for all that the tactics of implementation of strategy aim were constantly changing.

In article political conditions and the social realities which have affected evolution of forms of female religiousness in a postrevolutionary Russian province (on an example of Smolensk region), concrete experts of confession of belief, specificity of self-identification of orthodox believers are analyzed. Mutual relations with the secular power act as a major factor of influence on evolution of female religiousness, defining its forms and concrete displays.

The article is devoted to the evolution of theoretical and applied aspects of information technology in historical research. The author shows that the development of theoretical concepts of an information approach, methodological and technological standards of the analysis of the information contained in historical sources is determined by the interdisciplinary relationship between history and other social sciences and by specificity of the historical sources. The impact of technological and information revolutions on the development and change of theoretical concepts is studied on the example of international and Russian experience in the interdisciplinary field of historical information science.