No 1 (2013)

The article attempt to answer a question why the post reform country community enjoyed solidary support of various and besides public forces hostile each other is made. The author considers that in a basis of this phenomenon the not overcome serf consciousness of the Russian society lay.

Using unknown documents the author of the article proves that during the Izevsk Anti–Bolsheviks revolt the factories of rebellion had serious troubles in production theirs main products – the rifles. This conclusion refutes the point of view of the modern historiography about good position with weapons in the armies of revolt.

In the article on the basis of archival documents daily occurrence of military captivity of soldiers and officers of the Russian army in the years of World War I – from the capture moment in the battlefield to conditions of the maintenance in camps reveals. The measures taken by the military country leaders for prevention of voluntary mass delivery in captivity are considered. The policy of official structures and departments concerning military captivity, their relation to attempts of public organizations to assist the compatriots who have got to trouble is shown.

Ethnic contacts between the peoples of China and Siberia had an impact on the formation of cultural characteristics of these regions since ancient times. Involvement of anthropological and linguistic data allows us to determine the role of Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic, Tungusic, and other peoples in the formation of the ethnic composition of the population, the penetration of various racial components, the nature of mixing, grinding and interaction in different historical periods.

Article contains the analysis of the latest official textbooks on a national history of Ukraine and Belarus. Textbooks are considered in the light of problems of justification of the national sovereignty, facing historians of the states formed after disintegration of the USSR. The comparative analysis allowed to reveal two types of such justification: anti-Russian and not having confrontational tendencies. Thus, both types showed the efficiency.