No 1 (2008)

The article is devoted to the crisis of Russian autocracy at the end of the Great reforms epoch and to the projects of Russian Empire political system reforms, worked up by outstanding russian statesmen: great prince Constantin Nicolaevich, P.A. Valuev, D.A. Milutin, M.T. Loris-Melikov. Projects were of moderately liberal type and intended to establich organs of national representative office and participation of elected society representatives in discussion of state deals.

Together with private and property rights and duties the bourgeoisie was given a number of social rights. These rights were realized by the means of the city estate corporational organizations - namely the bourgeois societies. In the article the picture of the work of the bourgeois societies at the turn of 19th - 20th centuries is described on the basis of the archive documents. At this period of transition from the traditional to the industrial society the tendency of overcoming the social hierarchy was clearly outlined.

The article reveals local authorities¢ relation to social and everyday problems of population at the time of the Great Patriotic War. Basic idea of the article is that there were numerous cases of formal relation to the problems of citizens on the part of local authorities. Though complaints to bureaucrats as a rule did not stay without attention of State power.

The article is dedicated to the Problem of Settlement of the South Frontier Territories of the Russian Empire by Serbian Granichars, who previously served in Austria. The Article gives a historiographic Overview of this Problem, justifies the Need of establishing military Frontier Settlements «the New Serbia» and the «Slavic Serbia», observes Relations Character between the Serbs and the neighbor Nationalities (the Poles, the Ukrainians, the Crimea Tatars). The Author concludes that the many ethnic Conflicts provoked by the Serbs in this Region are causing a lot of Problems for the russian Government, nevertheless it promotes expansion of Russia's southern Borders by advancing deep into the Territory of the Ottoman Empire. The article deals with the creation of settlements in the Ukraine’s south, and one of their main tasks was the protection of the Russian borders from Turks and Crimean Tatars. The author proves that Russian policy was directed on colonization of this south territory by Austrian Serbs. The Serbs were settled on the borderland with Zaporozhskaya Sech and as a result that caused different ethnic conflicts.

In clause it is marked, that the national-state delimitation in 1924-1925 of Central Asia concerns to events of the large administrative and political decision of a party of Bolsheviks on realization in region of the national policy. Acting on August, 20th, 1924 at assembly of the party organization of Tashkent, one of active figures Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) in Turkestani АSSR I.M. Varejkis, especially marked, that accepted большевистской in lots the decision on carrying out in Central Asia the national-state delimitation is a new stage in business of realization of Lenin plans of national construction, it is «the second revolution in Central Asia».

The author points out significant positive changes in history teaching within the higher education, connected to reconsideration of russian history's many problems, historiographic base broadening and emergence of some new subsiciplines. The author, however, draws attention to the problems faced by modern history, calls for improvement of historical education and proposes her solution of this issue