No 4 (2012)

The author analyses the actions taken by the occupational authorities in terms of agriculture at the temporary controlled territories of Voronezh, Kursk and Oryol provinces. The article describes the main goals and tendencies of fascist agricultural policy with the focus on the relationships with the civilians and the results of the fascists’ actions.

The article constitutes an attempt to consider Russian captivity of 1914–1922 from the sociological perspective. The author demonstrates that captive foreigners being at the same time group of inclusion and group of exclusion played both positive and negative part. On the one hand, they contributed to the deformation of established social borders, norms and structures, on the other hand – to their qualitative change. In a direct or indirect ways appropriating strange (moreover, hostile) environment, prisoners of war inevitably failed to become its organic part. In a large measure it was accounted for by the fact that Russian society due to acuteness of its internal contradictions denied foreign soldiers the perspective of successful socialization, depriving itself of a possibility to develop composite identities and respective differently directed social interactions which ensured the stability and success of the modern social entities.

The article analyzes the formation process of local self-government of the Russian peasantry in the form of rural Soviets in the 1920s, considers the legal framework and the legislation aspect: the RSFSR Constitutions of 1918 and 1925, the rural Soviets formation, their interrelations with land communities, etc.

The author analyzes dynamics of prospector’s gold mining in the Magadanskiy sovnarhoz per 1957–1962s. It has taken the important place in regional structure of gold mining. During 1957–1959 years there was an organizational becoming artels of prospectors. The cost price of prospector’s gold was more cheaply, than on the state extraction. Regional committees of Communist party have rendered very essential support in prospector’s activity in the end of 1950 th. However party bodies have begun the company on restriction of earnings and toughening of the control over prospectors work.

The article deals with the activities of the Presidential Commission of the Russian Federation to Counter Attempts to Falsify History to the Detriment of Russia’s interests in 2009–2012. The author emphasizes the practical significance of the work of such organizations both on federal and regional level. There are pointed out some factors which testify to the necessity of their functioning, such as: public concern about attempts to falsify history; opening in the Baltic states, Georgia, Ukraine and a number of countries of Western Europe of centers and museums which reconsider the place of the Russian empire and the USSR in history, compare «Soviet Stalinism» to German fascism and demand that Russia should repair the damage of the occupation.