No 2 (2008)

In the article on the basic of various sources, including the manuscripts and personal origin, attempt of reconstruction of ball culture of the Russian metropolitan nobility of the eighteenth and the first half of nineteenth century. The author made a conclusion of the nobility ball from compulsory state ceremony to secular entertainment determined his long time and popularity in Russia and especially in Moscow. Despite of some liberalization of ball culture in nineteenth century was one of the reasons of appearance new secular etiquette, including gender aspects, which later acquired general estate character. In article retraces the connection between the changes of dances in the balls and the character of public relation.

This article touches upon the problem of perceiving and comprehending the theft within its interrelationship with the concept of sin, which is in its turn considered to be one of the most important notions of the Christian ethics. Considering this very aspect theft studies make it easy to pinpoint certain peculiarities of the traditional sense of justice and national morality. In terms of temporal perspective the idea of sin correlates with an image of theft victim. Then the larceny turns into a certain visitation for the recently committed offence or crime. Thus, we can draw up a certain cause-and-effect line: any crime or offence entails punishment, which is actually a crime aimed at somebody, who has committed the crime first. In this case we can talk about the synonymy of crime and punishment as well as about the cumulation of sin.

In this article the author leans on rich statistical material and passes the comparative analysis of level of sickness rate, death rate, birth rate and medical care in the pre-revolutionary and soviet Russia of period of New Economic Policy and Stalin industrialization. The author connects the demographic processes with political and socio-economic situation in Astrakhan region and determines when government created the most favorable conditions for reduces the level of sickness rate and death rate of Soviet people.

The article is devoted to the problem of Komsomolґs regeneration from independent organization to State machinery within the Soviet period. The author has proved, that bureaucratism grew in Komsomol circles from year to year and leaders of the organization reported about it during congresses. Even «the easy cavalry» has not solved this problem. M.N. Novikov has come to conclusion, that the raised salaries, additional rations, personal automobiles and other privileges, and also replacement of an elective principle by «the biographical approach», have transformed workers of Komsomol into executors of orders from supreme power, and L.Y.C.L.S.U to the economic organization.

The article is devoted to the struggle of departments during the legislative process on the topic of an integration of producers in the before-kolkhoz period. Due to the available archival files of superior bodies of power it was determined that a careful developmental workout of drafts was practiced. New soviet conditions led to contradictions, which caused different interests in existing economic-political groups. Difference interests were the reason of fight for the normative acts' letter.

Legal bases of foreign business activity in Russian Empire are considered in the article. The principle of equality of Russian and foreign subjects has become the basis of legislative regulation of business activity of foreign capital. In general, legislative regulation of foreign business in Russian was notable for consistent protection of state national interests and home business support.