No 4 (2008)

In the article the author basing on a fresh contemporary records about Alexej Morev, the Chairman of the Volost Soviet in Gorodets, attempts to observe the process of cooperation between the most radical revolutionary organizations - Anarchists, Left SRs and Bolsheviks - in the struggle for the political influence over the social «rank-and-files» in Russia at the beginning of 1918. Contrary to the description of Anarchists as «adventurers» and «extremists» generally accepted in historiography, the author demonstrates that praxis of some anti-Statists could serve as constructive basement for a social transformation.

The theme researched by the author has important historical-political significance. The author showed the essence of the «Latvian national opposition during the Second World War that played an auxiliary role for Hitler Germany in its plans for world domination - in bloody crimes against humanity. Being covered by «noble slogans of protection of Latvia from bolshevism», Latvian nationalists and fascists were the instrument in the war against the Soviet Union.

In the article the author analyzes forming of the liberal-democratic sights in Russia of the second part of XIX c. The most important steps of the thought are shown. The most precise is the attention to main ideas of reformation democracy. The author gives us methodology of the study.

The authors consider one of the most important components of pre-Revolutionary Russian entrepreneurial culture associated with the character of their relations with workers. The research is based on the archival materials of the two large textile manufactures located in the Central industrial region of Russia. The article presents different elements of the system of rewards and punishments practiced by entrepreneurs to stabilize working force, to attract and consolidate skilled and disciplined workers, to provide high quality of production.

The article is devoted to the analysis of external shape of merchants of three Urals Mountains provinces - Vatka, Perm and Orenburg, during the prereform period. The author has investigated the parity of traditional views about a fashion and new trends in a daily merchant life on the basis of various groups of sources. The role of a suit in formation of social shape of the Ural merchant class is found out too.

The article is focused on the ways how the role of the dissertations as the crucial elements of national science and innovation in Russia should be increased as well as its place in state system of national science.