No 2 (2010)

In the core of the article is the problem of personal contacts between Soviet, American and British leaders, military and diplomatic during the war in 1941-1945 (their forms, peculiarities, evolution). The main sources are the documents from I.V. Stalin's personal archive, V.M. Molotov, I. Maiskii files, Foreign Affairs agents, documents of the Communist Party of the USSR and NKVD. Some archival documents from the American side, namely from Joint Chiefs of Staff records, stored in the National Archives in Washington, D.C., are also involved.

Author of the article analyzes the relationships between the soldiers of Russian army and the population of Prussia. Austria and France during the Europeаn campaign of 1813-1814. The author shows a large contradiction between the enthusiasm of the Prussians and a great number of facts of the marauding of the Russian soldiers. Besides author shows great efforts of Russian headquarters to avoid the guerrilla war in France in 1814.

In the article analyzes the prehistory, history and the meaning of a large soviet international action - the Moscow economic conference in April 1952. With a use of new evidences from the Russian state archive of social and political history the author argues that the Conference was not just a reaction to the Marshall Plan and Shuman Plan in Western Europe. It was the first attempt to open the iron curtain and change the logic of international relations towards peaceful coexistence. The Conference turned into quite unusual for the period of late Stalin's rule nursery for fresh ideas used in full by USSR later in 1950-1970s.

The article is dedicated to the culture of Russian Cossacks 1930s. The author examines in details the process of creating costumes Soviet Cossacks, which reflect the «cultural construction» of Kuban and Terek Cossack regions in the 1930s.

Some aspects of special structural divisions' formation and actions inside local administrations of Peoples' commissariats of workers-and-peasants inspections are presented in the article. It is Bureau of complaints, its main task was to examine citizens' applications and complaints on the wrong actions of the institutions and official functionary. Low-and-norma-tive foundations of the local Bureaus of complaints are described, methods and forms of their work, the importance for the local power institutions and for citizens are presented also. The matters of research rejects situation of Lower Volga Region.

In clause on the basis of the broad audience of the archival and published materials are analyzed position and operating conditions of the faculty of medical faculties within civil war. The special attention is given mutual relations of a new revolutionary power and medical professorate.