No 4 (2010)

The article is dedicated to the public activity of Ivan Illich Petrunkevich in Chernigov region. The author analyses the main manifestations of activity of the outstanding politician in the elective representative public establishments of the province of Chernigov, the Russian Empire, in the 60-70s of 19th century.

The article is devoted to the problems of political relations between Catherine II and one of her most influential statesmen, Nikita Panin. It is based on research of conceptual apparatus which was used by both Catherine and Panin to analyze the character of supreme Imperial power, as well as the principles of its functioning, legitimation and preserving. The main conclusion is that the conflict between these political actors was not of an ideological original, but of personal kind. The failure of Panin's reform program was connected mainly with the specific nature of legitimation of the palace coup that raise Catherine II to the throne in 1762.

Lithurgical reform of the patriarch Nikon is considered in article in aspect of the religious anthropology. The particularities of the influence of the church text are researched on person and shaping by text main aspect religious consciousness. The Author analyses the changes to area of the nature of the understanding the religious truths, liing ahead the person God, soteriology, as well as change relations to religious rite.

The article is dedicated to official activities of provincial bureaucrats in the first quarter of the 19th century on the example of Upper Volga region. The author analyses the service conditions and routine operations of public servants and reveals specifics of official relations, contemplates the problem of bribery.

The role of Ammunition Industry in connection with action variation at the first part of 20th century is analyzed in the present paper. It is studied how the New Economic Policy (NEP) influenced onto the development of ammunition industry and respective branches of heavy industry. For the first time several manufacturing peculiarities of ammunition main elements (by example of ammunition bodies) in the eve of the Great Patriotic War are analyzed on the base of archival documents and the role of these peculiarities in fighting efficiency of the Soviet forces during the Second World War is studied.

In clause the development of national education not only in itself, but also as the mechanism of the Soviet modernization of Kalmykia is considered. The attempt is made to show characteristic features and principles of the Soviet system of national education.