No 3 (2009)

The problem of interaction and mutual psychological influence of political parties and masses takes center stage. Psychology of masses and parties is regarded as a main factor in history of Russia in 1917, which is crucially important for understanding the logic of Russian Revolution. Mass consciousness is regarded as a dominant in political history and as social and cultural foundation of Bolsheviks' victory in the contest of political parties from February to October 1917.

The article considers the policy, conducted by Soviet military advisers of Sun Yat-sen's Kuomintang government in South China in the field of military construction in 1920s. In the author's opinion, the advisers dogmatically followed, on the one hand, the Comintern's directives to communists to gain the dominant position in national revolutionary movements in the East, on the other hand, the experience of the Civil War in Russia: they were making attempts with the control over military schools to subordinate unreliable, semi-independent troops, which supported Sun Yat-sen. Their dogmatism and Moscow's aid were used by Ch'iang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi), who under a mask of «training units» formed the military basis of the future Kuomintang state.

This article is devoted to the history of repression against the Russian Orthodox Church in the Urals in the 1930s. The main directions of political repression, are provided by Rotary milestones in their implementation. Characterized by the methods, extent and consequences of the repressive activities of the OGPU-NKVD.

In this article the role of clerk's bureaucracy in machinery of State of Russia in 16th century is analyzed and illustrated by the biography of Feodor Michilovich Mishurin. The author displayed the dynamic of career of statesman in connexion of his estate by birth and personal connexions, playing attention to political events on the background of it there was activity of the clerk.

This article, based on broad range of new historical sources, focuses on so called «purges» of the Soviet state apparatus, and their impact on everyday life of the Soviet citizens in the 1920-1930s. Author demonstrates contradictory nature and variety of factors on which special «purge commissions» made their decisions, including social origin of the people, their professional and personal characteristics, and others.

N.V. Surzhikova's article based at the specific source type - memories - covers social and cultural issues of the Soviet captivity and internment. The author analyses manifestation of cultural shock or a stress of acculturation that proceeded from the direct contact of the prisoners and interned persons with another cultural conditions as well as mechanisms and limits of their adaptation.

Article about a debatable problem about an establishment of time of the basis capital of modern Kyrgyzstan the city of Pishpek - Frunze - Bishkek.