No 1 (2011)

The article is about corrupt practice of Ryazan province local authorities at the end of 50s 19th century. First and foremost native and foreign literature on bribe history in pre-revolutionary Russia is stated and it is marked that there are still very few official facts on bribe taking in Russia to be exposed. The author pays particular attention to a special note discovered by him in the Record office of III department of His Imperial Majesty chancellery which fulfils our folkways on the level and proportions of extortion and corruption in the Russian province in the middle of 19th century to a considerable degree.

The article clarifies a modern state of business culture history. The new approach to studying this aspect is offered in the article. The research model is verified on the Old Belief community material. The analysis has demonstrated that the fundamentals of Old Believers economic culture were formed with such traits as self-importance and priority of deed, economic activity, recognition of excessive work as necessary, personal responsibility for somebody's own business, etc. The system of spiritual values and moral institutions conditioned formally contradictory forms of business behaviour too.

The article is devoted to the problem of realization of polytechnic education at the soviet school in the middle of 1950th - the middle of 1960th years. All stages from elaboration to realization of the idea in practice are observed on the basis of North Ossetian materials. The author discovers the reform's influence on the matter of educational work at school, analyses the causes of failure and the results of its realization.

The article deals with the national identity of P.A. Krushevan. Being of Moldavian nationality, he was a Russian conservative writer and journalist. At the beginning of the 19th century he served as a Russian nationalist in the political arena. The author shows that he was a supporter of Moldavian national traditions and a personality of the Moldavian national movement. At the same time Krushevan was an «imperial nationalist» and a Russian statesman. In behalf of Bessarabia peasants, he exposed the economic activity of «plutocracy», but he was a stranger to domestic anti-Semitism.

In his article the author analyzes the modern condition and prospects of cooperation of Russia and Ukraine in protection of the Black Sea region. This agenda is considered in the light of national interests of both countries, the attention accentuates on current problems in the development of the two countries' relations in this area of cooperation, and importance of this cooperation not only for Russia and Ukraine, but all the Black Sea region is also estimated.