No 3 (2012)

This article deals with the changes in the social and political position of the military class of Medieval Japan, its influence on the ideals and values of samurai culture. The author pays particular attention to the process of establishing provincial warrior administrations during the Muromachi age, the transformation of shugo and jito functions that determined the changes in samurai social traditions in the 15th and16th centuries, and to the specific social identities of warrior houses compared with other groups of Japanese society.

The article discusses the ideological dispute between communists and trotskyists in Vietnam in the early 1930s. It stresses the main strategic differences of opinion among them and shows that in some aspects their tactics were not that far away from one another.

This article studies Spanish tuna as a centuries-old tradition of student singing accompanied by the playing on traditional music instruments. The authors present the main features of the modern tuna, research and describe the history of its origin and development.

World history knowledge helps us better understand how and why the world got to be the way it is and what may lie in store for us. The author examines the role of the UN in contemporary international relations.