No 2 (2014)

This article is to present the participation of the Conservative Party of Canada in the General Election of 2004. First time, after the long break, the Conservatives broke the tendency of regional voting in Canada, and became the national party, which communicated the interests not only Canadian West voters, but Ontario and Quebec electorate as well. This was the first step to the election victory of Conservatives in 2006, when Steven Harper formed the minority government.

The article is devoted to Resolution 1244, one of the most important documents of the Security Council of the United Nations which was adopted in 1999 to resolve the crisis in Kosovo. The author analyzes different views on Resolution in scientific literature and expresses her assessment of the document’s content and its role in the settlement of the regional conflict. In author’s opinion, the resolution сould become a possible basis for normalization of the situation in Kosovo if the modern world order were not unipolar.

The question about legality of existence existing in Chinese historiography of the provisions of national specificity of the Chinese feminism is determined in this article. The thickening of disclosed features of the Chinese women's stir (confronting with Western European feminism) in source with a list of women's stir features in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and also the Stalinism epoch led to match the identified content. The final result translates «unique» in category «general» typical for gender history of two socialist States in considered period.

Panathenaic procession east frieze of the Parthenon is problems of interpretation. This procession moves on the east frieze into the presence of an assembly of seated gods, the twelve Olympians. In the midst of the gods is a group of five human-sized figures engaged in the prosaic task of folding a piece of cloth. Because this scene holds the most prominent place on the frieze, the cloth is surely the peplos presented to Athena, albeit to her cult statue housed in another temple, the Erechtheion. While the priest, the archon Basileus, folds the robe with the help of a young assistant, possibly one of the arrephoroi, the priestess of Athena Polias is receiving two diphrophoroi, or stool-bearers.

The article considers changes in the appearance of women in Shanghai during 1911-1949 years, closely related to the new social concepts and promotion of urban culture. The study examines the process of rejection from the traditional custom of young girl’s footbinding, started from the late XIX century. The author logically reveals the main stages of transformation of women clothing elements from the miniature embroidered shoes to the first high heel shoes appeared in 1920-s. Together with the consideration of attributes of “new women's” fashion author shows the major social processes that had an impact on urban female style.