2011 Issue №6

This article examines the first contacts of future foreign mercenaries in Russian military service with the Posolski Prikaz in the beginning of the 17th century.

This article examines the currents of oppositional thought in the second half of the 18th century through the example of the Panin – Fonvizin project. The paper addresses the problem of the project's authorship and analyses the thinkers' ideal of state structure.

This article focuses on the position of Russian right-wing parties in the beginning of the 20th century regarding one of the components of Stolypin modernisation programme — the judicial and law enforcement reform.