2010 Issue №12

This article considers the events of the synodal period in the history of Russian Church. In the first half of the 19th century, the formation of governmental bodies – eparchial consistories – was completed. Many consistories faced the opposition of archiereis who still resisted the church reform of Peter I.

This article characterises the craft and determines its scale and place in the peasant economy. The author focuses on the role of buyers in the development of the craft and the influence of factory production on its dynamics.

This article is devoted to the development of cooperation between the Komi Republic and Finland in the 20th century and the contribution of one of leading specialists in Finno-Ugric studies V. O. Lytkin to this process.

This article is devoted to the training of Soviet school teachers in the 1920s. The author considers the mechanism of the Soviet staff policy, the so-called purges. The article reveals the forms, methods, basic stages, and results of the work of purge commissions.

This article considers the trends of Russian conservative thought in the Soviet Russia and abroad. The subject of research is the orthodox monarchism of leading Russian thinkers and poets in the USSR and abroad in the 1920s-1950s.

This article focuses on the role of Länsipohja and Ruija in the "Greater Finland" ideology. The growing interest in the closely related peoples in the 1920s became a prerequisite for the foundation of the Academic Karelia Society (AKS). The author addresses the activity of the AKS concerning Länsipohja and Ruija.

This article offers an analysis of the actions of Latvian government aimed to solve the economic and social problems in the difficult period of the beginning of World War II.

This article analyses the contribution of the famous French writer and public figure Philippe Sollers to the development of Marxism. The author focuses on the crucial ideas of Sollers expressed in the works published in the Tel Quel magazine in the 1970s.

This article delves into the etymology of the names of the Dnieper rapids of the Ros origin mentioned by Constantine Porphyrogennetos. The author reveals the similarity between these names and the Baltic toponymy.

This article focuses on the transitions of power from the military bodies to the civil ones at the stage of the postwar restoration of the Kaliningrad region.

The article characterises the first stage of the urban development in Kaliningrad and the region and draws attention to the specific features that led to the procrastination of restoration.

This article analyses the "thrust toward the East" concept in the Soviet historical discourse. The author identifies the bases of this concept underlying its theoretical framework.

This article scrutinises an episode unveiling the understanding of the causes of the fall of the Polish state in Russian and Polish historical science of the 19th century. The author revises some established concepts concerning the reception of the so called "revolution in the Polish historiography" in Russia.

This article focuses on the factors having influenced the formation of the conscious attitude to the past of the Kaliningrad region in the local residents. The author shows that a special regional identity, which developed in the interaction with the unique cultural environment, requires a public discussion as decisions concerning the transfer of the ownership of cultural and historical objects to a religious organisation are made.

This article considers the logical modelling of a set of arguments. The author shows that logic offers normative models, which impose the pre-set structure on the argumentation. The article introduces the notions of macro-, micro-, and mesostructure of argument sets as well as the notion of argumentation circle as a variety of the hermeneutic circle. The author determines the advantages and disadvantages of logical models.

This article examines the procedural structures of operations with concepts and offers the logical models of concept generalisation and particularisation, describes the types of operations, and determines the sources of logical fallacies of natural generalisations and particularisations.

This article examines the approaches to the study of Russian philosophy of history aboard. The author focuses on the specific features of the object of research, outlines the principles of empirical material organisation, and gives its general characteristics.

This article is aimed to investigate the visualisation of ideological mechanisms in the context of Italian cinematography of the 1960-70s.

This article analyses the internal and external factors of social security in Russia in the late 2000s. The author pays special attention to the polysemy of the concept of social security and the problems of deviant behaviour.

This article focuses on the specific features of a study into social pathologies in Russian sociology. The author emphasises that the addressing of moral problems is a tradition of Russian social thought.

This article compares the frequency of the use of the toponym 'Baltic' in the names of small enterprises in Baltic cities. The author draws conclusions on the role of small business in the development of regional identity in the Baltic Sea region and assesses the prospects for the formation of a regional business community in the Baltic region.