scholarly journals Catch a Sight of "Church": Amateur Photographs as a Window into the Life of Evangelical Christians of the USSR

TECHNOLOGOS ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Glushaev Aleksey
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Perm Krai ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Confessional Literature

It is known that the documents from the State archives concerning the history of religious life in the USSR had the primary importance and they are remained the same. However, a significant part of historical documents are kept by believers. Film and photo documents are of particular interest. The “visual turn” in the historiography of the beginning of 2000s opened up new opportunities for studying film sources and photographic documents. The attention of historians has focused on the symbolic and linguistic systems of transmission of film and photographic messages, on the visualization of ethnic, confessional identities or cultural characteristics of various population groups. Thus, turn to the film and photo documents helps better understanding the collective self-perception of Soviet believers and finding the ways to present themselves to the surrounding world. The purpose of this study is to study the informational possibilities of photographic documents on the history of Evangelical Christian-Baptists in the USSR in the 1970s. The main historical sources in the study are two photographs from the mid-1970s. They are kept in the church of evangelistic Christians-Baptists in the city of Perm. Archival documents of the State Archives of Perm Krai and confessional literature helped to reconstruct the historical context of photography. Conversations with a presbyter of the Perm community of Evangelical Christians-Baptists helped in attribution of photographs. The author believes that these photographs formed the iconographic image of the ECB church in the space of the Soviet city. The active use of these photographs in the post-Soviet period testifies the high “symbolic efficiency” (P. Bourdieu) of photographic communication from the past.

THE MAIN PROBLEMS OF COLLECTING THE DOCUMENTARY HERITAGE AND CREATING THE STATE ARCHIVAL FUND OF THE USSR IN 1917–1930S

2021 ◽  
pp. 82-99
Author(s):  
Nina I. Khimina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The State ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
History Of Collecting ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Effective Use

The article examines the history of collecting documentary and cultural heritage since 1917 and the participation of archives, museums and libraries in the creation of the Archival Fund of the country. In the 1920s and 1930s, archival institutions were established through the efforts of outstanding representatives of Russian culture. At the same period, the structure and activities of the museums created earlier in the Russian state in the 18th – 19th centuries were improved. The new museums that had been opened in various regions of Russia received rescued archival funds, collections and occasional papers. It is shown that during this period there was a discussion about the differentiation of the concepts of an “archive”, “library” and a “museum”. The present work reveals the difficulties in the interaction between museums, libraries and archives in the process of saving the cultural heritage of the state and arranging archival documents; the article also discusses the problems and complications in the formation of the State Archival Fund of the USSR. During this period, the development of normative and methodological documents regulating the main areas of work on the description and registration of records received by state repositories contributed to a more efficient use and publication of the documents stored in the state archives. It is noted that museums and libraries had problems connected with the description of the archival documents accepted for storage, with record keeping and the creation of the finding aids for them, as well as with the possibilities of effective use of the papers. The documents of the manuscript departments of museums and libraries have become part of the unified archival heritage of Russia and, together with the state archives, they now provide information resources for conducting various kinds of historical research.

scholarly journals The History of the Aginsk Steppe Duma in the Documents from the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatiya (1839-1904) Has Been Published

2020 ◽  
pp. 950-959
Author(s):  
Victor N. Kazarin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Information Value ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
East Russia ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The 19Th Century

The review of an anthology on the history of the Aginsk Steppe Duma published by drs. B.V. Bazarov, B.T. Zhalsanova, L.V.Kuras notes that hundreds the new archival documents offer a holistic view on the governmental politics concerning one of large ingenious peoples of East Russia. The composers have identified and presented documents reflecting various aspects of local self-government of the Aginsk Duma created on the basis of M.M. Speransky’s Statute on the Inorodtsy of 1822. The review contains a brief characteristic of the archival documents corpus systematized in volumes and argues their information value. The documents contain data on the officials of the Duma, personnel structure in dynamics from its foundation to its termination. The edition offers an array of documents on tax policy pertaining to indigenous population, public censures, correspondence on administrative and land disputes at the turn of the 19th century. Authors-composers have published family lists of the Aginsk buryats. The review underscores the information value of the commentary included in all volumes of the edition, the nominal indexes numbering hundreds of surnames. The illustrative component of this three-volume edition is also emphasized: there are rare photos of officials of the Aginsk department, meetings of tsesarevitch Nikolai Aleksandrovich in Transbaikalia in 1892, deputy of the State Duma, descendants of families from the Transbaikal steppes in the Soviet period. The review emphasizes the importance of such edition for studying governmental policies concerning ingenious peoples, balance of government and local self- government, social and economic and cultural development of East regions in the Imperial period. Materials of the three-volume edition open numerous unpublished documents to researchers. The review notes its value for historians, local historians, archivists, museums employees, and those researching their family tree.

scholarly journals Архивное строительство Калмыцкой АССР. 1962–1980 гг.

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 488-500
Author(s):  
Larisa B. Mandzhikova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
National Economic ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Council Of Ministers ◽  
The Impact

Introduction. In the article, the author examines the history of archives in Kalmykia within the 1962-1980 chronological framework. In 1962, the Archive Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the KASSR and the State Archives of the Republic were transferred to the jurisdiction of the Council of Ministers of the KASSR; and in 1980, the Archive Department under the Council of Ministers of the Kalmyk ASSR was reorganized into the Archive Department of the Council of Ministers of the Kalmyk ASSR. The article aims at examining the history of archives and archiving in this period, focusing on the impact of changes in the administrative-territorial division of the Republic on the formation of a network of archival institutions in Kalmykia. This has involved the study of issues of archival acquisition in the state archives, methods of preservation of archival records at the stage of departmental storage and in the state archives, and the use of archival documents for the purposes of national economic and scientific research. Data and research methods. The sources for the research were archival records of the National Archives of the Republic of Kalmykia, many of which are introduced for the first time. Results. The study indicates that the period under consideration saw radical changes in the archival organization in Kalmykia. The archival institutions of the Republic organized their work in accordance with the adopted normative legal acts, the instructions of the higher organizations, and the state of local archiving. In general, during this period, the archivists of the Republic succeeded in reaching the standards required in their professional field in the country at large, and, also, in creating the foundation for further improvement in the field.

scholarly journals Documents of the Austrian State Archives about the History of Habsburg Diplomatic Relations with Russia: Research Potential

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolai Baranov ◽  
Elena Manasyan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Main Type ◽  
Diplomatic Relations ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Military Conflicts ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Heritage ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Comprehensive Study

This article considers the formation of archival funds about Austro-Russian relations in the late seventeenth century in one of the four departments of the Austrian State Archives (the Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv of the Habsburgs). The analysis demonstrates that the archival funds formed alongside the development of the archive’s structure. The sources referred to include documents dedicated to the foreign policy contacts of the Habsburg dynasty with Russia in the late seventeenth century. The authors focus on the period when, because of the Ottoman threat, interactions between Vienna and Moscow intensified, which manifested itself in the active exchange of embassies and correspondence. The authors reveal the main type of structure of the archival funds mentioned. The collection contains several types of historical sources, among which the authors single out official letters (der Brief), instructions (die Instruktion) for Viennese representatives sent to Moscow, authentications (die Beglaubigung), decrees, minutes of audiences, envoy accounts (der Gesandtenbericht), and reports (der Bericht) of the Viennese envoys in Moscow. The characterisation of archival documents by fund and type demonstrates the deep research potential of the sources. The authors reveal that despite the long development and numerous military conflicts that influenced the preservation of the funds, the Haus-, Hof-, und Staatsarchiv are an institution of supranational importance, accumulating the historical heritage of Austria and Russia. The archive department contains a large array of documents shedding light on various aspects of diplomatic relations between Vienna and Moscow in the second half of the seventeenth century, making possible a comprehensive study of Habsburg contacts with Russia. This makes it necessary to consider introducing the source base into scholarly circulation.

scholarly journals The History Of Construction Of Irrigation Facilities In The Ferghana Valley During The Second World War

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (12) ◽  
pp. 14-20
Author(s):  
Kabuljan Makhamadjanovich Nasritdinov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
The State ◽  
World War ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
History Of Construction ◽  
Ferghana Valley ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Second World

In the state of the author on the basis of archival documents, scientific-historical sources and literature analyzes the history of the development of irrigation construction in Ferghana Valley in the years of the Second World War of the XX century.

scholarly journals Archival Documents on the Impact of the Great Patriotic War on the State of the Sugar Industry Factories: Materials of the Kursk Region

2020 ◽  
pp. 578-589
Author(s):  
Roman S. Vorontsov ◽  
◽  
Vladimir V. Korovin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Food Industry ◽  
Sugar Industry ◽  
The State ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Kursk Region

The article draws on archival sources on the activities of regional authorities in regulation of economic relations under wartime conditions to discuss problems in organizing production activities of sugar enterprises of the Kursk region. Although there are some works on the history of the industrial production development during the Great Patriotic War on the all-Union, republican, and regional levels, which take into account all modern achievements of historical science and development of the source base, the impact of the war on the state of individual branches of food industry supplying the front and rear remains unexplored. The choice of the territorial frameworks of the study springs from several circumstances. Firstly, the Kursk region for a long time occupied a leading position in the RSFSR in the volume of products manufactured by sugar factories. Secondly, during the war, the territory of the region had the status of a front-line, occupied, front-line, and rear-line area, which had a significant impact on the specifics of all tasks related to production organization. The main source is archival documents on various aspects of management and production activities. The authors have identified documentary materials in the fonds of the Russian State Archives of Economics, the State Archives of the Kursk Region, and the State Archive of the Socio-Political History of the Kursk Region, that cover events and processes associated with the dynamics in the sugar industry of the Kursk region, one of the key sectors of regional wartime economy. They have analyzed the content of these documents and offered a general assessment of problems in functioning of the industry under extreme conditions. Of greatest information value on the said topic are materials from regional archives. Archival documents objectively reflect the situation in the food industry during the war. Their introduction into scientific use will contribute to a reliable reflection of the role of economic potential of the USSR in the defeat of Nazism.

scholarly journals HISTORY OF DEPORTATION OF THE CHECHEN AND INGUSH PEOPLES TO THE KOKCHETAV REGION ACCORDING TO THE KAZAKHSTAN ARCHIVAL MATERIALS

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-69
Author(s):  
G. Е. Mamaeva
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
State Archive ◽  
North Caucasus ◽  
The North ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
State Archives ◽  
Cultural Structure

The current paper uses the sources of the State Archives of Kokshetau, the State Archive of Akmola region (Kokshetau) and the Archive of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Almaty) to cover the history of the deportation of the Chechen and the Ingush peoples to Kazakhstan. These are mainly reports, notes, various correspondence, which contain information about the process of resettlement, the economic and domestic and labor arrangements of the socalled special settlers from the North Caucasus. The identified sources of archives give the author an opportunity to recreate the history of the resettlement and the economic accommodation of the special settlers – the Chechens and the Ingush – from the North Caucasus to the territory of the Kokchetau region in the Kazakh SSR. The information obtained has allowed the author to analyze the economic, socioeconomic, cultural structure of the special settlers and, thus, to consider the formation of the Chechen and the Ingush Diasporas on the territory of Kazakhstan. The author introduces a large number of previously unpublished archival materials into scientific use. The use of archival documents allowed the author to disclose various aspects of the issue under consideration.

scholarly journals THE LAST RULER OF THE STATE OF ATABEKS OF AZERBAIJAN IN THE ARAB-PERSIAN SOURCES

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Dmitry M. Timokhin
Keyword(s):  
Objective Assessment ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The State ◽  
Image Transformation ◽  
South Caucasus ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Historical Figure ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of The South

Abstract. The article focuses on the last atabek of Azerbaijan Muzaffar ad-Din Uzbek, the history of whose reign, despite the existing studies, requires special attention. In this article, we try to analyze the description of the life and reign of this historical figure, trace the folding of his image in the Arab-Persian historical sources from different eras. Secondly, we would like to compare the image of the last atabek that was formed in the medieval written sources, with the descriptions of modern researchers. All this will allow for a better understanding of the image transformation of the last ruler of the state of atabeks of Azerbaijan. Another important task of this article is to analyze the evolution of the image of Muzaffar al-Din Uzbek in medieval historical sources and highlight the reasons why in some written monuments he is presented as a negative character or his personality, on the contrary, is subjected to “heroization”. Such an analysis of information from historical sources is impossible without the analysis of the historical context within which this or that text was formed. Finally, this kind of historical deconstruction will allow us to answer not only the question in connection with which this or that image of this historical figure was constructed but also to give an objective assessment of the life and work of the last ruler of the state of atabeks of Azerbaijan. We hope that this study will be useful not only for experts in the history of the South Caucasus of the Mongol invasion but also to a wide range of readers, interested in the medieval history of the region.

Ivan Matyukhin and his detachment in the Tambov rebellion

2020 ◽  
pp. 227-233
Author(s):  
Vladimir I. Podlesnov
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Russian State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
State Archives ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Military

The relevance of the work is due to the need for a scientific understanding of the phenomenon of peasant rebellion against Soviet power, and the largest of them, the Tambov rebellion, in the year of its centenary, to study motivation as its leaders, one of whom was I.S. Matyukhin and ordinary participants. The purpose of the study is to analyze the personality of Ivan Matyukhin and the soldiers of his detachment, as well as the main military operations in which they participated. When working on the study, such research methods were used as the study of archival data and memoirs, their analysis. The research was based on the data of the State Archives of the Tambov Region, the State Archive of the Social and Political History of the Tambov Region, the Russian State Military Archive, the memoirs of the participants in the events under study, as well as published scientific works. The scientific significance of the study lies in the systematization of in-formation about Ivan Matyukhin’s detachment, the analysis of known archival documents and the introduction of new ones into scientific circulation. In the course of the study, the military operations of the Insurrectionary Army, in which the I.S. Matyukhin regiment took part, are analyzed, and the key role of his unit in especially significant operations was revealed. A social portrait of a member of his detachment is compiled – most often these are peasants, both wealthy and those related to the poor, for the most part who had experience in military operations. We prove the high level of support of the Matyukhin unit among local residents, skillfully organized intelligence and staff work.

scholarly journals Historical and Archival Aspects of Expertise and Attribution of N. K. Roerich’s Works

2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Elena P. Yakovleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
The State ◽  
Central State ◽  
Decorative Art ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Texts ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Archives

Based on the materials of expert and attribution studies carried out by the author over the years, this article examines the historical and archival documents, evidence and facts used in the course of the examination and attribution of works of easel, theatrical and decorative art of Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947). Also, the author examines the role which documents from the funds of the departments of manuscripts of the State Russian Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian State Archives of Literature and Art, the Central State Archive of Film and Photographic Documents of St Petersburg, and other institutions play in the examination process, which is important for clarifying and studying the artistic heritage of the master. The purpose of the article is to consider individual examples of the examination and attribution of N. K. Roerich’s works with the help of various kinds of historical, cultural, and everyday documents, facts, and evidence reflected in unpublished art history texts, epistolary and memoir sources, in inscriptions on the reverse of paintings and on the margins of typographic prints of exhibition catalogues and works of art by Roerich, i.e. everything that contains important information for an expert included in the concept of “historical and archival aspects”. The article provides examples of art history, culturological and technical and technological methods used in the examination and attribution of works of art, and their result, which is reflected in the “expert conclusions”, attributions, verified and refined description of works and the history of their existence, which is important for understanding the artist’s work, further analysis of his work and, as a result, the emergence of new scholarly and educational publications.

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