Plenary Meeting of the Russian Society of Historians and Archivists in Ekaterinburg, September 26, 2017: Information

2018 ◽  
pp. 245-259
Author(s):  
Grigory N. Lanskoy ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Memory Space ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Plenary Meeting ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Russian Military

The information on the last plenary meeting of the All-Russian public organization ‘Russian Society of Historians and Archivists’ (ROIA) includes report and official documentation. The report and discussion of the ROIA plenary meeting participants remarked that the events of interest are in complete congruence with the profile of the ROIA activities as a non-profit-making organization, active on both federal level and on the level of its regional offices in over 70 subjects of the Russian Federation. Of particular importance are interactions of the ROIA with the Federal Archival Agency and regional directorates for archiving and their subordinate institutions. Methodological focus of the ROIA projects is connected with tasks of identification, summation, introduction into scientific use, and popularization of archival documents on the Russian history. The ROIA activities ascertain results and prospects of new documents (especially, those of personal provenance) acquisition in the state archives and bring little-known documents to light. The ROIA gave coverage to results of work on the project ‘Revolution of 1917 in archival documents.’ Together with the Russian Military Historical Society and Association of Scholars in Soviet Society and Contemporary History, it participated in the contest of research and creative work ‘Russia: The memory space: The 20th century.’ To support the scientific research and educational project ‘Historical document heritage on the history of the Republic of Crimes and Sebastopol,’ a presidential grant was obtained. The ROIA seeks cooperation of the National Association of Russian Border Troops Veterans. The ROIA was one of the winners in the 2nd Grant Contest of the ‘History of the Motherland’ foundation with its exhibition project ‘Revolution of 1917 in the Moscow streets: Documents and photographs.’

scholarly journals The Archives of Khori Taishas: The Unpublished Work of G. N. Rumyantsev

2020 ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Svetlana V. Buraeva ◽  
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Marina V. Ayusheeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Source Analysis ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Unpublished Manuscript ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Tibetan Studies

The article analyses materials from the general archival fond of the Center of Oriental Manuscripts and Xylographs (COMX) of the Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist, and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, which were collected and prepared for printing by the well-known orientalist, G. N. Rumyantsev, leading figure in the science of Buryatia. 30 originals and certified copies on the history of the Khory Buryats of the 18–19th centuries are included in the file “The archival materials of the Khory taishas with certificates, diplomas, etc.” The article offers their source analysis and genre classification, as well as description of their paleographic features, handwriting, stamps, etc. Archival documents illustrate the dynamics of the state policy towards the Buryats over more than one hundred and fifty years: Buryats’ subordination to local governments, relationship between governing bodies, features of Buryat common law and court. Documents enable to follow the integration of the Buryat population into the Russian society. In the private archive of the scholar an unpublished manuscript of his book “The archives of the Khory taishas: Materials for the history of Buryat-Mongolian people: 1711-1850” have been found. It includes hand- and type-written texts with commentaries. It was not accidental that G. N. Rumyantsev prepared publication of archival documents on the history of the Buryat people. In 1960, in collaboration with S. B. Okun, he had published “Collected documents on history of Buryatia: The 18th century. Issue 1.” It is probable that he carried on with this work by identifying and interpreting sources from the COMX and the State Archive of the Republic of Buryatia. The publication of sources still remains an important task, even if there are now many works on the history of the Buryats that analyze different sides of their social development and culture. The structure and composition of the Buryat government and administration remain unclear, and answers to these questions may be found in these archival documents.

Americans in An Giang: Nation Building and the Particularities of Place in the Mekong Delta, 1966––1973

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Biggs
Keyword(s):  
Vietnam War ◽  
Mekong Delta ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
American Nation

In recent years, American diplomatic and military historians have begun to reexamine Cold War-era nation-building efforts in Vietnam and elsewhere. This essay explores the contested and contingent meanings of some US-sponsored nation-building programs established in the Republic of Vietnam during the 1960s. By focusing on nation-building activities in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang during the peak years of the Vietnam War, this essay suggests how historians may begin to assess these indirect effects of the war within a more nuanced, local Vietnamese historical framework. Such a history necessarily focuses on particular places and on the specific social and environmental conditions that shaped the course and outcome of nation-building projects undertaken there. Despite the universalist aspirations inherent in nation building, its effects varied widely from one place to another. In assessing the course and fate of these nation-building initiatives, this essay draws from the varied archival documents produced and collected by American provincial advisors during their stays in An Giang. A close reading of these reports reveals why the history of American nation-building programs in the Republic of Vietnam cannot be explained solely by reference to ideologies of modernization and counterinsurgency.

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 FIRST RESULTS OF RUSSIAN TEACHERS’ WORK IN TAJIKISTAN

2020 ◽  
pp. 165-171
Author(s):  
Юрий Михайлович Асанов
Keyword(s):  
Russian Language ◽  
Scientific Concept ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Joint Work ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
First Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Russian Language

Представлены первые результаты совместной работы таджикских и российских преподавателей в учебных заведениях Республики Таджикистан в процессе реализации программы «Русские учителя в Таджикистане». Актуальность темы обусловлена растущей ролью сотрудничества в сфере образования и подготовки кадров, которые лежат в основе абсолютно всех направлений стратегического взаимодействия этих стран. На примере Раштского района Республики Таджикистан отмечается уникальность для новейшей истории российско-таджикских отношений опыта одновременной взаимодополняющей работы преподавателей двух стран как в школе, так и в педагогическом институте. Уделено внимание роли русского языка и русскоязычного образования в Таджикистане, дается анализ нынешней ситуации с функционированием русского языка в республике. Предлагаются пути и способы его дальнейшего совершенствования для того, чтобы существенно расширить возможности практического использования русского языка. Вводится и дается определение новому научному понятию «самовоспроизводящая система». Обосновывается авторское толкование этого термина. Предложены возможности и подходы дальнейшего развития программы «Русские учителя в Таджикистане». The article discusses the role of the Russian language and Russian education in Tajikistan. The analysis of the current situation with the functioning of the Russian language in the republic is given. The author suggests the ways and the opportunities of its further improvement of significantly expand the possibilities of practical use of the Russian language. Determined the relevance of the article. The article notes that cooperation in the field of education and training lies at the heart of absolutely all areas of strategic cooperation between our countries. The author considers the first results of the joint work of Tajik and Russian teachers in educational institutions of the Republic of Tajikistan. On the example of the Rasht district of the Republic of Tajikistan, the uniqueness of the experience of the simultaneous complementary work of teachers of the two countries both at school and at the pedagogical institute for the recent history of Russian-Tajik relations is noted. The definition of a new scientific concept “self-reproducing system” is introduced and given. The author’s interpretation of this term is substantiated, in contrast to the generally accepted ones. The expediency of attracting non-profit organizations of the two countries to the development of Russian-Tajik educational cooperation is noted. A number of other practical proposals for the development of joint teaching activities in educational institutions of Tajikistan, namely, that the construction of Russian schools will provide an opportunity to create effective centers of culture and education in the regions.

scholarly journals Historiography and New Sources about the Dissolution of the Communist Party of Western Belarus

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 962-974
Author(s):  
Aleksandr A. Savich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Party Discipline ◽  
Organizational Status ◽  
Security Service ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Significant Extension ◽  
The Republic

The article is aimed at studying the Belarusian historiography on the dissolution of the Communist Party of Poland and its constituent part — the Communist Party of Western Belarus in 1938 by a decision of the Executive Committee of the Comintern on suspicion of penetration of enemy agents. On the basis of a wide range of historiographical sources, including archival documents, the author reveals the emergence and transformation of the approaches and critical views of historians of the BSSR on this topic, taking into account the positions of Russian and Polish scholars and the determination of the judgments of the researchers of the 1930s — the first half of the 1950s by the official Soviet version of the validity of the dissolution of the communist parties of Poland and Western Belarus as agents of Piłsudski. The political rehabilitation of the Communist Party of Poland in 1956 contributed to the intensification of the study into the history of the Communist Party of Western Belarus, but there was no significant extension of the topic of dissolution either in 1960–1980 or during the period of the Republic of Belarus. At the same time, the organizational status of the communist organizations in Western Belarus in the 1930s has not been explored, and no attempts have been made to systematically identify the contacts with the Polish police and the Polish security service. The research identifies archival documents of the Communist Party of Western Belarus and Polish state bodies, including the state police, which testify to the unsatisfactory state of the communist organizations, low party discipline, as well as secret contacts of ordinary party members and leading workers with the security service and the Polish police.

scholarly journals Statistical Analysis of Details and Factors of 1920s Famine in the Tatar Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 28-38
Author(s):  
M. A. Akhmetova ◽  
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A. R. Nurutdinova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Work ◽  
100Th Anniversary ◽  
Periodical Press ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Soviet Socialist Republic ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Analytical Processing ◽  
The Republic

The year 2020 in the Republic of Tatarstan is declared the year of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. The purpose of the article is a versatile study of archival and record-keeping documents, statistical information and materials of the periodical press, which contribute to the development and arrangement of modern accents and views on the history of the republic. Using the possibilities of scientific work at the intersection of various sciences, the authors of the article have the prospect of an absolutely new approach to the disclosure of the topic being studied. To work with archival documents, the task of statistical and analytical processing of data is set in order to identify significant factors and correlations.

From Sectarians to Extremists: The Language of Marginalization in Soviet and Post-Soviet Society

2019 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-127
Author(s):  
Emily B. Baran
Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Public Rhetoric ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Media ◽  
Perceived Danger ◽  
Over Time

This article examines the history of marginalizing rhetoric in Russia as applied to evangelizing faiths, particularly the Jehovah’s Witnesses, from the postwar period to the present day. Such churches have been portrayed as presenting a distinct threat to Russian society, even as the cited reasons for this perceived danger have shifted over time. While obviously connected to legal definitions of toleration, the language of religious (in)tolerance existed apart from state policy. Moreover, public rhetoric frequently adopted a hostile tone toward evangelizing churches regardless of their legal status. Seen from this perspective, the recent “extremism” label is part of a broader history of sustained marginalization of evangelizing faiths in modern Russia. The article argues that Russian media has not fully embraced the rhetoric of “extremism” as applied to evangelizing communities, but has also done little to challenge the underlying state policy it represents.

scholarly journals Artificial sources of light used in photomedicine: history of discovery

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide Laser ◽  
Artificial Light ◽  
Light Sources ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Military Engineer ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Military ◽  
Incandescent Lamps

Introduction. The history of the development of photomedicine over the past one and a half years is directly related to the history of the development of artificial light sources. And the medical direction of using these sources, as befits the light, has always been extremely bright. The purpose of this study was to familiarize doctors, scientists, engineers working in the field of photomedicine, with the creators of artificial sources of the light that is used for the rehabilitation, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of the most common human diseases. Materials and methods. Sources of information were archival documents of scientific libraries, scientific journals, and conference proceedings. The search depth was almost 160 years. Results. As a result of this work, the names of three outstanding inventors of the first incandescent lamps born in the same 1847 and giving people artificial sun were mentioned again (Russian engineer Alexander Nikolaevich Lodygin, Russian military engineer Pavel Nikolaevich Yablochkov and American electrical engineer Thomas Alva Edison) . The work of the first arc lamps was based on research by the Russian inventor V.V. Petrov and the English naturalist G.Devi. As a result of complex experiments, the Russian physicist S.I. Vavilov discovered in 1924 that the efficiency of luminescent substances is much higher than the efficiency of incandescent lamps. The Nobel laureates of 1964 for fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics, which led to the creation of generators and amplifiers of a new type - masers and lasers, became the American physicist C. Townes and Soviet physicists N.G. Basov and A.M. Prokhorov. In 1960, the laser era began with the light arm of Theodor Harold Meiman, who created the first ruby-crystal laser operating at a wavelength of 694.3 nm. Then A. Javan, W. Bennet and D. Herriot created a gas (helium-neon) laser. In 1962, a semiconductor laser was created by a group of American (B.Lex, U. Dumke, M.Naten) and independently Soviet scientists (B.M. Vul and others). A carbon dioxide laser (molecular) was created in 1964 by K. Patel. A dye laser was created in 1966 by P. Sorokin and J. Lancard. The “father” of LEDs is considered by the whole world to Nick Holonyak, who in 1962 created the world’s first GaAsP luminescent diode emitting in the red spectrum. Findings. In the process of evolution of artificial light sources (from incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps to lasers and LEDs), phototherapy methods were also improved.

scholarly journals Archival Sources on the History of Relationship of Power and Society in the Field of Protection of Nature in Russia: 1917-1991

2019 ◽  
pp. 384-397
Author(s):  
Ekaterina D. Makeeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Information Value ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Nature Protection ◽  
Ecological History ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Nature Preservation ◽  
Relations Of Power

The article reviews a complex of archival sources on the history of relations of power and society in the nature preservation sphere in the Soviet era. Evolution of the relationship is a subject of ecological history, a research area closely connected with history of mankind and much influenced by global and local natural elements. In the Russian scholarship, studying relations between authorities and public nature protection movement dates back to 1990s, but within the confines of national regions (i.e., the Upper and the Lower Volga regions) the issue remains virtually unstudied. The main source is archival documents on various aspects of Russian ecological history. The author has identified relevant fonds with documents on protection of nature in two federal and eleven regional archives. She has analyzed the sources on the changing relations of power and society in the sphere of nature protection from 1917 to 1991. Of greatest information value are fonds of the Russian State Archive of Economy, the All-Russian Society of Nature Preservation, the State Archive of the Russian Federation and some regional archives. Archival documents have been distorted by censorship to a lesser degree than other sources and describe events and processes in Soviet era nation preservation more or less objectively, be it nationwide or at regional level. Their introduction into scientific use might promote further development of ecological history, which is still a new scientific discipline.

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