THE "AWAKENING" OF THE WOMAN IN MODERN ENGLAND

The review deals with the works of Russian authors on gender history, or rather, on the history of women in Great Britain in the 17th - 19th centuries. Basically, these are biographical articles in which the formation of the female «I» is put forward in the first place, the awakening of creative or scientific self-consciousness is shown; the formation and development of their life principles is traced. The authors turned to the lives of women of different social strata: from high society representatives to female models.

NEW SCIENTIFIC WORKS ON THE MODERN BELARUSIAN AND POLISH HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE HISTORY OF THE LATE IMPERIAL RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET STATE

The review presents new publications on the Belarusian and the Polish historiographies of the history of the late Imperial Russia and the Soviet State. Such problems as the number and conditions of detention of foreign prisoners of war in the Belarusian territories of the Russian Empire during the First World War, the influence of the military conflicts of 1914-1921 on the identity of the inhabitants of the Belarusian lands, the initial stage of the formation of academic science in the BSSR, the question of the «invasion» of Poland by the Red Army in September 1939 are highlighted.

PECULIARITIES, TYPOLOGY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONS AND THE CIVIL WAR IN THE WORKS OF A.V. SHUBIN

The review analyzes the approaches of the well-known Russian historian A.V. Shubin to the coverage of the typology of revolutions and the features and chronology of the Great Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War of 1918-1922. Alexander Vladlenovich Shubin is Doctor of Historical Sciences, Chief Researcher at the Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at Russian State University for the Humanities, author of more than 20 monographs and about 200 scientific publications on the problems of Soviet history and history of leftist ideas and movements.

TRANSITIONS OUT OF EMPIRE IN CENTRAL AND SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE. MATERIALS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE. UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB, SEPTEMBER 23-24, 2020

Recent studies of Habsburg Monarchy after 1917/1918, as a focus of attention, offer reinterpretations of both the transition out of empire and also of specific Habsburg legacies and practices that remained influential in the region long after 1918. In an attempt to shed more light on both of these aspects, an international conference in Zagreb was organised. The aim is to present papers on all aspects of the transition out of empire, on continuities and breaks among social elites, state institutions, administrative practices, legal codes, forms of citizenship, gender regimes, and welfare practices covering the period until the late 1930s.

THE HISTORY OF STATE BUILDING IN THE SOVIET UNION UNDER STALIN

This review article deals with a collection of essays published in «Europe-Asia Studies», vol. 71, N 6 (2019), the authors of which are analyzing Stalinism as a specific exemplar of state-building. Their research is based on various concepts of modern social sciences, especially on the theory of the developmental state. The authors show the new opportunities provided by such an approach and suggest the main directions of further study of the political history of the USSR from this point of view.

TRADE OF VELIKIY NOVGOROD WITH THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE IN THE XIV-XVI CENTURIES

The review examines the trade of Veliky Novgorod and the Hanseatic League, trade and customs policy of the Hansa, including in relation to Veliky Novgorod. Along with analytical materials, cites sources: originals and translations of letters from Hanseatic merchants. An analysis of the Novgorodskaya Skra, its originals and translations of the texts.

RECENT APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE TWENTY YEARS OF THE FASCIST ERA IN ITALY IN THE RUSSIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY

The paper deals with the problems of the history of Italian fascism which are today in the center of the attention of Russian historians. In particular, historiography of the phenomenon of fascism and the anti-fascist movement in Italy, Italian fascism in the context of Italian identity, the specifics of Church-state relations in fascist Italy.

CORPORATISM: RECENT APPROACHES TO THE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE ITALIAN FASCIST CORPORATIVE SYSTEM

The article deals with some new approaches the fascist corporative system by modern italians historians the fascist corporative system - theory and practice of the organisation of society. The italian corporatism is analysing equally the others teories and practices to get over difficulties of the world economic crisis 1929-1933, regarding historical perspectives of the economic regulation within capitalist system.