Russian Empire

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While a large number of researchers have studied the revolt of 1916 in Central Asia, they have not provided sufficient answers to two fundamental questions. Why did the uprisings take place almost only in Central Asia, while the edict to mobilize labourers was issued also to indigenous peoples (inorodtsy) of other parts of the Russian Empire, namely Siberia, the Caucasus, and Kalmykia? Why did it occur in the year of 1916, although, according to many researchers, its causes had been accumulated during many years of Russian rule? In order to answer these questions, it is important to examine specificities of administration in Russian Central Asia, social changes in this region during World War I, and people’s perception of Russia’s situation in the war and relations with its adversaries. The last point is also related to international factors of the revolt.
This revolt was a colonial rebellion not simply in the sense that colonized people stood against the colonizers, but also because it reflected defects in the colonial administration. Russian rule in Central Asia had persistent problems, including weak integration of the native population into the imperial administrative system epitomized by the lack of metrical books. There were cleavages between the Russians and the natives, as well as mistrust between officials and the population, both exacerbated by large-scale land seizure for Russian settlers.
Still, Russian Central Asia was basically peaceful until the first half of the First World War period. A large-scale revolt erupted in the atmosphere of the increased social activity and upheaval, and after the news of the difficult war situation and the reduction of armed forces in Central Asia gave some natives an impression that Russian rule had been weakened. The edict on labourers, which was a result of the confused decision-making of the tsarist government faced with the crisis of the whole empire, revealed a contradiction between the level of mobilization required by a total war and the weak, segregationist administrative system in this region. The world war turned the latent colonial crisis into an explicit one. Therefore, the 1916 revolt has to be analysed as an interface of the World War and the Russian colonial crisis in Central Asia.

The article represents a short historical overview of events in Ukraine and Russia in terms of the integral socionics. Psycho-informational determinants of historical events in the Russian Empire, USSR, modern Russia and Ukraine are described. Socionic types of contemporary Russian and Ukrainian political leaders and the phenomenon of Orange Revolution are considered.

Книга посвящена нравственно-политическому факультету Московского университета, сыгравшему важную роль в развитии политической науки в России в 1804–1835 гг. Параметры новой университетской структуры были определены Университетским уставом 1804 г. В издании характеризуются учебный план, учебный процесс, основные дисциплины, профессорско-преподавательский состав факультета и перечислены наиболее известные его выпускники. Издание адресовано политологам и широкому кругу читателей.

Summary: Cult objects of decorative and applied art of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus: new attributions. The collection of religious objects of decorative and applied art of the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus contains a number of items made of precious metals. These artifacts have a large set of promising attributes for attribution: they often have a test mark that has changed over time and allows you to establish the place of branding and the probable origin of the product, the mark of the master, which also allows you to relate the product to the place of production and specify the time of manufacture, sometimes even engraved inscriptions various nature, which may also contain information about the origin of the product and the time of its existence. Several new attributions of items from the NAM RB funds are offered to your attention below.
Keywords: decorative and applied art, fineness, silver, National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus

The point of origin in the comparison of the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire were not as different from each other unlike the similarities. Both empires has chosen to shape with their own internal dynamics and enclosed social life over the years. In addition, they have taken samples the West as their model for modernization. These Empires have been described as "other" by Western because of "Islam" in Ottoman Empire and "Orthodoxy" in Russian Empire. Similar social patterns, political unrest and modernization moves has been the starting point of the study. The study referred to in the title of "comparison" did not include the concept of the just determination of similarity. Although both empires have many similarities, there were many striking differences each other. The most obvious differences in etymologic, Ottoman bureaucracy designate modernization as "Westernization", other side Russian administrators named modernization as "Europeanism". Another notable element was observed in various economic lives. The transition to capitalism in the Ottoman Empire directed by external forces on the other hand, Russia gave direction to this transformation of its own volition. The purpose of study is to show the similarities and differences in the Ottoman and Russian modernization with using the comparative historical sociological method.

Исторический портрет Александра III, опубликованный в журнале "Историк" [https://историк.рф/posts/2020/03/11/vencenosnyj-slavyanofil.html]. Предпринята попытка вскрыть идеологию Александра III и её связь с монаршей "самоконцепцией" и показать влияние этой идеологии на разные стороны политики императора, прежде всего в области культуры и экономики.