Отечественная история

The article attempts to analyze the dynamics of changes in the national composition of the Russian Federation over the past thirty years. It is argued that the results of the third All-Russian Population Census in 2020 objectively reflect the main trends in the transformation of the national structure of the Russian Federation. The conclusion about the crisis of national identity, complicating the development of the country, is substantiated.

The article discusses N. S. Khrushchev’s trip to the USA in September 1959. The unprecedented event is considered in the context of the establishment of Soviet-American relations, and the main focus is on the speeches of the head of the USSR, his view on overcoming the Cold War. Using intent analysis as the main research method, the author comes to the conclusion that N. S. Khrushchev tried to transfer relations between the two superpowers into the mainstream of “real politics”, guided not by ideological contradictions, but by mutual benefits.

The aim of the research is to study the creative achievements of Moscow architects during the Great Patriotic War. Moscow architects made an invaluable contribution to military-defense construction, the construction of numerous evacuated and new industrial enterprises in the east of the country, and the restoration of cities destroyed by the war. 

The article examines the mindset in the Russian emigrant environment in the 20–30s of the XXth century. Public opinion in interwar Europe was characterized by an increased interest in issues of war and peace, which was inevitably translated into the information and cultural space of emigrant communities.

Based on the analysis of publications of departmental journals “Zemsky Delo” and “Zemsky Worker”, the author of the article tried to reconstruct several stages of development of political ideas of zemstvo’s workers and employees in the period from June 1917 to June 1918. As a result, conclusions were drawn about the development of political ideas from the concept of non-partisan and “supra-class democracy” to attempts to justify the integration of zemstvos into the system of trade union and cooperative movement and Soviet authorities.

The article is devoted to the study of the image of Japan presented on the pages of the newspaper “Iskra”, the organ of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905, which also became the period of the Mensheviks’ dominance in the editorial board of the newspaper.