The article considers new changes in the interpretation of revolutionary events in modern historians’ researches. The author analyzes professional texts, as they are more than others  elaborate the urgent issues of Russian history at the beginning of the XX century. The author sets the target to fix the new scientific knowledge also focusing on the analysis of modern historiography functions.

The article deals with the activities of the Provisional Government and Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies in the Baltic provinces. They were aimed at changing the administrative and territorial boundaries of the Eastland and Liflandia provinces in spring – summer, 1917. The author considers various socio-political circles’ initiatives aimed at changing the boundaries of the above-mentioned provinces and specifies the link of the movement for new ones with the formation of the new governmental bodies and the removal of the Baltic German nobility from power. She also analyzes the contradictions between the Soviets of the Baltic provinces and the North-Western region dealing with the differences in establishing regional associations of Soviets.

The article is devoted to the influence of the Ukrainian Diaspora in Europe on the protest movement in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic during the 1920s and early 1930s. The author considers the new Soviet authorities’ approach to the contribution of Ukrainian emigration to militant activity as well as the support it received from the Polish and Rumanian government institutions. Furthermore, she assumes that their plans to topple the Communist regime in Ukraine was strongly influenced by the French, British and German establishments. In view of this, the article analyzes the activities of the above-mentioned illegal anti-Soviet organizations in the Ukrainian SSR and their preparation for the “All-Ukrainian insurrection” (1921).

The article studies the phenomenon of the constant “presence” of the ideas and principles typical for the XIX and early XX centuries in the latest scientific and research practices. Among others, the author considers the fundamental assumptions (for historical and scientific knowledge) about the historical sources and cultural information resources of historical science. He also confirms historiographical significance of the continuity of theoretical approaches to the historical material of science. However, the development of global evolutionism ideas,  understanding the historicity of natural laws, as well as the successes of global and environmental history, make it possible to significantly expand the traditional notions of historical information sources.

The evolution of representation forms of imperial power in the Roman Empire is characterized by the constantly growing influence of Eastern ideas and elements. The acceptance of Christianity by Constantine and the foundation of Constantinople as a new capital gave the Eastern party some preponderance in the empire. This new political order is characterized by the dominant position of the Eastern world over the Western, which under these conditions ceases to be the most dynamic part of the empire. It is justified to some extent to distinguish between the Eastern and Western concepts of the emperor, provided that we do not divide the empire on this basis into two ideologically opposing camps. The sense of belonging to a single solidarity community persisted in the IV and V centuries. The distribution of ideas in this universe knows no bounds either. Those who think in Latin and those who think in Greek, pagans and Christians do not constitute homogenous closed groups and often disagree in their vision of the empire and the emperor. The image of the empire and emperor, formed by Western authors of this period, not Christian, and not pagan, is purely Roman. To be able to write about the Christian empire, Eusebius of Caesarea in the East, Ambrose of Milan and Augustine in the West developed a suitable language, found the right words and images. Nevertheless, the Christian empire, as a new concept, could not penetrate into the Latin world. The emperor was certain to be a Christian, but at court the emperor remained the Augustus’ heir. The emerging ideas would later enter the intellectual  baggage of Roman aristocracy, Italian and provincial, which would join the rulers of the Roman-Barbarian kingdoms.

The article considers the peculiarities of the Gothic version of the world history which was created in the mid-VI century by Jordan aimed at approving the viability of the Gotho-Roman ostgothic “kingdom” power. The author analyses the way Jordan’s “Getica” supplanted the “Roman myth” completing the design of the “Gothic myth” main provisions. In the XX century “Gothic myth” as a cognitive image was the basis for the history of Goths conception, offered by L. Schmidt. The conception was recognized by the researchers and expresses the modern gothicism mythology.

The article deals with the origin of manuscripts rewritten under the instructions of the Vologda archbishop Iona (Dumin) (1588–1603). Analyzing the colophons of manuscripts and other sources the author comes to the conclusion that most of them were written in monasteries of the Vologda diocese. The manuscripts for Iona could be also copied in the Chudov monastery in Moscow. It so happened because its priors in the last quarter of the XVI century were related to Vologda.

The article is devoted to the specific traits of cognition of the past by German historians in the XIX century. The author demonstrates the influence of Enlightenment century on German historiography and the way it was overcome. The author considers the method of Leopold von Ranke and explains why it had the great prevalence in Germany and his historical school was the barrier to invasion of philosophy into the historical knowledge. The article considers discussion of the German academic community against positivist historian K. Lamprecht and its significance in the development of historical knowledge in Germany of the XX century.

The reconstruction of the intangible heritage of ancient Maya has been transformed into a social problem. The communities are looking for their own self-identification, taking into consideration “ancsestors’ knowledge” and using some random publications. Independent development of the Mayan society was dramatically interrupted twice – in the X and XVI centuries. Now there has turned up a social request from the Mayan community to revise their ancient history making use of disparate elements, random concepts and free interpretation. This phenomenon of the so-called “people’s reconstruction” is predetermined by social motives that define the Mayan community’s attempts to prove their rights to the historical lands, resources and social place.

The XX century has changed a lot the significance of  sports in all spheres of social life. However, the Russian community of professional historians still fails to perceive this topic as deserving a fully-fledged scholarly attention. The 1980 Summer olympics became one of the most important sport events in the USSR history. During the last few years the Games of the XXII olympiad have been comprehended in the frameworks of different humanitarian disciplines. Despite the marginalization of this issue, the historiographical analysis of the relevant works demonstrates that nowadays, Russian historians are also ready to realize meaningful research projects

The article deals with the development of national history and archives education which started in 1930 with the Institute of Archival Science (since 1932 – the Institute for History and Archives). The paper also specifies the succession of scientific and methodological traditions, laid by Petersburg and Moscow Archaeological Institutes that used to train archivists. The authors analyze the process of history and archives departments history and observe the development of authorial curricula that attached singularity to the Institute and contributed to the moulding of a broadly educated professional.

The article summarizes the history of the Moscow State Institute for History and Archives since 1947 when this higher educational institution was transferred from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Ministry of Education of the USSR. The paper specifies the position of the Institute in the system of Humanities education in Russia and shows how the Institute became the centre for training archivists with broad cultural and historical background. In the late 1970s, the development of the Institute caused the shift to the model of a higher educational institution of a comprehensive Humanities profile. The Institute served as the basis for the Russian State University for the Humanities founded in 1991. In the history of the Russian higher education, the Institute for History and Archives is certain to be claimed the first one which,  through the efforts of its outstanding faculty, has implemented the new model of university humanities education.

The article deals with models of integration of historical knowledge and current practices of humanitarian education. The authors define the humanities as a sphere oriented to historicism in science and historical thinking in education. The authors specify, first, a modern scientific context characterized by numerous “turns” and, second, a tendency to interdisciplinarity in recent decades. They also forward the idea that nowadays  history is nor so much an object in training humanities programs but rather the transformation of the most humanitarian objectivity on the basis of the principle of historicism.

The article considers the concept of an experimental course addressed to future culturologists and designed to master the methods and tools of analyzing various phenomena of Russian culture within the historical aspect. The approach proposed by the authors is based on the principles of modern cultural history. They also outline their strengths and weaknesses of this approach defining the principle of historicism as one of the basic principles of the historians professional training.

The article is devoted to the analysis of European integration prospects and possible tendencies of the EU disintegration. The author focuses on modern approaches to understanding integration processes and identifies the main scenarios for Europe’s future as a unified region. Analysis of the main challenges to the European community is based on systemic factors and the concepts of regional and political integration.

The article is devoted to the European economic integration under economic turbulence conditions in global economy. The author considers positive trends and integration constraints along with long-term interaction perspectives outlining the need to streamline management system and develop mechanisms of business process coordination in the bureaucratic decision-making procedures. He also estimates the economic effect of integration interaction.