No 1 (2023)

The article is devoted to the study of the place of the Sobornoje Ulogenie Code in the evolution of social institutions in Russia by studying the legislative activity of the government and administrative practices. The purpose of the study is to find out where the gap lay to a greater extent, and where the continuity can be traced in the system of state building and law - between the law of the 1620s-1640s. and the Code, or between the Code and the law of the second half of the XVII century. It is concluded that the continuity can be traced to a greater extent between the law of the 1620s-1640s. and the Council Code, which inherited from the previous legislation a set of legal norms that were revised and generalized in the new code of laws. The legal norms of the Code and new decree articles, including the concept of a crime against the state, a ban on the reception of fugitives, and the reconstruction of settlements, adopted in the second half of the 17th century, were formed by reworking the previous legislation. The evolution of the system of state building and the legal registration of the social class structure of society in the second half of the 17th century was of a discrete nature. Many essential segments of law in the Code are declarative and lack legal and technical tools: the proclaimed indefinite investigation of fugitive peasants could not be effectively implemented without an established system of state investigation, which arose only in the 1660s. The vast majority of articles of the Code were significantly changed in the legislation of the second half of the 17th century; these changes affected the norms describing the estate-class structure of society, including the forms of exercising the rights of the ruling elite to serfs, the rights and status of townspeople and other categories of taxable people.

The article is an analysis of quite mass sources - noble projects of solving the peasant question in Russia during the reign of Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I. It examines trends in the development of ideas related to the existence of serfdom in the country and the search for a way out of the status quo, undertaken by representatives of various factions of the ruling class of the empire. The conclusions of the article significantly complement the picture of the noble public opinion of this era.

Key aspects of the legal position of Muslim Crimean Tatar parish "hereditary" clergy in the end of the XVIII - the beginning of the XX centuries are covered in the article: benefits and privileges on the taxation, questions of expansion of structure of parish clergy and the reasons of the happened changes.

The article is devoted to municipal elections in the white South of Russia in the autumn of 1919. The author examines the features of the electoral legislation approved by the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces in the South of Russia A.I. Denikin, shows the course of campaigns in various provinces, gives full or partial results of voting in 39 cities.

The article focuses on the main trends, discussions and prospects for studying the family policy of the Soviet state and the transformation of family and marriage relations in the post-revolutionary period. The main focus is on the historiography of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The author characterizes the specifics of study of the problem today, its dependence on the political conjuncture, he draws particular attention to controversial and contradictory trends in modern historiography, as well as to the prospects for further study of the topic. The author concentrates on the issues of historiographical continuity and scientific novelty of works.

The article is devoted to the study of forms and methods of Soviet scientific and technical propaganda in the 1960s and 1970s. The main focus is on ways to promote Soviet space achievements. The article is based on archival documents, as well as on the materials of a number of popular magazines of this period. The following issues were carefully considered: the organization of scientific and technical propaganda in the USSR; methods of censorship control. The general conclusions of the study give an idea of two forms of coverage of scientific and technical achievements in the Soviet press of this period. The organization of scientific and technical censorship, in which the key role belonged not to the Glavlit, but to experts of branch research institutes and the Academy of Sciences, is also analyzed in detail.