History and Methodology of Historical Science

Torstendahl R. Directions of knowledge and schools in historiography

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Narskii I.V., Narskaya N.V. A human at the flea market, or the private dimension of the past

16

Metel V.O. Soviet historical science development in the second half of the 1980s: Challenges of Perestroika

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Reception and Representation of the Historical Past

Rachev E.R. Reception of the Ukrainophilic ideas by Russian periodicals during the first half of the 1860s: Democratic and protective approaches

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Verevkina I.N. “Ungovernable empire” vs “straw scarecrow in the garden” (constructing the image of Sergei Witte in “Memoirs”)

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Bakhturin V.V. The centenary of the Decembrist Revolt in the socio-cultural context of the 1920s: Ways of crafting the historical memory

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Vorobieva O.V., Nikolai F.V. Sociocultural threats in the state discourse of Imperial, Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: Strategies of representation

86

History through Personality

Luchitskaya S.I. Kazan University in the early 1870s as seen by a Kievan Master of Science: Some comments on the Master’s thesis defense by I.V. Luchitsky

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Antiquity and Oriental Studies

Popova A.A. Austen Henry Layard at the remains of Nineveh: The everyday life of an archaeological expedition

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Ladynin I.A. The alleged “social revolution” in Egypt: The dispute and conflict between Vassily Struve and Solomon Lurye in the 1920s

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Petrova S.G. “Layer-by-layer construction of the ancient history of China”: Gu Jiegang’s method and hypothesis

144

Gorshkova K.G., Masalova O.A. The history of formation and development of the Natio­nal Museum of Roman Art in Mérida (Spain)

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History of the Middle Ages

Puzanov D.V. Were weapons of the Normans and Rus’ “alive”?

168

Khaydarov T.F., Dolbin D.A. Anthropological view of plague epidemics in the his­torical past

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Russian History

Saktaganova Z.G., Abdukarimova Zh., Salnikova A.A. War children: Homelessness and neglect in Central Kazakhstan during 1941–1945 (based on archival documents)

202

Ethnography of the Peoples of the Volga-Urals Region

Nechvaloda E.E. Coarse motley shirts with the elements of discontinuous supplementary-weft weaving among the peoples of the Volga-Urals region (on the history of formation of the traditions)

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