Abstract: The subject of this research is the origin of the Terek Cossacks living in the Prokhladnensky and Maysky districts of Kabardino-Balkaria. It was precisely in these areas that the Cossack gene pool was studied a few years ago, making it now possible to compare the geneticists' findings with the results of the author's analysis of historical sources. The appearance of Cossacks in these areas began relatively late: in the second half of the 18th century. These Cossacks included Volga and “Little Russian” Cossacks who moved to the Caucasus, retired soldiers, freeholders, and Russian and Ukrainian peasants. In this study, the author applied the historical approach, and consequently, the composition of the Cossacks population in each village is studied dynamically. The article's main research methods are the analysis of information contained in the sources, their systematization and synthesis. The comparison of the results derived from genetic and historical studies on the origin of the Terek Cossacks was conducted for the first time in historiography. The findings within the framework of population genetics of the Cossacks' assimilation of the areas belonging to the autochthonous population of the Caucasus are not supported by historical sources, where no such information is available. The revealed discrepancy and the discussions stemming from it will contribute to a further investigation of this topic, which thus highlights the relevance of this work.

Keywords: nations of the Caucasus, retired soldiers, state peasants, Volga Cossacks, Cossack villages, Kabardino-Balkaria, assimilation, gene pool, population genetics, the Origins of the Terek Cossacks

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Abstract: The subject of this article is the current state of scientific research focused on the questions of the genesis and essence of the ideology of Russian nationalism. The author places emphasis on the relevance of this issue, as well as the complexity and inconsistency of the phenomenon of "Russian nationalism." Particular attention is paid to the analysis of the differences in the study of this problem between the studies of the Soviet and modern eras. The author investigates the reasons for the intensification of the research interest in the questions concerning Russian nationalism at the present stage and describes the main dissertation research results regarding this issue. Additionally, the author identifies the main research approaches that exist for the study of the emergence of modern Russian nationalism and its essence. The methodological basis of this article is formed by the set of methods characteristic of historiographic research, of which the main ones are: the comparative-contrastive, systematic and socio-cultural methods. The article presents the following conclusion:
1. In modern dissertation research, not only the question of the essence, but also the existence of Russian nationalism as an independent ideology has not been unambiguously resolved.
2. The study of the ideology of Russian nationalism is characterized by the methodological imperfection that has not been overcome to this day, which is due, on the one hand, to the application of largely scholastic schemes of Western constructivism and instrumentalism, and, on the other hand, to the influence of the former approaches of Soviet historiography.
3. Russian nationalism is an independent ideological phenomenon that is characterized by an amorphous ideological content, subject to the influence of socio-political conjuncture, but, at the same time, is based on the fundamental idea of the existence of the Russian nation as an independent and unique historical phenomenon.

Keywords: ideological amorphism, marginal political ideology, structural crisis, genesis determinants, collapse of the USSR, right-conservative ideology, Soviet social science, genesis of Russian nationalism, ideology of Russian nationalism, historiography

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Abstract: Contemporary Russian and foreign historiography is actively discussing the concept of the Middle ages. Some of the key problems concerning this notion include its chronological frame, its watershed temporal marks, its applicability to regions other than Western Europe and the Mediterranean, and its socio-cultural content. Opponents of this term have put forward claims that this concept lacks an objective basis and that from its appearance during the Renaissance, it has been no more than a projection of the ideas of scholars from different schools and epochs about the past and their own times. In this line of reasoning we are advised not to study the Middle ages as such (with the exception of particular periods and phenomena), but rather to assess this notion at different stages of historiography and decide what particular perception is necessary for our own contemporary society and, consequently, conduct our research accordingly. In writing this article the author made use of the general scientific methods, i.e. the historical and logical methods, as well as the systematic and linguistic methods. The author demonstrates that the critics of the notion of Middle ages have failed to prove its ontological emptiness, just as they have failed to prove this for the concept of Feudalism, which as they claim has been discarded by modern historiography as useless for the understanding of the medieval world. The author comes to the conclusion that the idea of the ontological emptiness of the discussed notion should be considered in the context of the more general historiographical debates about historicism, the pertinence of contemporary scientific concepts for the study of history, and the very subject of historical research, including the expediency of posing “global questions” in history. The article shows that the refutation of the notion of Middle ages is connected with the refusal of studying the system of social relations that enables us to apprehend the medieval world in its wholeness. The author also considers the place of Medieval European civilization from the point of view of its cultural achievements and its unique capability of evolution without causing major social catastrophes. A hypothesis is advanced that this capability is in itself a most important characteristic of the Medieval epoch.

Keywords: Middle ages, Modern History, European Civilisation, medieval studies, medievalism, history of notions, property relations, Feudalism, fiefs and vassalage, seigneurie.

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Abstract: The article examines the alcohol sales prohibition, at the same time with the Imperial Decree of 16 July 1914 on military mobilization, and its prolongation (22 August 1914) until the end of the war, in the context of an on-going historiographical discussion on the population’s level of well-being in post-reform Russia. One of issues subject to controversy is the question of alcohol consumption by the population after 1861. The article demonstrates, based on both statistics and narrative sources, that the attempt to diminish alcohol expenditures per household and, more generally, the sense itself of alcohol consumption within the population is not seriously founded. In particular, after the introduction of the alcohol prohibition law the population’s deposits in government savings banks dramatically increased, various types of personal debts decreased, nutrition improved, as well as living and housing conditions, and purchases of agricultural machinery augmented, and so on. At the same time, diseases, fire accidents, poverty, unjustified workplace absenteeism, and more – decreased.

Keywords: World War I, Alcohol Prohibition, “hungry export”, drinking income, population well-being, alcohol consumption, consumption per capita, deposits and savings, Russian history, “semantic inflation”.

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Abstract: the article provides a detailed critique of the “new chronology” school which was presented on the “Culture” TV channel, as well as other representatives of “folk history”. The critique is based on the thesis of intellectual poverty of such pseudohistorians, as well as the factors in modern society which allow for pseudohistorical views to find a place in the modern culture and gain mass media coverage. The true goals of “folk-history” proponents is successful commercialization of historical research. It is quite obvious that their actions accelerate the forming of “diet history”, “bubblegum history” for the unthinking consumer.

Keywords: history, folk-history, chronology, middle ages, Russia, Europe, Law, Crusades, Mongol-Tatar empire, Huns.

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Abstract: the life of Vorontsov M.C., one of the most important figures in Russian history of the first half of XIX century, is a vivid example of the free mind at the enserfed society. The foundations of his worldview was formed in England, in a legal state with a developed civil society. And it is a priori created a dissonance between the reality and the inner world of Vorontsov. Repeatedly he was faced with incomprehension and condemnation of his actions at work and in private life. For an internally free man it was not easy to live in serfdom Russia in the first half of the XIX century. Autocracy as a variant of an oppressive regime in all social strata fostered a certain type of mind arising from the organizing principles of tyranny: arbitrariness and fear. Such consciousness is, in principle, is outside of the legal field and evaluate the phenomena of life based on the dichotomy of “unconditional domination / submission”. The serfdom consciousness has become an important factor in the popularity of socialist ideas in post-reform Russia on different social levels.

Keywords: history, the Vorontsovs’ family, consciousness, freedom, serfdom, monarchy, legal consciousness, emancipation, rights, socialism.

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