Publications
The purpose of this study is to analyze an internal labor migration in 1945-1953 (till the Stalin’s death) in USSR. The research is conducted based on Molotov Oblast (modern Perm Krai) archive data related to the period. The migration in the region was conditioned by evacuation of large metallurgic, mechanical engineering, timber production facilities away from front line over 1941-1945. In addition to State Archive of the Perm Krai records the relevant files of Perm State Archives of Social and Political History were analyzed.
The main migration patterns are described in the article in an attempt to identify key factors for return migration. As a result of analysis of an extensive data array (mostly presented by the letters, acts and statements of All-Union Communist Party Bolsheviks and Communist Party of the Soviet Union), it is shown that the unsuitable living conditions and social difficulties faced in host region served as a root cause of return movement. The research introduces new unpublished archive documents that clarify overall character of the internal labor migration in USSR after the end of WWII.
The article analyzes the documents deposited in the State Archives of the Perm Krai in order to reveal their information potential, determine the completeness, representativeness, reliability and possibilities of use in the study of migration processes in the region and the country as a whole.
Referring to Perm Zemstvo, this article considers the role of out-of-school activities of Zemstvo establishments in overcoming relapses into illiteracy, i.e. the loss of literacy skills and the return of the state of illiteracy. The Zemstvo leaders themselves, who were closely connected with the organisation of public education, were among the first to pay attention to this problem. The article highlights two main areas of activity of the Zemstvo in this field based on the analysis of materials of the Zemstvo records management such as journals of the Perm Provincial Zemstvo Assembly, reports, and periodicals. The two areas are the organisation of activities to improve literacy and the creation of an infrastructure to fight and prevent illiteracy. The activities of Perm Zemstvo in this area were aimed at organising Sunday, revision, and other types of schools and classes, libraries, and public readings. It was Sunday and revision and extracurricular classes and other activities that helped to maintain and improve the existing literacy rate, as well as prevent the recurrence of illiteracy. The infrastructure consisted of organisational measures proper and forms of Zemstvo’s activity in adult education, institutions, specialists that were only being formed in the early twentieth century, i.e. “adult education specialists” (Rus. vneshkolniki) that were seen as necessary, and material objects. The study shows that, despite the low results in some areas, the activities of the Zemstvo to prevent and overcome relapses of illiteracy in general were a definite step aimed at solving important sociocultural problems and were essential for the development of extracurricular education in this historical period.
This essay discusses the stage-by-stage process of the formation of the Department of Humanities at the Perm campus of HSE University. The authors pay main attention to two priority areas of work, these are theoretical and applied problems of digital humanitarian research, economic and social anthropology of Soviet society.
The article analyzes the educational and methodological foundations of teaching in the zemstvo schools of the Perm province in the second half of the XIX century. According to Regulations on the provincial and district zemstvo institutions, zemstvos could not influence the pedagogical side of education. Individual attempts of zemstvos to influence the internal, educational, side were suppressed, zemstvo decisions and resolutions were suspended or canceled as not included in the circle of affairs entrusted to them. However, the Perm Zemstvo, through the involvement of teachers in teaching “optional” subjects in zemstvo schools, allocations for the purchase of textbooks, manuals, visual and other educational materials, the introduction of teaching methods and technologies by Zemstvo teachers, largely contributed to changing the educational process in the region, raising the general cultural level of the population, developing creative abilities and improving its way of life.
Public and digital history in Russia is developing rather separately and in parallel to each other, these academic communities practically do not overlap. At the same time, a huge number of digital public history resources are being created. In the article, we consider some Russian features of public history in the context of digital turn, the actors of interaction between public and digital history, projects, as well as educational practices.
The paper presents ananalysis of the agitation and propaganda discourses on the materials of newspapers pub-lished in the Perm province in confrontation between the “reds” and “whites” during the years of the Civil War. The authors analyze the general theoretical and applied problemsarising in theapplication ofthe methods of the analysis of discourses and discourse practices at the interdisciplinary level, and consider the categorical apparatus, characteris-tics, classification,and typology of discourses proposed in various studies. The ideasof MichelFoucault and other representatives of the French school, the critical discourse research by TeunVan Dyck and other foreign schools of the discourse studies, and the ideas of Russian researchers E. Kozhevnikov, E. Pereverzev, V. I. Karasik, T.I. Kras-nova, etc., are analyzed in the paper. The authors drawattention to the theoretical provisions that characterize the political discourse in the agitation and propaganda spheres, its classifications,and types. Theypropose atypology of discourses in the agitation and propaganda confrontation between “reds” and “whites” during the Civil War,based on the criterion of thematic distribution of newspaper publications in the Perm provincial newspapers. There are fourmain types of discourses:in political, military,economic and social areas. The paperpresentsthe examples and de-scriptions of discourse structures of each type and the results of their comparative analysis. Theauthors formulate the thesisabout the role and significance of the types of discourses for the study of propaganda discourses and discursive practices of “reds” and “whites” in periodicals and the results of information confrontation between the parties during the Civil War in Russia.
Historical, or history-oriented, information systems are a significant element of the information environment in the humanities. Its allocation is associated with the development of historical informatics and a history-oriented approach, the formation of an information environment, as well as the practice of creating historical resources.
The book contains the results of a study of theoretical and applied problems of the creation and implementation of history-oriented information systems. This is the first comprehensive study on this topic. Some problems in the book are considered for the first time, others were not specially studied although they were previously reflected in the literature.
The publication is addressed to historians, specialists in the field of digital history and digital humanities, as well as developers of digital resources containing historical content or focused on use in historical research and education.
The article provides an analysis of the state, demands and problems of the private sector of educational robotics in Russia, and offers tools for market development. The study was conducted in May-October 2021 based on in-depth interviews with owners and leaders of robotics clubs, as well as discussions of intermediate results in the expert community. This work is the first attempt to study the Russian educational robotics market in a recession after the previous rapid growth, including the backdrop of COVID-19 constraints.
The article examines the international and Russian experience in teaching and learning digital humanities. Existing formats such as online courses, university courses, minors and programs, summer schools are identified and analyzed, examples are given. The structures that lead educational activities are described. In addition, the article proposes a methodology for constructing a Russian-language course and teaching digital humanities, describes the concept of the "Learning Digital Humanities" platform and the first experience of its use.
The texts I have revised testify the line developed from the more “naïve” and ontologizing discourse of Ps.-Macarius to the discourse where the unity is spoken of as a phenomenon revealed for intellectual abilities, which suggests an indication of unity in a certain respect and preserves from interpreting this unity as a merge of unified natures. For the latter we can distinguish the strategy of cognition / recognition, which Maximus the Confessor and Symeon the New Theologian adhered to. According to this strategy, by the properties displayed by incandescent iron, we can discern the nature of fire revealed in iron, and, in the same way, we can conclude that human is god (of small letter) on the basis of that he manifests himself as God, that is, exposes the divine features.
I show that Gregory of Nyssa used significant points from a passage of Porphyry’s Isagoge while developing his doctrine of the general and the particular.
The article analyzes some key moments in the history of temporal logics in late antiquity (conception of integral time, relationship between temporal and eternal, extended and instant in the systems of Iamblichus, Proclus, Damascius and Simplicius), and genesis of Christian forms of temporal logics, which transform the everlasting homogenous time of κόσμος into history of universal salvation, alterate unextended νῦν, moment of psycho-physical time of late Neoplatonists, with καιρός, eschatologically charged instant of decision and act that can interrupt the continuity of time and to achieve instantaneously the end, τέλος of history.
In this article I seek to show in what manner the Stoic principle of total blending, illustrated by the example of the penetration of fire into iron, finds its refraction in Byzantine Christological teachings. According to the Stoics, total blending occurs when one body accepts certain qualities of the other, while remaining itself, or when both mixed bodies acquire qualities of each other while preserving their natures. I argue that Origen’s use of the example of incandescent iron had an effect on the later theological discourse. There it appears in two contexts, Christology and deification. In this article the focus is on Christology. I claim that the example was introduced into the Christological discourse by Apollinarius of Laodicea. Then, I investigate how it was transformed in later theological writings by (Ps.-) Basil of Caesarea, Theodoret of Cyrus, Cyril of Alexandria, Sever of Antioch, John of Damascus, and the Corpus Leontianum. In this context, I pay special attention to the discrepancy between John of Damascus and Leontius of Jerusalem as regards the issue of the complexity of Christ’s hypostasis. I clarify the causes of this discrepancy.