House ownership and land use of «meshchanie» on the territory of Belarus (1860s – beginning of XX century)

On the basis of legislative and office administration sources peculiarities of meshchanie house ownership and use of land on the territory of Belarusian-Lithuanian provinces from 1860s until the beginning of the XX centu...

Liberal political parties and organizations in the territory of Belarus in 1905 – February 1917: structure and number

The article reveals the structure of the liberal camp in the territory of Belarus at the beginning of the ХХ century. The author shows the structure and characterizes the social, national-confessional and numeral composi...

The national movement in the Komi region in the years of the First World War

The article describes the main features of the national movement in the Komi region in the years of the First World War. We investigated the socio-political situation in the Komi regionon the eve of the First World War....

Joint international scientific conference in Vitebsk and Pskov «The great Russian revolution of 1917 in the history and destinies of the peoples and regions of Russia, Belarus, Europe and the world in the context of historical realities of XX – beginning

The Stalin Era: some characteristics of the formation of the GULAG

The article examines the ideology and economics of forced labour in the Soviet Gulag (the Main Directorate of Camps and Places of Detention, then the Main Directorate of Forced Labour Camps). The formation of Gulag struc...