Journal’s content № 3 2020

Actual theme: Working with a map in history lessons

O.V. Ivanov, A.A. Morozov. Problems of students cartographic skills development in history lessons.
The article discusses some methods of students’ cognitive activity organization with the use of maps in history lessons. The authors propose a systematic approach to the development of students’ cartographic skills, as well as present educational tools which can be used during the lessons with the fifth year students in secondary school: historical maps, a system of questions and associated tasks.
Keywords: standards and programs, historical education, cognitive skills, cartographic skills, learning outcomes requirements.

O.T. Koveshnikova. Contour map as a means of forming knowledge and skills of students in teaching history.
The article is devoted to the problem of using the contour map as a means of forming knowledge and skills of students in teaching history. The article proposes different types of tasks for working with a contour map.
Keywords: learning history, contour map, mapping skills of students.

History and Society

G.G. Pikov. Can we talk about a «nomadic civilization»?
In article the analysis of concepts «a nomadic civilisation» and «nomadic empire» and a number of signs of a nomadic civilization is presented. The author is offered attempt to define it’s place not only in ethnopolitical but also a cultural history of Eurasia.
Key words: civilization, empire, «a nomadic civilisation», «nomadic empire», a paradigm.

А.P. Volkov, V.V. Popov, H.I. Dupate. The historiographical aspects of history of activities of soviet law enforcement agencies against german special services and latvian nationalists in Soviet Latvia during the years of 1940–1945.
The article presents a comparative review of historical research, including monographs, dissertations, articles, historical studies, reviews of publications of documents on the history of the Soviet law enforcement agencies in Soviet Latvia during the years of 1940–1945.
Key words: historical research, historiographical aspects of history of Latvia, the USSR, modern historiography, Nazi occupation, Holocaust, German special services.

I.Yu. Zaya. The revision of Comte’s theoretical heritage from the perspective of contemporary historical science.
The article is devoted to the theoretical heritage of the French philosopher O. Comte, the founder of positivism. The author tries to clarify how Comte’s methodology can be useful for historical research?
Key words: Enlightenment, positivis, sociology, the evolutionist paradigm, progress, historical imagination. Supreme being, Law of three stages of O. Comte.

M.A. Bychkov. Ireland 1916 — 1939: in search of development paths.
The article comprehensively analyzes the historical development of Ireland from 1916 to 1939. For the first time, the role of state-church relations in Irish domestic and foreign policy is taken into account.
Key words: Contemporary history, Eamon De Valera, Ireland, Fianna Fail.

Methodic

A.N. Bitkina. The development of communicative skills of high school students in the process of working with sources of personal origin in the lessons of Russian history.
Taking into consideration the results of students’ performance of a set of tasks, the paper refers to the methodological ways of improving cognitive activity in the study of sources of private origin. Based on the experience of organizing in-class activity with these texts in grades IX-XI, the paper shows the potential for the development of high school student’s communicative skills as well as proposes specific tasks on topics that reveal challenging questions in the course of Russian history.
Key words: history school education, historical sources, personal sources, communicative skills.

V.I. Varyushchenko, O.V. Gajkova. Oprichnina of Tsar Ivan the Terrible: lesson-discussion.
This material is offered for use in educational process in general education in the study of the period of Ivan the Terrible in Russian History course by relying on the problematic method of teaching and the use of system-activity approach. This is due to a combination of informational, methodical and didactic material.
Keywords: the boyars, the land, the dictators, the zemshchina, the oprichnina.

S.A. Bezlyudnaya. «Moscow front-line»: methodical development of a lesson (X class).
History lesson in X class devoted to the difficult period for Moscow — the war period and the state of siege in the fall of 1941.
Key words: USSR, Moscow, Great Patriotic War.

Young scientists’ works

V.A. Koshelkov. The content of the concept of «cultural space» in the school history course.
The article discusses the content of the concept of «cultural space» in a new line of school textbooks on the history of Russia from the publishing house «Prosveshchenie» edited by A.V. Torkunov on the example of textbooks for grades VI, VIII and IX.
Key words: linear system, linear structure, history of Russia, cultural space, cultural subspace, social institution.

F.B. Bakhadirov. Tatar community of Lithuania, history and current status.
The article is devoted to a brief overview of the history of Tatars in Lithuania, as well as the modern activities of Tatars in the framework of public organizations. The author shows the important historical milestones in the appearance of the Tatars in the territory of Lithuania, as well as the important moments of the community’s activity in the modern historical period.
Key words: tatars of Lithuania, western tatars, kitabi, bisermen.

A.M. Danilova. Housing construction in the USSR of 1955-1969 as one of the priorities of state policy.
The article provides an analytical review of the directions of housing policy of the USSR from 1955 to 1969. A brief history of the housing problem in the USSR is described. The relevance of this problem, significantly increased in the postwar period, is shown. The main features and characteristics of housing policy in the specified chronological period are presented.
Key words: housing construction strategy, large-panel housing construction, construction industry, developed socialism, social policy of the former USSR, subjectivity N.S. Khrushchev.

O.Yu. Kamenskaya. Prospects for studying the history of geology in Russia in the course of the basic general school.
The article is devoted to the study of the prospects for introducing the fundamentals of geological knowledge into the school curriculum for subjects of the humanities and natural sciences.
Key words: history of geology, environmental literacy, an interdisciplinary approach.