M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (14)

(__Social and economic history since the 16th century)

1. Keywords: agrarian policy, Soviet State, Ukraine, agriculture, history.
R&D: The agrarian policy of the Soviet state during 1970-1985 and agriculture development in Ukraine. Development of the agrarian sector of the region economy over a long period of time, the new estimation of the Soviet State agrarian policy, results of its realization in 70th - the first half of 80th years is offered..

2. Keywords: newspaper-journal concerns, German press.
R&D: Newspaper-journal concern "Gruner und Jahr": creation history, the structure and functioning principles under conditions of social market relations (1965-1995). Purpose: study of the history and development, methods and administration mechanisms, ways and principles of commercialization of German newspaper-journal concern "Gruner und Jahr", its place in the newspaper-journal market of Germany, classification and typological features of produced printed production..

3. Keywords: state policy, sharing, NEP (New Economic Policy).
R&D: State policy of sharing during NEP (New Economic Policy) period. The main features of Soviet legislation of NEP period are analyzed as having reflected the state policy in the field of sharing..

4. Keywords: state policy, youth unions, Russia, students, social security, market economy.
R&D: Activity of the state bodies and youth unions of Russia in the field of social security of students in the conditions of transfer to a market economy (late 1980s - 1990s). For the first time a comprehensive analysis of the fundamental trends of the state policy concerning students was done, a complete classification of the forms and methods of work of the state and public organizations of Russia was given..

5. Keywords: foreign historiography, economic policy, USSR.
R&D: Modern foreign historiography of the economic policy of USSR in 1946-1985. Special attention is given to foreign interpretations of measures on the improvement of Soviet economic mechanism undertaken by Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Andropov, and Chernenko, and also to Western estimations of Soviet regional economic policy..

6. Keywords: logic, historical study, artistic thinking, rational thinking.
R&D: Actual problems of historical study logic. The regularities of the historical study method in its interrelation with a logical way in actual cognitive situations are studied: study of capitalist economy creation, Soviet society formation, creation of the bourgeois society. It is offered to consider artistic thinking as the special type of historical studies that promotes overcoming of rationalism and irrationalism narrowness..

7. Keywords: authority image, Rudolf Fuldsky, narrative texts, medieval writers.
R&D: Rudolf Fuldsky's ideas about authority in the context of political and cultural reality of the middle of IXth century. The conceptual and terminological apparatus adequate as to the thinking schemes of the medieval Latin writers, and to achievements of the modern historical science, sociology and literary criticism is developed..

8. Keywords: communal structures, China, Korea, Uzbekistan.
R&D: Communities in Asia (typological characteristics of the communal structures of the Chinese Peoples' Republic, Republic of Korea and Republic of Uzbekistan). It was shown, that the communities in the Asian countries continue to hold noticeable, but unequal positions in the social hierarchy. The Huatsiao community has been transformed to the greatest degree, having turned into an organizational and financial structure..

9. Keywords: landowners, serf peasants, Russia, law relations, history.
R&D: The landowners and serf peasants in Russia in the second half of the 18th century (on the materials of Complete Set of the laws of the Russian Empire. 1762-1785). Purpose: to clarify how the law relations of the landowners and the serf peasants changed with changing of the position of the latter. The question about the role of policy of absolutism in relation to the two estates of that time..

10. Keywords: Russian historiography, landowner economy, nobiliary landownership.
R&D: Domestic historiography of Russian landowner economy (60th years of XIXth century - 1917). The specific features of three directions of pre-revolutionary historiography of landowner economy are determined: conservative, liberal, revolutionary-radical. Evolution of the historiographic approaches to landowner economy study is shown..

11. Keywords: Russian factories, capitalist industrialization, agricultural factories.
R&D: Russian factory at the stage of capitalist industrialization (sources and methods of studies). Business materials of farmers' agricultural factories and distributing offices. Social-psychological approaches to the economic history..

12. Keywords: Socio-economic history, European countries, American countries, state role, social processes regulation, economic processes regulation.
R&D: Socio-economic history of European and American countries. Regularities and specific features of social and economic processes development in European and American countries; the role of state in the processes regulation; study of modern integration trends..

13. Keywords: social order, social policy, Weimar republic, Germany, history.
R&D: The social order and state social policy of the Weimar republic (institutional problems of state, labor and capital relations). Purpose: revelation of main features of the social order in Germany, due to which one it was adapted to functioning under the different economic conditions. Main features peculiar to the Weimar social order: eight-hour working day, complete tariff autonomy, labor and business freedom..

14. Keywords: economic processes, social processes, Russia, feudalism, capitalism, peasant economy, landowner's economy.
R&D: Economic and social processes in Russia. Peasant and landowner's economy of feudal and capitalistic periods of Russian history; estate-and-class structure of population; economic policy..