Saratov State University named after N.G. Chernyshevsky (2)

(__Social and economic history since the 16th century)

1. Keywords: political history, social-economic history, Lower Volga region.
R&D: Problems of the political and social-economic history of the Soviet society. The established stereotypes in treatment of the events of 1917 - 1918 in the Lower Volga region were reconsidered; the political and organizational activity of the Lower Volga socialist-revolutionary organizations in 1917 - 1918 was analyzed for the first time..

2. Keywords: social-economic history, medieval cities, Renaissance humanism, culture of revival, Petrarca, artists.
R&D: Medieval city: culture of Renaissance and ideology the Renaissance humanism. Object of research: social -economic history of Prague of the 10th - 13th centuries; of Cremona of the 13th century; of London of the 14th -16th centuries; ideas of the Renaissance humanism in the creative works of Petrarca and artists of the 14th -16th centuries. A considerable political and social role of the Cremona nobility was defined. An analysis of the ideological side of the creativity works of more than 20 artists of Renaissance Italy was done..