The author analyzes the foreign policy strategy of Germany in the late 1960 – early 1970's and the Moscow Treaty of 1970 in the context of building a modern European security system. The most important results of the paper can be concluded in five conclusions: the “new Ostpolitik” is not an independent but a secondary phenomenon of the implementation of the foreign policy strategy of the Federal Republic of Germany; this foreign policy strategy of the FRG, which existed until the reunification of the country, had led to the creation of an Eastern European outpost of Western influence; the leadership of the USSR assessed the prospects of the unification of Germany at that time as “unreachable”; the conflict-ridden environment in international relations gives more chances of success for small and medium-sized states; the hierarchy in international relations requires the large states in the regional area of the security system to consider the two levels of cooperation and the corresponding balances.

The article is devoted to the international activities of the economist and sociologist, academician A.M.Rumyantsev (1905–1993). Based on new materials from the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the various stages of his biography are highlighted: the period of a sharp career take-off in the 1950s, the time of a boom in Soviet sociology in the 1960s and his participation in this process, the academician’s fell down during the Brezhnev stagnation of the 1970s. Archival materials allowed to analyze the Rumyantsev’s point of view on the prospects for the development of Soviet-British relations and the role of science and culture in this process, his participation in the work of the European Center for the Coordination of Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, his perspective on economic reforms in Yugoslavia in the 1970s. Thus, a large-scale picture of the participation of the Soviet academician, the «intelligent Marxist», as his contemporaries called him, in transnational intellectual exchanges of the Cold War period is created.

Boris Alekseevich Evreinov is a historian, writer and publicist, known for his active social and political activities among the Russian emigration in Poland and Czechoslovakia. The historical works of B.A.Evreinov reflects evolution of social thought and scientific approaches of Russian historians-emigrants. The works of the scientist are devoted to the study of the history of the Russian peasantry, including the history of the rural community, the liberal undertakings of Alexander I, the life and work of M.A.Bakunin, and the history of Czech-Russian relations.

The article analyzes the letters, diaries and memoirs of regimental priests who participated in the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878: Bacchus Guryev, Alexander Tsitovich, John Sofronov, Alexander Lebedev, Grigory Lapshin. They reflect the direct activities of army priests, their relations with soldiers and officers, the significance of religion in the life of a Russian soldier, and the perception of Bulgarian brothers by priests. It is emphasized that the notes of the regimental priests contain many valuable observations of the events taking place, and reveal to researchers not so much the external as the internal (everyday, spiritual and moral) side of the war.

The article discusses the debatable issues of the history of the right-wing political parties of the Russian Empire. Particular attention is paid to such acute problems as nationalism and anti-Semitism of the Russian right, the Black Hundred terror, the question of the responsibility of the Black Hundreds for the Jewish pogroms. Attention is also paid to the relationship of right-wing parties and alliances with government, the program of the right, to counter the impending revolution in 1917 and the reasons for their rapid defeat. Based on the achievements of modern Russian historiography, the author shows how over the past decades, ideas about the right camp, its composition, number and place in the political history of Russia at the beginning of the 20th century have changed.

The article represents a comparative analysis of two waves of European cultural transfer to the United States in the first half of the 20th century on the example of the study of German-Jewish and Russian emigration of cinematographers. Russian and German filmmakers, who left in the 20s – 30s, are considered primarily as carriers of two national cultural traditions: the culture of the Silver Age and the Weimar culture.

The article reflects the extra-parliamentary activity of progressives from June 1907 to the outbreak of the First World War. The author focuses on the journalism of progressives, analyzes their attitude to Stolypin's reforms. She also analyzes their contribution to the development of higher education and their participation in public organizations. The article discusses the process of consolidation of progressives and ideological evolution of the “middle” current in Russian liberalism. At the same time, the author records the preservation of basic settings of the liberal centrism. The article concludes that the positions of progressives was strengthened by the start of the 4th Duma.