CONTENTS

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Sharafutdinov D. R., Islamov D. R. Russian Federation and European Union: dialogue in regional policy on the example of the Western Balkans (2014–2018)

ARMY, GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY

Komarov A. V., Komarov V. P., Martyukova V. M.   Japan's  economic  development  in  the  early XX century: militarization and the formation of imperialism

Moiseev A. N., Moiseeva T. A. Military commissariats as an independent body of local military administration: formation in the interwar period (on the materials of the Middle Volga)

OBJECTIVE HISTORY

Voytikov S. S.  Small  Presidium  of  the  All-Russian  Central   Executive   Committee. A narrow leadership group at the center of the Soviet «democracy»

Averyanov A. V. Development of school education in the national environment in the Don and the North Caucasus during the NEP

HISTORY OF THE GREAT VICTORY

Skorobogatov S. B. Аctions of attack aircraft in operation on liberation of the Сrimea (1944) on the example of the 214th assault aviation division

Vycherov D. A. Military training of schoolchildren in the late 1930s – 1945 (based on materials from Tyumen)

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION 

Manaev A. Yu. «We will revive you, beloved Stalingrad!»: forming the image of Stalingrad battle in historical memory (1940s – 1950s)

MILITARY EDUCATION 

Belyaev R. V., Karlova E. N. Cadet education in the officer training system of the Air Force Academy: history and modernity

ART: HISTORY AND MODERNITY

Metelkin E. N., Sokhor T. E. Suvorov theme in philately

HISTORY IN FACES 

Sazonov D. I. His Holiness Patriarch Pimen during the administration of the Kostroma diocese in 1959-1961

WORKS OF YOUNG SCIENTISTS 

Ryazantseva Yu. A. Organization and activities sponsorship of concerts and performances during the Siege of Leningrad, 1941–1944