Vol 22, No 1 (2016)

The article contains an analytical survey of the scholarly works by one of the most prominent representatives of Samara historical school, professor E.L. Dubman. The author distinguished some periods in Dubman’s creative work, he emphasizes that scholarly works by E.Dubman contribute a lot in the study of the history of the Samara Region in the 16th – 17th centuries, the history of the South-Eastern part of European Russia. The author also pays attention to the Dubman’s role in edition of the collective volumes on the history of
the Middle Volga Region, in the archival search and publishing of historical sources on the history of Samara and Middle Volga.

The article analyzes the recently published valuable source on the history of the Volga Region of the middle of the 19-th century – «Description of the Volga coast in the Samara province and the most remarkable places». The work was intended as the guide for the forthcoming travel of the chairman of Russian Geographical Society – the grand duke Konstantin Nikolaevich. However, It was a real scientific work on geography, statistics and history,
ethnography. The author was a representative of educated officials,
conducted regional researches, shared modernization moods of the era, participated in developing and carrying out Great Reforms. Voronov made an important contribution to the study of the Samara Region and was a representative of the public thought in the era of transformation of Russia.

In this article, based on a wide range of sources, many of which are introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, the electoral process is described in detail, including the preparations for the elections to the Supreme Soviet in 1937 in the Belorussian SSR, the election campaign in particular its Soviet
sense, voting and tabulation of election results. With sufficient detail a mechanism of control over the elections is presented, the high degree of its effectiveness is stated, as confirmed by the relevant statistical information. For example, these elections demonstrated the nature of the Soviet political regime: these campaigns were not designed to provide a mechanism of action
removability of authority, but were propaganda campaign reinforcing the Soviet people in the eyes of the legitimacy of the current ruling elite.

On the basis of the analysis of a wide range of historical works and archival materials the problem of theft of public property in the post-war collective farms is viewed. According to the author, in the analyzed period, the peasantry was aware of the vitality of the existing collective farm system and instead of passive resistance tactics has adopted a strategy of active adaptation. One manifestation of this strategy is the theft of collective property, as long as theft of state property rural society was not regarded as an absolute evil.

The article deals with the advantages of blended learning technology, and also with its potential for students of non-linguistic specialties in forming the communicative competence. The studies enable to emphasize a number of aspects such as multi-media based educational complexes Touchstone and Viewpoint, “cloud” technologies and the social network «ВКонтакте», which are directed to increase the resources of both contact and individual work as
well as activate communicative work.

The article examines the phenomenon of «readiness of college students – future masters of vocational training for professional communication» as an important condition for its establishment as a professional. The importance of professional communication for professional and educational activities is revealed. The author’s interpretation of definitions of «professional pedagogical communication of a master of vocational training» and «readiness
of college students – future masters of vocational training for professional communication» as well as the disclosure of their identity is given. The poor state of educational practice in the area of preparedness of college graduates to the professional communication is noted.

The model of training students for psychological and educational work with parents is developed by the authors of the article under discussion. In the article the authors consider the approaches to the issue of “students’ preparedness for professional psychological and pedagogical activity” and its components. Preparedness for psychological and educational work with parents is seen as the result of training tstudents at the university.

The article deals with a specific utterance of Russian literature, a personal confession of faith, a special metanoia of F.M. Dostoyevsky and S.N. Durylin on the material of the stories «The Peasant Marey» and «The Fourth Magus». The conclusion is made about the connection of the autochthonous and the childish in the stories: the spiritual childhood memories of the writers get
a context’s religious perspective, these revelations are filled with the additional – the higher – meanings in the line of the popular Christian tradition and raised to the level of the ontological value, the immutable spiritual heritage of a human and a nation, the hidden God’s intention of the world. The peasants of F.M. Dostoevsky and S.N. Durylin become carriers of the selfless service and exponents of eucharistic pochvennichestvo: their vocation is to cultivate, prepare the Russian people for the sacrament of the
Christ’s kingdom.

The novels Faserland by K. Kracht and Духless by S. Minaev artistically capture the consciousness of the second lost generation, fully formed in the postmodern situation. Postmodern chaos sets a specific style of life, a special perception of the world and a new personal perspective. Confessional form allows the heroes to collect their signs of their presence/reflection in this world. The characteristic features of the second lost generation –conformism, cynicism and unreadiness to sympathize to the near are a defensive reaction to the inconsistency, lack of personality cores and impossibility of the choice of an active life position.

The phenomenon of the border on the basis of I. Bachmann’s prose is considered in this article. The potential of the motive of the border to generate senses and plot is researched by means of selecting and analyzing its semantic variations. The motive of the border is used by the author to develop such existential significant aspects as “me” and “the other”, language and consciousness, word and sense.

This article is devoted to the influence of Eugene Sues’ works on Dostoyevsky’s novel “Humiliated and Insulted”. The author of the article explicates some ideas about the connections between the characters of Sue’s “The Mysteries of Paris” and “Humiliated and Insulted”, that were proposed by L.P. Grossman. Also, the researcher writes about the narrative analogies between these novels, which proves the connections between Dostoyevsky’s works and the tradition of the roman-feuilleton.

The article discusses the «ontological shift,» which is reflected in the rhythmic pattern of Russian classics in comparison with Old canon, speaks of how changed the value system of heroes – changed from ontological into metaphysical one. Particular attention is drawn to the trial, on advanced philosophical and ethical possibilities of heroes. In general, the model of «take out» of a person from the world, which is in search of a new heaven and new earth, that valuable space, from where would begin the space of an absolute Good is described.

In the article the analysis of the system of ideas and motives of the essay by Venedikt Erofeev “Vasily Rozanov by the eyes of an eccentric” («Prose for the journal “Veche”») which is based on the search by the author and the hero of the center (“core”) in the world, negated by the God is carried out.

This article is aimed at describing the peculiarities of ironic utterances of male and female English drama personages. The proximity of drama language to real speech provides a platform for cognitive analysis of the English-speaking personages’ speech acts in terms of their gender characteristics. The aim of the article is to identify and compare the strategic aspects of ironic utterances in the communicative space of male and female characters in modern
British, American, Canadian and Australian drama discourses.

In the article the understanding of discursive meaning as the product of functional and semantic synthesis defining the process of birth of meaning as a conceptual system which is formed in the process of language operations, realizing artist’s intention is suggested. The ability of linguistic units and categories to perform simultaneously a variety of functions creates in the discursive process the effect of «syncretism of forms», to the description of which the given research is devoted.

The article deals with the problem of translation strategy defining. The approaches of both Russian and foreign specialists in translation connected with this question are analyzed. The attempt to reason the effectiveness of the communicative-functional approach usage towards the understanding of the translation strategy is made in order to work out a logical and full definition of the analyzed phenomenon.

This article attempts to analyze Aghul phraseological synonyms. One needs first to define phraseological synonyms, their types and specific features, which characterize phraseological synonyms in comparison with lexical ones.

Mini-format texts are considered within the Internet context of school administration welcoming speeches. In view of some specific features administration welcoming speeches can be referred to advertising; however they are also characterized by some educational discourse markers. The combination of both peculiarities, provide the increasing interest to the detailed research of miniformat texts.

The article deals with the emergence of writing in the East Slavs. It offers an analysis of the basic scientific concepts of the Soviet era of the early East Slavic written language and dependence on them of some modern myths on this topic.

In the review the analysis of the contents and the structure of the book, its scientific value is given. The book is characterized by novelty, detailed historiographic analysis, interesting approach to the agrarian history of the XX century. The author considers it possible and necessary to continue researches in the given area adding it with the material about agrarians of the Tatarstan and historical scientific school of Kazan University.