Historical notes

This is the eighth issue of the annual almanac, started in 1937 and resumed in 1995. Contents: Studying the frozen burial grounds from the Altai mountains/V.I. Molodin; The Treaty of 1930 between Grand Prince Vasilii Dmitrievich and Prince Vladimir of Serpukhov/V.A. Kuchkin; On the verdict of the first civil guard/V.N. Floria; Religious sectarianism in the early soviet context (October 1917 to the end of the 1930s)/ M.Iu. Krapivin, Yu.N. Makarov; Internal and international aspects of soviet industrial development during the war years: 1941-45/I.V. Bystrova; De Gaulle and Soviet-French relations: The failure of the 1960 Paris summit/A.A. Fursenko; The USSR, Sweden and collective security/O.N. Ken, A.I. Rupasov; Custom as juridical fiction: "Traditional Islam" in the contemporary Dagestan election/ V.O. Bobrobnikov, and more. Contents in English. Bibliographic references. Volumes 3 - 7 and standing order are also available.