The epoch between 1918 and 1922 was one of the most catastrophic periods in Russian and World history of the twentieth century. The revolutionary events in Russia and the fierce civil strife that followed, radically changed the traditional public life, actualized methods of coercion and violence in pursuit of political aims and paved the way for the strengthening of repressive methods in state policy in the later period. It is quite predictable that in the centenary year of the end of the Civil War the need for research comprehension of its causes, conditions and escalation, completion and results became more acute.

The frontier position of the Far East and interventions in the Civil War on its territory from various countries inevitably bring up to date the scientific reflection of the topic based on the regional approach as it was on the territory of Transbaikalia and the Far East that the final events and battles of the Civil War took place, which results determined the further fate of Soviet Russia.

The following issues are offered for consideration:

1. Escalation of the Russian Civil War to the Far East. Organization of state power, activities of political parties and public organizations.
2. The social and economic life of Transbaikalia and the Far East during the Civil War. The social and economic situation of the population. Everyday life and culture of the region during the Civil War and intervention.
3. The policy of the Entente countries and foreign military intervention. Objectives, plans and methods of “pacification” of the civil population.
4. The Far Eastern Republic and its role in the fight against foreign intervention. Significance of the guerrilla movement in completing the Civil War.
5. The international situation in the Far East and Asia Pacific countries at the final stage of the Civil War. Significance of its outcome for international relations.

Paper submission deadline is May 15, 2022 (GMT+10).

The papers should be submitted via the electronic form on the journal’s website http://riatr.ru/send-article.html. In addition, please send papers to Lyudmila Ivanovna Galliamova, who is responsible for this section, to email hidden; JavaScript is required and to email hidden; JavaScript is required.

The template of the journal paper is available on the website http://riatr.ru. If you have any questions, please contact email hidden; JavaScript is required with the subject line “Journal, the end of the Civil War”.

The Conference is intended to discuss the scientific heritage of the famous scholar in following fields: anthropology and archaeology of the Russian Far East, history and geography, folklore and linguistics. In addition, it will touch upon modern research in areas, topics and regions directly or nearby connected with the work and life of V.K. Arsenyev.

The Conference is planned to be held in a mixed format (face-to-face and online via zoom platform) in following directions:

1. Ethnology and anthropology of the Far East

2. Physical geography, nature management and socio-economic development of Pacific Russia

3. Archaeology of the Far East

4. History of the Far East

5. Folklore and linguistics

6. Museology

The organizing committee urges you to strictly adhere to the indicated directions. Due to the submission of the conference grant application, we ask you to send a personal application indicating the topic of your report no later than December 01, 2021 to the e-mail address email hidden; JavaScript is required

Information letter

It was the 3rd Orientalist Scientific Conference opening the major session of the Forum: the first two sessions focused on relations between Russia and Japan and between Russia and China. This time Russian Historical Society was its lead organizer. The Conference was attended by Russian researchers from Vladivostok, Izhevsk, Irkutsk, Kazan, Moscow, St Petersburg and by a large high-level delegation from Mongolian Academy of Sciences headed by vice-president of the MAS, academician Chuluunbaatar Gelegpil.

During the break, the exhibition “Russia – Mongolia: the Century of Good-neighborliness and Cooperation. The 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations” was opened. And there were presentations of important publications: the guide “Bibliography of the Mongolian Revolution of 1921″, prepared by L. V. Kuras (Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Mongolian Studies, Buddhology and Tibetology of the SB RAS) and N. Hishigt (Professor Institute of History and Ethnology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences)and books of the Palladium Charitable Foundation dedicated to Palladium Kafarov – one of the founders of Russian sinology and Mongolian studies.

Then the work was continued in three sections: “Russian-Mongolian relations: historical aspects”, “Russian-Mongolian relations: Cultural and humanitarian aspects”, “Russian-Mongolian relations: political, military, trade and economic aspects”.

This Conference actually became the first major international forum after a long Covid break. It not only demonstrated the importance of the issues, but also showed the critical importance of live direct communication between scientists.

The posture brought to understanding that term security may be interpreted as governmental efforts to push system to a track which the government decided as an optimal and safety one for the state. This problem is researched on examples of Barack Obama’s and Donald Trump’s presidencies. In chapter 1 “Methodological problems of security modeling” different discipline’s basic approaches to social phenomena modeling are analyzed. The result let to interpret security modeling as a trans-disciplinary problem which is possible to solve in a manner of borrowing and mutual adaptation of history, philosophy, political science, mathematics, physics and cybernetics several provisions. In chapter 2 “Elaboration of a new security provision model” it let to view United States as a system consists of 16 subsystems which interact mutually in accordance with laws suggested by the system independently and used by the system to involve people in its activities. Such understanding made the view at the phenomenon as objective as possible. To reach the purpose indirect coding language had been developed. It let to translate strategies’ priorities into numbers and symbols codes which take into consideration non-mathematical and non-physical nature of society and follow its existence peculiarities. This language and results of global modeling provided in 1980ths made possible to create a frame of the model and supplement it by algorithm for practical use. Chapter 3 “United States security provision: outlines of interpretations’ system” opens practical part of the research. Here investigation brought to invention of three self-generated control mechanisms which let US system to be both stable and innovative one. Also, phenomenon of methacontrol had been isolated. System generated it to control lower levels control mechanisms. Chapter 4 “Structure and transformations of priorities” is devoted to more complicated control mechanisms derived from the structure of strategies and priorities adopted by a government. The ones bring any subsystem to its place suggested by executive power vision and establish interconnections among subsystems. Most of the control mechanisms are grouped into complexes. Also, phenomenon of relation as a control one is isolated. Possibility of a control mechanism to connect different levels (metha)control mechanisms and to control them is called relation. In chapter 5 “Specifics of U.S. dynamics and bifurcation mechanisms” U.S. historical dynamical time of late 20th – early 21st centuries general posture is drawn. It is understood as a combination of cyclical, directed and irregular temporal processes. The character of dynamics, mutual interaction and context of political parties’ roles establish six bifurcation mechanisms which are understood as ones of further vector of development choosing by the system, but the frame of the alternatives doesn’t mean the system break or collapse. On the contrary, the mechanisms let United States to remain a system with highly adaptive potential. Chapter 6 “Non-Identified priorities: its place and role in system of interpretations” is devoted to non-identified priorities which are difficult to mark with any subsystem code because of too general definition, its geographical character and content of other related documents. Such priorities establish additional interconnections among strategies, stress importance of any subsystem, serve for political continuity from one president to another. This investigation let to reconstruct networks of U.S. security interpretations and related interagency interaction for Barack Obama’s and Donald Trump’s terms in chapter 7 “Networks of structural ties and interagency interaction”. It let to isolate that common understanding of security had been divided into three clusters (economic, military and civil-humanitarian) for period of 2009–2016. So, trade, military, civil and humanitarian fields had been the pillars of B. Obama’s overall security strategy of the United States. In 2015–2016 under influence of the military overall US strategy disintegrated and 44th president didn’t manage to establish a new one in the same manner. Unlike his predecessor D. Trump built integrated system of US security interpretations and set technology development as its core. In chapter 8 “United States security provision: interpretations and interactions system in temporal context” Barack Obama’s and Donald Trump’s policies are presented as peculiar phenomena of a common field. Also, structure of strategies adopted in 2014–2015 let to isolate that B. Obama’s policy in last two years of his presidential term contributed to D. Trump’s victory. Their presidential terms had been connected by temporal historical processes, and by factors of US civilization. Chapter 9 “Indirect coding: sense of experiment and language application prospects” is devoted to the model practical application in field of political analysis and international relations, its new potential interdisciplinary ties are suggested. Also, it includes some indirect coding language improvements for several practical purposes related to fields of regional studies, regional development, domestic and foreign policy, international relations. The monograph is supplemented by new terms glossary, tables, pictures and coding map.

Overview

Boldyrev, Vitalii E.

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Conveners:

• German Historical Institute Moscow
• Russian Academy of Sciences, Far-Eastern Branch
• Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (Chair of Russian/ Asian Studies)
• Indiana University
• International Laboratory ‘Russia’s Regions in Historical Perspective’, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Date: 28-31 March 2021      Online (Zoom)

Throughout its history the Russian Far East has had many faces. It was a springboard to the Pacific for the Tsarist empire, a global hub to-be, a magnet for migrants and a sealed-off, militarized borderland. This conference seeks to explore the region’s connection in the Asia-Pacific region, its functions and the diverse identities of its inhabitants and neighbours. To what extent – and from when on – has it been possible to speak of a Russian Far Eastern identity and/or society? What have been its defining traits and sub-forms? To what extent has it been influenced by settlers of various nationalities and to what extent by the regions´ various Pacific neighbour states – through trade, investment, labour migration, scientific and environmental cooperation, transfer of goods and ideas? How have regional identities been shaped by developments in the political centres in St. Petersburg and Moscow?

Programme Conference 28-31 March (preliminary)

Bachelors, undergraduates, graduate students, young scientists and specialists from Korea, China, as well as from Khabarovsk, Yakutsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and Vladivostok took part in the Conference. It’s an important scientific event not only for the participants presenting their research results, but also for the organizers improving their professional skills.

The most reports were devoted to the consideration of the role and place of the Far East in global and local historical trends, complex problems in the history of the development of the region’, political, socio-economic and cultural processes.

The conference lasted for 2 days. There were 5 speakers for the plenary session and 10 reports were presented at the first section “Archeology, Ethnography and Culture of the Peoples of the Far East” on the first day. On the second day, the work covered two sections “The Far East in the system of international relations of the APR countries” (7 reports) and “History of the Russian Far East” (9 reports).

This year the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnology FEB RAS also submitted books for the competition. And four of them have been received prizes.

• “Ethnoatlas of Primorsky Krai” was awarded a Silver medal as “The Best Local History Edition” in the nomination “Dictionaries, Reference Books, Guidebooks”
• The collective monograph “History and Culture of the Tazy People: Historical and Ethnographic Essays (from the second half of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st centuries)”  was awarded a diploma as “The Best Scientific Book” in the nomination “Monographs”
• “Towns of the Medieval Empires in the Far East”  received a Silver medal as “The Best Scientific Book” in the nomination “Monographs”
• The fundamental monograph “History of the Russian Far East. Vol. 3. Book 3. The Far East of the USSR: 1941-1945”   won a Gold medal as “The Best Scientific Book” in the nomination “Monographs”.

• The Nomadic World
• The Xiongnu
• The Era of the Turkic Khaganate
• The Khitans
• The Jurchen
• Genghis Khan and the Mongol Globalization

The Conference taken place in Yuzhno‐Sakhalinsk city as well as in Korsakovsky, Tymovsky and Aleksandrovsk‐Sakhalinsky districts of the Sakhalin region.

The Conference is founded by the Sakhalin Region Government. Organized by the Ministry of Culture and Archival Affairs of the Sakhalin Region. Coordinated by the SBIC (State Budgetary Institution of Culture) Literary and Art Museum of A.P. Chekhov’s book «Sakhalin Island».

The purpose of the Conference is to study the essential issues posed by A.P. Chekhov in his book «Sakhalin Island».