История России. Справочное пособие

This manual contains material on Russian history of the 10th-20th centuries. systematized into sections: “Statehood”, “Foreign Policy”, “History of the 20th Century”, “Chronology of the History of Russia” and supplemented with a dictionary of terms. The first section contains information about the basics of the state organization of Russia in the pre-revolutionary period. Particular emphasis is placed on foreign policy and the history of diplomacy, information about which is combined in the second section. The third section contains information rarely found in popular and educational literature: about the structure of the internal affairs bodies (1925-1954), about the People's Commissars and Ministers of the Interior (until 1960), about the facts of resistance to the Bolshevik rule (1917-1991).

Contents

Main abbreviations

Statehood

Legislation on the imperial family

Regalia and symbols of state power

Government bodies

Old service ranks and titles

Table of ranks

Nobility: titles and privileges

Grand dukes, kings and emperors

Ministers

Chronology of legal events

Foreign policy

Foreign policy of Kievan Rus

Foreign policy of the Moscow state

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Empire

Foreign policy departments of the Soviet state

Heads of foreign policy departments under various Russian governments (XVI-XX centuries)

Names of Russian diplomatic positions and ranks

Russian diplomats

History of the 20th century

Highest officials of the Soviet state and the Communist Party

Punitive bodies of the Soviet state

State and public figures of the 20th century

Chronology of Russian resistance

Chronology of Russian history

Glossary of terms

Main sources