Series 2
HISTORY

Issue 2, 2016

Contents Pages
HISTORY OF RUSSIA
1 Swedish «neutrality» in the Second World War
Malysheva Е. М.
4-17
2 The USSR and Finland: more on the circumstances and timing of the decision to start the “Winter War”
Baryshnikov V. N.
18-36
3 On some issues of the history of the initial period of the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945
Izonov V. V.
37-52
4 Demobilization of the Latvians from the 24th Red Army territorial rifles corps on June 20–30, 1941
Chapenko A. A.
53-60
5 The Leningrad city committee of the AUCP(b) and the Leningrad governance system at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War
Boldovskiiy K. А.
61-73
6 Reconnaissance and sabotage groups of the NKVD-NKGB of the KFSSR on the Karelian front (1941–1944)
Verigin S. G.
74-87
7 The partisan movement in Crimea during the Great Patriotic War
Polyakov V. Y.
88-100
8 Protection by Northern Fleet of the Arctic communications during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945
Verbovoi O. I.
101-112
9 The social problems in the activities of the city defence committees in the Lower Volga region in 1941–1945
Krasnozhenova E. E.
113-124
10 Th e Turkic-Caucasian volunteers in Waff en-SS at the fi nal stage of World War II (November, 1943 — May, 1945)
Romanko O. V.
125-138
11 Intelligence work of the NKVD-MVD in the camps for foreign prisoners of the Great Patriotic War
Khodjakov M. V.
139-149
REVIEWS
12 New research about the siege of Leningrad
Kutuzov A. V.
150-155
13 Modern Finnish historiography: the Second World War — new approach to old topic
Vasara V.-T.
156-160
DISCUSSIONS
14 World War II in the historical memory of Russians and Poles: Cross view of young researchers
Borisenko V. N., Weglorz J., Goncharova T. N.
161-167
15 Russian historical memory and the Decembrists. 1825–2015
Andreeva T. V., Ilyin P. V., Belousov M. S., Ivanova T. A., Kuznetsova S. D., Parshina A. V., Smirnov A. O.
168-181
PUBLICATIONS ON DISSERTATION RESEARCH
16 Sir Robert Peel and parliamentary factions in England in 1846–1850 (statement of question)
Kuznetcova Yu. I.
182-187