Odysseus: A man in history. 2017-2018: Saint and Society: Designing of holiness in hagiography and cultural memory

The next release of the Almanac of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences is devoted to the topic "Saint and Society: the construction of holiness in hagiography and cultural memory." The phenomenon of holiness and the associated religious practices are considered as one of the most important sources of knowledge about mentality, behavioral models and the system of socio-political ideas of society and individual social groups, for which the saint becomes a significant symbol of identity.
In articles from the traditional section "Russia: quo vadis?" The key problems of Russian history are considered after 1917. For the first time, the report of the founder of the People"s Socialist Party of the historian V.A. Pulp at the first congress of Russian emigration in Paris about the results of the first post -revolutionary decade. In article A.
A. Babia on the materials of the district archives examines the situation of dispossessed peasants and deprived of the electoral rights of citizens at the turn of the 20s and 30s.
In the heading "Actual Past", open by the release of the 2007 almanac, the reader will get acquainted with unknown documents of the period of "struggle against cosmopolitanism", which from now on become available to a wide audience.
For historians, cultural historians, specialists in the field of humanitarian knowledge and a wide range of readers