Department of Source Studies of Russian and Soviet History
Department Head: Professor A.G.Golikov.
The department incorporates the Laboratory on the Archaeography, headed by Dr. I.V.Pozdeeva.
The main fields of research and specialization for students of the department are as follows:
Methodology of Historical Research
Historiography of Russian and Soviet History
Historical Sources of Russian and Soviet History from the 11th to the 20th century
Historical Geography of Russia and USSR
Archival Studies
Paleography
Study of Graphic Sources from the 11th-17th centuries
Sources and Methods of the Study of the Traditional, Material and Spiritual Culture of Old-Believers (15th-20th centuries)
National Traditions of Russian Historical Thought: The History of Russia in the works of 18th, 19th and 20th century Historians
Policy, Economy, Mass Consciousness in the 19th-20th centuries Periodicals
Statistical Source Materials on Russian Industrial History from the late 19th and early 20th century
Foreign Banks in Russia and Russian Banks Abroad in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Problems, Sources, Methods of Study)
Business in late 19th and early 20th century Russia (sources, methods of study)
Quantitative Methods of Studying Agrarian History of 19th and early 20th century Russia
Designing and Creating Database on Russian Parliamentary History of the early 20th century
Sources of Social and Economic History of Soviet Agriculture and Peasantry in the 1920s and 1930s
History of Auxiliary Historical Disciplines