The article examines the thesis that the basis for the ideology of Hlinka’s Slovak People’s Party (HSPP) was the social teaching of the Catholic church, in this regard the HSPP acted as a guide of the concept of political Catholicism in interwar Czechoslovakia. The article examines the historical background of the interwar Czechoslovakia and the position of the Holy See in the interwar period; an analysis of the Papal encyclicals is given, contradictions are revealed, on the one side, between the official authorities of the Czechoslovak Republic and the opposition party of Andrej Hlinka, on the other side — between the official authorities of the Czechoslovak Republic and the Holy See, as well as between the Holy See and the HSPP. A brief source and historiographical analysis are given, revealing the relevance of the chosen topic.

This article is dealing with question, whether Catholic ideology, as articulated by Jacque Maritain stood in odds with ideology of nationalism propagated by French political movement "Action française". Analysis has displayed that there were no substantial contradictions between them.

The article analyzes changes in social normativity at the level of everyday practices in the first two decades after 1917. Using examples of everyday life in Petrograd (Leningrad), Novgorod, Cherepovets and related administrative-territorial units, the gradual evolution of society’s perception of various manifestations of Orthodox religiosity is studied.
The areas of civil life whose radical transformation was significant for society were examined: the calendar of official holidays, the conduct and support of civil status acts, the organization of space and leisure activities, and school education. Attention is paid to the differences between the city and the countryside in how these processes unfolded. For the first time, a collection of materials from the Cherepovets newspaper "Kommunist" is used as a source illustrating the changes at the level of everyday life.
The Soviet policy of secularization set one of its goals as the introduction of a total materialistic worldview into the consciousness of citizens and the reorientation of their way of life in accordance with it. This determined its antireligious orientation, which throughout the period under review had varying intensity, which was reflected in the dynamics of the social transformations. The study shows how, in the two decades following 1917, a nearly complete inversion occurred — from the perception of the Orthodox way of life as an acceptable norm to its interpretation as completely unacceptable for Soviet citizens.

The article researches main theories about "church estate" or "staðir", a specific kind of landholding, that was formed in Iceland during the 11th–13th centuries. Although modern scholars have common understanding that "staðir" and operations with them were parts of the mechanism which let the representatives of the Icelandic elite and the Church acquire their power over the whole country, rather than locally, they still haven’t got an adequate understanding, what was the essence of "church estate" in context of the ownership and interpersonal relations that existed at that time, and its definition correspondingly. This paper proposes to solve this problem through revealing the ways of the realization of "staðir," as a set of the relationships with the property, that, during the unfolding struggle for dominance between secular and spiritual authorities, which took place in Iceland at that time, was under the management of several owners i.e., the local chieftains (höfðingjar) and the Icelandic bishops.

The article presents for the first time the results of the publication of information from the Archive of the Order of Books of Printing, which names, in fact, all publications published in the 17th century. after the restoration of Moscow printing in the Printing Yard, the exact circulations, cost, price and other important, previously controversial facts.

This article explores the possibility of identifying the handwritings of the Russian North (15th–16th centuries) as a distinct branch of Russian medieval books, using two notable manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries, both from a Moscow private collection, as examples. During this study, paleographic similarities were noted between these manuscripts and authentic codexes of the Russian North, housed in state repositories. The paleographic features identified by the author in these manuscripts allow them to be classified as the Northern Russian manuscript books.

The article deals with a group of late 16^th-century icons from the Solovetsky Monastery. The central monument of this group is the iconostasis of the gateway Church of the Annunciation. This complex is traditionally associated with the Kargopol icon painter Fyodor Trofimov, who, according to sources, worked for Solovki on numerous occasions in the 1580s and 1590s. The authors clarify the composition of the iconostasis, expand on the range of similar works, and offer new arguments supporting the hypothesis that these works were created by Kargopol icon painters, one of whom was, in fact, Fyodor Trofimov. A comparison of the main body of the icons under study with an earlier image of the Resurrection, also from Solovki, suggests a significant shift in the style of a provincial icon painter or several artists from the same milieu as they adopted new artistic forms, a process made possible by their work for a major northern monastery.

The article in the context of attempts by Western powers to restrain the anti-religious policy of the Soviet authorities examines the efforts of American diplomacy in this direction. Special attention is paid to the mission of E. Flynn, an American lawyer and politician, one of the leading Democratic politicians of the mid-20th century, a close associate of F. D. Roosevelt, who was sent by the American president to Moscow in March 1945 in order to normalize Soviet-Vatican relations. The documents attached to the article also show the assessment of Flynn’s mission by the Vatican. Made by the head of the Vatican’s Foreign policy department, Monsignor D. Tardini’s notes allow us to establish that the Vatican did not find grounds for normalization of Soviet-Vatican relations, and perceived F. D. Roosevelt’s initiative as aimed at increasing the prestige of the United States in the international arena and in the eyes of American Catholics.

The Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in 1945 was a significant event during the "New Course" period in church-state relations. It summarized the first years of the "New Course" and simultaneously demonstrated the prospects for this policy. The Council played a significant role in overcoming internal church divisions and demonstrated the potential for expanding the international activities of the Russian Church. Representatives of seven autocephalous Orthodox churches attended the Council. One of the key guests was Patriarch Christopher II (Daniilidis) of Alexandria. Upon his return to Egypt, he actively shared his impressions of his visit to the USSR. His speeches were closely watched in Moscow. The documents published below, from the archives of the Council for Russian Orthodox Church Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, reflect the nature of Patriarch Christopher’s speeches, which were quite favorable to his hosts. The documents are being published in their entirety for the first time.

The article presents a translation from Greek into Russian of the first part of Saint Nektarios of Aegina’s book "An Investigation into the Fruits of True and False Enlightenment," specifically his address to the youth of the Lamia High School on "The Vocation of Youth in Society". The translated text is accompanied by a brief introduction providing general information about the work and its main thematic content.