Зубов Владимир Евгеньевич

This article continues a series of publications on the contemporary historiography of the history of civil service. The chronological scope of the work is 2006–2010. It reviews the articles and conference proceedings in Russian, accessible through the Russian Science Citation Index (RSCI). The relevance of the study is explained by the general state of humanities scholarship, the growing number of publications, and the difficulty of mastering accumulated scientific experience. In addition to the general dialectical-materialist method, specialized research methods were used, including keyword searches, classification methods, comparative and contrastive methods, and chronological methods. Preference was given to formal methods, which allow for verification and comparison of results. The search terms “history of civil service” and “civil service history” were used. Student works and publications related to military and related specialized types of service, including “other types of civil service,” were not considered. The conclusions reached are specific and characterize the works included in the sample. The analysis of publications shows that issues in the history of civil service during the period under review are of less interest to researchers than in the subsequent five-year period. The authors address new (at the time of publication) aspects of the topic that are relevant to contemporary civil service reform. At the same time, the quality of the works is affected by a weak methodological framework, political conjuncture, and a disruption in the continuity of scientific development. A rejection of established and tested terminology and general historical research principles, in particular the periodization of Russian history, is observed. Domestic works (possibly due to their predominance in the sample) more often than articles by foreign authors violate the requirements for scientific publications

The article examines the work of mass media in the country's rear areas. The territorial scope of the study is limited to Novosibirsk Oblast, which by the beginning of the war had become one of the largest raw material and industrial centers, and during the war years served as a relocation site for numerous industrial enterprises, material assets, and populations evacuated from western regions. The chronological framework covers the first month of the war (from June 23 to July 23, 1941). Using the regional newspaper “Soviet Siberia” (Novosibirsk) as an example, the article analyzes the activities of mass media during the initial period of the Great Patriotic War. Daily print publications became the primary means of disseminating information to the population and served as tools for agitation and propaganda. Other information sources were limited by wartime requirements concerning radio equipment usage and broadcasting schedules. Daily periodicals allowed for repeated access at readers' convenience. The outbreak of hostilities necessitated certain adjustments in periodical publications, including changes in content presentation and layout. The article examines modifications in the design, structure, and content of newspapers published during this period. The study concludes that there were two distinct stages in the newspaper's adaptation to wartime conditions. During the first stage (until June 15), the emphasis was on agitation and propaganda, characterized by the publication of historical materials and an increase in propaganda illustrations designed to foster confidence in an inevitable and imminent victory. This approach aligned with pre-war sentiments prevalent in the USSR. Subsequently, as enemy forces advanced deeper into the country, both the population and mass media adapted to wartime realities. The regional newspaper shifted its focus to topics such as economic development, increased military and agricultural production, and civil defense tasks, resulting in changes to layout and content presentation style

The article continues to publish the results of studying the historiography of civil service: an analysis of publications devoted to the departmental aspect of the civil service and the departmental policy of the state is given. The first part of the study, published in the Bulletin of Humanitarian Education (2024. No. 4), examines the basic points of the study (relevance of the topic, methodology and methods, justification of the chronological framework, etc.). The works identified during the search are divided into several thematic groups. The first group includes publications concerning the general historical and theoretical aspects of the state (civil) service in the past and present, they are considered in the published part of the study. The second part is currently in publication. This article reviews 18 papers (out of 147 analyzed in the course of research). Conclusions are drawn about the absence of a dominant trend in the study of the history of public service in individual departments during the period under review. In some works, there is a desire to go beyond the stated topic or to give an extended interpretation of the problems under consideration. When considering the specifics of the service in individual departments, it became clear that articles related to the history of customs authorities are more common, which may be a reflection of the specifics of the moment and is not a stable trend. The authors' research interests also include the organizational and legal basics of the activities of individual departments, the specifics of the formation of cadres of civil servants in specific departments, including the history of the development of the personnel training system in the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Attempts were made to address humanitarian problems related to public service: changes in public consciousness, the formation of corporate culture, internal ethics of official relations and other issues

The article studies the system of state administration and civil service during the First World War (1914—1918). The article considers the main reforms of administration initiated in the previous period, including the reforms of state service, judicial system, police, etc. It concludes that a set of contradictions hindered the successful functioning of the system of administration in wartime conditions and that it was impossible to eliminate them through administrative reforms. The main set of problems in politics was associated not only with the main contradiction of capitalism, but also with the incompatibility of public and private interests, which did not allow to fulfil the necessary set of managerial decisions, primarily in the economy

The article considers the evolution of urban space organization in the USSR and post-Soviet period on the example of Novosibirsk. As a working hypothesis, it is argued that the nature of social order influences the process of urban planning, stimulating the formation of a set of ideas and solutions reflected in urban infrastructure - layout, methods of development, architectural solutions, values used in the organization of urban space, etc. The conclusion is made about the ambiguity of the Novosibirsk development process due to the influence of many factors, starting from natural conditions, the nature of spiritual culture, the level of technological development, domestic and foreign policy situation and ending with the interests of individual enterprises. The opportunities for innovative development that existed in Soviet times due to the lack of private land ownership were not realized due to insufficient theoretical development of the city phenomenon, comprehension of the specifics of its organization in the socialist society and the dominance of external circumstances in relation to the city (except for the territory of Akademgorodok). At present, the development of the city is subordinated to the solutions realized in the past, which does not allow the use of holistic conceptual solutions. The key problem is the presence of private ownership of land and the priority of private interests, which do not allow creating a comfortable environment for residents