C O N T E N T S:

P A G E :
         CULTURE, IDENTITY AND ELITES 
• Lilia Zabolotnaia
Women's Power in Moldova (14th - 17th Centuries). Gender Studies
7
• Harieta Sabol
"Poverty or Ignorance?" The Challenge of Social Diseases in Bukovina around 1900
31
• Ulyana Uska
Implementation of Phonetic Orthography of the Ukrainian Language in Galicia and Bukovina in 1892: Political, Legal and National Aspects
51
• Antoniy Moysey
The Scientific Research of Dimitrie Dan as a New Stage in the Investigation of the Traditional Culture of Ethnic Groups in Bukovina
69
• Ștefan Purici
Habsburg Bukovina at the Beginning of the Great War. Loyalism or Irredentism?
85
• Tatyana Troshina, Ekaterina Kotlova
Establishing the Regional Identity in Northern Russia. History and Modernity
107
         SOCIETY, RELIGIONS, CONFLICTS 
• Mykola Shkribliak, Oleksii Balukh
European Reformation and Distinguishing Features of the Institutional Design of the Early Protestant Currents in the Ukrainian Lands
121
• Katarzyna Wagner
Did Large Cities Exist in the 17th Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth? A Definition Attempt
139
• Aleksandr A. Krymov, Alexey V. Rodionov, Andrey P. Skiba
Exile on Penal Servitude in the Russian Empire in the 19th Century: Some Aspects of Applying
151
• Miroslav Kmet, Bernadeta Ottmárová
Considerations about the Anti-Semitism in Hungary during the Early Post-War Years (1945 – 1948)
165
        POLITICS  AND  INTERNATIONAL  STUDIES
• Nazarii Khrystan
Drohiczyn Battle: History Academic Discipline versus Politics (The Soviet Historical Thought of 30-80’s of the 20th Century)
187
• Mariia Burtseva
The Liberalization of Canadian Immigration Policy (1945-1976)
203
• Kateryna Kasatkina
The Main Research Areas of the U.S. Policy towards the Cuban Revolution in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Historiography
221
• Anuar Galiev, Kulipa Baisultanova, Zhanar Yesserkepova, Marzhan Dautbekova, Aliya Isayeva
Mythologized History and Politics in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
237
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
445
INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS449