recall
of final qualifying work
on "The History of St. Petersburg regionalist movements of the 1990s -. 2000s"
student of IV course of Smolny College
Melman Olga Feodorovna

Work Melman OF The theme having both a scientific and social relevance. The fact that the history of modern Russian regionalism is a little-studied topic, and at the same time, it is interested members of the general public, given the increasing role of regionalism in the European and global development in the era of globalization. Of particular scientific relevance of the work it makes the fact that it is the first scientific study on the history of St. Petersburg regionalism in the end of XX - beginning of XXI centuries.
Melman OF An original periodization of development of St. Petersburg reogionalistskih movements during this period, revealing its characteristics and patterns: waviness on the background of a gradual decline "amplitude"; dependence rise and fall phases of the St. Petersburg regionalism from external national factors; ideological specificity Petersburg regionalism, based their rhetoric on "pan-European system of values," and not on the unique values ​​and traditions of a particular region; a permanent reduction of the proportion of independent political activity in the activities of the St. Petersburg regionalist movements and activists. These features of the St. Petersburg regionalism given a reasoned justification, based on the identified features of the historical memory of St. Petersburg and the St. Petersburg civic consciousness, self-contradictory combining "imperial" and "democratic" components.
The author has managed to capture in his study of a broad palette of event-driven, scientifically analyzed the activity is not only the most important regionalist actors - relevant movements and parties, but also separately taken various initiatives regionalist activists.
The methodological merit Melman OF support was not only on the traditional principles on which the historical research, but also on the latest historiographical approaches. In particular, the author has been widely used method of "oral history" - to obtain information in the form of a survey of direct participants in the events and their subsequent analytical processing. You should also emphasize the importance of implementing Melman OF introduction into scientific circulation materials home archives representatives of the St. Petersburg regionalist movements.
In the process, Melman OF It showed a high level of performance, the ability to focus on strategic areas of research, energy and perseverance in collecting information "at first hand". The author also demonstrated good analytical skills and the general level of research competence, including the ability to determine the appropriate range of sources, structured typed factual information, to critically analyze the facts, as well as the ability to make reasoned and convincing interim and final conclusions. Some of the difficulties in the work were associated with the search for the author of an optimal research methodology, given the almost complete absence of works devoted to the chosen theme. But in the end Melman OF I was able to successfully overcome the main challenges that it has faced and successfully complete the study. Some disappointment is a lack of work, as the presence of typos in the text that appears to be due, on the one hand, a significant amount of complex structured material, and on the other hand - the excessive speed at the time of the final version of the text of the diploma.
The work is written in clear language and literature is a complete scientific research, which can be used as a source of teaching within the different courses on the program "History of Russia". In addition, I consider it expedient to recommend to the work Melman OF as the basis for the subsequent publication of several scientific articles, as well as a monographic study, of course, subject to expansion and deepening of the individual clusters.
Thesis Melman OF in its content, the results and the volume corresponds to the requirements of the final qualifying work on the program "History of Civilizations" and deserves a high positive assessment, as the author himself, Melman Olga Fedorovna - the award of the degree of Bachelor of Arts and Humanities.
scientific adviser
Candidate of Historical Sciences Kotsyubinsky DA