Proc. of the Natl. Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Ser. Humanitarian Sciences, 1999, No.2

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Proc. of the Natl. Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Ser. Humanitarian Sciences, 1999, No.2

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
(Vestsi Natsiyanalnai Akademii Navuk Belarusi)
SERIES OF HUMANITARIAN SCIENCES
Published by The Belaruskaya Navuka Publishing House, Minsk, Republic of Belarus

Number 2, 1999

BICENTENARY OF A.S. PUSHKIN

Tychina M.A.
Alexander S. Pushkin and Belarusian literature (200th Anniversary of Poet's Birthday). pp. 5--10

Summary: The paper commemorating 200-year Pushkin's jubilee is focused on his creative links with Belarusian literature.

PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIOLOGY

Sawchanka Ya.A.
Pedagogical activity in social-cultural history: genesis and dynamics. pp. 11--15

Summary: The phenomenon of pedagogical activity is analyzed. Mechanism, social and cultural principles underlying this type of human practice are regarded within the framework of major research a pproaches: anthropological, natural scientific, sociotogical, philosophical, experimental, providential, totalitarian. General and specific characteristics of the studied category have been revealed. The research is relevant and significant for modem teaching practice and ideology. Reforms of education in contemporary social-cultural context requiring designing of pedagogical actions, formation of new conceptual background and prognostication of promising methods of teaching and education should take into account history of pedagogics, update the course of comparative pedagogics.

Agievich U.U.
Misinterpretations of historical records relating to F. Skaryna. pp. 16--22

Summary: This communication proceeds with the problem of understanding Skoryna (see: Vesti, 1999, No.1. P. 42--47). One more act of an unintended forgery, concerning the notorious passage "Secretari[um] reg[er]it datio[ni]" is analysed in details. Some other corresponding aspects of misinterpreting Skaryna's biography are observed. The peculiar stress in his potronimic name is estimated according to the Belarusian language accentuation.

Varabyova I.U.
Problems of culture and religion according to Pavel Florensky. pp. 23--27

Summary: Pavel Florenski is a remarkable personality in Russian culture of the early 20th century who played important role in solving the problem of correlation of culture and religion. He distinguished 2 types of culture: Medieval and Renaissance, prefering the former where principle of one truth was proclaimed. This truth was trust in God who granted the gift of creation to man. In the Renaissance and the New Time this truth was forsaken, secular culture came to the fore. It was seeking the right direction, yet the succeeding trends led to blind alleys. At the beginning of 20th century culture was facing a dilemma: abandon the rest of Christian culture or reassess the situation and come back to the roots. The first choice is fatal because culture is aimed at self-destruction. The alternative route offered by P. Florensky implies confession -- admit our sins and recognize superiority of the Creator, but not a man. Ideas of the philosopher are revelant nowadays since culture is at the crossroads. Top priority todey is to make the right choice.

LAW

Kazachenka A.V.
Executive power in the system of state control. pp. 28--33

Summary: This work postulates a number of general ideas on executive power: differences in theoretical approaches; diversity of executive power attributes; denial of its self-perception as an exclusively power instrument; the main aims of executive power to guarantee security of citizens, society, state for free political, economic, social, spiritual life; prestige, authority, subordination are considered to be social-psychological elements of executive power; justification of executive power as bearer of moral idea. Solution of executive power problem is correlated with the idea of legal state, supremacy of law, democracy and efficient functioning of state bodies.

Birulya V.A.
The aims of criminal punishment for economic offences. pp. 34--38

Summary: This article discloses the aims of criminal punishment and its efficiency in respect to economic offences. The Criminal Code is recommended to be amended with stipulation that punishment is aimed at restoring social justice. Financial sanctions should be envisaged to make up for moral damage of victims in all criminal cases.

Rafik Muhahed Ali
Theoretical principles of citizenship. pp. 39--41

Summary: The paper describes the notion of citizenship tracing back to its origin, carries out a comparative analysis of citizenship and subject status, characterizes correlation of citizenship and state sovereignty / citizenship is considered in 2 aspects: as legal relationship of state and man and as state legal institution.

Tarasevich N.I.
The modern concept of labour contract. pp. 42--48

Summary: The present article is devoted to main theoretical problems of the Labour contract. The author analysed the concept of labour conrtact, defined the criteria limiting its freedom. Some typical problems requiring special settlement are discussed.

ECONOMICS

Vyartinskaya T.S.
Mechanism governing territorial regulation of interregional economic relations between Russia and Belarus. pp. 49--53

Summary: Regional aspects of economic cooperation within the framework of Russian-Belarus Alliance have been considered. Elements of the mechanism governing territorial regulation of interregional economic relations have been disclosed. Specifically, the functions of regional executive bodies have been formulated. The role of foreign economic infrastructure in economic integration and regional development is demonstrated.

Saladownikaw S.Yu.
Property relations as a factor responsible for class stratification of society. pp. 54--58

Summary: All economic factors, that are determining socially class differentiation of the society, are shown. There is given the characteristics to the relations of belonging. The subjects of belonging relations are described. The forms of belonging are differentiating and analyzing. Specific of belonging relations as factors, that are determining socially class differentiation of modem society, are shown.

HISTORY

Downar A.B.
Peasants serving in state forestry of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. pp. 59--66

Summary: The article, based an "Forest's Ordination", 1641, deals with questions of territorial and administrative structure of state forestries in Great Duchy Lithuanian. Duties and land tenures of peasant-servants, who look after guarding and exploit state forests are considered.

Garbatsky A.A.
Policy of Catherine the Great towards Old Rite Orthodox Christians. pp. 67--71

Summary: The article deals with the policy of Catherine the Second in relation to Old Faith Believers who came to live in Belarus. It is shown they were driven back to their native lands with much cruelty and what hardships they suffered. Special attention is paid to the role which played by mentors and monks.

Kazmerchyck A.
Royal reform bill of 1692. pp. 72--77

Summary: The article is devoted to the plans of political reforms at the end of Jan III Sobiesky's reign, with special emphasis on taxation system. The bill submitted to the Grodno seym in 1692--1693 was rejected by public forum of shlyahta fearing any infringements upon their liberties. Similar bills were not proposed at subsequent parliamentary sessions.

ART STUDIES, ETHNOGRAPHY, FOLKLORE

Marozaw A. U.
Kid game folklore of eastern Slavs. pp. 78--83

Summary: The works of Russian researchers dated 1917--1941 dealing with theoretical problems of kid game folklore of eastern Slavs (origin, classification, functionality, poetics, peculiarities of usage and creative potential) are analysed.

Shewchyck A.G.
Vegetation symbols in marriage ceremonies. pp. 84--87

Summary: The main forms of vegetational world of wedding poetry are analyzed in the article, the semantics of their symbols in the ritual space of Belarusian wedding is opened up.

Tsoy Su-Bin
Interrelationship in garments of Eastern Europe and Asia. pp. 88--94

Summary: The east-slavionic mongolian and korean peculiarities of traditional head gears are presented in this article. It seems that there are geographically wide mutuall ethnological influence during the period of the Tartar-Mongolian occupation.

Mazurina N.G.
Variations in Belarusian song folklore. pp. 95--100

Summary: The article deals with variations as very important characteristics of folk songs promoting their evolution. Ethno-social reasons of folklore variant nature are exemplified by one paradigm.

LITERARY STUDIES

Straltsova V.M.
Comperehension of national spiritual potential in contemporary Belarusian autobiographical prose. pp. 101--104

Summary: Analysis of ethnocultural situation and pieces of V. Adamchick, V. Orlov, N. Gilevich, L. Dranko-Maysyuck revealed new autobiographical bias in modern Belarusian literature. National peculiarities of documentary-fiction prose have been outlined.

Kavalyow S.V.
Counterreformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania illustrated in the poem Apologeticus (1582). pp. 105--110

Summary: The article deals with the problem of reflecting social-political events in the Belarusian literature of the late 16 th century: the conflict between catholics and protestants in Vilnius in summer of 1581, which triggered Counter Reformation in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. The author was the first Belarusian researcher to analyse the anonymous poem "Apologetycus, or Defence of the Confederation" published in Vilnius in 1582. He points out that ideas of the poem were shared by eminent state officials of the Duchy who introduced Warsaw Confederation Liberty of Confession Act into the Statute of 1588.

Gancharova-Grabowskaya S.Ya.
Semantic and morphological aspects of comedy genre structure. pp. 111--116

Summary: The article presents some aspects of comedy poetics at its semantic (value orientation) and morphological (system-structural organization) levels. Laws of "genre technique" reflecting the nature of a comedy are investigated. Attention is paid to artistic structure of a comedy, its image system, functional relationships among various devices and their specificity.

LINGUISTICS

Rapatsevich S.Ya.
Predicative centre of the simple sentence in Prague editions of F. Skaryna. pp. 117--122

Summary: Analysis of the predicative center basic components in the simple sentence of F. Skaryna's "Bible" (Prague, 1517--1519) is performed in this article. The facts testify to the influence of grammatical traditions of Church Slavonic, Czechian languages and colloquial speech on mentioned source language. Penetration of Church Slavonic and Czechian linguistic norms was realized on the formal-grammatical level. The impact of colloguial speech on some structural schemes of the subjects and predicates took place with to parallel conservation of Church Slavonic constructions.

Ulasevich V.I.
Social-political and economic borrowings in periodicals. pp. 123--127

Summary: Lately the ware of borrowings spurred up by swift changes in social-political and economic spheres has swept over local periodicals. Most words are of British-American origin. Alterations in semantics and stylistic use of specific lexical loans from social-political and economic areas have been traced.

Byaginina L.I.
Etymological versions of words of presumably Old Slavonic origin. pp. 128--133

Summary: Some Old Church Slavonic -- Eastern Slavonic correspondent items in the dialects of Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian languages have been analysed. Great atantion is paid to the determination of the semantic body of the dialect words. Etymology of lexems, wich not founded in the existing etymology dictionaries are defined more exactly.

Marshewskaya V.V.
Morphological characterization of phrases structurally constructed as sentences. pp. 134--138

Summary: The present article deals with morphological evaluation of phraseological units having sentence structure. Morphological peculiarities of such phraseological units were proved to depend upon semantic or grammatical category (i.e. verbal, nominal etc.) they belong to. Reasons for limited or zero paradigm of numerous phraseological units are also given consideration in the article.

SCIENTISTS OF BELARUS

Maikhrovich A.S., Lazarevich A.A.
Dzmitry Ivanavich Shyrakanav (To the 70th Birthday Anniversary). pp. 139--140
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