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The article is devoted to the review of publications in which the famous Russian politician and journalist V.V. Shulgin collaborated in 1921-1939. A description of the history of Shulgin's interaction with various press bodies is given, issues such as editorial policy, salary, confl icts with publishers and editors are touched upon. Th e article will be useful both in studying the history of journalism of the Russian diaspora, and in compiling a complete bibliography of V.V. Shulgin's works.

The focus of the article is the South Russian Youth Union (SRYU) - the organization of Kiev gymnasium pupils, which appeared soon after the February Revolution of 1917. Having united the Kievan youth with monarchist views, in late April 1917 SRYU organized the demonstration, which became, perhaps, the only legal pro-monarch public act during the first months after the abdication of Nicholas Ii. The article dwells upon the biography of the leader of the Union B.V. Sokolov, the programme of SRYU and its attitude to the Ukranian question. The names of certain high gymnasium pupils-members of the organization are also mentioned. The author of the article pays particular attention to the involvement of SRYU members in the defence of Kiev against Petliura's troops in late 1918, drawing certain analogies between Kiev gymnasium pupils-monarchists and the characters of M.A. Bulgakov's "White Guard".

The paper is devoted to South Russian National Center (SRNC) - a moderate right-wing organization created in Odessa in January 1919 under the leadership of the exState Duma deputy V V Shulgin. SRNC, which had united the politicians from Little Russian and New Russian provinces, billed itself as the champion of the interests of South Russia and supported the autonomy of this region within the united Russian state. Special attention is paid to the Center's attitude to the Ukrainian problem, relations with the Volunteer Army and French interventionists. In spite of the fact that SRNC never became a mass political party, it played an important role in the life of Odessa in early 1919, and later its members made a serious contribution to the policy of the White movement with respect to the national issue, having developed the project of dividing the former Ukraine into three regions: Kiev, New Russia and Kharkov.

The article is devoted to the failed elections to the Crimean Regional Sejm — the regional parliament of Crimea, which was to have been elected on April 6–8, 1919. The paper analyzes the course of the campaign, the features of the electoral law, and lists candidates from various political parties and national groups. The elections to the Sejm were a result of the compromise between the Constitutional Democrats and the Socialist Revolutionaries during the formation of the second Crimean regional government in the autumn of 1918. By the beginning of 1919, when the Red Army had approached the borders of Crimea, it became clear that it would be difficult to hold elections in the existing conditions. The issue of elections became one of the main factors of internal political instability in Crimea and caused the conflict between the liberal government, the socialist opposition, and the leadership of the White Movement. The election campaign was sluggish; absenteeism was predominant among most of the electorate (with the exception of Crimean Tatars), which was fueled by underground Bolshevik organizations actively campaigning for a boycott of the vote. Both the Constitutional Democrats, the Social Revolutionaries, and the Mensheviks understood all the risks associated with holding the elections under martial law, but they did not dare cancel them and deviate from democratic principles, although it was quite clear that the workers' and peasants' masses of Crimea did not need any Sejm. The vote was postponed (and actually canceled) only on April 1, 1919, after the Soviet military units reached Perekop.