Journal of Fundamental and Applied Sciences Research Article Special Issue ISSN 1112-9867 Available online at http://www.jfas.info A "FORMER NOBLEMAN": SURVIVAL IN SOVIET REALITIES A.V. Martynenko*1, N. A. Mileshina2, T. D. Nadkin3, L. A. Potapova4, I. A. Firsova5, R. Czachor6 1Dr. Sci. (History), Professor at the Department of National and Foreign History and Teaching Methodology, M.E. Yevsevyev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute, Saransk, Russian Federation 2Dr. Sci. (History), Associate Professor at the Department of National and Foreign History and Teaching Methodology M.E. Yevsevyev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute, Saransk, Russian Federation 3Sci. (History), Head of the Department of National and Foreign History and Teaching Methodology, M.E. Yevsevyev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute, Saransk, Russian Federation 4Cand. Sci. (Law), Head of the Department of Legal Disciplines, M.E. Yevsevyev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute, Saransk, Russian Federation 5Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor at the Department of National and Foreign History and Teaching Methodology, M.E. Yevsevyev Mordovian State Pedagogical Institute, Saransk, Russian Federation 6PhD (Political Sciences), Dean of the Department of Social Sciences, Jan Wyżykowski University, Polkowice, Poland Published online: 24 November 2017 ABSTRACT The issues addressed in the article are of particular relevance for the contemporary historiography due to the absence of systematic studies on the history of the "Soviet nobility" and their adaptation to the Soviet realities. An especially interesting aspect of this topic is the transformation of values and worldview of the nobility in the conditions of the dominant communist ideology. Author Correspondence, e-mail:
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