The protestant factor of development of the Lower Volga and the Don: in the writings of historians of the Volgograd State University

The article analyzes the theses presented by the historians of the Volgograd State University and devoted to studying the influence of the Protestant factor on the socio-economic, political and cultural development of the Lower Volga region and the Don region. The authors point to a high contribution of the researchers to the study of such aspects as socio-economic and cultural development of the Protestant communities, the emigration of Germans and Mennonites to America and Canada, the features of cooperative construction and the implementation of agrarian reform of P.A. Stolypin in the colonies, the assistance by foreign Mennonite organizations during the famine and NEP, as well as the specifics of development of Russian Protestantism in the Volga region. T.P. Nazarova determines the contribution of the VolSU researchers to the study of pre-revolutionary stage of Protestantism development in Russia. V.V. Tarakanov analyzes the works that characterize the activities of Protestant cooperation. O.Yu. Redkina discloses the problem of state-confessional relations in the USSR in dissertational studies of the VolSU historians, substantiates the further directions of research in the historiography of Protestantism in Russia.