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The present study featured the issues of human resourcing in the sphere of physical training and sports in Kuzbass during the transition period from the Soviet to the post-Soviet model. The research was based on a wide range of documents, including those from several collections of the Regional State Archive. The research united scientific, historicist, and comparative methods, which made it possible to identify two factors that affected the personnel potential in the sphere of physical education and sports. The first one was the policy of advanced socio-economic development, proclaimed in the mid-1980s. The second was the transition to the market economy, which started in the early 1990s and was accompanied by a serious crisis. These two processes systematically affected the sphere of physical training and sports, including its national and regional human resources. The staffing proved uneven: while it was satisfactory in urban institutions of higher education and sports, the rural areas saw a severe labor shortage.

The article features the historiography and sources on the issue of physical culture and sport developmentin the Kemerovo region at the turn of the XXI century. Having analyzed a wide range of publications (monographs, articles, dissertation abstracts, academic and journalistic literature), the authors came to the conclusion that certain material has already been summarized on this topic. The study offers a detailed description of the changes in the legislative field that were made to ensure a better functioning of the system of physical culture and sports in the Kemerovo region in 1991–2007. However, the development process of physical culture and sport movement in the region remains poorly investigated. The same can be said about the issues related to the material-technical base of the Kuzbass sports and the system of sport personnel training in the region. In the domestic literature there are no works devoted to the complex process of development of physical culture and sports movement in the Kemerovo region in the period. The analysis of the sources on the selected theme has revealed that the most informative among them were two classes of written sources: legislative and documentary. The available range of sources has allowed the authors to trace the process of development of physical culture and sports region in the conditions of changing socio-economic development model of the country.

The paper considers the main forms of protest activity in Russian regions. Special attention is paid to the analysis of protest actions in the regions of Western Siberia. The following forms of protest activity were revealed: writing letters to the authorities about the violation of human rights; refusal to participate in election campaigns; printing and distribution of leaflets and prohibited anti-Soviet literature; the nature of the activities and ideological convictions of the few underground organizations. The authors consider the State Security Committee’s methods of struggle against and the content of trials on the anti-Soviet protestants. The conclusion is made about the various forms of protest and their role in the life of the country.

The paper defines the main conditions of development of dissent and focuses on the forms of the state’s fight against it. The content and consequences of criminal proceedings against dissidents in various regions of the country are revealed. The features of dissent in the regions of Western Siberia are: a latent form; a small circle of participants consisting of teachers and students; the influence of human rights defenders from Central regions ofRussia. The result of the confrontation between the authorities and dissidents was the suppression of dissent in the center and the regions ofRussiain the early 1980s, the ideology and forms of struggle of the various sects of dissenters will be in demand with the beginning of perestroika.

The paper discusses the concept of perestroika. It demonstrates the evolution of researchers’ views in considering the history of the Soviet period.

The paper analyzes the main points of view expressed in the Russian historiography about the causes, prevalence and consequences of the famine in 1932 – 1933.