Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


Catholicism

Christian truth and political power in Evelyn Waugh’s Helena

The novel Helena (1950) is analyzed as Evelyn Waugh’s profound statement on his most significant problems: the possibility to resolve the crises of the 20th-century consciousness through Christianity and on the nature of power. Cradle Anglo-Catholics were always suspicious of Waugh, seeing him as an errant Catholic; the paper uses the work of Waugh’s biographers and interpreters to pinpoint his personal reception of Catholicism as the most sophisticated, strictly logical system, firmly grounded in historical fact. Waugh’s story of St.

Special Features of the Municipal Budgets Carrying out in 2008-2009

The article is devoted to the problems of forming and carrying out the municipal budgets under the crisis conditions. The author analyses the problem aspects of carrying out local budgets in 2008-2009, and possible measures of increasing the budget incomes on the municipal level. The opinion about the necessity to cut down a part of the subject inter-budget transfers in these budgets, is given in the article. The author shows the analysis of the budget incomes structure of the municipal district of Saratov city.