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FOCUS ON RUSSIA Gaining Certainty in Our Own Past: Russian Identity and the Politics of Memory at a New Crossroads (FREE content!)D. Efremenko Evaluating the Impact of Population Policy on the Birth Rate in RussiaE. Kolbina Russia’s Science Policy, 2018-2020: Mixed SignalsI. Dezhina Trends in the Development of the Social Group of the Self-Employed in […]

This article examines changes in Russia’s politics of memory at the turn of the 2020s, the balance of forces between mnemonic actors, external conditions, and internal modalities of the struggle for political use of the historical past.

FOCUS ON RUSSIA “Adult” Youth in the Contemporary Social Space of RussiaL. Belyaeva Adaptation Strategies of Opponents and Supporters of the Special Military Operation (Based on Residents of Samara Province) (FREE content!)V. Zvonovsky, A. Khodykin Construction of Identity in Russia’s Muslim Regions in the Context of the Emerging All-Russian IdentityYu. Pochta ESSAYS The Historical Memory […]

Adaptation strategies to such traumatic events as military conflicts are largely determined by assessments of these events. The purpose of this article is to describe the similarities and differences in the adaptation strategies of supporters and opponents of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine.

FOCUS ON RUSSIA Russians’ Ideas About Russia’s Possible Development Paths: Prevalence and SpecificityP. Sushko Resource Potential of Precarious Employees in RussiaA. Temnitskiy The “New” Russian North: A Historical Province Facing Social and Political ProblemsY. Shabaev ESSAYS Platform Expansion as a Challenge to Sociology (Read this article online for FREE)V. Radaev Autonomy Plus Heterodoxy: On the […]

The rapid development of the platform economy not only leads to changes in the organizational forms of the economy, but fundamentally transforms social relationships on the macro- and micro levels, directly affecting a major subject area of sociology.

FOCUS ON RUSSIA Russian National-Civic Identity Through the Lens of History, Culture, and Socio-Political LifeP. Fadeev Governing Emptiness, or Features of Power Relations in Russia’s Inter-Settlement Territories       L. Bliakher, K. Grigorichev, I. Peshkov ESSAYS Socio-Political Dynamics in the Age of Global Crisis: Civilizational BackgroundV. Lapkin Cancel Culture in World Politics: Historical and Philosophical Roots (Read this […]

This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.

In This Issue FOCUS ON RUSSIA Civic Activism of Generations in Modern Russian Society R. Parma Social Health of Russian Society: Trends in Demographic and Criminal Statistics M. Morev ESSAYS Russia and India: Challenges and Prospects for Cooperation A. Kupriyanov South Asian Migration to Western Europe: Origins, Trends, Perspectives A. Volodin Can an Economic Agent […]

This article analyzes some aspects of civilizationism as a trend in the self-positioning strategies of several Asian states, notably China and India, as well as some other countries. Close attention is paid to the concept of the civilization state (CS), as distinct from the nation state (NS), where the former reveals the specific characteristics of the major non-Western states.