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FOCUS ON RUSSIA Social Effects of Post-Soviet Transformations in RussiaM. Gorshkov Phenomenology of the “Life World” of Urbanities in the Extra-Urban Space in the Russian Near North: Home and DomesticationN. Pokrovsky, U. Nikolaeva, J. Demidova ESSAYS Globalization vs. Nation-State: Going Backwards?K. Kholodkovsky Political Aspects of Contemporary IslamismL. Grinin, A. Korotayev Afghan Events of 1979-1989: From […]
What is the role of ideas in modernization in general and in post-Soviet modernization in particular? There is no consensus among experts on the contribution of ideas to the building of new institutions and practices in various countries in various historical periods. They answer differently the question of whether ideas cause transformations or the other way around. However, when it comes to political, economic and social transformations in post-Soviet Russia, the prevailing view is that ideas were secondary to the interests of key players.
Выборы на фоне Крыма: Электоральный цикл 2016-2018 гг. и перспективы политического транзита. Под ред. В. ФЕДОРОВА. М.: ВЦИОМ, 2018. 440 с. This review was first published in Russian in the journal Sotsiologicheskiye issledovaniya (Sociological Studies. 2019. No. 5, pp. 171-174; DOI: 10.31857/S013216250004974-4). Parliamentary and presidential elections are the highest points of a political cycle. Until […]
FOCUS ON RUSSIA State-Church Relations in Russia, or the National Features of SecularismV. Malakhov, D. Letnyakov The Judiciary of Post-Soviet Russia in Its Social ContextYu. Nisnevich RUSSIA IN THE WORLD Three Dimensions of Post-Soviet “Frozen” ConflictsN. Arbatova Russia and the Baltic States in the Context of the Ukraine CrisisR. Simonyan ESSAYS Pros and Cons of […]
FOCUS ON RUSSIA Young Intellectuals: Why Are They Leaving Russia And Do They Plan to Come Back?L. Borusyak The Russian Far North: Trumph over Spatial Inequality Or Expulsion from the Socio-Economic Order?T. Lytkina, A. Smirnov Economic Cooperation between the Russian Federation and North African CountriesS. Volkov, A. Tkachenko ESSAYS Making Progress Horizontally: Current Practices of […]
FOCUS ON RUSSIA Russians on the Correlation Between the Interests of the State and Human Rights. An Empirical AnalysisN. Tikhonova Aging Trajectories of Women in Modern Russia I. Grigoryeva, I. Sizova Challenges to the Social Sciences and Humanities in Russia A. Torkunov ESSAYS Philosophical Theory of Knowledge: Is Its Future in Question?Z. Sokuler (De)Construction of Identities and […]
FOCUS ON RUSSIA Transformations of Welfare Policy and Discourse on Social Justice in RussiaYe. Danilova Russian Workers through the Prism of Human Capital TheoryN. Latova Import Replacement Cannot Be a Long-Term StrategyB. Kheyfets, V. Chernova The Industry of Russia’s Northern Regions after Anti-Russian SanctionsK. Pavlov, V. Selin ESSAYS Has There Really Been Sociocultural Convergence Between […]
FOCUS ON RUSSIA The Wiping Out of History: What Is Left of the Revolutionary Myth?L. Gudkov, N. Zorkaya State Assignments for Scientific WorkA. Gusev, A. Ladny, Ye. Beloklokov, M. Yurevich POST-SOVIET SOCIETIES Between the State and the Nation: Dilemmas of Identity Politics in Post-Soviet SocietiesI. Semenenko, V. Lapkin, A. Bardin, V. Pantin ESSAYS Ethics and […]
FOCUS ON RUSSIA Archaic Paternalism as an Organic Part of the “Power-Property” SystemN. Pliskevich Income Stratification in Russia in Comparison with Other CountriesN. Tikhonova Departures from the Civil Nation in Russia and in the West: Similarities and DifferencesE. Pain, S. Fedyunin ESSAYS Historical-Scientific Reconstructions: Pluralism and Cumulative Continuity in the Development of Scientific KnowledgeV. Stepin […]
RUSSIAN CIVILIZATION Agricultural Policy in RussiaS. Barsukova Reaction to Counter-Sanctions: “The Price Doesn’t Matter…”A. Zaostrovtsev Evolution of the Social Contract and Legitimization of AuthorityS. Korotayev, O. Shkaratan SOCIETY AND REFORMS The Impact of Global Value Chains on National Economic Systems and the Challenges Facing Russian Economic PolicyN. Smorodinskaya, D. Katukov 1917-2017 The Russian Orthodox Church […]