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The Figure of the Impostor to the Throne in Russian Political Culture: Between Sacralisation and Mimesis
Sign Systems Studies. 2017. Т. 45. № 3-4. С. 284–301.
Kalinin I.
Proceeding from materials relating to the “Time of Troubles”, this article examines the phenomenon of imposture (samozvanchestvo) as one of the symbols of Russian political history from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. The duration of the “impostor epidemic” coincides exactly with that of serfdom, and imposture itself can be described as a social reaction to a form of authority founded on total personal dependence. The article aims to develop further Boris Uspenskij’s argument that reveals in sacralization of the Tsar’s power in medieval Russia the main reason of imposture. René Girard’s conception of mimetic desire serves as the theoretical perspective for such a development.
Research target:
Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies
Philology and Linguistics
History and Archeology
Priority areas:
humanitarian
Language:
Russian
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Previous EEG studies demonstrated ample evidence for a major influence of morphological regularity on inflectional processing. However, regularity effects may be attributed to different properties of inflectional classes: to type frequency, to productivity, or to defaultness (assumed only in some models). In many languages, these factors cannot be teased apart, but it is possible in ...
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Bursov K., Slioussar N., Discourse Processes 2025
Various coordinating and subordinating conjunctions that connect clauses differ in their structural properties. Such properties seem to influence dis course prominence: references to antecedents from main clauses are more frequent than from subordinate. Structurally, coordinate and subordinate clauses, as well as in-between cases, can be distinguished based on the degree of integration to the host ...
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Sherstinova T., Kirina M., Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences 2026 Vol. 96 P. 40–49
The paper presents the results of a series of studies on the emotional dimension of the Russian short story of the first third of the 20th century. The study is based on a sample of 210 texts from the Corpus of the Russian Short Story of 1900–1930. Two fundamentally different approaches are compared: automatic detection ...
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Ермоленко Г. А., Кожевников С. Б., Вестник Московского городского педагогического университета. Серия: Философские науки 2026 № 1(57) С. 9–18
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Pavlovets M., Логос 2026 Т. 36 № 3 С. 41–68
The poem Dyr bul shchyl…, unlike the two other adjacent poems in Aleksei Kruchenykh’s book Pomada (Lipstick) (1913), whose words “have no definite meaning,” became one of the most famous poetic texts of the Russian avant-garde. Around it, two main interpretative traditions have emerged: the semantic one, which views Dyr bul shchyl… as an enigmatic ...
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Chunikhin K., Искусствознание 2026 № 2 С. 250–275
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This Handbook examines relations between Japan and Korea from 1850 to the present.
Analyzing almost 200 years of Japan and Korea relations uncovers a relationship that has been both congenial and confrontational. This Handbook examines these relations in this age of modernity by dividing it into four periods: precolonial relations (1850–1905); colonial rule (1905–1945); post-war/post-liberation (1945–1965); ...
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Faul B., Эпистемология и философия науки 2026 Т. 63 № 2 С. 41–50
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Uspensky B. A., Русская речь 2026 № 05 С. 84–96
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Journal of Pragmatics 2026 Vol. 262 P. 60–80
This article presents a novel corpus-based approach to (im)politeness research, grounded in Terkourafi's theory of politeness as conventionalization, which highlights the frequent use of linguistic forms in specific contexts as key to developing politeness meanings. We propose lexical bundles – recurrent multi-word sequences – as a systematic tool for tracking (im)politeness in discourse. To illustrate ...
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Малышкин Е. В., Логос 2024 Т. 34 № 6 (163) С. 217–232
In his main works, René Descartes, in addition to such an impressive metaphysical construction, over and over again gives promises of happiness, which must certainly accompany the study of philosophy according to a new model. What exactly is this happiness and is the Cartesian construction capable of fulfilling this promise? For whom can it come? ...
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Малышкин Е. В., Эпистемология и философия науки 2026 Т. 63 № 2 С. 64–69
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Рязанов П. А., Софронова Л. В., Диалог со временем 2026 № 94 С. 36–50
Among the Roman pontiffs who proclaimed crusades against the Turks, Pius II (1458-1464) stands out for having publicly declared his intention to go to war and backed it up with concrete actions. His death in Ancona, from where he was about to set sail for the East, can be perceived as a feat of faith ...
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Pakhomova A., Русская литература 2026 № 3 С. 150–164
The article analyzes the phenomenon of Mikhail Kuzmin’s circle as a historical and cultural community that included many literary and artistic figures: Anna Radlova and Sergey Radlov, Konstantin Vaginov, Aleksander Vvedensky and Daniil Kharms, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Benedict Livshits, Lev Rakov, etc. It suggests that Kuzmin’s circle should be viewed as a community bound by artistic, rather than ...
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Voloshina S., Логос 2025 Т. 35 № 2 (165) С. 193–233
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Shevtsova I., Sorbale A., Starodubtsev A. et al., Russian Politics 2026 Vol. 11 No. 2 P. 265–295
International sanctions imposed on Russia in recent years, along with associated economic hardships, have had a significant impact on many socially important sectors. The quality of governance in these areas is crucial for maintaining economic growth, living standards, and the position of the ruling elites. Based on the policy analysis of the Russian housing policy, ...
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The content of the work is the system is a system for identifying four types of written speech structures. A set of 11 calculated parameters, statistical standards, and semantic characteristics allows for the identification of a text's structure as the result of a specific cognitive schema (scene, event, story, evaluation). The method has been verified ...
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Vorchik A., / SSRN. Серия Social Science Research Network "Social Science Research Network". 2026.
This work is devoted to a theoretical explanation of the Easterlin paradox, according to which long-term economic growth does not make average level of people's happiness increasing. By happiness, we mean the intensity of emotions people experience while comparing their new income with its expected value, or the target income with its original value. In the first case, ...
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Strizhkova D., / Институт русской литературы (Пушкинский Дом) РАН. Серия B001 "Репозиторий открытых данных по русской литературе и фольклору". 2026.
В базе данных представлена роспись русскоязычных литературных произведений и отрывков, напечатанных в учебниках по словесности, хрестоматиях, книгах для чтения, сборниках стихотворений и рассказов, выходивших во Франции, Германии, Латвии, Эстонии, Болгарии, Сербии в период первой волны русской эмиграции с 1918 по 1939 гг. Датасет представляет интерес для исследователей школьного литературного канона, эмиграции и детского чтения ...
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Жигунов А. Ю., / Basic Research Programme. Серия HUM "Humanities". 2026. № 1.
The article attempts to describe the features of the educational potential of Russian animation programmes in aspect of the representation of traditional spiritual and moral values. Based on media and semiotic analysis, the method of cultural and historical interpretation, animated Russian projects created from 2000 to the 2025, which were translated on television channels or streaming ...
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What are the alternative notions of masculinity that would be compatible with the emerging trend towards an ethics of care? Such debates are being conducted in the field of masculinity studies in connection with the discussion of the limits of economic growth, the economic crisis, gender egalitarianism, and the transition to a care society. An ...
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Barchukov V., Безопасность бизнеса 2017 № 6 С. 30–36
С развитием компьютерных технологий разрабатываются все новые схемы совершения преступлений с их использованием, что позволяет через них воздействовать на имущество потерпевшего. В целях противодействия преступности в указанной сфере, в частности, был принят Федеральный закон от 29 ноября 2012 г. № 207-ФЗ, предусматривающий ответственность за мошенничество в сфере компьютерной информации. В статье рассматриваются основные схемы, совершения ...
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