The monograph discusses two questions: what is war in the 21st century? And how does the moral theory assess modern wars? The author providessocial, political, and ethical interpretations of conflicts. In order to address the first question, he tracks down the history of the development of the classical image of interstate war. Aligning with the leading specialists, such as MaryKaldor, Herfried Münkler, Martin van Creveld, he offers the original conceptual framework of new wars. This approach allows to identify both the most significant features of new wars and the typical practices of waging them. Answering the second question, the author delves into the ways in which moral justification of military actions is carried out and explores the moral component of the most distinctive forms and practices of waging modern war, namely terrorism, robotization and computerization of war, as well as the activities of privatemilitary companies.
The book is intended for philosophers, political and social scientists, historians, and specialists in cultural studies.

This book was written by the member of the Russian Academy of Science A. A. Kokoshin on the basis of his long-term fundamental and applied research and practical activities as First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Defense Council of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. 
The author offers for consideration five components of the theory of war: war as a continuation of politics; war as a state of society as well as a state of a particular section of the system of world politics; war as a collision between two or more state structures and war machines; war as the sphere of ambiguity and uncertainty; war as a management task.
The book also presents the methodology of researching wars as a political and social phenomenon, develops some elements of the theory of war and peace, and provides the characteristics of conventional and unconventional methods of warfare. 
The book is designed for graduate students working on a master’s degree or Ph.D., professors at civil and military academies, as well as for everyone interested in political-military and military strategic issues.

This book was written by the member of the Russian Academy of Science A. A. Kokoshin on the basis of his long-term fundamental and applied research and practical activities as First Deputy Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Defense Council of the Russian Federation, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. 
The author offers for consideration five components of the theory of war: war as a continuation of politics; war as a state of society as well as a state of a particular section of the system of world politics; war as a collision between two or more state structures and war machines; war as the sphere of ambiguity and uncertainty; war as a management task.
The book also presents the methodology of researching wars as a political and social phenomenon, develops some elements of the theory of war and peace, and provides the characteristics of conventional and unconventional methods of warfare. 
The book is designed for graduate students working on a master’s degree or Ph.D., professors at civil and military academies, as well as for everyone interested in political-military and military strategic issues.

The monograph presents the studies which have been conducted by the authors over several years in the domain of the psychology of consumer behavior. The studies analyze the factors of consumer loyaltyand brand loyalty as well as the specifics of Russian consumers’ perception of Russian and foreign brands. The book provides the Russian version of a questionnaire designed for studying the strategies of consumer behavior, emphasizes the main strategies of Russian consumer behavior, and describes specific features of Russian consumer behavior in comparison with foreign consumers. The special aspects of brand perceptionin people with various strategies of consumer behavior are also described in the monograph.
This monograph is designed for graduate and undergraduate studentsas well as scholars in economic psychology, psychology of consumer behavior, and psychology of marketing communications.

The monograph presents the studies which have been conducted by the authors over several years in the domain of the psychology of consumer behavior. The studies analyze the factors of consumer loyaltyand brand loyalty as well as the specifics of Russian consumers’ perception of Russian and foreign brands. The book provides the Russian version of a questionnaire designed for studying the strategies of consumer behavior, emphasizes the main strategies of Russian consumer behavior, and describes specific features of Russian consumer behavior in comparison with foreign consumers. The special aspects of brand perceptionin people with various strategies of consumer behavior are also described in the monograph. This monograph is designed for graduate and undergraduate studentsas well as scholars in economic psychology, psychology of consumer behavior, and psychology of marketing communications.

In this book, V. Rossman analyzes and summarizes the experience of public discussion about moving the Russian capital in the context of nation building and proposes a concept of the capital city as catalyst in that process. The author considers the current clash of ideas regarding a new capital and the various concepts, which he believes arise out of differing perceptions of what is Russia’s true identity. He gives a detailed analysis of proand contraarguments and their legal suppositions; the typology of suggested capitals, and applies aspects of geography, urban studies, spatial economics, studies of semiotics and symbolism of urban territories; and other disciplines. Rossman also considers other countries’ experience of moving capitals. He focuses not only on the soundness of choosing specific geographical locations, but rather on the various political and geopolitical strategies behind the choices present-ed. The author also studies various concepts of the capital and its transfer in Russian intellectual history. He conducts a comparative analysis of Moscow with the most important modern capitals and BRIC capitals, and investigates the specifics of its formation and anomalies of the Russian urban hierarchy.

This book is intended for geographers, historians, urban researchers, and anyone interested in the political situation in modern Russia. 

Mayakovsky’s words ‘It’s Time, Forward!’ better than any political slogans, reflect the atmosphere in which Soviet cultural policy emerged. This book aims to declare a special preserve and methodological perspective for the study of Soviet cultural history. In it Soviet society is considered as a space of radical projecting and experimentation in cultural policy, which was far from homogeneous, often multidirectional, and sometimes chaotic and contradictory. It was a unique historic example of government intervention in the cultural sphere. The authors attempt to evaluate the social viability of institutions which formed in Russian society, both thanks to and in spite of Soviet cultural policy, and to assess the consequences of the decline and fall of some of those same institutions.

The book targets a wide audience, including culture researchers, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anyone interested in Soviet history and culture.

The book contains the collected articles of Anatoly G. Vishnevsky on the key issues ofdemography of the XXI century, published mainly over the past 10–15 years.
The articles selectedfor publication focus on the theoretical comprehension of fundamental demographic changesoccurring in the world, on their determinants and consequences. These consequences are universaland run through all levels of social reality, from the family to the global.Great attention is paid to Russian population issues. The author seeks to understand andto explain Russia’s demographic problems in the context of universal and global demographicchanges and challenges. Some articles are devoted to the history and current state of Russianpopulation studies.

The potential audience of the book are researchers representing a broad range of socialscience disciplines, teachers and students, politicians and journalists, and a wide range of readersinterested in population studies and related sciences.
The publication is timed to coincide with the 80th birthday of Anatoly Vishnevsky.

Utopia and utopian consciousness have long been among the central themes of political debate and artistic practices. Ivan Boldyrev's book is devoted to Ernst Bloch (1885-1977), a German thinker who greatly contributed to the special philosophical and historical status of this subject and was able to bring together Marxist activism, eschatological metaphysics, and avant-garde art under the Utopian banner.  The book describes Bloch's intellectual evolution and his complex and ambiguous relationships with the most prominent philosophers of the 20th century– Georg Lukacs, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor Adorno. The 'polemic totality' of these relationships helps the paradoxical logic of utopian messianism to be understood.

This monograph continues the series of publications on the Russian labor market prepared by the team of scholars from the Center for Labour Market Studies at the Higher School of Economics. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of various aspects of informality in the Russian labour market. It discusses a wide range of informality related issues, including its economic nature and causes, evolution and composition, measurement and policy implications. Authors question the labour market segmentation theory and the popular thesis that informal employees represent an inferior segment of the labour force that is trapped in bad jobs. Significant attention is paid to costs and benefits of going informal for workers, firms, and the society. A special focus in the book is on earnings in the formal and informal sectors, their impact on evolution of inequality and formal-informal labour mobility. A few chapters explore impact of institutions (such as taxation and minimum wage) on incidence of informal work. Implications for subjective social status and household well-being are also explored. Most of the chapters presented in the book are based on studies that use large sets of microdata and modern econometric techniques.

In the monograph two kinds of political campaigns, namely the repressive ideological ones, such as campaigns against the artistic intelligentsia and cosmopolitanism,the KR case, the Doctor’s Plot case, and the mobilization ones, such as electoral campaigns at the Union, union republic and local levels, have been analyzed. The book explores the methods of studying campaigns and the historiography of the Stalin era. The social and economic situation in Molotovskaya oblast as well as the everyday life of inhabitants of the Prikamye area in thepost-war years have been reconstructed in the monograph. A case study of Perm exemplifies the reconstruction of the mass political campaigns in 1946–1953 which were instrumental in implementing Stalin’s policies, governmental activities and mass response. The mechanisms and structure of Stalin’s political campaigns, including participants, victims, set of norms, procedures, conflicts, and functions, have been identified and described. The author demonstrates the regional specific aspects of political campaigns as exemplified by the materials of six local and central archives.
The book is designed for academicians and students of humanitarian studies as well as for a wide audience of those interested in the history of the Stalin era.