In the beginning of the new century Russian retail trading went through a true revolution, which fundamentally changed the structure of the entire branch. The book contains detailed classification of modern forms of trade based on Russian practice. The author traces the history of creation of new forms of trade. It demonstrates how the arrival of global operators changes the overall competitive situation and the business strategies of leading Russian companies. The newest tendencies in retail development are revealed in a case study of foodstuffs trade and in the segment of household appliances and electronics, with prognosis for midterm perspective.

This book, for the first time in Russian research tradition, explores the issues of land formation and surveying in the context of land lawsuits from mid-18th century till present day. The authors extensively use the combination of historical and juridical methods of research based on the works of surveying engineers and lawyers in the period of Russian empire. The book demonstrates that land lawsuits can be separated, within the modern law, as a stand-alone group of the ways of defending the land rights.
The book is designed for lawyers, judges, and cadastral engineers, as well as for undergraduate students specializing in land matters.  

The book explores the necessary relations between freedom and evil. Their neglect may not impede the construction of an abstract idea of freedom, but will preclude our comprehension of freedom as an always concrete practice of emancipation. Why is pure moral philosophy or normative ethics myopic toward this distinction between “freedom as an idea” and “freedom as emancipation”? How to overcome this myopia and how does this overcoming affect the character of ethical thought through its historicization and politicization? Does the ethical thought thus transmogrified have to retain certain key concepts of the pure moral philosophy, beginning with the formal concept of duty, in order to become consistently and uncompromisingly historical and political? These questions are the centerpiece of this book. The inquiries related to them evolve in the context of a critical examination of the Kantian moral philosophy, which encompasses both its metaphysical “canon” and a daring attempt to revise it recorded in the later writings of Kant. His Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is the most vivid example of this attempt.

The present book is addressed to all those interested in moral philosophy and political philosophy, to those who study and teach these disciplines.

This volume presents the work of the staff and students of the Department of Organizational Psychology of the Higher School of Economics and their colleagues from the Department of Social Psychology of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, which deal with the sociopsychological study of the dynamic changes in Russian society at all levels of functioning, including large and small social groups as well as individual level. The collection consists of two sections. The section “Changes in social identity and social consciousness” presents results of theoretical and empirical studies of different types of social identity (civic, ethnic, religious, gender) and analysis of the dynamics of public (political, religious) consciousness. “Social Psychology of Organizational Behavior” is devoted to research in the field of organizational culture and organizational behavior, the dynamics of socio-psychological processes in small groups and cross-cultural research in an international company.

This book is for experts in the field of social and organizational psychology and related disciplines.

Andrey Volkov is an outstanding Russian demographist who supervised the Departmentof Demography at the National Research Institute of the Central Statistical Agency of theUSSR (later the State Committee for Statistics of the USSR and the Russian Federation)for 40 years. In his book, Volkov investigates such fundamental problems as the subject andmethod of demography, and its place in the sciences. He also presents methods for measuringand analysing demographic processes. Volkov pays special attention to such demographicalprocesses as marriage and birth rate and raises concerns over the impact of a declining birthrate, and the opportunity to conduct an eff ective demographic policy. A large part of the bookis dedicated to the problems of family demography in Russia, its formation and evolution, aswell as issues related to forecasting and modeling family structure. Ethnically mixed familiesand international marriages are analysed using the results of population censuses andspecial surveys. Several articles are dedicated to questions concerning the collection ofcensus data in the USSR.
The book is intended for demographists, lecturers, and university students in thehuma nities, as well as for anyone interested in the demography of Russia. The book mayprove useful while taking the courses Demography, Demography and DemographicPolicy, Population Economics, and many others.

In the monograph the leading specialists of the Department of World Economy of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics for the first time in Russian scientific literature provide comprehensive coverage of the causes and consequences of the change in the trend of global economic development — from boom to crisis to subsequent recovery — of the leading developed and developing countries, including Russia. The authors assess the extent of the decline of production, the damage to the labor market, social sphere; they analyze national and international strategies to overcome this crisis, and predict the general contours of the post-crisis economic picture of the world.

This book is intended for researchers, teachers and students of economic institutions and faculties, and also for anyone interested in the actual problems of modern world economy.