This is the first monograph in Russia reflecting the housing problems of a large group of residents. In Russia there are 20–30 million tenants (“lessee” according to the Housing Code of Russia). The book deals with a variety of categories of rentals: municipal, social, private, and tenement houses. The typical problems of this community and the special features of property and rental contracts in homeowners associations are shown, as well as the experience of tenants and organizations representing their rights in Baltic, the Czech Republic, Canada, Britain, Sweden, and other countries. A special section is devoted to etiquette fests, and education in housing and rentals.
For a wide group of readers: tenants, homeowners, the housing sector professionals, municipal staff, managers of homeowners associations, and residents who concern for the better. The book will be useful to students of the Department of Public Administration, as well as lawyers, political scientists, managers, and anyone who deals with social and housing policies.
The monograph presents a scientific, sociological, bibliometric and semiotic analysis of the status of classics in the social sciences of the 20th century such as economics, sociology, psychology and history. The synthesis of these approaches allows the authors to explore a wide range of problems connected with the study and use of the classical heritage. The book examines in detail the changes of the classics and its substantive characteristics; transformation of its body in connection with the growth of scientific knowledge and the rapid increase in the number of separate sub-disciplines, research areas and fields, the role and functions of the classics in the research process and the higher education.
According to the authors’ concept, although “classics” lose their status of superiority over the modernity, it instead acquires the status of “foundation” of the present and in fact becomes part of “modernity” in the broadest sense, and remains in demand, just like late scientific ideas, concepts and theories.
This book is intended for a wide range of readers — economists, political scientists, historians,
and sociologists.
This book is an anthropological analysis of the phenomenon of the Russian left avant-garde, represented, first of all, in works of constructivists, productivists and factographists, which gathered in the 1920th around the reviews LEF and Novy Lef, and such institutes as INHUK, VHUTEMAS and GAKhN. The book argues that the left avant-garde is a self-reflective social and anthropological practice, which loses nothing of its artistic qualities, because of conscious attempt of its protagonists to solve political and everyday problems of the people, which got a possibility of social liberation after 1917 . With appropriate interdisciplinary instruments, the book addresses to such different figures as Andrey Bely and Andrey Platonov, Nikolay Evreinov and Dziga Vertov, Gustav Spet, Boris Arvatov etc. These different authors are united by the discovery of a specific layer of sensibility and of an alternative structure of the subconscious in their works, which are described in terms of a provocative concept of 'new sensibility'. Collectivity means here not an exterior social organization, but an immanent order of images from artworks, which enables them to be simultaneously both useful and purposeful, comfortable and esthetically outstanding .
The book is an open source for anyone interested in the humanities, especially in Philosophy, Literature and Art; it is addressed to artist and activists as well.
Igor Chubarov — Doctor of Philosophy; researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences; a member of Center for Modern Philosophy and Social Sciences at M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Associate Editor of Logos Journal. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Berlin, 2006–2008).
This book is a philosophical, cultural and sociological study of private collecting, which is considered a special form of individual self-realization in person’s spare time, and a way of self-affirmation. The author offers an original perspective on cultural, philosophical, social and economic aspects of collecting. Extensive supplements included in the publication provide a clear illustration of the diversity and complexity of the phenomenon of collecting.
This book is written in an easy and accessible language and can be interesting for not only for specialists in cultural scientists and sociologists of culture, but also for a wider group of readers.
