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A People in the Absence of the People, or a View of Post-Communism from Below
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The essay strives to explore the causes of the "absence of the people" (as a political category designating the agency of political action as something distinguishable from the demographic and ethnic readings of the "people") in the course of the post-communist transformations of Russia. By and large, these causes are portrayed as rooted in the specific version of capitalism that has taken hold of Russia as well as in the Soviet legacy of oppression it upholds, albeit in a modified form. The possibilities of the emergence of the people (in the aforesaid sense of the term) in the post-communist context of Russia are explored in the concluding section of the paper.
Polyakov L., Тетради по консерватизму 2026 № 1 С. 224–235
This paper is devoted to the new tutorial “Essays on Economics”. The handbook, prepared by the team of authors and edited by V. Fadeev offers innovative approach to the teaching of “economics”, the key principles of which are history, theory and statistics. This approach is a distant analogy to the case of 1951 in USSR ...
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Orlov I., Вовк А. С., Электронный научно-образовательный журнал "История" 2026 Т. 17 № 4 Статья 33
Egyptian society during the reign of Muhammad Ali (1805—1848) underwent a rapid transformation that determined the future of the country. Modernization was necessary for Muhammad Ali to create a powerful modern army and strengthen his independence. However, the launched social transformation was curtailed by the Wali when he was able to transfer power in Egypt ...
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Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2025 Т. 69 № 5 С. 131–139
O.V. Gaman-Golutvina examines in the article the factors of economic success of Saudi Arabia based on the analysis of the historical path of this country. Far from deep knowledge of the topic, superficial explanations, known for their commitment to simple answers to complex questions, reduce the factors of Saudi Arabia's achievements to oil, the proceeds ...
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Gaman-Golutvina O. V., Сравнительная политика 2024 Т. 15 № 1 С. 4–21
The editor-in-chief proposes a context for examining the crisis processes in American society explored in the articles. The author suggests that this crisis should be viewed in the context of the American history cycles. Many of the current conflicts in the USA have a similar internal source, which is a sharp intra-elite conflict involving a ...
Added: December 8, 2025
Гринин Л.Е., Коротаев А.В., Век глобализации 2025 № 4 С. 188–202
Although the world is being divided into zones in this regard, contradictions between developed and developing countries have increased, and globalization is rolling back, nevertheless, the common goals that were prioritized by most countries of the World System until recently have not gone away. In the worst case, their implementation will be delayed for some ...
Added: November 27, 2025
A. A. Tokarev, Margoev A. R., Prikhodchenko A. Y., Contemporary Politics 2021 Vol. 27 No. 5 P. 572–590
The article offers a methodology to overcome the shortcomings in the factionalism approach to studying elite politics in China. The authors study professional ties among 204 full members of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party through social network analysis to identify influential members of the elites and detect their communities. Four types of ...
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Alexey Tokarev, Margoev A., Prikhodchenko A. Y., Journal of Contemporary Asia 2022 Vol. 52 No. 4 P. 554–573
This article offers a new perspective on Chinese elite politics in the Xi Jinping era by overcoming the drawbacks of the factional approach to the study of the Chinese elite. It analyses professional connections among 71 members of the category of party and state leaders of China based on information drawn from their official biographies ...
Added: October 3, 2025
Вебер М., Социологическое обозрение 2025 Т. 24 № 2 С. 252–273
In this publication, Max Weber responds to a renewed series of critical articles by the German historian Felix Rachfahl. At the heart of their heated scholarly debate was Weber’s groundbreaking work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904-1905). In May-June 1910, Rachfahl produced a second cycle of four articles, continuing the fierce polemic ...
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Dmitriev T., Социологическое обозрение 2024 Т. 23 № 2 С. 231–259
Based on the analysis of Machiavelli’s political writings such as “Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius”, “The Prince” and “The History of Florence”, the article shows that attempts made repeatedly over the past few decades by such scholars as Tony Negri, John McCormick, Agnes Heller, Claude Lefort and Pierre Manent to declare Machiavelli ...
Added: October 8, 2024
Maslennikova S., Журнал российского права 2024 Т. 28 № 12 С. 49–62
The article, prepared using the results of the project "Legal mechanisms for overcoming inequality", carried out within the framework of the HSE Fundamental Research Program in 2024, analyzes legal norms and positions that allow people to be considered as a subject of legal relations. The people as a collective entity has properties that characterize it ...
Added: September 2, 2024
Kim E. U., Позиция. Философские проблемы науки и техники 2023 № 19 С. 328–333
The current situation in the world reflects the crisis of the capitalist system, unable to cope with the challenges of the era of the scientific and technological revolution, digitalization, the loss of the global leading role of a group of imperialist countries. In an attempt to maintain its dictatorial role, the historical West has already ...
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Kompatsiaris P., NY: Routledge, 2024.
This book employs the figure of curation—the selection, arrangement, and display of objects, concepts, and things—to explore the cultures of platform capitalism. Considering its rise in the global art world as an authorial, meaning-making activity and an organizational-entrepreneurial endeavour, it looks at curation as the interweaving of innovative concepts, elaborate storytelling, and trusted experts leaking ...
Added: March 20, 2024
Alexeeva T. A., Журнал юридической антропологии и конфликтологии 2023 № 1 С. 34–43
The paper is devoted to the concepts of “nation” and “people”, their contents, correlation and significance for the declaration of the constitutional principles in the 18th–19th centuries. ...
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Pavlov A., Логос 2023 Т. 33 № 3 С. 165–216
The paper provides an analysis of multiple interpretations of the cult film Fight Club. The author divides the readings of the film into three types—judgment interpretations, theoretical, or methodologically thorough interpretations, and argumentative interpretations. Further in the paper the author groups these interpretations under several headings—Henry Giroux’s Fight Club reading; a critique of the film ...
Added: December 28, 2023
Turovsky R. F., Sukhova M., Мировая экономика и международные отношения 2023 Т. 67 № 10 С. 108–119
The article examines the impact of elite coalition strategies on the ethno-regional consolidation of the electorate in African countries. Ethnic voting has traditionally been seen as a key factor in African elections, but recent research shows that other determinants also play a significant role. Moreover, it is clear that the strength of ethnic voting varies ...
Added: November 3, 2023
Roy Chowdhury A., Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 2023 Vol. 34 No. 3 P. 94–111
The value of many natural resources is not fixed; it depends on factors both intrinsic and external to the commodity; such is the case of precious stones. These commodities are termed “speculative commodities.” Here, I take the example of gemstones and conceptually trace and analyse the process of their commodification, with the help of Marxist ...
Added: October 4, 2023
Filippov A. F., , in: Max Weber revisited: Zur Aktualität eines Klassikers.: Weinheim: Beltz Juventa, 2022. P. 258–276.
In his contribution The Reception of Weber in Russia, Alexander F. Filippov reports on the boom and turning points in the reception of the classic in his country, in which the availability of translations of his works plays an important role. Max Weber has been an integral part of the standard education of social scientists ...
Added: January 2, 2023
Shirokova G., Gina V., Sokolova L., Critical Perspectives on International Business 2013 Vol. 9 No. 1/2 P. 173–203
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the ability of Russian firms to develop strategic entrepreneurship (SE) as a source of sustainable competitive advantage in a turbulent and hostile business environment. It aims to suggest a model of SE that includes two components – exploration and exploitation – and to test this ...
Added: September 14, 2022
Zhu J., Mukhin N., Communist and Post-Communist Studies 2021 Vol. 54 No. 1-2 P. 24–44
Extant literature has shown the importance of routinized leadership succession for authoritarian resilience. However, the factors leading to orderly power transitions in autocracies are unclear. This article argues that an orderly succession requires relatively peaceful exit of the incumbent. Through a comparison of the power transition trajectories of the post-Stalin USSR and China in the ...
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Corlan-Ioan S., Gheorghiu M. D., Kouvouama A. et al., Iasi: Editura Universitatea Alexendru Ion Cuza, 2021.
Les écrits réunis dans cet ouvrage sont pour la plupart ceux des chercheurs travaillant sur les circulations internationales des élites africaines (RIAM), ainsi que sur les réseaux établis entre diasporas et «petites sociétés» en lien avec les études à l’étranger (CR 24, AISLF). La période concernée est celle de l’après-guerre froide, d’une «transition» qui a ...
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Rozhdestvenskaya E., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2021 № 5 С. 64–91
The paper considers the methodological and methodical issues of interviewing representatives of the political
and business elite, on the one hand, and celebrities, on the other. Comparative analysis of approaches to these groups involves the search for similarities and differences in their characteristics. The unifying moment is the gradual celebritization of the elites, which manifests itself in greater personalization, involvement in the discourses and performances of the ...
Added: November 7, 2021