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Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History
White Horse Press, 2021.
Editor-in-chief: D. Moon, N. Breyfogle, Bekasova A.
This book offers new perspectives on the environmental history of the lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to ‘place’ and ‘nature’ in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them
Kochetkova E., , in : Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. : White Horse Press, 2021. Ch. 13. P. 292-312.
is chapter examines the diering opinions between industrial and scientic institutions over the use of the waters of Lake Baikal in the context of Soviet development policies in Siberia, beginning in the 1950s. It argues that institutions and people experienced Baikal as a place of contradiction, clearly illustrating that Soviet industry posed the risk of ...
Added: February 8, 2021
Bekasova A., Kalemeneva E., , in : Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. : White Horse Press, 2021. Ch. 10. P. 203-230.
The formation of the travel and tourism industry in the Russian Empire was a prolonged process. Along with the development of a vast transportation network, the spread of rail services and the introduction of new railway tariffs in 1894, the number of travellers in the Russian Empire increased by the beginning of the twentieth century. All ...
Added: February 27, 2021
Kraikovski A., Lajus J., , in : Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. : White Horse Press, 2021. Ch. 1. P. 37-68.
Added: October 29, 2021
Moon D., Breyfogle N., Alexandra Bekasova et al., , in : Place and Nature: Essays in Russian Environmental History. : White Horse Press, 2021. P. 1-25.
This is the introduction to the book that offers new perspectives on the environmental history of the lands that have come under Russian and Soviet rule by paying attention to ‘place’ and ‘nature’ in the intersection between humans and the environments that surround them. Through a series of carefully selected, linked case studies, the book ...
Added: October 29, 2021
Skiperskih A., Вопросы литературы 2016 № 5 С. 176-190
Human nature’s complexity and contradictoriness, accentuating the enigmatic essence of the Russian mentality, receives a unique depiction in Dostoevsky’s works. Often we read about strange specimens, whose thoughts and actions would bear typical features of Russian culture. The article sets out to examine these features: in particular, duality and a combination of mutually excluding qualities. ...
Added: December 16, 2016
Davidson A. B., East-West Review: Journal of the Great Britain-Russia Society 2014 Vol. 13 No. 2 P. 5-11
Mutual understanding between Russian and British historians has significantly improved since the end of the Сold war. Among other things it has improved in the sphere of African studies. ...
Added: March 18, 2015
Kochetkova E., Icon (London, England) 2018 Vol. 24 P. 219-222
Review of book on envrionment in socialism ...
Added: January 7, 2020
Meshcheryakov A., Антропов О. К., Манускрипт 2019 Т. 12 № 6 С. 68-72
The authors trace the formation and development of Harbin Institute of Technology in Manchuria in the period of 1920-1976. The paper reveals the basic motives for the active development of engineering higher school in Harbin. The source basis of the study includes all the issues of “Polytechnic” journal. New material on the theme is summarized; ...
Added: November 19, 2020
Lukin A., Kashin V., Сравнительная политика 2019 Т. 10 № 2 С. 135-151
The authors argue that Russian-Chinese rapprochement is a fundamental feature of the current changing system of international relations. The two countries are effectively enabling each other to conduct independent foreign policies often in direct opposition to the West. There is a degree of complementarity between the two sides with Russia having comparative advantage in the ...
Added: May 25, 2019
Турьинская Х. М., Азия и Африка сегодня 2014 № 8 С. 64-66
On the initiative and with the participation of the Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) a round table «Diplomatic relations between Ethiopia and Russia» was held at the Institute for African Studies RAS. Institute staff members and members of other scientific and educational institutions, Russian and Ethiopian diplomats, representatives of state, public ...
Added: October 16, 2014
P. : Hermann, 2016
Les interactions franco-russes restent peu étudiées dans le domaine des sciences du vivant. Un moment ralenties par la révolution de 1917 et surtout la période stalinienne, les relations scientifiques entre la France et la Russie n’ont pourtant jamais réellement cessé. Contrairement à une idée reçue, même pendant la Guerre froide, les échanges furent presque ininterrompus.
Chacune ...
Added: October 16, 2016
Orlov I. B., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2014. No. WP BRP 50/HUM/2014.
In this paper, the institutional component, the volume and geography, and the specific forms of Soviet outgoing (foreign) tourism from 1955 – 1985 is reconstructed using documents from four central state archives on the basis of Soviet, post-Soviet and foreign historiography. A neoinstitutional approach allows the author to show the dependence of the above mentioned ...
Added: April 29, 2014
Lavrinovich M., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2014.
Thе paper examines an attempt to implement modern disciplinary practices in the Sheremetev Almshouse in early 19th century Moscow. It was the first charity institution in Russia use practice of outdoor relief which was exploited patterns of relief employed in Central and Western Europe since Reformation. The focus of administrators on evaluating the social and moral conditions ...
Added: October 17, 2014
Parsamov V., М. : Изд-во РГГУ, 2019
Thebook considers ideological, political, religious, cultural, and everyday life aspects of "the Decembrists and France" theme. The French liberalism is show to have played a role in the shaping of Decembrists ideology. The book also contains comparative historical analysis of the Enlightenment and liberal ideas in France and in Russia. These subjects are considered against ...
Added: September 6, 2019
Demidenko S. V., Российский совет по международным делам (электронный журнал). Российская Федерация. 2014
A comprehensive study of the regional policy of Iran in the context of the warming of its relations with the Western world. The study in this regard the prospects of cooperation between Moscow and Tehran. Who we are - allies or rivals? ...
Added: May 30, 2015
Gurkov I. B., Saidov Z., Journal of Eurasian Studies 2021 Vol. 12 No. 2 P. 155-168
This paper retraces the development of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of Western multinational corporations from the late 1980s until 2019. Using secondary sources and a unique hand-crafted database on significant extensions of manufacturing facilities of Western multinational corporations in Russia during 2012–2018, we present the position of Russian manufacturing subsidiaries of Western multinational corporations before and ...
Added: January 26, 2020
Dorchester : Ashgate, 2013
In 1991 the Soviet empire collapsed, at a stroke throwing the certainties of the Cold War world into flux. Yet despite the dramatic end of this 'last empire', the idea of empire is still alive and well, its language and concepts feeding into public debate and academic research. Bringing together a multidisciplinary and international group ...
Added: October 26, 2013
Cambridge : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014
This collection of essays, all by Russian scholars, is the first of its kind to address a broad English-speaking audience. It presents the theories and methodologies employed by Russian national historiography to make sense of Russian gender and women’s history. The essays in this volume discuss women’s and gender history in Russia, highlighting sensitive areas ...
Added: November 27, 2014
М. : Три квадрата, 2010
В чем особенности исторического пути России? Сегодня этот вопрос интересует не только ученых и политиков, но и широкий круг рядовых граждан. Тот же вопрос задавали себе и немцы, как до объединения Германии, так и в различные
кризисные периоды существования этой страны. Сама идеология (система взглядов) «особого пути» России оказывается вовсе не особенной, не уникально российской. Почему ...
Added: April 7, 2013
Lukin A., Весь мир, 2016
Настоящая книга – плод размышлений автора, известного российского по- литолога А.В. Лукина, над проблемами изучения политики в целом и россий- ской политики в частности за без малого три десятилетия: с конца 80-х гг. ХХ в. до сегодняшнего дня. Все работы, написанные за эти годы, разделены на три раздела. В первом разделе помещены статьи и материалы научного ...
Added: July 7, 2016
Oldfield J., Shaw D., Lajus J., Slavonic and East European Review 2015 Vol. 93 No. 1 P. 1-15
This paper is ah intorduction to the special issue of the journal devoted to Russian ennvironmental history. The special issue is edited by Jonathan Oldfield, Denis Shaw and Julia Lajus and is bradly concerned with exploring the different ways in which Russian society engaged with the natural environment from the late seventienth century htrough to ...
Added: May 26, 2015
Borisova T. Y., Siro J., Comparative Legal History 2014 Vol. 3 P. 84-113
This article aims to compare legislative practices of two socialist revolutions in Finland and Russia (the Bolshevik revolution) in late 1917–1918. Notwithstanding considerable differences of social, political, and economic conditions in Finland and Russia, in both countries the revolutionaries used quite similar legislative means of politics. The revolutionary legislative politics had the same ends - ...
Added: October 12, 2012
Pogorelov M., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2016. No. 139.
The article examines the role of degeneration theory in Russian medical and public discourses at the turn of the 20th century. Drawing on a wide range of historiography and primary sources, including archival records and medical writings, the article aims to outline different contexts of the concept’s usages: from rhetorical idioms to “scientific”, clinical and ...
Added: January 18, 2017
Medushevsky A. N., Российская история 2012 № 3 С. 45-48
Данная публикация материалов российско-китайского Круглого стола посвящена актуальным проблемам модернизации в двух странах в истории и современности. Показаны возможности сопоставления «военного коммунизма» и «большого скачка», технологий построения индустриального общества и становления политических режимов. ...
Added: December 1, 2012
Fedyukin I., Gabdrakhmanov S., / Basic Research Programme. Series HUM "Humanities". 2014.
This study employs a unique database covering 2,293 cadets who graduated from the Noble Land Cadet Corps in St Petersburg from 1732 – 1762 to investigate the role of cultural capital in early modern Russia. Our analysis suggests that within this sample cultural capital was negatively correlated with wealth, but positively with father’s rank within ...
Added: August 20, 2014
Zaretsky Y., Social & Political Philosophy eJournal 2012 Vol. 5 No. 185
The article offers a broad historical overview of the university policy of the Russian state. It suggests that such a general picture could shed some fresh light not only on the role of the state in shaping the Russian university model throughout two and a half centuries, but also on the way of its functioning ...
Added: December 26, 2012
Fedyukin I., Collis R., Zitser E., International History Review 2020 Vol. 42 No. 1 P. 60-76
Early in 1728, in St. Petersburg, Russia, the Duke of Liria—a Spanish diplomat, prominent Jacobite, and an illegitimate grandson of James II—sought to establish a curiously-titled fraternity called the ‘Order of the Anti-Sober’. Using the surviving charter of the proposed fraternal order as a point of departure, this article reconstructs the context and the meaning ...
Added: November 29, 2018
David-Fox M., Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015
Crossing Borders deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. To Michael David-Fox, Soviet history was shaped by interactions across its borders. By reexamining conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, he challenges the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared ...
Added: September 23, 2015