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“Changes Are Harmful to the State”: The Concept of Reform in Russian Political Thought, 1700–1790
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Smilyanskaya E., Moriakov Y., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2025.
This monograph by Professor Elena B. Smilianskaia (NRU-HSE)
and Erofei Iu. Moriakov (National Historical Archive of Belarus)
is dedicated to the study of Charles Cathcart’s diplomatic mission
to Russia (1768–1772). The study of diplomatic correspondence,
memoranda, and diaries produced by Charles Cathcart and his
wife, who accompanied him to St. Petersburg, provides us with
front-row access to the diplomatic and ceremonial ...
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Rezvykh P. V., Историко-философский ежегодник 2025 Т. 40 С. 48–65
The article delivers an analysis of the image of classical German philosophy in Nelly Motroshilova’s works on the history of philosophy. It is shown that Motroshilov’s interpretation of German idealism is polemically directed against the stereotypical notion of its compensatory nature. According to Motroshilova, the doctrine of pure reason, which acts
as the “theoretical outline” of ...
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Young P. I., Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 2025 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 269–296
This article integrates an examination of major philosophies of the will, their interpretations by Bolshevik theorists, and their manifestations in the Stakhanovite movement. Through empirical analysis, it has distilled three major non-Marxist philosophical currents in the discourse on the Stakhanovite movement: Nietzsche’s will to power, Kant’s will as practical reason, and Rousseau’s general will. Each ...
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Babkova G. O., Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2025 Т. 66 № 1-2 С. 101–125
Between the 1740s and 1760s, the Russian Empire witnessed significant changes in the organization of investigations and sentencing in cases involving juvenile offenders. A study of the records of several Russian judicial investigative and central institutions from the 1740s to the early 1760s allows us to state that there was no clear age of majority ...
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Pavlov I., Философский журнал 2025 Т. 18 № 1 С. 39–52
The article focuses on discussing a methodology for the study of Russian religious philosophy in the conditions of the linguistic and corporate divide between the history of Russian thought and contemporary philosophy. Describing this divide, V. Sidorin emphasizes that historians can distance themselves from their subjects without resorting to overly negative evaluations of the Russian ...
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Polskoy S., Cahiers d'histoire russe, est-européenne, caucasienne et centrasiatique (ex. Cahiers du Monde Russe) 2025 Т. 66 № 1-2 С. 65–99
The concept of political or civil death first emerged in Russian legislation during the Petrine era, with similar punitive practices already present in the 17th century. However, the legal nature and procedure of political death remained unclear until the mid-18th century. This issue called for an immediate legal resolution, particularly following Empress Elizabeth Petrovna's declaration ...
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Antonov M., М.: Юрайт, 2025.
The course outlines the main conceptual schemes, definitions and theoretical approaches used to describe and explain the state. The main emphasis is placed on the multivariate understanding of key theoretical concepts in the context of their historical development. The course has both didactic and heuristic purpose, aiming at both the transfer of basic knowledge necessary for further ...
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Zolotukhin V. V., Patria 2024 Т. 1 № 2 С. 8–24
This paper is devoted to methodological way of research in religious studies, which
could unite three different methods: first, cognitive science of religion (CSR), second, Marxist
historical materialism, third, method of conceptual history. The CSR deals with data of social
and evolutionary psychology describing social processes primarily by means of natural sciences.
The Marxist approach, in its turn, points ...
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Pavlov I., Философия. Журнал Высшей школы экономики 2024 Т. 8 № 3 С. 209–247
This paper considers the problem of applying the intellectual history approach to research in history of philosophy and demonstrates the heuristic potential of this application for a more comprehensive understanding of both the ideas proposed by thinkers of the past and theoretical philosophy in general. Although Skinner emphasized the necessity of this application, the relevance ...
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Korotaev S., Экономическая социология 2024 Т. 25 № 3 С. 13–50
The paper is devoted to the quantitative analysis of semantic changes in the meaning of a concept of “class” in the sociological texts from the second third of the twentieth century to the present. The relevance of the study is conditioned by the lack of clarity and multiple meanings of the concept in question. This ...
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Belov M., Неприкосновенный запас. Дебаты о политике и культуре 2024 Т. 153 № 1 С. 184–196
The article considers the process of entering the word spravedlivost’ into the Russian language from its first uses in the XV century to the end of the XVIII century. The word spravedlivost’ comes into the Russian language from Polish, and the meanings of the word until the XVIII century are realised in the political-legal and moral spheres. However, in ...
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Kalugin D., Маслов Б., Новое литературное обозрение 2023 № 6(184) С. 301–316
The modern Russian concept of chelovechnost’ (humanity) evolved under the influence of the French humanité, which — similarly to its analogues in other languages — derives from the Latin humanitas. The article touches on a set of methodological questions: does the concept of humanity represent merely a construct of cultural history? is its alienness to ...
Added: March 13, 2024
Vidnichuk A., , in: Russia, Europe and the World in the Long Eighteenth Century.: Strasbourg: Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2023. P. 150–157.
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