The review examines the monograph by A.V. Kuznetsov “West Siberian counterculture of the 1980—1990s as a sociocultural phenomenon.” The uniqueness of this book is shown in the general context of recently published books about the West Siberian local rock scene and some of its most prominent representatives; This uniqueness lies in a clearly expressed sociological […]
Kiryukhin D.V., Kiryukhina E.M. “Communist weapons of temptation” and “The great hope of humanity”: the USSR and the USA cinema during the Cold War. Book review: Enemy number one in the symbolic politics of the USSR and the USA cinema during the Cold War as a field of ideological struggle / еd. by O.V. Ryabov, Moscow, 2023, 400 p
The readers are presented with a review of a scientific monograph, which is the work of authors’ collective working in related humanitarian fields, which makes it possible to analyze the problems they present from both theoretical and scientific-practical points of view. The authors focus on the depiction of an image of the enemy in the […]
Isakov A.A., Grubov V.I. Education in a pre-revolutionary county city: publication of archived documents. Book Review: Educational institutions of Arzamas in the XIX — early XX century: a collection of documents, comp. by N.S. Kondratieva, A.N. Kuzmina, I.G. Potoroeva, Nizhny Novgorod: The Central archive of the Nizhny Novgorod region, 2021. 492 p
Readers are invited to review the thematic collection of documents “Educational institutions of Arzamas in the XIX — early XX century”, prepared by Arzamas archivists. The review notes the prospects of research at the local level of the education system in pre-revolutionary Russia, highlights the advantages of the named collection and indicates its weaknesses. According […]
Denisov K.M., Karpova O.M. Language as a magic crystal of perception of the world and man. Book Review: Modern Germanic Philology and WesternEuropean Literature. Iss. 5, ed. by A.V. Ivanov, Moscow, 2023, 327 p
The readers are presented with a review of the collective monograph “Modern Germanic Philology and Western-European Literature”, created due to the initiative of the Learned Council 24.2.344.02 of Nizhniy Novgorod State Linguistic University named after N.A. Dobrolubov. The review underlines the diversity of the covered topics, which includes research results, carried by 23 scholars from […]
Smirnov D.G., Shapovalova A.S. Intelligent power of Russia: logical and conceptual discourse
The article attempts to summarize the points of view on the concept of smart power, proposed at one time by J. Nye. The place of smart power in the binary system of “hard power — soft power” is recorded, and the pattern of its emergence due to the expansion of the resource base of international […]
Koromyslov V.V. Wisdom as a tool for achieving optimal results of economic activity
Trends in the modern world economy have prompted economists to call for the construction of an «economy of wisdom» or a «society of wisdom,» but there was no systematically elaborated concept of wisdom in the philosophical literature. The purpose of this study is to identify and summarize the manifestations of wisdom in economic activity. In […]
Bragin A.V. Noosphere as emergency characteristic biosphere in its synergies with history forms of the development mankind
Urgency of the subject is conditioned by the necessity to adequately present the general prospect of noospheric developments of our planet in its cosmic dynamics and specifics of concrete planetary conditions. That necessity conditions the purpose of our study realizable with the help of system-synergetic of the approach. Viewed from this perspective noosphere is a […]
Tajsina E.A. Philosophical ways of describing the worldview of the Hellenistic era: five paintings
The era of Hellenism is a very long historical period, and it is most important for understanding the history of European culture in general and philosophical culture in particular. Classical periods are usually short: like any rise or peak, they usually take only decades to pass, in some cases — centuries. The “valleys” between these […]
Petryakov L.G. Meta-Ontology as a lego philosophy
Ontology is the first section of philosophy, its axiomatics, the basis of the worldview of many generations of people. However, in philosophy there is not one, but many ontologies based on object, subject, event, system and other views of the world. There is a problem of bringing together different models (schemes) of ontology. They suggest […]
Revyakina N.V., Tyulenev V.M. From the Letters of K.D. Avdeeva to N.V. Revyakina (Introductory article, publication)
Readers are invited to get acquainted with several fragments of letters from Ivanovo State University professor C.D. Avdeeva, addressed to N.V. Revyakina. The letters date back to the beginning of 1980 — the end of 1981, to the time when K.D. Avdeeva just arrived from Leningrad to Ivanovo and began her activities at the university. […]
Ilyin Yu.A. Efforts of the authorities, representatives of the b. FIR and the public of the textile region to make a joint decision on the need to establish a higher technical school in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (spring 1918)
Thanks to the serious research work of I.E. Pochivalova and O.I. Koifman, the need for further development of the question posed by us has only intensified.In the article offered to readers, an attempt is made to deepen the analytical approaches of researchers to the problem of rooting in the circles of Soviet power, representatives of […]
Lyapanov A.V. The influence of the state policy of the Russian Empire on social mobility (on the example of the state peasants of the Vladimir Viceroyalty (1778—1796))
The article deals with the problem of social mobility in the Russian Empire of the late XVIII century. Despite the closed nature of the estate society of that time, there were frequent cases of transition from one estate to another in legislation and public practice. We consider these phenomena on the example of the transition […]
Smirnova O.A, Shpigovskaya M.V. Counter-terrorism activity of France in the Sahel Region
The article is devoted to the largest French foreign military operation “Barkhan” in the Sahara-Sahel region of Africa aimed at countering a terrorist threat and maintaining peace on the continent. The authors give a comprehensive analysis of the French armed forces strategy in this theater of operations. Special attention is paid to the reasons for […]
Evseev V.A. The problematic alliance. On the question of England's foreign policy towards Sweden in the era of two wars: for the “Spanish Succession” and the “Great Northern War”
England and Sweden entered into an alliance in 1700. However, this alliance experienced various metamorphoses. Both powers alternatively became friends, then foreign policy rivals. Their relations strongly depended on the international situation in Europe and, of course, on the foreign policy goals of each of the parties. Often, both kingdoms did not fulfill their obligations. […]