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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
This is volume 4, in two books, of the annual publication which deals with current trends and perspectives for development of Russia. The current volume includes articles and reviews on the Russian strategy for the 21st century, national interests of Russia in the world, constitutional development of Russia, identity and spiritual health of the nation, demographic process and preservation of the nation, formation of a social state in Russia, quality of power and management; regions and towns of Russia, innovations-investments-competitiveness.
[ Nationalism and xenophobia in Russian society : ] Moscow: Panorama, 1998 Language: Russian
Price: $ 22.00
This book continues Panorama`s series on political extremism in Russia. It tracks the history of the national-patriotic movement in Russia since late 1950, analyzes both chambers of the Russian parliament, their structure and discussions as a representative model of Russian national consciousness.
[ Russia: Power and elections : ] Moscow: Aviaizdat, 1996 Language: Russian
Price: $ 45.00
This book is published by the Institute of Socio-Political Studies. It analyzes the first presidential elections in history of Russia in 1996, political preferences and orientations, programs of the different political parties, factions and blocks, presidential candidates and their programs, their campaigns and results.
This is volume 6, in two books, of the annual publication which deals with current trends and prospects for development of Russia. The current volume includes articles and reviews on the Russian strategy for the 21st century, national interests of Russia in the world, modernization of the Russian economy, innovative development, goals and prospects of technological modernization.
In this monograph the history of Siberian provincial free-of-censorship (samizdat) press is re-created from the first post-Stalin years up to the period of "perestroika". The causes of a socio-cultural phenomenon such as `samizdat" are analyzed, the connection between texts and society`s frame of minds is detected, themes and forms of unsanctioned editions` existence are characterized.
[ Russian fate, confession of an outlaw : ] Moscow: Tsentropoligraf, 1999 Language: Russian
Price: $ 19.00
The Russian philosopher A.A. Zinov’ev (1922-2006), famous for his anti-Soviet novels “Gaping heights” (1976), “The Madhouse” (1980), and “Homo Sovieticus” (1982), lived in Germany from 1978 until his repatriation in 1999.
[ Local self-government: Past, present and future : ] Moscow: RAGS, 2010 Language: Russian
Price: $ 32.00
Local self-government is a topic that is still rather a dream than a reality in the current "vertical of power". The Putin administration explains this fact with the lack of skills in self-government in the Russian population.
[ Theory and practice of multiculturalism : ] Moscow: Institut Etnologii i Antropologii, 2009 Language: Russian
Price: $ 8.00
This report analyzes the theory and practice of multiculturalism. The authors look into the history of this concept and the policy with the same name, and describe the various models of multiculturalism in certain countries, western and European, including post-communist ones.
This volume is a collection documents and materials on the political parties boom in the first five years of the post-soviet Russia: 1991-1995. It includes statements, flyers, political platforms, etc of 47 parties.
Does Russia slowly descend to the totalitarian past? The author studied the German efforts to reflect their recent history and recognize its responsibility for the tragedy of millions of victims. Borozniak shows what it takes to overcame the totalitarian past and the losses and gains of the nation on this path.
[ The Third World (information-psychological) War : ] Moscow: Institut Sotsial’no-Politicheskikh Issledivanii ASN, 1999 Language: Russian
Price: $ 13.00
According to the authors (both formerly prominent physicists, now social and ecological activists respectively), some 50 years ago the USA launched an information-psychological war for world domination, deliberately using alteration of the mind and public opinion.
This is volume 7, book 1, of the annual publication which deals with current trends and prospects for the development of Russia. The current volume includes articles and reviews on the Russian strategy for the 21st century, national interests of Russia in the world, modernization of the Russian economy, innovative development, goals and prospects of technological modernization.
[ The domestic policy of Ekaterina I and the Supreme Secret Council : ] Moscow: IRI RAN, 2011 Language: Russian
Price: $ 26.00
This is the first study in the last two centuries on the Supreme Secret Council which was also the supreme state body above the Senate, Synod and collegiums. The members of the Council ("verkhovniks") were the most influential politicians of Russia.
This textbook includes texts of the five Russian constitutions of 1918, 1924, 1936, 1977 and 1993, as well as commentaries on their history and self-check questions. Bibliography.
This is volume 5, book two, of the annual publication which deals with current trends and perspectives for development of Russia. The current volume includes articles and reviews on the Russian strategy for the 21st century, national interests of Russia in the world, constitutional development of Russia, identity and spiritual health of the nation, demographic process and preservation of the nation, formation of a social state in Russia, quality of power and management, regions and towns of Russia, innovations-investments-competitiveness.
Anarchism and anarchists were given a chance to implement their social ideas only twice in this century. The first was during the Russian revolution on the territory of Ukraine in 1917-1921. The second was in Spain in 1936-39.
The main periods in the history and development of the state institutions of executive state power in pre-Revolutionary Russia are presented using various kinds of archival and literary sources. The textbook is intended for law students, and is based on the lectures, which the author has been reading since 1994 for the Department of Social Sciences at the Russian State Pedagogic University, as a chapter of the “History of the Russian State and Law” course.
The proceedings of the Institute of System Analysis analyze the issues and technicalities of evaluation and monitoring of civil society in Russia. Some of the articles describe tools for quantative estimatation of the state of civil society in the regions of Russian Federation.
Code: 013192 Potestarnost` Genezis i Evoliutsiia [ The Idea of ruling : Genesis and evolution ] St. Petersburg: MAE RAN, 1997 Language: Russian
Price: $ 27.00
This collective monograph studies the psychological, cultural, sociological, and ethno-historical attributes of ruling. The book singles out such patterns of ruling as suggestion, imitation, custom, prohibitions and establishes their historical continuity through tradition.
This monograph studies the history of political and legal thought of Byelorussia from the 16th XVI to the first half of the 17th centuries. Bibliographical references.
This monograph focuses on theoretical and practical issues of civil society, public policy and political modernization in modern Russia. It studies the relations between the Russian authorities and civil society.
The seventh issue of the series Orientiry continues the studies in ideology and ideological processes as a philosophical field. One of the permanent topics of the series is East and West: how western information technologies and stereotypes are reflected and adapted in the eastern cultures.
[ Russian legal and political thought: Anthology : ] Moscow: Letnii sad, 2013 Language: Russian
Price: $ 35.00
This is a reprint edition of the anthology of Russian legal and political thought. The collection covers the main directions: Russian liberalism, Slavophilism, Russian conservatism, socialism, Russian neoliberalism (Chicherin, Gradovskii, Muromtsev, Shershenevich et al).
[ Essays on the history of the International : ] Moscow: LIBROKOM, 2012 Language: Russian
Price: $ 19.00
This book covers the history of the First International in 1872-1874. It describes all the congresses of the First International after the Hague Congress in 1872, and studies the activities of the International Workingmen`s Association and the Universal League.
Historical facts have been used as arguments in political polemics since olden days. This book is a collection of articles by scholars from the Institute of the World History (Moscow) on specific cases of the use of historical arguments for political purposes: legitimization of power, territorial arguments, origins of the ethnicity or nation, alternative history, etc.