dc.contributor.author

value: Grigoryan, G. S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Grigoryan G. S. ‘House Registers as an Ethnodemographical Source for Studying the Population of Moscow (1918–1921)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1042–1057.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Housing registers of Moscow of the Civil War period were a form of registration for citizens and contain
various information about them. Many such record books of the period of 1917–1924 are held in the Central State
Archive of Moscow. This material has not yet been analyzed in historical researches. The article introduces house
registers into scientific use as an ethnodemographical source. The obtained data will be helpful for gaining new
knowledge about the population of Moscow in the early 20th century and adding new information about the city
and its individual parts. The research is based on 21 house registers, which compile a database of 7,330 entries
over the period from 1918 till 1921. The selected addresses are distributed over five militia stations in Moscow. The
obtained data made it possible to construct a plot of the dynamics of the total number of inhabitants. The research
provides tables of correlation between the local population of Moscow and newly-arrived population; of the sex
and age structure and the ethnic makeup. These characteristics were compared to the results of censuses in
Moscow in 1918 and 1920. It shows that house registers convey the main tendencies of ethnodemographical
processes, but they have certain peculiarities. Unlike censuses, the new source allows to see dynamics of ethnodemographical
characteristics and combine multiple indicators. House registers can be used to conduct at
different levels, and to obtain data about the ethnodemography of Moscow’s population both for the entire city
and localities within it.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: house registers

value: Moscow

value: ethnodemography

value: ethnic groups

value: historical demography

value: nationalities

value: Civil War

dc.title

value: Article


title: Teaching Lucian in Middle Byzantium

dc.contributor.author

value: Marciniak, Przemysław

dc.identifier.citation

value: Przemysław Marciniak. Teaching Lucian in Middle Byzantium. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 267–279.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The following paper explores Lucian and his writings through the lens of Byzantine education
and investigates how his works could have been used in teaching the Greek language and
literature in the Middle Byzantine period. It analyses a number of (didactic) texts which either
refer to or are based on Lucianic writings, focusing primarily on two periods — ninth/tenth
and twelfth centuries when Lucian-related activities (i.e. mostly writing texts, which were inspired
by his works) seem to be especially widespread. Interestingly enough, there was never
much interest in Lucian’s biography and the more prevalent view was to cast Lucian as an Attic
writer, whose texts were sources of correct grammar, vocabulary and phrases. This paper also
offers a preliminary analysis of the four extant schede, that is school exercises, based on the
writings of Lucian, which are transmitted in two manuscripts (Pal. gr. 92 and Paris gr. 2556).
These schede allow a brief glimpse into the way of using Lucian’s writing in the twelfth-century
educational practices. Finally, this contribution brings the diplomatic transcription (which
includes also interlinear notes) of the hitherto unedited three schede from Pal. gr. 92. Two of
these schede are anonymous while the third one was penned by Michael Attikos, a person possibly
mentioned by Anna Komnene in the Alexiad.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This paper was written as part of research funded by the National Center for Science (NCN).
UMO2013/10/E/HS2/00170.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2

dc.subject

value: Lucian

value: Byzantine education

value: schede

value: Michael Attikos

value: Teaching Lucian in Middle Byzantium

format: Adobe PDF


dc.contributor.author

value: Terekhov, Andrey N.

value: Platonova, Maria V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Terekhov A. N., Platonova M. V. 2019. Business process modeling in the digital age. Russian Management Journal 17 (4): 487–498.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Newly emerged in the Russian society trend towards digitalization is gaining increasing number
of applications. Business processes modeling based on modern IT approaches has a large potential
for improving the efficiency and reliability of various manufacturing systems. Unfortunately,
studies that offer specific tools for formal description of manufacturing processes are rare. In
this paper we propose a four-stage system for modeling business processes: design, visualization,
construction of a logical model and, finally, generation of a computer code (CASE technology).
This technology for business processes modeling, as well as specific products based on it, can be
widely used in manufacturing processes, from document workflow automation to the operation
of numerically controlled machines. The proposed tool can help to increase the productivity of
personnel of organizations and optimize manufacturing processes. The automatic code generation
eliminates one of the main drawbacks of software development — the code does not contain
input errors.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Russian Management Journal;Volume 17; Issue 4

value: digitalization

value: visualization

value: business process

value: workflow

value: computer numerical control

value: BPMN

value: CASE technology


dc.contributor.author

value: Vangaever, Jasper

dc.identifier.citation

value: Jasper Vangaever. Constructionalization at Work: The Emergence of the Latin Progressive Present Participle / Gerund Construction. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 249–266.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In Latin, the present participle and the gerund frequently function as the predicate of an
adjunct clause. Such clauses are syntactically dependent on a main clause, with which they
form a bi-clausal construction. Under specific semantic and pragmatic circumstances, some
of these constructions are interpreted based on a pragmatic inference: the main verb, which
corresponds to a verb of existence, position, or movement, is deprived of its lexical meaning
and acquires a grammatical function, viz. that of presenting the non-finite state of affairs as
being in the middle of its realization. The repeated use and propagation of thusly interpreted
constructions gave rise to a new construction, the progressive construction. I argue that the
emergence of this construction corresponds to a constructionalization process, and that although
this process has not been completed within Latin, many instances of the pattern [verb
of existence/position/movement + present participle/gerund] instantiate a construction in its
own right, viz. different from the bi-clausal construction that gave rise to it.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: This research was funded by the ANR/DFG project PaLaFra (ANR–14-FRAL-0006).

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2

value: Latin

value: present participle

value: gerund

value: progressive construction

value: constructionalization

value: grammaticalization

value: Diachronic Construction Grammar

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kondrashin, V. V.

value: Sukhova, O. A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kondrashin V. V., Sukhova O. A. ‘The Collective Farm System as the Main Resource of the Mobilization of the Soviet Economy in the 1930s–1950s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 979–992.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The authors consider the collective farm system as the main source and structural element of the
Soviet mobilizational economy by analyzing modern methodological innovations in Russian economic history
and documentary evidence. Among the main parameters of the study are: periodization of the collective farm
system within the mobilization model of development; methods of forced work in the Soviet village; the typology
of mobilizing management practices; the tactic of resistance to power; and the content of communicative practices
and mass consciousness reactions, mediated by the formation of the mobilization management model.
These data indicate that the existing specificity of socio-political interaction from the 1930s to the 1950s demonstrates
inconsistency and the antinomy of real and declared goals of agricultural policy. The mobilization model
(economically justified only in conditions of external aggression), demagogically covered by the opportunity
of building socialism, Bolshevik policy, and education of the peasantry in the spirit of collectivism, in reality did
not have development as its basis. It was only a tool to optimize resources and solve the tasks of maintaining
socio-political stability. The viability of peasant farming in these conditions was provided by maintaining some
market elements (the household plot, the possibility to sell products at the market, etc.), which were present in
the economy throughout the period under review.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project no. 18-09-00125\18
“Economy and practices of social interaction in the Soviet countryside in the context of the USSR mobilization
economy in the 1930s — early 1950s”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: the Soviet Union

value: mobilization economy

value: collective farm system

value: peasantry

value: stalinist modernization

value: forced work

value: agriculture


dc.contributor.author

value: Tomin, Leonid V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tomin L. V. The Relationship of the State and Corporations in the Age of “Platform Capitalism”. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2019, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 483–496.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the transformation of relations between the state and corporations in
the emerging digital economy. In recent years, politicians and experts have actively discussed
the need to revise international and national rules governing the activities of transnational corporations.
The emergence of platform companies in the framework of the digitalization of the
economy has created legal lacunae and political difficulties in the tax policy of most states. The
lack of a coherent policy does not allow to stop the “tax competition” between countries, which
destroys the foundations of the tax system. Under these conditions, the most mobile capital, “tax
competition”, the presence of numerous offshore and the threat of transferring production creates
effective mechanisms of constant pressure on governments. In this regard, there is a need
to develop new principles of regulatory policy at the international and national levels. The article
discusses the conditions and factors that contributed to the formation of platform companies in
the period after the 2008 financial crisis. Ideological concepts accompanying the development
of the platform economy model are considered separately. One of them is “sharing economy”,
promoted by platform companies as a cooperative space for cooperation and resource sharing. In
addition, a description and analysis of the negative socio-economic and political effects created
by the “platform capitalism” model are given. In particular, the transformation is analyzed by platform
companies in various fields (urban governance, online trade, taxi services, courier delivery).
The article shows concrete examples of how «platform capitalism» enhances the socio-economic
and political negative effects inherent in neoliberalism (“corporate market take-over”, the formation
of a technocratic governance model, precarization of employment, city gentrification). The
article, based on a study of the structural contradictions of the platform economy, demonstrates the reasons for the rise of a new wave of mass protest by trade unions and social movements
united by an anti-corporate agenda.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This paper was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project “Explanatory
potential of network theory in political research: methodological synthesis as an analytical strategy”
№ 18-011-00705.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 15; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: neoliberalism

value: digitalization

value: platform capitalism

value: corporation

value: austerity policy

value: gentrification

value: precarization

value: social movements


dc.contributor.author

value: Shabaev, Yury P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shabaev Yu. P. Ethnocultural Associations as Political Actors. Part 1. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2019, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 497–510.

dc.description.abstract

value:
emerged in Russia, called upon to represent the interests of different ethnic groups. Many of
them sought to become real political actors at the level of their regions, but only few were able
to influence significantly local government and its decisions. This contributed to the crisis of ethnonational
movements and organizations, which began as early as in the second half of the 1990s
and caused a sharp fall in their public influence. Furthermore, many ethnopolitical associations
actually ceased to exist. The article discusses the history of the formation of the three largest
ethnopolitical associations of Russia — the Confederation of Peoples of the Caucasus (CPC), the
Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East (RAIPON), the Association
of Finno-Ugric Peoples (AFUP). It is indicated that the cooperation of ethnonational organizations
and movements into broad associations had its own logic, which was associated with a
limited political resource of regional organizations representing the interests of individual peoples,
and with the need to strengthen the lobbying capabilities of ethnopolitical associations at both
regional and national levels. It is shown that the three largest Russian ethnopolitical associations
arose on different cultural foundations: linguistic, cultural-economic, regional, but they all sought
to develop into some kind of alternative or parallel institutions of political representation. However,
ethnic associations did not succeed in becoming an influential political force and only RAIPON has
a certain political weight, since it has initially chosen the tactics of a partnership with the legitimate
authorities in the Center and in the Regions. In the North Caucasus, the failure of the ethnic
leaders to provide a real alternative to the Islamic idea and local political elites became the reason
for the failure. As for the AFUP, the failure is connected to the obvious attempt of its ideologists
to juxtapose ethnicity and citizenship and to the very decorative nature of the organization, which
was originally organized as a political tribune, and not as an organization of action. But all three of
these organizations are experiencing serious difficulties in their development, and their continued
existence as independent political actors is possible only if their lobbying capabilities and public
importance are enhanced.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: ethnic associations

value: ethnicity

value: ethnopolitics

value: citizenship

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Goncharova, Alina A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Goncharova, A. A. (2019). Commercial e-communication subgenres review. Media Linguistics, 6 (4), 512–525.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The aim of this article is the analysis of the main subgenres of commercial communication
unfolding in the media environment. The author has explored a number of modern Russian
and foreign sources; also she has presented the results obtained from personal professional experience.
The subjects of this investigation are commercial internet communication subgenres
such as as by-liner, lead magnet, landing, tripwire and feedback comment. David Crystal’s theory
is chosen as a starting point for this investigation. D. Crystal identified five basic Internet
communication genres in 2001. The author has shown that the variety of genres has increased
and subgenres appeared for the last 18 years. Her work proves that the Internet communication
genres diversity exceeded the limits of D. Crystal’s system substantially. As a result, the
author concentrates on commercial e-communication, because it has not been sufficiently
considered previously. The communicative aims of the subgenres under review as well as corresponding
types of text structure are examined in detail. The author has demonstrated the
certain communicative tasks solved by every commercial text element. The classification criteria
of web-texts, together with those of Internet communication are presented as well. The
author, using the mentioned classification criteria system, has attempted to organize considered
commercial e-communication subgenres and to identify their place among the others.
From her point of view, the most significant criteria are communicative situation, function, relevant web-technology and search engine focus degree. Following the results of this investigation,
a conclusion about communicative situations uniformity has been drawn. Also, the
author has emphasized that all the considered subgenres had been focused on the readers, not
the search engine. At last, she has revealed the disparity of their functions.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 6; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: internet communication

value: commercial texts

value: landing

value: lead magnet


dc.contributor.author

value: Chernoglazov, Dmitri A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dmitri A. Chernoglazov. Altgriechische Brieftheorie in der Renaissance: Characteres Epistolici von Pseudo-Libanios in lateinischen Übersetzungen des 16. Jahrhunderts. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 280–298.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Ancient Greek epistolary theory played an important part in the coming to be of ars epistolandi
of the Renaissance. The reception of Greek letter-writing manuals in the Latin literature
of the 15th — 16th cc. remains largely unstudied. This paper analyses seven 16th c.
Latin translations of “Epistolary Styles” of Pseudo-Libanius / Pseudo-Proclus (abbr. PL),
five surviving in printed editions and two in manuscripts. The study aims at generalising
on the working principles of translators and voicing possible intentions behind their work.
The methods of the translators are very different: the earliest translation by Pontico Virunio
is extremely literal. Other translators (e.g. Wolfgang Winthauser) treat the original more
freely, sometimes transforming and supplementing the text to clarify the meaning and add
rhetorical flourish. Unlike other translators, John Sambucus completely rearranges the treatise:
he transforms its structure and distributes the types of letters into five genera. This
classification, dating back to Aristotle, is present in some 16th c. Latin manuals, including
that of Erasmus. Probably Sambucus introduces this system in order to harmonise the ancient
treatise with modern epistolary theory. The classification is repeated in an additional
table on letter types, where Sambucus includes 23 types absent from the main text of PL.
Their origin is discussed in the article. The methods of translators and the content of 16th c.
collections, which include PL translations, indicate that the ancient treatise was translated
and published primarily as a school manual. It probably functioned as a link between grammar
and rhetoric and introduced the student to more extensive contemporary manuals, for
example, Erasmus’ treatise.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2

value: Epistolary theory

value: Pseudo-Libanius

value: Greek letter writing manuals

value: Latin translations

value: Renaissance

value: Erasmus of Rotterdam

value: Pontico Virunio

value: Johannes Sambucus


dc.contributor.author

value: Bolshakov, Andrei G.

value: Khramova, Evgenia V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bolshakov A. G., Khramova E. V. Trends and Perspectives in Studies of Protest Moods and the Public Demand for Political Stability in the Regions. Political Expertise: POLITEX, 2019, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 448–459.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The analysis of history of development of the social and economic relations confirms stability of
protest moods out of time and localization frames. Protest as a response to socio-political and
economic changes was studied and predicted as early as by the classics of political thought.
Modern science has a broader inventory. So, conflict scientists use a wide range of tools of the
humanities, social and political sciences, and offer a technique for analysis, forecast, and prevention
of conflicts having protest character. The relevance of this technique is justified by the fact
that preventing political conflicts is much more efficient than working with them post factum. In the
Russian Federation, there are a number of schools of conflict studies which focus on the analysis
of protest moods. The Kazan school has a wide experience of interacting with political institutions
in regard with studying protest moods. As a result, Kazan scientists and the public authorities
of Tatarstan created a new institution — Advisory council on social, political, and ethno-confessional
issues. Its purpose is research and analysis of the socio-political situation in the Republic
of Tatarstan in terms of society’s demand for political stability in the region. The methodology
includes monitoring in collaboration with the RT and Russian Federation research organizations
and bodies of public administration; conflict audit in various areas of socio-political life of Tatarstan;
assessment of rating and ranking of the region’s third-party (including foreign) research organizations; analysis and assessment of political stability and tension in Tatarstan; analysis of the
cases causing socio-political tensions and the media. Kazan conflict scientists offer the scaling of
methodology not only to colleagues from the Russian Federation, but also to foreign researchers
of problems of socio-political stability in regions.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article is part of the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research No. 19-011-31376 opn
“Conflictological audit as a system of technologies for influencing ideological youth extremism in
modern Russia”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Political Expertise: POLITEX;Volume 15; Issue 4

value: protest moods

value: political stability

value: region

value: conflict-audit

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Krapivin, M. Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Krapivin M. Yu. ‘“Tcheka should be Aware of Every Service in Churches”: Directives of the All-Russian Extraordinary Commission on Operational Work among the Orthodox Clergy (1921)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1090–1100.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project
no. 18-09-00299A.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 4


dc.contributor.author

value: Isaenko, Roman A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Roman A. Isaenko. Macrobius, Saturnalia 3. 9 and the Roman Cult of Iuno Caelestis. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 208–215.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The cult of Tanit, the patron goddess of Carthage, known to the Romans as Iuno Caelestis,
had long been thought to have been transferred to Rome during the rule of Septimius
Severus, as a number of inscriptions and coins mentioning or depicting the deity date back
to this period. More recently, an alternative hypothesis was proposed, disputing the importance
of this evidence and suggesting that the worship of Iuno Caelestis had been introduced
by Elagabalus, along with a Carthaginian statue of the goddess that had been wed to
his own divine patron. This article aims to defend the original dating by examining a ritualistic
formula preserved by Macrobius, according to which Iuno Caelestis was summoned to
Rome by Scipio Aemilianus at the end of the Third Punic War. The article argues that while
the formula itself is most likely apocryphal, the information it contains still constitutes an
etiological legend of the Roman cult’s foundation, and it would not exist if the cult did not.
Therefore, the reign of Septimius Severus, the time period when the formula was recorded
by Macrobius’ own source, Serenus Sammonicus, can be used as a terminus ante quem for
the purposes of dating the cult’s transfer.

dc.language.iso

value: en

value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2

dc.subject

value: Elagabalus

value: evocatio

value: Iuno Caelestis

value: Macrobius

value: religion

value: Serenus Sammonicus

value: Septimius Severus


dc.contributor.author

value: Kotova, Anastasia V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Anastasia V. Kotova. Successive Similes in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 4. 682–688. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 318–323.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article tackles a string of similes in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica 4. 682–688. To secure the
possible sources of what seems to be a successive simile, I discuss the semantic complexity of
the expression detorquet in ilia, the syntactic function of invito and cornu, and the problem of
interpretation of Vulcanius ardor. Building on several scholars’ opinions on the meaning of detorquet
in ilia and coercere (v. 683) I suggest that there are two successive actions to this simile: a
man tames the bull and then yokes a pair of them; accordingly, ilia stands for the man’s, not the
bull’s groin. Invito cornu is taken as an ablative of means. An overview of scholarly opinion on the
interpretation of Vulcanius ardor allows it to conjecture that it is the work going on in Vulcan’s
forge, the activity resulting in waves and roar. The list of possible sources of the second simile is
supplemented by the passage from the Aeneid, 3. 554–557. The phenomenon of successive similes
is absent in Virgil’s Aeneid, but can be found in Homer’s Iliad (8. 455–483). By contriving such
strings Valerius Flaccus refers both to Homer and further develops this technique in his own way.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Roman epic poetry

value: Valerius Flaccus

value: Argonautica

value: successive similes

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Shagalkina, Mariia V.

value: Latukha, Marina O.

value: Mitskevich, Ekaterina A.

value: Strogetskaya, Elena V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shagalkina M. V., Latukha M. O., Mitskevich E. A., Strogetskaya E. V. 2019. Factors of migration intentions of talented graduates from leading Russian universities. Russian Management Journal 17 (4): 445–466.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Migration of highly-skilled workforce from Russia (including Russian university graduates)
continues to grow, threatening the possibility of sustainable development of the country due to
the loss of human capital. The article discusses migration intention determinants of talented
graduates and explores the role of talent management practices in overcoming brain drain in the
Russian context. Using logistic regression model we examine the relationship between graduates’
migration intentions and individual, industry and country-level factors. We also discuss the
potential role of business in solving the problem of human capital outflow, namely through the
implementation of talent management practices acting as mechanisms for retention of talented
graduates of leading Russian universities in the country.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Russian Management Journal;Volume 17; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: brain drain

value: human capital

value: graduates

value: highly skilled specialists

value: migration

value: determinants of migration

value: emerging market countries

value: Russia


dc.contributor.author

value: Pustovalova, Tatiana A.

value: Svetlov, Kirill V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Pustovalova T. A., Svetlov K. V. 2019. Capital buffer of Russian banks and economic cycle: Assessment of influence. Russian Management Journal 17 (4): 467–486.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article considers the relationship between the capital buffer and the stages of the economic
cycle. The relevance of this research is determined by the fact that, according to the
Basel III standards, the Central Bank of Russia has introduced the additional component of
the capital adequacy standard, the countercyclical buffer. The countercyclical buffer is aimed at creating a special reserve, which is created during periods of economic growth and used to
support bank’s activities during recessions. The paper analyzes determinants of the capital
buffer by constructing a panel regression based on the System GMM method using data from
48 Russian banks. The main result of the study was the confirmation of an inverse relationship
between the size of the capital buffer and GDP growth rate for large and medium domestic
banks. Besides, we consider the impact on the capital buffer size of such indicators as ROE,
the share of non-performing loans in a bank’s portfolio and the size of a loan portfolio itself.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: capital adequacy

value: capital buffer

value: Basel III

value: economic cycle

value: countercyclical capital buffer

dc.title

value: Article


title: Russian Listed Companies: Controlling Shareholders and Their Conduct

dc.contributor.author

value: Belikov, Igor V.

value: Dementieva, Alla G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Belikov I., Dementieva A. 2019. Russian listed companies: Controlling shareholders and their conduct. Russian Management Journal 17 (4): 427–444.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The high concentration of ownership has remained the key feature of Russian companies, including
publicly traded companies. Even at the peak of the romance with Western portfolio investors,
the controlling shareholders of Russian listed companies put the full control at the top of their
priorities. In the 2000s, the Russian listed companies’ controlling shareholders sought gradual
accommodation with minority shareholders and a gradual acceptance of Western corporate
governance practices and thus espoused market capitalization as an important strategic goal.
This was reversed in the 2010s as the rapidly tightening grip of the state on private business
and mounting restrictions on Western investment in the Russian economy took hold. It has
also reduced a market demand for Western best corporate governance practices on the part of
Russian controlling shareholders. After 2014, most controlling shareholders of Russian listed
companies have switched to the strategy of acting as junior partners of the state. This switch
has largely diminished their market orientation and the demand for Western-style corporate
governance. The future of the large Russian listed companies fully depends on the relations of
their majority owners with the Russian state and thus remains uncertain.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Russian Management Journal;Volume 17; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: listed companies

value: ownership structure

value: state

value: controlling shareholders

value: IPO

value: monetization of property rights

value: corporate governance


dc.contributor.author

value: Videlaine, Geraldine

value: Scaringella, Laurent

dc.identifier.citation

value: Videlaine G., Scaringella L. 2019. Online repurchase intention: Empirical study on the household equipment market. Russian Management Journal 17 (4): 569–590.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The explosion of e-commerce has enabled consumers to purchase goods online. We have developed
a conceptual framework based on the technology acceptance model, the expectation-confirmation
theory and the concept of information systems continuance. Our intent is to conduct an
empirical study on consumers’ online repurchase of household equipment, which has not been
undertaken before. 218 respondents answered our survey on the intention of online repurchase
of IKEA products. Structural equation modeling has been used for the analysis. Concerning
the household equipment market, our findings indicate that past Internet shopping experience
affects online customers’ perceived ease of use, confirmation and satisfaction. The usability of
a website affects trust, perceived enjoyment and usefulness. Customers’ confirmation affects
satisfaction, but not perceived usefulness. Intention to repurchase household equipment online
is positively affected by perceived usefulness and satisfaction. Analysis of our data leads to the counter-intuitive finding that online repurchase intention is negatively affected by perceived
enjoyment. Our study contributes to bring together several extant online repurchase intention
models.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Internet

value: e-commerce

value: repurchase

value: household equipment

value: online shopping

value: IKEA


title: Guest Editors’ Introduction

dc.contributor.author

value: Schiuma, Giovanni

value: Yablonsky, Sergey A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Schiuma G., Yablonsky S. A. 2019. Guest Editors’ Introduction. Russian Management Journal 17 (4): 517-518.

dc.description.abstract

value: Guest Editors’ Introduction

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Russian Management Journal;Volume 17; Issue 4

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Gavrilova, O. A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gavrilova O. A. ‘Party Membership in the Career of a Soviet Engineer: the Fate of S. L. Buryanov’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 969–978.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article uses archival materials to restore the biography of an ordinary Soviet engineer, whose career
followed the requirements of the socialist state under construction. L. S. Buryanov is of interest in part because
his diary adds new data to our picture of Blockade of Leningrad. Buryanov’s special education and professional
career were closely associated with membership in the ranks of the Communist Party. However, party literacy and
active participation in public life failed to protect Buryanov during the purge. Concealing questionable parts of his
biography of the Civil war period and of his social roots led to the cancelling of his party membership and a long
appeal procedure, in which by Buryanov received excellent evaluations for his business qualities and character.
The restoration of his party membership and professional growth as the leading engineer for a large enterprise in
the food industry could provide serious career prospects for the young engineer and party member. However, the
loss of his membership card and concealing an incident in a local party cell, agains the background of repression
in the wake of the murder of S. M. Kirov, led to expulsion once again from the party. Discussion in various party
contexts did not restore Buryanov’s membership. On the contrary, it was a catalyst for his professional failure,
provoked by alcohol addiction.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This research was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project no. 17-01-00346
“The Blockade in the decisions of the leading party bodies of Leningrad, 1941–1944”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Leningrad

value: party purges

value: Communist Party

value: engineer

value: Siege of Leningrad

value: diary


title: Literacies

dc.contributor.author

value: Celiński, Piotr

dc.identifier.citation

value: Celiński, P. (2019). Literacies. Media Linguistics, 6 (4), 467–483.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is a theoretical inquiry into the category of literacies. It is understood here as
common cultural abilities and competences to communicate by the media that allows its
users to maintain and build social imaginary and practices. In order to adapt this abstract
category to the modern digital revolution, the article offers a distinction between analogue
and digital media literacies and competences. Analogue media is linked with mass media
and the mass communication era of analogue media such as books, television, radio and
press. Digital media is still developing as our societies and cultural frameworks are dealing
with new media, Internet, interfaces and new imaginary around them. It is here that
theoretical propositions are confronted with digital media practices. The paper consists of
three parts. In the first part, the concept map and definitions of the categories of communicative
competences and literacies are presented. In the second part, the author analyses
two interpenetrating media cultures with overlapping technological media: analogue and
digital, and the literacies: Gutenberg’s and network-digital coupled with them. In the third
part, the article focuses on the selected elements of this interpenetration: a clash between
the traditional hardware and the new order of interfaces and software, visual culture and
post-media entities, and on the competition between the logic of “reading” and “writing”
the media. The discussion in this part is summed up with the analysis of the hybrid format
of info-aesthetics.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 6; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: literacy

value: media

value: digital culture

value: technology

value: postmedia

dc.title

value: Literacies


dc.contributor.author

value: Gusachenko, A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gusachenko A. ‘The Activities of “Russian Monarchists” in the Documentation of the Latvian Political Police Department (1920–1940): Specific Characteristics of the Source’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 955–968.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article briefly presents the activities of Russian anti-Bolshevik organizations in 1920–1940 as reflected
in the documentation of the Latvian Political Police Department (Latvian State Historical Archive, Collection
3235). Because of the sizeable Russian ethnic minority and White émigré community (those who settled in
Latvia after the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Civil War), a significant anti-Bolshevik movement existed in
the Republic of Latvia during the interwar period. In most cases, these organizations were branches of the international
anti-Bolshevik movement, led by former officers of the Russian Imperial Army, who had fought against
the Bolsheviks during the Civil War. The organizations had different programs and political views, but were united
by their main aim: the destruction of the Bolshevik dictatorship and the recovery of Russia. Despite the European
character of the Republic of Latvia, these organizations operated in a different way compared to branches in other
European countries. In documentation of the Latvian Political Police Department, anti-Bolshevik organizations
were viewed and interpreted in a special (often quite subjective) way, due to several local characteristics. These
peculiar properties (which need to be taken into account to achieve objectivity) are also examined in the article.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This article has been prepared within the frame of the University of Latvia project “Letonika, Diaspora and Intercultural
Communication”, subproject “The territory of Latvia as a Zone of Communication of Various Cultures,
Religions, Political and Social Interests from the Prehistoric Times until the Present Day”, project No. AAP2016/
B060.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Latvian political police department

value: interwar Latvia

value: anti-bolshevik organizations

value: monarchism

value: White movement

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Shmarakov, Roman R.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Roman R. Shmarakov. Pagan Gods and Allegory in the Ylias by Joseph of Exeter. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 239–248.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article traces the reception of pagan concepts (mythological figures, formulae of heroic
poems) in Latin poetry of the 12th c. In his Ylias (2. 1–14), Joseph of Exeter creates a passage
that can be both read in heathen (when uttered by a character) and Christian (as coming
from the author) paradigm. Furia Allecto tormenting Priam is allegorised to stand for “sinister
thought” (mala cogitatio). This interpretation is widely used; it is found, for example, in the
Architrenius by John of Hauville. Pallas protecting the Troyan citadel from the furies is both a
figure of myth and stands for wisdom confronting the passions. The expression “the dead of
your exile” (funera exilii tui) can be read through a Christian lens (meaning people who died
before Christ), as well as through a Platonic one: earth is a place of exile for souls while their
homeland is in the skies. This passage, which allows for a double interpretation, prepares the
reader for the dream of Paris at the end of book two (the dream motive itself existed already
in the antiquity stemming from the rationalistic rethinking of the Judgment of Paris). Joseph
of Exeter described the Judgment of Paris in such a way that it can be interpreted both from
the pagan and Christian standpoint. It breeds tragic irony: Paris triumphs, having acquired
the benevolence of the goddess, but a Christian reader anticipates the death of the hero who
deified his own voluptuousness.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Philologia Classica;Volume 14; Issue 2

dc.subject

value: Medieval Latin epics

value: allegory

value: interpretatio Christiana


title: Philogelos 63 and the Meaning of ἐώρα

dc.contributor.author

value: Zeltchenko, Vsevolod V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Vsevolod V. Zeltchenko. Philogelos 63 and the Meaning of ἐώρα. Philologia Classica 2019, 14 (2), 310–317.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In an unassuming story 63 from the Philogelos collection, a one-eyed governor goes εἰς ἐώραν,
praising to his companion “the grapevines on the left side (of the road)”. A set of attested
meanings of ἐώρα / αἰώρα (literally, ‘a hanging’, ‘swinging’) does not suit the context. The
story is extant only in a longer variant of the collection; its first editor, J. F. Boissonade (1848),
supposed that ἐώρα in this context means ‘grapes suspended from trees’. The successive commentators
and translators, having accepted his idea, understand it as ‘a vineyard’; meanwhile,
the Greek lexicons, from LSJ to F. Montanari, have ignored both Boissonade’s interpretation
and the passage itself. The article stresses that Boissonade profited from an unmentioned gloss
of G. Wakefield, surviving in the London (1821) and Parisian (1831) revisions of Thesaurus
Graecae Linguae of Henri Estienne, as well as from the glossed passage Suda αι 261 Adler
itself (a schoolroom interpolation in the text of Babr. 19). While in Ps.-Babrius the word is
used in its common meaning (‘something hanging’), in the context of Philog. 63 one expects
rather a statement of the purpose of the governor’s outing: the words “when he went out into
the vineyard”, lacking any explanation whatever, make an ex abrupto beginning. Dismissing
the interpretation of Boissonade, the author draws attention to the fact that in writers of
the 5–6th c. ἐωρίζομαι (Malal. Chron. II, 8; V, 3 Thurn; cf. Hesych. ε 7751 Latte) and ἐώρησις
(Ioseph. Hypomn. 46) are attested in the meanings ‘to take a walk’ and ‘a walk’ resp.; the same
meaning should be supposed for ἐώρα in Philog. 63. In all probability, the semantic shift from
‘swinging’ to ‘walking’ was prompted by the usage in the Empire of αἰ-/ἐώρα, αἰ-/ἐώρησις as
equivalents to the Latin gestatio — a therapeutic practice of a mild agitation of the patient’s
body (be it in a carriage, a litter, on board a ship, or in a hammock). Medical prescriptions of
doctors and literary works of their clients alike mention gestatio alongside walking, which may
have contributed to a broadening of respective units.

dc.subject

value: Philogelos

value: ἐώρα

value: gestatio

value: Ancient Greek lexicology

value: Ancient Greek lexicography

dc.title

value: Philogelos 63 and the Meaning of ἐώρα


dc.contributor.author

value: Wasserman, Herman

dc.identifier.citation

value: Wasserman, H. (2019). Media, conflict and democratisation in Africa: Political communication by other means. Media Linguistics, 6 (4), 429–440.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The link between the media and democracy is often understood in the liberal-democratic tradition
to be self-evident. However, the relationship between the media and democracy is often
complicated, critiqued and varies from context to context. The relationship between the media
and democracy in established democracies in the Global North is often taken as an example
that has universal relevance, while the specifics of the South remains under-researched. This
paper aims to provide an illustration of how the link between media and democracy is manifested
in some African contexts, and how political communication takes a variety of forms in
these settings, which may not always correspond to the dominant notions of political communication
in the Global North. First, a brief background of democratization in Africa, as well as
the media’s role in relation to democratization processes, is provided. The paper then goes on
to discuss the reasons why alternative forms of political communication have been emerging
in Africa. Lastly, two examples of alternative types of political communication in Africa are
given — firstly, the use of satire to critique hegemonic political power, and secondly, the use
of alternative platforms to critique the mainstream media itself. Through these examples, the
paper aims to illustrate why it is important to consider political communication on a theoretical
level beyond the boundaries of established, liberal-democratic countries.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 6; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: media

value: democracy

value: political communication

value: African contexts

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Boldovskiy, K. A.

value: Brandenberger, D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Boldovskiy K. A., Brandenberger D. ‘Criminal indictment of the “Leningrad Affair”: Context Analysis’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 993–1027.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This major campaign of repression that developed in the USSR between 1949 and 1951 remains obscured
by myth and speculation to the present day. The present article analyzes how Stalin planned the show
trial and what sort of a “signal” it was to send to his inner circle and lower-ranking officials. To that end, this article
publishes the official criminal indictment for the “Leningrad Affair,” as well as commentary and an analysis of the
crimes that were attributed to A. A. Kuznetsov and his comrades-in-arms. The criminal indictment is published
in its totality here for the first time. This is an important historical source, insofar as it depicts the case in the way
that the dictator intended it to be viewed. Its inconsistencies and poor argumentation testify to the authorities’
failure to successfully organize this political show trial and develop a persuasively constructed indictment. The
article also investigates the process according to which the central “Leningrad Affair” show trial was prepared.
The authors track the early versions of the indictment and show how Stalin altered the court case in an effort to
make it more persuasive. The article also demonstrates the bankruptcy of the accusations within the indictment,
which could have been leveled against any regional strongman in the USSR but were instead made against the
leadership of only a single party organization. The text of the indictment is rendered here without ellipses and
furnished with biographical information about the people named within the context of the criminal case. It contains
more information than the already published sentence of the court in regard to the “Leningrad Affair,” allowing for
an array of new conclusions to be drawn about the nature of this case.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 9; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Leningrad Affair

value: late Stalinism

value: political repressions

value: purges

value: post-war Leningrad

value: A. A. Kuznetsov

value: N. A. Voznesenskiy

value: P. S. Popkov


dc.contributor.author

value: Sulyak, S. G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sulyak S. G. ‘“Soviet occupation” in Moldavian History Textbooks’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 9, no. 4, 2019, pp. 1073–1089.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article shows the coverage of the Soviet period in Moldavian history textbooks. In the Republic of
Moldova today, instead of national history, a history course is taught for one of its national minorities, the history
of Romanians. There are almost no references to other ethnic groups living in the Carpathian-Dniester lands. The
Soviet period was one of falsification, and textbooks emphasized negative aspects of history, while most achievements
and successes of the country were hushed up or distorted while it was part of the USSR. Although the Soviet
Union restored Moldavian statehood, many textbooks circulated the thesis about the illegality of Bessarabia’s
annexation to Russia in 1812, and then the annexation of the region into the USSR in 1940. Bessarabia could not
be a “primordial Romanian land” because the state of Romania itself arose much later. Regarding the Romanian
occupation of Bessarabia in 1918, it is necessary to note the illegitimacy of both the Sfatul Tsarii (Regional Government)
and its decisions, as well as the fact that the Bessarabian (Paris) Protocol of 1920 on the unification of
Bessarabia and Romania did not enter into force. However, authors of most textbooks raise the question of the
“illegal occupation” of Bessarabia and the subsequent formation of the MSSR, within the borders of which the
present Republic of Moldova exists. Despite the fact that this course is anti-state, it ignores not only the existence
of the titular ethnic group, the Moldavians, but also other national minorities, and many of its pages are written in
the spirit of Russophobia and anti-Semitism. This remains mandatory in all educational institutions of the republic.

dc.subject

value: Moldova

value: Republic of Moldova

value: Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic

value: Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

value: national history

value: history of Romanians

value: Moldovans

value: Romanians


dc.contributor.author

value: Knyazeva, Irina V.

value: Retivykh, Inga V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Knyazeva I. V., Retivykh I. V. 2019. SWOT analysis in the territorial strategic planning system: The case of Barnaul city. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management 18 (4): 634–669.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper aims to substantiate the author’s methodological provisions for conducting a SWOT
analysis of territories. The suggested approach contributes to the creation of one of the most effective
research tools for strategic planning; it highlights the advantages and benefi ts commensurate
with managerial contribution, all other things being equal. The paper discusses the suggested
methodology for conducting a SWOT analysis in the process of strategic planning of territory
development. The authors present the basic provisions of the method, analyze its use for territory
strategizing, and identify the errors leading to devaluation of the results. The main focus is on the
identifi cation and analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of administrative units of territories as well as the techniques for their analysis: statistics — ratings — polls. The list of key objects
for analysis and the principle of their grouping are provided. This approach was pilot tested: the
evidence obtained from Barnaul city has resulted in a comprehensive evaluation of the level of
socio-economic development of the city for further decision making. The proposed adaptive version
of the SWOT analysis for the purposes of territory strategizing allows for the improvement
of its efficiency.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Management;Volume 18; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: SWOT analysis

value: territory

value: strengths and weaknesses

value: “statistics — ratings — polls”

value: Barnaul city

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Bobyleva, Alla Z.

value: Lvova, Olga A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bobyleva A. Z., Lvova O. A. 2019. Management of transformational programs of mergers and acquisitions of distressed companies. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Management 18 (4): 483–509.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper aims to develop an integral methodology for managing transformational programs
in relation to a specific type of transformation — the processes of mergers and acquisitions with
the participation of distressed companies. It highlights the distressed companies’ mergers and
acquisitions: its two-stage character when the first step is business recovery, and the second one
is its growth or sale; a large amount of investment to restore the business and its integration after
the transaction’s completion; the danger of underestimating the problems associated with the
market, business processes, resources due to low transparency, distortion of information, limited
time for the verifi cation; the need to reach an agreement not only among shareholders, but also
with the creditors of the indebted business regarding the basic procedures and deadlines, the occurrence
of claim work, court expenses, etc. The authors also formulate the principles and stages
of such project management: an assessment of the feasibility of acquiring a distressed company
(preliminary stage), the stage of the transaction and subsequent integration. A model of the integration process is developed on the example of broiler production as an industry where mergers
and acquisitions with the participation of distressed companies are common. It presents a list of
project groups and their problems and suggests measures for obtaining synergistic effect in the
areas of “market”, “business processes”, “resources (material, labor, financial)”. The principles of
coordinating the activities of project groups, ensuring their integration into the program are the
following: establishing a hierarchy of projects, their horizontal, vertical, network connections;
development of a template of documents for the informational exchange, ongoing monitoring,
preparation of interim and fi nal reports; approval of a schedule for the informational exchange,
reporting; establishing indicators for monitoring for each project and criteria for the success of
their implementation (qualitative or quantitative).

dc.subject

value: transformational programs and projects

value: mergers and acquisitions

value: distressed companies

value: bankruptcy prevention

value: recovery of distressed business


dc.contributor.author

value: Nosova, Ekaterina Igorevna

value: Loboda, Anastasia Yuryevna

value: Retivov, Vasily Mikhailovich

value: Tereschenko, Elena Yurievna

value: Chernobakhtova, Elizaveta Vladimirovna

value: Vashchenkova, Ekaterina Sergeevna

value: Veber, Dmitrii Ivanovitch

value: Yatsishina, Ekaterina Borisovna

dc.identifier.citation

value: Nosova E. I., Loboda A. Yu., Retivov V. M., Tereschenko E. Yu., Chernobakhtova E. V., Vashchenkova E. S., Veber D. I., Yatsishina E. B. The special aspects of the data use on the trace elements composition in alloys for the attribution of medieval seals matrices. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 37–55.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article discusses the potential of the method of seal matrix dating based on analysis of alloy
compositions. Seven dated seal matrices of Western European seals from the St. Petersburg Institute of History,
Russian Academy of Sciences, served as the material for the research. Three of them (samples M1, M5 and
M6) are copies made in the 18th–19th centuries, the other four (M2, M3, M4, M7) are presumably authentic.
It was determined by inductive-plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) that all studied stamps-matrixes were
made of copper alloys with significant variations of the basic components and trace elements. In order to set
the chronological context, we used published data on the composition of alloys of more than 320 small cast
products with an exact chronological reference: from Great Britain (13th–18th), Germany (15th–19th), France
(14th–19th), Poland (14th–16th). The joint statistical cluster analysis of the alloys elemental composition was
made for both the seal matrices and comparative items collection. As a results, all objects were separated based
on the concentration of the basic elements (copper, zinc, lead, tin) into two large chronological groups (up to
and after the 16th century), whereas the analysis of the micro- and trace impurities concentrations allowed
us divided them into smaller subgroups and allocated characteristic clusters of alloys: The seal matrices
M2, M4 and M7 are included in cluster with earliest items from Great Britain 13th–14th centuries. Probably,
these matrices can be attributed to this period. The seal matrix M3 is associated in cluster with wide range
comparative items, corresponding to the XIII–XIX centuries, therefore, the refinement of the dating of this
matrix can not be done. The seal matrices M1, M5 and M6, classified based to the basic elemental composition
as the latest technologies (period after the XVI century), are stood out among the comparative items due to
extremely high concentration of Sn (2.26–4.33 %) and Pb (5.0–7.8 %) along with Zn content being in the
range 20.8–28.1 %. Therefore, presumably, these products are copies of the period of the New time. The
study allows to conclude that use of the analysis of alloys is the perspective instrument for verification of
authenticity and chronology of an object. However, there were also revealed some difficulties provoked by
lack of comparative data of the corresponding geographical, historical and chronological context.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work was partially supported by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the State
assignment FSRC «Crystallography and Photonics» RAS and Russian Foundation of Basic Research in
frame of the Project No. 18-00-00429 (K) (grants 18-00-00407 and 18-00-00292).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)

value: Sphragistics

value: matrices

value: inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry

value: X-ray fluorescence analysis

value: dating


title: When did the tribute of Dorpat appear?

dc.contributor.author

value: Podberyozkin, Philip Dmitrievich

dc.identifier.citation

value: Podberyozkin Ph. D. When did the tribute of Dorpat appear? Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 181–194.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article examines the origin of the «tribute of Dorpat», historical tax of Bishops of Dorpat
(Yuryev) to Grand Princes of Moscow. Study is based on chronological information, provided by Russian
Diplomat Ivan Viskovatiy during the Russian-Livonian negotiations in 1554. According to Viskovatiy, the
tribute was not paid by Livonians for 210 years. The author tries to find out, what historical event commenced
the chronology of the «unpaid tribute», as called by Russians. From the author’s point of view, the historical
precedent can be found in the events of Saint George’s Night Uprising of Estonians against German and
Danish Lords in 1343–1345. The author compares two stories about the negotiations of Estonians with the
Swedish Vogt of Abo and with Pskov in late April and early May of 1343, using the most important source for
this period, «The Younger Livonian Rhymed Chronicle» by Bartholomeus Hoeneke. After the rebels offered
Pskov the lands of Bishop of Dorpat as well as their allegiance, the big army of Pskov and Izborsk attacked the Bishopric. It important to note, that, according to the Pskov chronicles, Pskovians considered these lands
their own. In 1554 the offers of Estonian diplomats could have been viewed as the tribute proposal from the
territories of Dorpat («Dorpat tribute»). The Saint George’s Night Uprising in the Russian literary tradition
is associated with 1344. Therefore, the Russian diplomats in 1554 counted 210 years from that event, instead
of 211. Thus the author concludes, that the proposals of Estonians in Pskov in May 1343 can be viewed as a
historical precedent, that commenced the chronology of the «tribute of Dorpat».

value: «tribute of Dorpat»

value: «Younger Livonian Rhymed Chronicle»

value: Estonians

value: Pskov

value: Dorpat

value: Livonian crisis

dc.title

value: When did the tribute of Dorpat appear?

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Tsvetkova, Natalia A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tsvetkova N. A. Dealing with a resurgent Russia: Engagement and deterrence in US international broadcasting, 2013–2019. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2019, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 435–449.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Among the numerous discussions of US international broadcasting, the regional dimension in
terms of American projects in Russia and its neighboring states are rarely given explicit consideration.
The paper reviews the strategies, projects, and their results in connection with US
international broadcasting towards Russia and, more broadly, towards Eastern Europe and the
post-Soviet space. The first section reviews the shifts in US international broadcasting during
the period of 2013–2016, when the administration of Barack Obama introduced new strategies
and projects to engage the Russian audience through US international media. The second
section demonstrates how the sanctions imposed against Moscow and investigations about
the possible Russian impact on elections in both United States and Europe have modified
international broadcasting in terms of introducing a new deterrence policy during the period
of 2017–2019. The paper concludes that the United States has gained some success in reaching
the Russian-speaking populations through international broadcasting and, moreover, its datadriven
digital diplomacy has brought some results in containing Russia’s informational activities
in Eastern Europe, Balkan region, and post-Soviet countries. While the administration of
Barack Obama conducted the policy of engagement towards the Russian-speaking world, the
first administration of Donald Trump is pursing the policy of deterrence.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 12; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: public diplomacy

value: United States

value: Russia

value: sanctions

value: Eastern Europe

value: international broadcasting

value: big data

value: digital diplomacy

value: data-driven diplomacy


title: International conference "The Hansa Phenomenon: Hanseatic Communicative Area" in Veliky Novgorod

dc.contributor.author

value: Bessudnova, Marina Borisovna

value: Huang Ling, Angela

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bessudnova M. B., Huang Ling A. International conference «The Hansa Phenomenon: Hanseatic Communicative Area” in Veliky Novgorod. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 232–237.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Оn May 20-26, 2019the International Conference “TheHansa Phenomenon: Hanseatic Communicative
Area” was held in the Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University. It was organized by Novgorod
State University in cooperation with the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and with the support of the Russian
Science Foundation. Researchers from Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Sweden highlighted
various aspects of international interactions in the Hanseatic Area.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The report was support by Russian Science Foundation, project Nr. 19–18–00183.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)

dc.subject

value: German Hanse

value: historiography

value: medieval history

value: early modern history

value: associative culture

value: decision-making culture

value: digital edition


dc.contributor.author

value: Parppei, Kati Mari Johanna

dc.identifier.citation

value: Parppei K. M. J. Image Studies in Examining Shared Perceptions of the Past: Two Russian Cases. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 15–36.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Historical image studies have been used successfully in analysing, for instance, representations
of «otherness». Despite of its certain restrictions, the approach can also be used in studying phenomena that
are more complex. In this article, two recent case studies, both concerning Russian historiography and the
formation of national narratives, are shortly discussed in order to ponder upon the applicability of the method
in examining collective perceptions of the past. The first case is about the formation of the historiographical
image of the borderland monastery of Valaam. The second one examines the development of the collective
ideas concerning the battle of Kulikovo (1380). It can be said that in the image formation of Valaam, the
emphasis is on spatiality, religion and contested frontier, whilst in the case of Kulikovo imagery, the ideas
of temporality, national significance and active, unified resistance prevail. What is common for both case
studies, however, is that the formation of the imagery has been intertwined with contemporary political
issues of each given time. The process has had a full support of the power structures. Also, there is strong
undercurrent of National Romanticist thinking connected to both of the cases. Both of the imageries have
been formed anachronistically, in hindsight. Especially in the case of Kulikovo this phenomenon has a central
role: the idea of the medieval battle as a crucial turning point is a prime example of explaining history in the
light of contemporary knowledge and the prevailing ideological undercurrents. In both cases it is possible
to analyze and trace the formation of separate images of certain scenes, turns and figures, and on the other
hand, examine them as a whole imagery.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The article was written under the Academy Research Fellow funding granted by the Academy of Finland.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: image

value: nationalism

value: identities

value: myths

value: narratives

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Lipkin, Mikhail Arkadyevich

dc.identifier.citation

value: Lipkin M. A. The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and the existing trends in study of the 20th century: towards the 70th anniversary of CMEA. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 56–66.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is dedicated to analysis of contemporary state of research in the field of institutional
history of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA). The author analyzes various publications,
dissertations and conference papers over the two last decades. He argues that after dissolution of CMEA
in 1991 its history was wrongly forgotten. A new interest appeared in 2010-s as a result of few factors:
social request for better understanding of the economic nature of East European countries, the advent of
new methodological approaches and a new generation of historians. The CMEA research field passes threw
a new stage of discovery what is a result not so much of new evidences and archival opening as with
appearance of new wave of historians interested in objective study of CMEA phenomenon with a use of
transnational and global history approaches, searching answers to the burning issues of contemporary world
about possible alternatives to the capitalist globalization based on the institutions of Bretton-Woods model
of the 20th century.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was support by Russian Science Foundation, project Nr. 17-18-01728 (The “Socialist World
System” and the Global Economy in the mid 1950s – mid 1970s: the Evolution of Theories and Practices of
Soviet Economic and Technological Leadership)

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)

dc.subject

value: CMEA

value: COMECON

value: planning economy

value: economic globalization

value: socialism

value: capitalism

value: Cold War

value: European integration

value: USSR

value: Eastern Europe

value: historiography

value: global history


dc.contributor.author

value: Platonova, Nadezhda Igorevna

dc.identifier.citation

value: Platonova N. I. The problem of urbanization in Northern Rus’. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 109–134.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the 1990s the idea that proximity to trade routes was the main driving force of the process of
urbanization of early medieval Rus’ again became dominant in Russia. But speaking of “trade,” as applied
to the Viking Age, it is easy to fall into modernization. There was no “free trade” then. In order not to be
sold into slavery, the merchant had to be protected by a society with authority in international affairs. It is
from this perspective that one should consider the evidence of craft and trade preserved in the layers of
early urban settlements. The combination of administrative-organizational and trade-craft factors in their
functional spectrum is a key problem to be developed. An important aspect of the problem of urbanization
is the study of the socio-cultural and economic base on which cities grew. The process of formation of
Slavic central places in the Northwest Russia, which began in the 7th – 8th centuries, was interrupted during
the Viking Age. The first “proto-cities” usually appeared in new places. Even where the continuity between
the “hillfort” and the “city” was really revealed, the guarantee of this was either a socio-political cataclysm,
or the inclusion of this item in the zone of new influence. In itself, the development of local centers can’t
be identified with urbanization. The latter meant a radical change in the structure of archaic East European
societies. The beginning of movement along the military trade routes, the arrival of Arab silver to the north
opened up unprecedented prospects for the implementation of the tributes and products of trade exchange
collected in the north. It was then that the first “proto-cities” emerged. The materials of the earliest Ladoga
indicate that the beginning of the mass marketing of craft products to the rural population occurred already
at the late 8th – early 9th centuries. For example, the production of glass according to the Eastern recipe
was established there for the subsequent production of beads, which were the currency in the purchase of
furs. This meant that by the end of the 8th century a fairly stable supply of the necessary components of the
technological process from the Middle East was established. This did not testify to individual “trade”, but
to the purposeful exploitation of the adjacent territories. One can interpret such kind of central places as
administrative and organizational centers of a new type. They should not be confused with either “cities” or
“rural places”: this is a special phenomenon in the social culture of Early Middle Ages. Its appearance was
impossible without breaking the previous hierarchy of values, authorities, sacred ties. So one shouldn’t be
surprised that “smooth continuity” of old and new centers is not observed. Not tribes and ethnic composition
but, first of all, social roles were changed (although an influx of paramilitary contingent from the north actually took place). Proto-cities became the epicenters of the formation of new elite and new, Old Rus’ cultural
traditions, which then quickly spread to the rural area.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was support as part of the RFBR project No. 18-09-40111 (“Antiquities”) “Sociocultural
transformations in Eastern Europe and the formation of Russia: new materials, interpretations,
generalizations”.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Early Middle Ages

value: Northern Rus’

value: urbanization

value: basic concepts

value: archaeological data

value: protocities

value: administrative centers

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Bessudnova, Marina Borisovna

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bessudnova M. B. The Novgorod Kontor of Hanse in the context of the Revel’s trading strategy of the first third of the 16th century. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 167–180.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The historiographic image of Novgorod Hanseatic Kontor (German Yard) after its restoration in
1514 with descriptions of his decline was reconstructed mainly according to the testimony of the citizens of
Revel aimed at preserving it. On the one hand, his skillfully designed Revel’s discourse is objective because
it reflects some crisis moments caused by the complication of Novgorod-Hanseatic business relations as
a result of, firstly, the decline in discipline of the inhabitants of the German Yard, among which young
people began to prevail, and, secondly, of differences in understanding of legal foundations of the Russo-
Hanseatic trade, «antiquity» («starina») by the Russian and Hanseatic sides in conditions of politicization of
international trade in Russia. On the other hand, many historical realities in the framework of the revelation
perception are distorted in favor of Revel’s trading strategy. These are the themes of the poverty of the
Yard, the possibility of its transition to «alien nations» and the escalation of Russian trade expansion in
Western Europe. Its were used by the Revalers to provide assistance to Lübeck and to other Vendish towns
in restoring and maintaining the German Yard. Of particular importance was financial support in the form
of deductions from the «pound duty», puntzoll. The revelation descriptions of the riots on the German
Yard were to create an idea among the Vendish towns of the insolvency of his administration, appointed by
Dorpat, and help Revel take control of the compound in his hands. Revel also tried to prevent Danzig and
other towns of Royal Prussia from accessing the German Yard. As a result of his policy, slipway trade in
Novgorod gradually closed on Reval with the participation of Lübeck, who invariably supported the idea of
preserving the Novgorod Hanseatic Kontor on the Hansetagen. Revel’s desire to strengthen its position in
Novgorod, presumably, was associated with the spread of credit operations in the Novgorod-Hanseatic trade,
its kind of «monetization» associated with using of silver as a means of payment, and the transformation of
Novgorod into a silver concentration center (Geldstelle).

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was support by Russian Science Foundation, project Nr. 19-18-00183 «Economic, political
and socio-cultural communications of Russia and the Baltic Area in the 15–17th centuries based on archival
collections of Tallinn, Lbeck, Berlin and St. Petersburg».

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)

dc.subject

value: Hanse

value: Novgorod Hanseatic Kontor

value: German Yard

value: Russo-Hanseatic relations

value: Reval

value: Lübeck

value: Novgorod


dc.contributor.author

value: Penskoy, Vitaliy Viktorovich

dc.identifier.citation

value: Penskoy V. V. The Big Game in Eastern Europe and the Problem of the Livonian Heritage in the Context of the Global Reorganization of the World in the Early Modern. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 207–220.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The author of the article attempted to place events in Eastern Europe in the «long 16th century»
in the context of changes in Europe in the same decades. The most important events in this decade in Europe
were the formation of a new world-system with the center in the north-west of the continent and the creation
of an early modern state. Eastern Europe was drawn into these processes with some delay against central
and northwestern Europe.These changes began to be felt here too by the middle of the 16th century. These
changes have acquired a number of unique features in Russia. This peculiarity was due to the peculiarities of
the political struggle in the region between the most important players ― Moscow, Vilna and Bakhchisarai.
The main question was decided ― who will dominate the region in the course of this struggle. The Livonian
foreign policy direction was secondary for Moscow at the same time. For the time being this state of affairs
suited the Novgorod elite, the trade service and the church. It allowed her to maintain internal autonomy.
However, since the early 50s. 16th century the growing crisis tendencies in the political and economic development of the region, connected with the processes of formation of the new European world-economy
and internal problems, made it impossible to continue to maintain the old model of development. In an
effort to prevent political complications in relations with the local elite, Moscow intervened in the Livonian
crisis. This intervention led to two wars, Livonian 1558–1561 and Polotsk 1562–1572 years. These wars
only aggravated the crisis.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: world-economy

value: early Modern

value: «composite state»

value: Eastern Europe

value: Baltic

value: Russia

value: Livonia

value: Crimea

value: Grand Duchy of Lithuania

value: Ivan the Terrible


dc.contributor.author

value: Gudalov, Nikolay N.

value: Treshchenkov, Evgenii Yu.

value: Levi, Dmitrii A.

value: Nemchinova, Tamara S.

value: Lagutina, Mariia L.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gudalov N. N., Treshchenkov E. Yu., Levi D. A., Nemchinova T. S., Lagutina M. L. Conferences on political modeling: Simulating European Union — Eurasian Economic Union negotiations. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2019, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 518–530.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with the experience of modeling (simulating) trade negotiations between
the European Union (EU) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), conducted with the
support of the J. Monnet project at the St. Petersburg University (SPbU). The authors analyze
views on the strengths and limitations of modeling, which exist in academic literature.
SPbU’s experience of modeling the United Nations and the European Union is examined in
the article. One of the distinguishing features of the EU-EAEU simulation was its high degree
of complexity in thematic and institutional respects. The task of this model was to draw up a
deep free trade agreement including not only trade in goods, but also related issues concerning
services and capital movement. The organizers’ approach to elaborating the model’s rules
is explained in detail and the preparation of specific game materials is recounted. A detailed
rulebook contained featured recommendations on participant preparation and rules of behavior,
and described procedural questions, the role of the simulated institutions and their interaction
during each of the game’s days, in accordance with the program. Also, a description of
the simulation’s task, the game’s program and a list of literature useful for the participants were
prepared; and trainings before the game were conducted. Furthermore, the article analyses the
simulation’s course with regard to the entry list, logistics, problems that emerged during the
negotiations, and participant successes and failures. The authors thought it fruitful to end the
article not with a traditional conclusion, but with detailed methodological guidelines on organizing
and conducting models, based on the organizers’ experience of this game and taking
into account practices existing in the world.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article is prepared based on the results of the J. Monnet grant (project) № 2017-2618 “Simulating
EU-Eurasian Economic Union Negotiations to Encourage Transnational Active Learning and Civil
Dialogue”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 12; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: pedagogy

value: simulation game

value: political simulation modeling

value: negotiation skills

value: EU — EAEU model

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Petrukhin, Vladimir Yakovlevich

dc.identifier.citation

value: Petrukhin V. V. Gorodische from Novgorod and Gnyozdovo: 40 years of controversy. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 93–100.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In 1979 the author and Tamara Pushkina published an article dedicated to the prehistory of the
Russian town, where Gnyozdovo settlement near Smolensk was described as princely pogost, controlling
veche town of the Kriviches, just as «Ryurikovo» Gorodische (hillfort) controlled Slovenian Novgorod.
Initially, this historic structure caused the rejection, including Evgeniy Nosov: the chronological gap between the earliest nonfortified trade-craft settlements (9th–10th centuries; transcontinental trade was considered the
background function) and latest old Russian towns dated with the second half of the 10th century (earliest
Smolensk housing estates belong to the second half of the 11th century). Positions of the opponents became
closer, when Valentin Yanin speculated that the Princely settlement was part of the emerging from individual
settlements (future town blocks) Novgorod. Gorodische was perceived as «old town» — New town /
Novgorod arose from the joining up of primary settlements (Evgeniy Nosov). Smolensk and Gnyozdovo
excavations reveal the presence of the earliest strata, in Smolensk significantly associated with autochthonous
long barrows culture (Nikolay Krenke, et. al.), in Gnyozdovo associated with the River Port Zone (Veronica
Murasheva, et. al.). The problem of future research is whether long barrows found in Smolensk correspond to
Kriviches town «in its place» and how can the town relate chronologically to the trading port in Gnyozdovo.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)

dc.subject

value: Novgorod

value: Gorodische

value: Gnyozdovo

value: Smolensk

value: urbanization


dc.contributor.author

value: Yujun, Feng

dc.identifier.citation

value: Yujun Feng. The US—Russia relations since Trump took office and China’s policy choices. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2019, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 422–434.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Since Donald Trump took office in early 2017, US—Russian relations have not only failed to
“unfreeze,” but have deteriorated even further with continued US sanctions against Russia and
increasingly bitter “diplomatic wars,” “media wars,” and intensified geopolitical rivalry in the
Middle East. The author of this paper proposes that continuous deterioration of US—Russian
relations is not only the result of the disparity of power, mutual misalignment, and the sharp
decline of mutual trust between the two countries, but also the result of a strong influence of
their respective domestic political factors, reflecting that the US—Russian conflict is accelerating
the transition from an exogenous to endogenous one. The paper also argues that for a
long time to come, “limited rivalry” will become the “new normal” of US—Russian relations.
Against the background of profound adjustment and complex change ability of the international
situation, China needs to take a more active and proactive lead in the positive interaction
between China, the United States and Russia, avoid further escalation of the competition
between the major powers, and jointly deal with the increasingly serious global and regional
challenges through the trilateral cooperation between Russia, China and the United States.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 12; Issue 4

value: US—Russia Relations

value: China—Russia—US Trilateral Relations

value: Great Power Relations


dc.contributor.author

value: Tsvetaeva, Marina Nikolaevna

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tsvetaeva M. N. Ecology of culture: nature, human, civilization in the artistic and information space of the Russian world. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 240–243.

dc.description.abstract

value:
On May 10–12, 2019, the Saint Petersburg state University held a scientific and practical seminar
with international participation “Ecology of culture: nature, man, civilization in the artistic and information
space of the Russian world”. The seminar program included 24 reports that brought together Russian and
foreign experts from Russian cities – Moscow, St. Petersburg, Rostov, Syktyvkar, as well as Belarus, France,
Germany, and Finland.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: ecology of culture

value: conference

value: Slavic-Russian world

value: national culture

value: symbols

value: image of the world

value: meaning of life

value: sacred images

value: understanding of history

value: philosophy of culture

value: axiology of creativity

dc.type

value: Article


title: In Search of the Original Krevo

dc.contributor.author

value: Dzyarnovich, Oleg Ivanovich

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dzyarnovich O. I. In Search of the Original Krevo. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 228–231.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The stone castle-castle Krevo was erected in the 14th century, possibly by invited Hanseatic
masters. However, it cannot be associated with the annalistic Krevo. The report tells about the study of
the ancient settlement of Krevo X–XIII centuries. Gorodishchensky hill is located 2 km from the castle.
Preliminary excavation results indicate a predominance of the East Slavic rather than the Baltic population.
Exploration of the ancient Krevo will continue.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)

dc.subject

value: Krevo

value: Grand Duchy of Lithuania

value: castles

dc.title

value: In Search of the Original Krevo


dc.contributor.author

value: Tsvetkov, Ivan A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tsvetkov I. A. US—China rivalry as a factor of the contemporary US—Russia relations. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2019, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 406–421.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The history of Russian-American relations in the 20th–21st centuries shows that long periods
of confrontation between the two countries gave way to periods of cooperation and mutual
understanding only for a very limited time. The temporary normalization of Russian-American
relations happened only during periods of global crisis, and the more serious a crisis was,
the more successful the cooperation between Moscow and Washington. This article discusses
the factors that contributed to the transformation of the conflict into a familiar and even normative
state of relations between Russia and the United States. Along with this, an analysis
of changes in the international situation in the newest period has been made, with particular
attention paid to problems in US-Chinese relations during the presidency of Donald Trump.
The author assumes that at the present time only the influence of external factors is capable of
changing the existing conflict balance in relations between Russia and the United States. How
this balance will change: towards further deepening the already serious contradictions, with
the prospect of Russia becoming involved in a new global confrontation between the USA
and China, or towards improving relations and strengthening international security — will
depend on foreign policy strategies chosen by leaders of the United States, China and Russia.
The author considers the creation of the widest possible international coalition aimed at preventing
a conflict scenario of US-Chinese relations to be the strategy that takes into account
the interests of all parties involved. For its implementation, Russia should strive to resolve
conflicts with its neighbors as soon as possible, restore normal working relations with Western
countries, and gain a reputation as a responsible and moderate actor in the international
system.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 12; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Russian-American relations

value: US-China relations

value: Russian-Chinese relations

value: the struggle for global leadership


dc.contributor.author

value: Bogdanov, Alexey N.

value: Boguslavskaya, Yulia K.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Bogdanov A. N., Boguslavskaya Yu. K. Russian-American relations in a changing world: A new contribution to the discussion on the future of international order. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2019, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 537–544.

dc.description.abstract

value:
A steady degradation of Russian-American bilateral relations after the beginning of the socalled
New Cold War certainly represents one of the most critical destabilizing factors in the
field of international security. At the same time, positions of Russia and the United States on
the arrangement of the international order have become increasingly incompatible. In particular,
Moscow and Washington do not share a common understanding on both basic principles
and their own role in the international order of the 21st century. Not surprisingly, these
realities evoke discussions and disputes within and between the academic communities in
Russia and in the United States. A reviewed joint volume, published by MGIMO-university
in 2019, is dedicated to the examination of a number of important issues, united by the common
theme — interaction of the United States and Russia after the end of the Cold War. As
a whole, the book represents an endeavor to unveil the sources of contradictions in contemporary
Russian-American relations. As a point of departure, the authors accept that the current
Russian-American tensions derive not from a misunderstanding by the parties of each
other’s motives, or historically established prejudices and stereotypes, but rather stems from a
fundamental incompatibility of interests, shaped in turn by various factors. Accordingly, this
review aims not just to focus the audience’s attention on this joint volume, but also facilitate its smooth integration into the current academic debates on Russian-American relations and the
prospects of the international order.

value: Russia

value: United States

value: international order

dc.type

value: Article


title: Voices from Bulgaria of the 1870s

dc.contributor.author

value: Artamonova, Ludmila Mikhaylovna

dc.identifier.citation

value: Artamonova L. M. Voices from Bulgaria of the 1870s. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 221–227.

dc.description.abstract

value:
It is a review of the collection of memoirs «Russian-Turkish war: Russian and Bulgarian view».
The publication is a Russian-Bulgarian in terms of the composition of published sources, and the scientific
team that worked on the book. Well known researchers from both countries took part in its compilation:
R. Mikhneva, P. Mitev, V. Kolev, K. A. Pakhalyuk, S. S. Yudin, O. V. Chistyakov, R. G. Gagkuev, N. S. Gusev.
Thanks to their work, Bulgarian memories of the events of the second half of the 1870s, and, above all, about
the Russian-Turkish war and the revival of the Bulgarian statehood became available in Russian. They are
also supplemented by some seldom used diaries and memoirs of the Russian participants in the hostilities
and the administration of the liberated country. The voices of those who witnessed those events help to give
objective assessments of the causes and consequences of Russian intervention in the «Balkan crisis», which
became crucial for the peoples of the Balkan Peninsula.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 2 (26)

dc.subject

value: «Balkan Crisis» of 1875–1878

value: the Liberation of Bulgaria

value: Russian-Bulgarian Relations

value: Temporary Civil Administration

value: Cultural Ties

dc.title

value: Voices from Bulgaria of the 1870s


dc.contributor.author

value: Hackmann, Jörg

dc.identifier.citation

value: Hackmann J. 13th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe, Gdańsk, June 26-29, 2019. Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2019, vol. 2 (26), pp. 238–239.

dc.description.abstract

value:
On June 26–29, 2019, a large international conference was held in the Polish city of Gdansk —
the 13th Baltic Research Conference in Europe. More than 150 reports were presented in 50 panels and
round tables. The subjects were diverse, from the “History and Memory” section to “Politics and Society”,
and even the problems of security in the Baltic region. Scientists from Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,
Great Britain, Germany, Russia, etc. took part in the historical sections. The next conference will be held in
2021 in Uppsala.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Baltic world

value: history of the Baltic region

value: international conference


dc.contributor.author

value: Velikaya, Anna A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Velikaya A. A. Russian — US public diplomacy: Comparative aspects and dialogue prospects. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. International Relations, 2019, vol. 12, issue 4, pp. 500–517.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Public diplomacy is aimed at working with foreign “movers and shakers.” Russia and the
United States use this foreign policy tool to build a bilateral dialogue. At the same time, the
general atmosphere of mistrust is negative for the work of state and near-state structures.
The activities of the US public diplomacy institutes in Russia are limited by the experience
of their work in the post-Soviet space following the end of the Cold War: in the 1990s
Americans were using strategic advising and capacity building tools to implement reforms
in the former USSR, what nowadays is seen by Moscow as blatant interference in the internal
affairs of the state and disrespect for its national interests. In turn, Russian public
diplomacy in the United States is limited by the bipartisan anti-Russian consensus on Capitol
Hill. Therefore, the bilateral public diplomacy of Moscow and Washington is focused on neutral activities — cultural diplomacy, twin city initiatives, and sub-state diplomacy.
Still, the agenda could be extended, but political will from both sides is needed. The target
audience for Russian public diplomacy is the “Greater Eurasia,” the United States is a less
significant, albeit “problematic” area. For US public diplomacy, Russia is viewed not in the
context of “engagement” strategy, but from the standpoint of countering propaganda. At the
same time, the strategic dialogue of the two largest nuclear powers is conducted through
analytical centers and the expert community. The target audience of Russian — US public
diplomacy — undergraduates, graduate students, lecturers, journalists — are involved in
the bilateral programs, but not on a systematic basis. To reveal the problems of the bilateral
public diplomacy, and ways to solve them, the author addresses several top experts in the
field and reveals their recommendations in the article.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. International Relations;Volume 12; Issue 4

value: public diplomacy

value: people-to-people diplomacy

value: nation-building

value: strategic dialogue

value: Rossotrudnichestvo

value: State Department

value: USAID

dc.type

value: Article