dc.contributor.author

value: Nemchinova, Tamara S.

value: Muzalev, Anton A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Nemchinova T. S., Muzalev A. A. Export of education: comparative analysis of Russian and Turkish practices in the post-soviet space. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 484–506.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article assesses the export potential of Russian and Turkish universities. The
influx of foreign citizens to study at universities is the most important quality
criterion for the country’s higher education system. It is also an indicator of the
country’s integration into the world community and a major export item. The
leaders in the number of students from other countries have traditionally been
the United States, Great Britain, France, the USSR, and Germany. At the turn
of XX — XXI centuries. a significant increase in foreign students is observed in
Australia, Japan, China. Other countries are also taking steps to improve the national
higher education system and, accordingly, increase the number of foreign
students. But attempts to penetrate the world market of educational services
are significantly complicated, the market is already thoroughly divided, and the
states that have long been entrenched in it are not going to allow new players to
enter it. This process is also taking place in Turkey, which is one of the fastest
growing economies in the world.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University


dc.contributor.author

value: Belonogov, Andrey L.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Belonogov А. L. Political Repressions at Leningrad State University. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1085–1106.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article analyses socio-biographical characteristics of the Leningrad State University
(LGU) teaching staff, subjected to political repressions from 1935 to 1938. It determines
the scale of repressions in LGU during the abovementioned period as well as identifies the
groups of University teachers who were exposed to the highest risk of being repressed, taking
into consideration their social background, party membership, ethnic origin, position in the
University ranks, affiliation with a certain faculty or department, and other socio-biographical
characteristics. Thus “socio-demographic portrait” of an average LGU teacher subjected to
political repressions is formed within the framework of the current study. Apart from that,
the article discusses the course of investigation and court proceedings, defining under
which paragraph of Article 58 of RSFSR Criminal Code LGU teachers were sued. It specifies
to what extent the severity of the verdict depended upon pleading guilty or not guilty by
the accused, and upon which judicial or extrajudicial body the case was heard. Evidential
basis used by investigators, including physical evidence, denunciations, incriminations and
self-incriminations are also examined within this study. The efforts of NKVD to “reclassify”
meetings between groups of fellow professors as “counterrevolutionary collusions of terrorists”
are also considered in the article. At the same time, the article attempts to estimate the level of
physical and psychological pressure to which suspects were exposed in the course of the trial
in order to obtain from them the testimony needed for the prosecution. The study also traces
the fate of the convicted LGU professors, namely the likelihood of them becoming the victims
of subsequent political repressions after serving the sentence.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: political repressions

value: Leningrad State University (LGU)

value: teachers

value: socio-biographical characteristics

value: extrajudicial NKVD bodies

value: expedited trial proceedings

value: arrested

value: Special Council of the NKVD

value: Special troika

dc.type

value: Article

format: Adobe PDF


title: Errata

dc.description.abstract

value: Errata

dc.language.iso

value: ru


dc.contributor.author

value: Fyodorov, Sergey E.

value: Levin, Feliks E.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Fyodorov S. E., Levin F. E. Reflections on the Medieval and Early Modern Insular Identities. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1336–1351.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article reflects on the monograph by Sparky Booker Cultural exchange and identity in late
medieval Ireland: The English and the Irish of the four obedient shires (Cambridge, Cambridge
University Press, 2018) which offers a revised perspective on the issue of assimilation and
acculturation in late medieval Ireland on the basis of the material of the four obedient shires:
Dublin, Meath, Louth, and Kildare. The scholar presents a complex and multi-faceted image
of interethnic interplay in the region distinguishing between cultural and legal dimensions.
She demonstrates that cultural practices were not the main resource of identity in the late medieval
Ireland in which political allegiance and descent were prioritized. She highlights two aspects:
the discursive level and the level of everyday interaction. Despite the obvious merits of
the book, the material presented there requires more theoretical consideration of the issue of
medieval identities. The authors of the article argue that the situation of interethnic interplay
in the four obedient shires described by Booker could have been suitable for the emergence
of consensual identity. Having coined this term, the authors define it as the type of identity
which originates in the situation of interethnic interplay; entails intercultural switching; and
has supragentile character, i.e., not insisting on common descent. The discourse of consensual
identity did not emerge in the four shires during the period under consideration because of
the absence of common subjecthood of the English and the Irish as well as prevalence of gentilism
but its full potential was realized during the Early Stuarts.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was prepared with the financial support of Saint Petersburg State University (project ID
43924388 “Extending the boundaries of identity: F. Cluver and his edition of Tacitus’s Germania”), and within
the framework of the Academic Fund Program at HSE University in 2020 (grant № 20-04-032 “‘Languages
for describing the Other in early modern Europe: social contexts and repertoires of interpretation”).

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Ireland

value: four obedient shires

value: medieval identity

value: ethnicity

value: assimilation

value: acculturation

value: consensual identity


dc.contributor.author

value: Nikitin, Siluan (episcopus)

dc.identifier.citation

value: Nikitin S. S. Paavo Kontkanen and his Role in Normalization of Relations between the Russian and Finnish Orthodox Churches. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1107–1123.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The interrelations of the Russian and Finnish Orthodox Churches in the 20th century are dramatic
and poorly studied by Russian historians. This article, on the basis of materials from
the State Archives of the Russian Federation and studies into church history translated from
Finnish, attempts to evaluate the role of Dr. Paavo Kontkanen, an active member of the Finnish
Archdiocese, in the relations between these two Churches. He exemplified a change in the
attitude of the National Orthodox Church of Finland towards the Russian Church, historically
kyriarchal, in the second half of the previous century. Dr. Paavo Kontkanen, being for a long
time a member of the collegiate administrative body of the Finnish Archdiocese, the Church
Administrative Council, with permission from Archbishop Herman (Aav) started negotiations
with the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church on a private level. Having archieved
understanding with the chairman of the Department of External Church Relations, Metropolitan
Nicholas (Yarushevich), Kontkanen considered the possibility of reunification of the
Finnish Church and the Russian Church only for a short period, before receiving the status
of Autocephalous Local Church from Moscow. Kontkanen’s actions enable to regard him as a
conductor of Finland’s ecclesiastical interests aimed at rapprochement with the Soviet Union.
It can be proved by Kontkanen’s close contacts with the President of Finland, Urho Kaleva
Kekkonen, and his ability to defend interests of the “pro-Russian” part of the clergy and the
Finnish Orthodox Church in the face of the state and the Church Council.

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Alexander (Karpin)

value: Herman (Aav)

value: Nicholas (Yarushevich)

value: Pavel (Olmari)

value: Paavo Kontkanen

value: Urho Kaleva Kekkonen

value: Finnish Orthodox Church

value: autocephaly

value: interchurch relations

value: jurisdictional status


dc.contributor.author

value: Koloskov, Evgenii A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Koloskov E. A. The Theory of the Hun Origin in Contemporary Bulgaria. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1245–1258.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the history of the formation and transformation of the theory of the
Huns in contemporary Bulgaria through the prism of the political history of the country from
the beginning of the debate about the origin of Bulgarians up to present day. The article examines
how political reality impacted the processes of shaping scholarly and educational images,
i.e. constructing a “convenient” usable past by the Bulgarian academic and non-academic circles.
The main aspect in the study is related to the question of various interpretations of the
ethnic origin of the Bulgars, the Huns and the role of the Slavic factor in the ethnogenesis of
the contemporary Bulgarians. The milestones of the difficult history of Bulgaria and changes
in political regimes have become the reasons for rejecting “Slavic” origin or, in some case,
returning to it depending on external and internal circumstances. Today the Hun theory in all
its variations and interpretations lies outside the professional scope of academic circles but is
becoming the domain for various marginals. However, increasing activity of the right and the
far-right in the politics of Europe capitalizing on the 2015 refugee crisis might return to the
mainstream of official academic discourse the theory of the Hun The upcoming challenges of
foreign policy (Euro-skepticism, ambitious projects outside the EU framework) and internal
political issues (the question of national minorities) may also have a significant impact on this
issue.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: theory of the Hun

value: Bulgaria

value: origin

value: ethnogenesis

value: identity

value: mobilized Middle Ages

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Lozoviuk, Petr

dc.identifier.citation

value: Lozoviuk Р. Between Science and Ideology. History of German Speaking Ethnography of Czech Lands. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1162–1185.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The study focuses on the chronological development of the ethnography of Germans living in
the Czech Lands. The emphasis is put on its institutionalization and association with ideological
concepts of the time. The ethnographical interest in Germans living in the Czech Lands
dates back to the beginning of the 19th century. It focused on the lifestyle of the geographically
and linguistically divided population. The disappearing traditions maintained in village
communities were considered the most appropriate subject of study. After the establishment
of the Czechoslovak Republic, German ethnographers concentrated on topics related to the
strengthening of identity of the new German society which became part of the Republic. This
development enhanced the prestige of ethnography, which facilitated its institutionalization
in the academic environment. During the interwar years, ethnography was considered an appropriate
academic discipline that could legitimize many politically-related claims, and was,
therefore, expected to solve many societal isssues. In the years 1938–1945, the ideological
instrumentalization of ethnography in the Czech-German environment reached a qualitatively
new level. This was reflected in the focus of research of the newly established academic
institutions, which were supposed to — with the help of ethnographic methods — contribute
to the “scientific” legitimacy of the expansion plans of the Nazi regime already implemented
or being prepared at that time. A strong inclination towards ideologically formulated “applied”
science led to and in the first half of the 1940s eventually resulted in the explicitly racist
research on the issue of “blood mixing” and the active participation of many ethnographers
in the preparation, and partly also in the realization of the Nazi idea of a “new Europe”. The
history of Sudeten-German ethnography was terminated by the displacement of the German
population from what is now the Czech Republic in the second half of the 1940s.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: Sudeten-German ethnography

value: history of ethnography

value: ideology of science

value: Czech Lands


dc.contributor.author

value: Dvornichenko, Andrey Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dvornichenko A. Yu. A Beginning of Dialogue or an End of History? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1288–1301.

dc.description.abstract

value:
At the beginning of his article the author postulates a general decline of culture nowadays
which manifests itself in many kinds of arts, and also in the “art of History”. To the author’s
dismay, the latter has been reduced to what can be called, according to Iu. I. Semenov, “istoriology”.
Many historians now forget what history is, what an essence of scholar’s work is, what
a scholar’s novelty is, and so on. To exemplify this tendency, the article concerns with the book
recently published in Moscow. This monograph written by T. V. Chernikova consists of two
books devoted to so called Europeanization of Russia. The first book focuses on the 15-16th
centuries, and the second book — on the 17th century. This work is severely criticized in this
review. The author shows that T. V. Chernikova does not explain the meaning of the word
“Europeanization” and the essence of this notion. The author objects to the historiography
and the sources in these books. However, the major criticism is concerned with the fact that
historiography is not connected with the following text. The text itself based on a very limited
range of scholarship and sources abounds in a large number of inaccuracies, errors and nonsense.
Even this limited range of historiography the author of the books uses very originally.
She simply retells some books or articles — sometimes she refers to them, sometimes — not!
There is no academic novelty in the reviewed books, and their author does not understand
what is “a historian’s craft” is. These books do not contribute to the scholarship at all.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Culture

value: History

value: T. V. Chernikova

value: Europeanization

value: Russia of 15–17th centuries

value: the End of Istoriology


dc.contributor.author

value: Pushkareva, Natalia L.

value: Zhidchenko, Alexander V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Pushkareva N. L., Zhidchenko A. V. Garden City: Everyday Life of the Sixties in the Soviet Social Memory. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1124–1135.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the history of Soviet urban everyday life at the turn of the 1950s —
1960s. and its reflection in the social memory of the inhabitants of Omsk, the problem of
exploiting the enthusiasm of Soviet people during the years of the Khrushchev thaw. A forgotten
episode in the history of urban housing construction in a Siberian city is associated with
the socialist competition between Omsk and Leningrad in 1959 for the title of an exemplary
Garden City. The very fact of the improvement of the urban environment by the forces of the
townspeople and the method of socialist competition led to a lot of contradictions — between
the general and the private, between free and paid, between the ideological and the real. And
this historical episode revealed many aspects of the behavior of ordinary workers of the Soviet
industrial city, with their explicit and hidden desires, aspirations, upbringing and the degree
of “faith in a bright future”. The creation of a garden city by means of the public work of the
residents became a significant idea that could unite everyone. It coincided with the very atmosphere
of the “Khrushchev thaw” when the most daring ideas and projects were born and
implemented. The study of the history of urban non-capital everyday life was carried out on
materials of oral history (memoirs of the old residents of the city of Omsk), a large complex of
archival sources, periodicals, etc.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Supported by the plan of research by the IEA RAS and the Russian Federal Property Fund, project
19-09-00191 “Women’s social memory as a consolidating potential of a multi-generational family, strengthening
statehood and the Russian nation (18th–21th century)”.

dc.subject

value: everyday history

value: oral history

value: social memory

value: Khrushchev thaw

value: city

value: urban anthropology

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Usachev, Andrey S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Usachev A. S. The Colophons of the Manuscripts and the Problems of Studying the History of Russia in Early Modern Times. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1029–1043.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the prospects of applying one type of mass sources to studying the
Russian early modern history These sources were introduced to the scholarship in corpore
only in 2018 by the author of the article. This article concerns 734 dated colophons from the
Russian manuscripts copied in 1500–1600, which are kept in 44 archives in Russia, Ukraine,
Poland and Great Britain. Previously, these sources were selectively used to solve exclusively
bibliographical problems connected with determining the origin of manuscripts. It was established
that their informational potential isn’t exhausted by these aspects. The systematic
research of colophons which inform about more than 150 settlements (cities, large, medium-
sized and small monasteries, villages), many hundreds of manuscripts’ scribes and customers
representing various social groups expand the opportunities of researchers. The colophons
contain the earliest data about the existence of some settlements and personal structure
of governors and local officials. Colophons provide information about dozens of known, little
known, and unknown noble persons (not rich landlords and the members of the Sovereign’s
court) and their participation in some significant events of political history. Colophons give
the additional data for historical demography with regards to the periods of scribes’ activity
and inner migrations in Russia in the 16th century. These sources broaden the circle of data for
the research on the economic situation in the country in different periods, on the important
historical and political ideas of this epoch, on the peculiarities of mass consciousness, and on
the international contacts in political and cultural spheres.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: the 16th century

value: colophons

value: mass sources

value: political history

value: historical geography

value: genealogy

value: historical demography

value: history of ideas


dc.contributor.author

value: Ladynin, Ivan A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ladynin I. A. Lectures of Solomon Iakovlevich Lur’e in the Russian Palestinian Society. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1272–1287.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with the lectures of a well-known Classicist S. Ia. Lur’e delivered at the meetings
of the Russian Palestinian Society in 1923. The texts of the lectures have not survived,
however, they were later revised and published in the USSR and Germany as articles and a
part of a book; besides, they are mentioned in an article by Lur’e’s opponent V. V. Struve; there
is a manuscript of Struve’s response to one of these papers; and the discussion on the other
one is preserved in the minutes of the Palestinian Society (they are published in this article).
Its interest towards Lur’e’s work was caused by his book Antisemitism in Antiquity (1922): he
presented a paper The Stay of the Hebrews in Egypt according to the Hebrew Sources on 9 and
16 March 1923, and a paper on the problem of the so-called social revolution in Egypt —
probably in June 1923, shortly before the society’s activities were suspended. In Lur’e’s view,
both cases demonstrate literary fictions stemming from the Egyptian mythological motif of
the country’s seizure by the evil god Seth and a gradual reversal of the normal order; hence
doubts concerning the historicity of both Egyptian and Hebrew narratives. Lur’e’s method was
based on the concepts by J. G. Frazer and F. F. Zelinskii, and his ideas were strongly challenged
not only by Struve but also by other members of the Society. This might have led to his partial
revision of the position, and eventually — to his withdrawal from these problems.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work is supported by the Russian Science Foundation under grant 18-18-00367 “The World History
in Soviet Science, Culture and Education in 1917–1947”.

value: S. Ia. Lur’e

value: V. V. Struve

value: Russian Palestinian Society

value: Egypt

value: Old Testament

value: polemics


dc.contributor.author

value: Pozas, María Jesús

dc.identifier.citation

value: Pozas M. J. The Spanish Transition as a Model of Political Consolidation. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1218–1230.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article analyses the Spanish Transition from a dictatorship to a democracy as a process of
political change during the period from Franco’s death in 1975 until the arrival of the Socialists
to Power in 1982. Over this period, the political parties had reached a consensus, which
contributed to reconciliation among the Spaniards culminating in the approval of the Constitution
in 1978, which in its turn resulted in the creation of a rule-of-law state. The key people
of the transition were King Juan Carlos I, who supported the democratic system; Adolfo
Suárez, who became an active stateman under Franco’s regime, and was appointed Head of
Government by the King during the transition; and Torcuato Fernández Miranda, President
of the Franco’s Courts. During the Transition the sectarianism was abandoned, and a shared
idea arose that our country was a democracy similarly to other European countries around
us. The transition has been defined as a “model” because it took root, and democracy quickly
consolidated. It has become a historical feat with no precedents, but above all we have to understand
the historical context in which this occurred. The transition was possible thanks to
genuine consensus among the Spaniards. Recently, an idea has emerged from the communist
far left, and some socialists, along with separatists, connected with the 2008 crisis, which calls
for the repeal of the constitutional order and the monarchy. The proponents of this idea consider
monarchy a continuation of Franco’s regime. However, it is evident that the Constitution
ensures and guarantees Spaniards’ rights and freedoms.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

value: transition

value: Spain

value: 1978 Constitution

value: Juan Carlos I

value: Adolfo Suárez

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Cherkasov, Aleksandr A.

value: Bratanovskii, Sergei N.

value: Koroleva, Larisa A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Cherkasov A. A., Bratanovskii S. N., Koroleva L. A. The System of Public Education on the Territory of the Black Sea Province in 1896–1917. Part 2. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1067–1084

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article discusses the system of public education on the territory of the Black Sea province
in 1896–1917. In this part, the authors consider the period of 1908–1917, that is, from the start
of preparatory activities for the introduction of universal primary education to the February
revolution. The main sources for the preparation of the work were the annual “Reports on
the state of educational institutions in the Caucasian educational district” which presented
data on schools under the Ministry of Public Education and the All-Subordinate reports of
the Ober-Prosecutor of the Holy Synod, which reflected the information on parish schools.
The reporting documents of the Ministry of Public Education, which were deposited in the
Russian state historical archive (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation), are also of great importance.
In conclusion, the authors state that in the period from 1896 to 1917 a whole network of
educational institutions was established on the territory of the Black sea province, which consisted
of 4 high schools, 11 lower educational institutions and 156 primary schools. The total
number of educational institutions was 171, 30 of those were subordinate to the ecclesiastical
department, and 128 — to the Ministry of Public Education. On the eve of the First world war,
more than 10 thousand children were enrolled in schools, out of 13,8 thousand children of
school age. Under these circumstances, if this course had continued and had not been affected
by the First world war, we could say that by 1918, all 100 % of children in the Black sea province
would have been covered by school.

dc.subject

value: Black sea province

value: system of public education

value: Ministry of public education

value: Holy Synod


dc.contributor.author

value: Plate, Alice

dc.identifier.citation

value: Plate A. A. Russian Point of View on German Rossievedenie. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1326–1335.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This review deals with the chapter about modern Russian Studies in Germany in the collective
monograph “Izuchenie Rossii sovremennymi istorikami Zapada i Vostoka”, recently published
under the editorship of N. V. Trubnikova. Its authors, the Tomsk historians V. V. Ageeva and
M. A. Shtanko, have set a promising goal for their research: to approach the German rossievedenie
in their overview covering the period from 1975 until 2014 with theoretical-methodological
criteria instead of the more common in such cases political ones. In order to realize
this project, they proposed to divide modern German historiography into three periods,
with the latter one which covers the years 2005–2014 being a no less important innovation.
However, it fell short of the reader’s expectations. Unfortunately, the chapter “Sovremennoe
nemetskoe rossievedenie: spetsifika diskursa, tematicheskie polia i protsess institucionalizacii”
is a mere compilation of superficially adapted facts, conclusions and ideas mostly taken from
other works. V. V. Ageeva and M. A. Shtanko do not seem to have paid attention to the fact that
some of the data they draw on have already lost its actuality. Statistical material serves largely
to confirm their own postulates, and most references to German historians and their studies
are inaccurate and misspelled, which does not enhance comprehension. Overall, the reader
gets the impression that the authors were due to finish their work under some time pressure.
This probably would explain why they chose “to take the easy way out” — in the end, the welcoming
innovative theses expressed at the beginning of the chapter are abandoned, whereas
outdated clichés — confirmed.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This article was prepared within the framework of the state project of the Ministry of Science and
Higher Education of the Russian Federation “Regional Identity of Russia: Comparative Historical and
Philological Studies” (Laboratory for the Study of Primary Sources, Ural Federal University) No. FEUZ-
2020-0056.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: historiography

value: rossievedenie

value: historical Russian studies abroad

value: German historical Russian studies

value: history of Russia in Germany


dc.contributor.author

value: Buranok, Sergey O.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Buranok S. O. Evaluation of Asia and Decolonization in the US Press. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1186–1201.

dc.description.abstract

value:
No research in the colonial system issues during the Cold War would be complete without
studying the press of the participating parties. In order to give a detailed analysis of the international
relationships in terms of the global transformations from an American point of view,
the article explores relevant newspaper articles published after the World War II. It shows
changes concerning priority schemes as viewed in American social discourse during 1945.
Roosevelt’s plan for the dismantling of the colonial empires was gradually replaced with less
radical plans, which presupposed using the colonial experience for foreign policy of the USA.
The materials of the American press of 1945 dedicated to the search for the most effective
strategy of building relations with both colonial empires and dependent territories demonstrate,
among other things, a steady interest of American mass media in negative and positive
experience of colonial policy. Thus, in the American public discourse of late 1945 emerged
several new approaches towards evaluation of the prospects of the colonial system. The first
approach: retention of all colonial empires, especially in the key points of the after-war world
(Middle East, Indochina, Northern Africa). The second approach: retention of the British colonial
empire capable of controlling (with the aid from the USA) the Mediterranean area, the
Middle East, and the South-Eastern Asia; which would address two tasks, namely provision
of valuable raw materials for the American economy, and control over rebels and national
liberation forces. The third approach: replacement of colonial empires with American military
presence in order to solve the same problems.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 20-39-70003 (“Fighting China” 1931–1949
in the US press estimates).

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: decolonization

value: public opinion

value: China

value: Asia

value: USA

value: World War II

value: press

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Pettifer, James

dc.identifier.citation

value: Pettifer J. Dimitri Obolensky after the Cold War: Reflections on Saint Vladimir and Orthodoxy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1231–1244.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to Sir Dmitri Dmitrievich Obolensky, Professor of Russian and Balkan
history at Oxford University, who is known for his study of the “Byzantine Commonwealth”
and its influence on the Eastern European Slavic peoples: Bulgarians, Serbs and Russians. As
a well-known British scholarly historian and philologist and the son of a noble emigrant from
Russian Empire, Prince Dimitri Alexandrovich Obolensky, Obolensky tried to remain in close
intellectual contact with the Russian science throughout the entire period of the Cold War
and until his death in 2001. Obolensky, as a very religious person, was interested not only in
the processes of transformation of the Russian society after the end of the Cold War, but also
in the Russian spiritual revival that took place in the country after the collapse of the Soviet
Union. The article analyzes the changes in the academic and journalistic works by Obolensky
in the context of both global processes — perestroika, the end of the Cold War, the collapse
of the Soviet Union, democratization, the growing influence of the Orthodox Church in Russia
— and local issues — family drama, a decline in study of both Russian language and history
in universities in Great Britain and in Europe. The personality of Dmitri Obolensky, his spiritual and his intellectual heritage as well as the results of his philosophical studies and forecasts
for the development of the Russian society expressed during the last decade of his life are of
undoubted interest to the Russian reader.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Sir Dmitry Dmitrievich Obolensky

value: Slavic Studies

value: Russia Studies

value: St Vladimir

value: Orthodoxy

value: Oxford


dc.contributor.author

value: Yevstratyev, Oleg I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Yevstratyev O. I. Colonial Reality and Postcolonial Instrumentalization of the Overseas Expansion of the Duchy of Courland. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1136–1146.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the theoretical understanding of the history of colonial policy of the
Duchy of Courland in 1645–1731 through the prism of the phenomenon of a “colonial reality”
based on Fernand Braudel’s concept of three levels of historical time and Immanuel Wallerstein’s
world-systems analysis. The article also examines with the help of the postcolonial approach
the practice of applying a colonial episode of the history of Courland by some modern
nations in the context of “postcolonial instrumentalization” of this issue. The following conclusions
are as made: 1) at the level of “event history”, colonialism of Courland organized in a
typical way of the 17th century in the form of “point” settlements in Gambia and on Tobago (it
included also iron mines in Norway leased from Denmark) was part of Jacob Kettler’s (years
of reign 1642–1681) project of turning his state into a “second Holland”; 2) within the “time
of very long duration”, Courland had convenient geographic but unfavorable geopolitical conditions
for the overseas expansion; 3) within the “time of long duration”, colonial policy of
the Duchy faced insurmountable obstacles connected with its ethnosocial structure and its
peripheral position within the 17th century world-economy; 4) from 1698 to 1731, Duke Jacob’s
heirs contested vainly the Island of Tobago as part of the “Courland inheritance”; 5) at the
present stage, we can see how some modern nations use this episode to overcome their “postcolonial
syndrome” (Latvians, Belarusians) and justify their “imperial” ambitions (Poles). At
both levels (“colonial reality” and “postcolonial instrumentalization”), attempts to escape from
the periphery into the core are evident.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

value: Duchy of Courland

value: colonial policy

value: 17th–18th centuries

value: world-systems analysis

value: postcolonial instrumentalization


dc.contributor.author

value: Sokolova, Nataliya A.

value: Lebedeva, Ekaterina Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sokolova N. A., Lebedeva Ek. Yu. Disputes about Imposed and Made-up Versions. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1302–1325.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the work by Natalia Potapova “Speaking from their
cells: discourse and political strategies of the Decembrists” published in 2017. The main argument
of the author is that the investigation falsified the existence of the secret society, and
the accused agreed with it as they believed they could express their political views in that way.
Both sides of the process, as well as Emperor Nicolas I, at the same time were mostly concerned
with the European press. The choice of sources in the book is quite peculiar. Natalia
Potapova, criticizing Soviet researchers who focused only on the cases with most radical confessions,
is very selective herself. She analyses only the primary interrogation centered around
secret society membership. Аll the Decembrists’ memoirs telling about the secret societies are
deemed unreliable, and all the historical documents on the topic written before 1825 are treated
as non-existing. The materials of the European press, predominantly the British, are widely
used in order to model the Russian public opinion as the author believes we lack other information
about it. Examining the methods, arguments and conclusions of the author, this article
demonstrates that the author’s conception is not convincing, not provedб and contradicts the
sources. The author’s interpretation of the last is often arbitrary and not based upon the source
study, and it uncritically projects the modern situations and beliefs to the beginning of the 19th
century. Thus, the work by Natalia Potapova is not, in the strictest sense, a historical research.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: N. D. Potapova

value: decembrists

value: St. Petersburg uprising

value: investigation

value: historical credibility

value: secret society

value: European newspapers

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Morozan, Vladimir V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Morozan V. V. The Staff of the St. Petersburg Office of the State Bank and Their Salaries. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1044–1067.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with the problems of staffing of the St. Petersburg office of the State Bank
and their employees’ salaries. This topic has not been researched in the national and foreign
historiography, which excluded the possibility of referencing previously published works. The
article is based on the record keeping documents from the Russian State Historical Archive.
St. Petersburg office of the State Bank was established in 1894, being a part of the Corporate
Administration of the main credit institution of the country. It was one of the largest local
branches of the bank that executed the largest credit operations in the country. For this reason,
the staff of this office was the most numerous and the most compensated in terms of pay. At
the end of 1896 it comprised 463 full-time employees, while 54 more candidates were on the
wait list for possible vacancies. Meanwhile the remaining branches and offices of the bank
together had a staff of slightly less than 700 people. In addition to full-time employees, there
were in the capital branch of the State Bank numerous support staff, including information
security workers, brochure makers, janitors, security guards, laundresses and others. Salaries
of officials of this unit were the highest. Although formally the official payment in the bank
was established by law and in general was the same for all employees of the bank in all its
branches; the corporate office of this institution paid their employees more generously by
means of bonuses.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: State Bank

value: employees

value: staffing

value: salaries

value: wages

value: support staff


dc.contributor.author

value: Sikora, Miroslaw

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sikora M. Foreign Intelligence and Pharmaceutical Industry in Poland. Part 1. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1202–1217.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the 1960s, Polish society was still not affected by lifestyle diseases to such a large extent as
in the developed countries of Western Europe. However, the statistics on cancer and cardiovascular
diseases started to rise in the 1970s, along with dynamic economic development of
Poland under communist party’s secretary Edward Gierek. Meanwhile, the government of
the People’s Republic of Poland could not afford to invest simultaneously in all critical sectors
of the economy. Particular priority was given to capital-intensive automotive and electronics
industries as well as to traditional but important for Polish exports of raw materials (copper,
coal). In the 1980s, as a result of the Cold War escalation along with the subsequent tightening
of the strategic embargo by NATO states, and — finally — because of the gigantic foreign debt,
the financial resources of Poland were reduced almost to zero. The lack of funds for research
and development in the field of pharmacy and biotechnology was to be compensated for by
an illegal transfer of know-how from the OECD area. Polish foreign intelligence services had
already considerable experience in the field of purchasing technical documentation on the
black market. In the 1970s, at least a dozen or so antibiotic manufacturing technologies were
clandestinely obtained in the West and passed on to the Polish R&D and industry. The article
examines the involvement of Polish intelligence in the transfer of medicines, active substances
and other pharmaceutical products (including medical equipment) to Poland. The “socially
useful” function of communist secret services becomes a fascinating problem in this context.
The article is partly based on the documents produced or collected by the Polish foreign intelligence service in 1960–1990, which have been declassified and are now accessible to the
public in the Archive of the Institute of National Remembrance.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This research was funded by National Science Center (NCN), Poland, Project Sonata, Edition 13,
no. 2017/26/D/HS3/00250.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Poland

value: Cold War

value: Comecon

value: intelligence services

value: scientific espionage

value: pharmaceutical industry

value: history of technology


dc.contributor.author

value: Samoylov, Nikolay A.

value: Mayatskiy, Dmitriy I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Samoylov N. A., Mayatskiy D. I. Images of Europeans in the Chinese Woodblock Book Huangqing zhigongtu. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1259– 1271.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article explores the Chinese historical and ethnographic work of the second half of the
18th century “Illustrated tributaries of the Qing Empire” (“Huangqing zhigongtu”). This book
provides rich material for a systematic analysis of the views of the Chinese about European
countries during the reign of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Twenty eight images and
descriptions of a number of European nations — Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Swedes, the
English, the Dutch, etc. — which were found in the book, have been identified, classified,
and analyzed. A range of issues and problems related to the content of the descriptions has
been established and compared with the illustrations from the book. The article pays particular
attention to identifying and explaining the anthropological and socio-cultural stereotypes
that shaped the image of Europeans in China. The authors of this paper have found
out that due to Catholic missionaries the Chinese compilers of “Huangqing zhigongtu” must
have had enough information about Europe in the first part of the Qing period. Nevertheless,
they made a large number of mistakes when describing the geographical location of several
nations and relations between some of them. They also misunderstood some habits, traditions
or anthropological features of their inhabitants. On the other hand, the compilers were more
accurate and precise with regard to political and trade activities of the Europeans in China or
near its frontier. Studying the “Huangqing zhigongtu” can shed light not only on important
factors that formed the general picture of the Chinese worldview, but also contribute to a better
understanding of motives that determined the foreign policy of the Qing Empire.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The reported study was funded by RFBR, project number 19-09-00218 “The Chinese Historico-Ethnographic
Album ‘Illustrated Tributaries of the Qing Empire’ (‘Huangqing zhigongtu’) and its Role in Studying
the Chinese Worldview on Other Countries and Nations in the mid-18th Century”.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 65; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: image studies

value: China and Europe

value: history of China

value: cultural contacts

value: tributaries

value: Europeans

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Vidmar, Tadej

dc.identifier.citation

value: Vidmar T. The Development and the Demise of Protestant Provincial Schools in Inner Austria. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2020, vol. 65, issue 4, рp. 1147–1161.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper analyzes and clarifies motivations and reasons for a short but intensive development
of the secondary level of schooling followed by a sudden end, especially of the so-called
Provincial schools, in three Inner Austrian lands (Carniola, Styria and Carinthia) in the 16th
century. The situation regarding the organization of schooling in the 16th century was incomparable
with the situation in the states headed by the Protestant rulers. Nevertheless, a type of
Protestant gymnasium emerged here, which was called Provincial school (Landschaftsschule)
and which also required some prior elementary knowledge for enrollment. For each of the
three lands — Carniola, Carinthia and Styria — the establishment of the Provincial School
was the first actual opportunity for the foundation of a central institution providing not only
elementary knowledge, but also higher levels of education partly comparable to the curricula
of the faculties of arts. Unfortunately, at the end of the 16th century, the development of the
Provincial Schools was forcibly stopped. The article is based upon a thorough analysis and
comparison of the relevant primary and secondary sources (in Latin, Slovene, German and
English). The results show that all three school underwent similar phases of development
and the same sudden termination, despite different inner circumstances, material foundations
and time frame. In any case, the three Provincial Schools played an important part in the development
of humanistic education on the territory of modern Republic of Slovenia and the
Republic of Austria.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Provincial School

value: Protestant gymnasium

value: Styria

value: Carniola

value: Carinthia

value: secondary education

value: Protestantism

value: Reformation


dc.contributor.author

value: Gladkiy, Yurij N.

value: Sukhorukov, Vyacheslav D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gladkiy Yu. N., Sukhorukov V. D. Civilizational contexts of African regionalism. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 38–55.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The dynamics of African regionalism in the context of civilizational themes is
considered. The aim of the work is to analyze and summarize the accumulated
scientific material about the past and present of Africa, where the processes of
natural and social character are closely intertwined. The category of civilization
is the explanatory principle of objective search. As the main research (methodological)
approach is used geohistorical reconstruction of event pictures and a
systematic view of the object of cognition. The result of the work was a detailed
picture of modern African regionalism, reflecting the specifics of the continental
geo-space. The presented deduced knowledge can contribute to further
scientific research in this direction, as well as contribute to the formation of a
fundamental scientific basis for analyzing the planetary picture.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: Civilizations of Africa

value: African civilizational regionalism

value: macroformatted regionalism

value: regional associations of Africa

value: local regionalism

value: ethnic fragmentation of Africa


dc.contributor.author

value: Ibrahimov, Aydin I.

value: Ismaylova, Gulzar M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ibrahimov A. I., Ismaylova G. M. Geopolitical Location of the Republic of Azerbaijan: temporal and Spatial Changes. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 246–260.

dc.description.abstract

value:
For instance, the evolution of the Republic of Azerbaijan was examined in three
different periods. The first one is the republican period (1918–1920); the second
one is the sovereign state period (1920–1991); and the third one is the period
since 1991. Each period was compared with the others and the similarities
and differences experienced in the geopolitics of the country were evaluated.
Three main lines are clearly seen in the geopolitics conducted approximately
throughout the last century by different Azerbaijans. Firstly, the main geopolitical
competitor is the Republic of Armenia; secondly, the competition taking
place in the region between Russia and the West creates the atmosphere which
influences the geopolitical behaviors; and thirdly, the fixed element which determines
the status of the country is the energy resources.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Republic of Azerbaijan

value: geopolitics

value: geopolitical behavior

value: change

value: different

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Zeleneva, Irina V.

value: Savkina, Ekaterina A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zeleneva I. V., Savkina E. A. Factors affecting Russian-Turkish relations in the energy sphere at the present stage. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 323–336.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the research of Russian-Turkish relations in the energy
sphere at the present stage. The peculiarity of the Russian-Turkish relations
in the energy sphere is the contradictory situation in which, on the one hand,
Turkey needs constant energy supplies to maintain its economic growth, on
the other hand, Turkey is afraid of getting into energy dependence on Russia
and therefore sees an outlet in the diversification of energy sources entering
the country. The article analyzed the key indicators of the fuel and energy complex
of the two countries, explored joint energy projects and the main bilateral
agreements between Russia and Turkey in such areas of cooperation as: the gas
industry, the oil industry, and nuclear energy. Based on the study, the authors
identified the main internal and external factors affecting Russian-Turkish
relations in the energy sphere. The article concludes that at the present time
political, geographic and economic factors exert a great influence on Russian-
Turkish relations in the energy sector.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Russia

value: Turkey

value: energetics

value: bilateral cooperation

value: external factors

value: internal factors


dc.contributor.author

value: Kosov, Yurij V.

value: Nikolaenko, Anastasiya V.

value: Pogodin, Sergej N.

value: Li, Jingcheng

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kosov Yu. V., Nikolaenko A. V., Pogodin S. N., Li Jingcheng. The state and prospects of cooperation between the Eurasian Economic Union and the Silk Road Economic Belt. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 370–381.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article discusses the current state of cooperation between the Eurasian economic
Union and the silk road. Analyzes the prospects of economic integration
of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. Discusses the
historical development of relations between the two countries. It is noted that
Eurasian economic integration is a more productive and mutually beneficial
with China.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Silk Road Economic Belt

value: Maritime Silk Road of the XXI century

value: Eurasian Economic Union

value: integration

value: transport infrastructure

value: international economic cooperation

value: Eurasianism


dc.contributor.author

value: Matveevskaya, Anna S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Matveevskaya A. S. Russian-Chinese cooperation in the tourism projects as factor of world politics. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 382–393.

dc.description.abstract

value:
World politics considers international tourism as a means of promoting diplomatic,
cultural, economic and social interaction. The role of tourism in country’s
image and prestige is noted. State policy should be oriented to maximize
the benefits of international tourism cooperation. The importance of international
tourism in political discourse emphasizes the participation of Russia and
China in international tourism projects that serve as a source of cultural, social
and economic development.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: world politics

value: international tourism

value: Russian-Chinese tourist projects

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Shiryaev, Boris A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shiryaev B. A. Russian-American relations: an as-time-goes-by view. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 394–404.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The author examines the evolution of Russian-American relations over the past
decades and comes to the conclusion that on many key points the positions of
the two countries are incompatible, the relations are potentially conflicting, not
partnership.

dc.subject

value: Russian-American relations

value: confrontation

value: civilizations

value: historical experience


dc.contributor.author

value: Gromova, Nelli V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gromova N. V. Swahili language in Afro-American culture. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 144–153.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article examines the role and functions of Swahili language in Africa and
the USA, and using the vocabulary of Swahili in the Afro-American culture,
particularly in the Afro-American festival of Kwanzaa, which founder is the
American historian Maulana Karenga. Attention is also paid to ideology of Afrocentrism
and replacing ‘slave’ names by Swahili names. Features of application
of Swahili language in the names of the Afro-American martial arts are
registered.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Swahili language

value: panafricanism

value: Afrocentrism

value: Afro-American culture

value: martial arts


dc.contributor.author

value: Ismayilov, Chingiz N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ismayilov Ch. N. Trends of change of geopolitical processes in the Caspian Region. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 261–269.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article considers the prerequisites and conditions for the transformation
of geopolitical processes in the Caspian region. The analysis of influence of internal
and external factors on arrangement of political forces in the region. The article shows the trends in the development of economic and political cooperation
between the countries of the region. The research focused on the legal
status of the Caspian Sea, the use of hydrocarbon resources and protection of
the natural environment. The distinctive features and priorities of the economic
development of the countries of the Caspian region are revealed.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: geopolitical processes

value: resource use

value: transport corridors

value: economic development

value: interstate relations

dc.type

value: Article


title: From the First Person

dc.contributor.author

value: Yagya, Vatanyar S.

value: Nemchinova, Tamara S.

dc.description.abstract

value: From the First Person


dc.contributor.author

value: Kolotov, Vladimir N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kolotov V. N. Technologies of using the religious factor in Vietnam: features of the political history of the main religious groups from the beginning of the 17 century to the present time. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 347–369.

value:
This article is devoted to the technologies for creating religious communities,
provoking conflicts between different religious groups and using local controlled
conflicts for geopolitical purposes. Immersion of political contradictions
in the cultural and religious environment allows skillfully concealing the
interests of the forces that stand behind the conflicts they provoked.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Religious Factor

value: Controlled Conflicts

value: Clash of Civilizations

value: Cultural Schizophrenia


dc.contributor.author

value: Shlykov, Pavel V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shlykov P. V. From Westernization to De-Westernization: Turkish-American relations in Historical Perspective of the 1940s — 2010s. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 301–322.

value:
The paper analyzes the nonlinear dynamics of Turkish-American relations in
the historical perspective of the last seven decades (from the 1940s up to the
late 2010s). The development of Turkish-American relations demonstrates an
interesting paradox — the same factors that made the two countries closer led to the divergence of the two “strategic partners”. The paper explores the current
crisis of Turkish-American relations in three interrelated dimensions: as a decline
of the «Turkish model», as an erosion of the institutional solidarity within
NATO, and as strategic divergence in perceptions of regional and international
security threats.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Turkey

value: USA

value: NATO

value: Middle East

value: «Turkish model»

value: international security


dc.contributor.author

value: Mosyakov, Dmitrij V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mosyakov D. V. APEC’S place in modern political and economic processes in Greater East Asia. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 337–346.

value:
This article is devoted to the history of such an authoritative international organization
as the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC. This organization, created to address issues of economic integration in the Asia-Pacific region, has
gradually turned into the main platform for political negotiations, at which key
issues of international security and international relations are discussed.

dc.subject

value: integration processes

value: Asia-Pacific region

value: APEC

value: EAC

value: liberalization

value: political elites

value: ASEAN

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Tosun, Tanju

value: Erdoğan Tosun, Gülgün

value: Gökmen, Yusufcan

dc.identifier.citation

value: Tosun T., Tosun G. E., Gökmen Yu. An assessment of the election system in Turkey. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 277–300.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University


dc.contributor.author

value: Avrutina, Apollinariya S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Avrutina A. S. Spiritual Kinship to the Turkish and Russian Cultures through the Prism of Literature (Essay). Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 270–276.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Rusian and Turkish intellectuals have been interested in this important issue for
many years, especially since the beginning of intensive interaction between the
two countries and, as a result, the development of cultural, economic and political
Russian — Turkish relations. It is about the relationship of Turkish and Russian
mentality, about the cultural relationship, which is provided by the border
position of both countries between East and West. To illustrate the closeness of
mentalities, examples from modern Turkish literature, as well as examples from
the media, which are collected over several years as a literary translator from
the Turkish language.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Russia

value: Turkey

value: mentality

value: culture


dc.contributor.author

value: Istomin, Igor A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Istomin I. A. Istomin I. A. American strategy towards the world order after the Cold War. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 405–431.. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 405–431.

dc.description.abstract

value:
After the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as a country with
the greatest economic and military capabilities, which was eager to play an active
role in restructuring institutions of international order. This article aims to
assess the U. S. record from the 1990s till mid — 2010s in global governance,
assessing the main changes in its strategy during this period. The paper is organized
mainly in accordance with a chronological principle. However, considerations
on the American policies are preceded by the exploration of the theoretical
discussion on the main contradictions in the attitude of major powers
towards international orders. After that, the strategies of three U. S. administrations
dealing with global economic regulation and institutions for maintaining
international security are consistently analyzed. The paper demonstrates that
during the last quarter of a century the United States pursued a wide range of
policies towards international institutions. The environment in which Washington
conducted its foreign policy changed dramatically, reducing its ability
to direct the restructuring of international norms. Nevertheless, the U. S. approach,
at least in part, was shaped by the strategic choices made by its leadership.
Moreover, Washington’s policies throughout this period clearly diverged
from expectations set in the theoretical literature as they included a major revisionist
component.

dc.subject

value: United States

value: foreign policy strategy

value: international organizations

value: international security

value: NATO

value: global economy

value: international financial institutions

value: WTO


dc.contributor.author

value: Белов, Сергей Александрович

value: Манжосов, Сергей Анатольевич

dc.identifier.citation

value: Белов С. А., Манжосов С. А. Доктрина прецедента в конституционном и международном правосудии. — СПб.: Изд-во С.-Петерб. ун-та, 2020.

dc.description.abstract

value:
В настоящей книге раскрываются предпосылки и содержание доктрины прецедента, а также особенности её восприятия в теории и практике конституционного и международного правосудия. Используя богатый исследовательский инструментарий общей теории права и сравнительного правоведения, авторы книги системно излагают научную концепцию судебного прецедента, призванную разрешить или, по меньшей мере, существенно прояснить множество методологических затруднений, с которыми сталкиваются отечественные юристы при изучении прецедентного права, а также в ходе применения правовых позиций конституционных и международных судов.
Издание предназначено для юристов, может быть полезно преподавателям, судьям, адвокатам и всем, кто интересуется проблемами использования судебного прецедента в юридической аргументации, а также проблемами судебной практики, особенно в области конституционного и международного права.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: Исследование выполнено при финансовой поддержке РФФИ в рамках научного проекта № 18-011-01136 «Доктрина прецедента в конституционном и международном правосудии».

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.type

value: Book

filename: 120128-Белов,Манжосов(эл)-макет.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Dyakov, Nikolay N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dyakov N. N. Muhammed ben Yusef: From a “Golden Cell” to the First 5-year Plan (Commemorating the 65th Anniversary of Independence of the Kingdom of Morocco). Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 56–67.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Muhammed b. Yusuf (1909–1961) — a key person in political history of Morocco
in the middle of the 20th C. With his intronization in the beginning of
the French colonial rule Muhammed b. Yusuf started in his biography a long
and winding road from a puppet sultanate as an instrument of the French Protectorate,
to the leadership in the liberation movement, becoming a symbol of
nationalism and a father-founder of the independent Moroccan statehood restored
in 1956.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Kingdom of Morocco

value: Modern history

value: French protectorate

value: Colonial policy

value: Nationalism

value: Liberation movement

value: Independence

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Dobronravin, Nikolay A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Dobronravin N. A. Logone and Dar al-Kuti: Phantom Independence in Central Africa. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 68–79.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The republics of Logone and Dar al-Kuti are vivid examples of phantom independence
in the countries of Central Africa. Unlike the really existing unrecognized
states, these pseudo-states first appeared in the political discourse of the
ruling regimes, allegedly struggling with the separatists. Subsequently, the myth
of Logone and Dar al-Kuti was adopted by the forces advocating autonomy or
independence in the south of Chad and the north of the Central African Republic.

dc.subject

value: phantom independence

value: political mythology

value: Chad

value: Central African Republic

value: Logone

value: Dar al-Kuti

value: autonomy

value: secession


title: Editorial Note

dc.contributor.author

value: Nemchinova, Tamara S.

dc.description.abstract

value: Editorial Note

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University


dc.contributor.author

value: Balashova, Galina A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Balashova G. A. Essays of cultural policy of Ethiopia: a look through the era. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 183–193.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Ethiopia is a state that created its own distinct culture. Throughout Ethiopian
history, it has been culture that concentrated the nation’s spiritual experience
and passed it on the following generations, thus ensuring the unity of multiethnic
(more than 80 peoples) Ethiopia. The article assesses the cultural policies
of emperors of Ethiopie — Ezane (IV A. D.), Emperor Lalibela (1190–1228),
Emperor Amda Seyon (1312–1342) and Emperor Zera Yacob’s (1434–1468),
also their contributions to the development of the country’s culture.

dc.subject

value: Ethiopia

value: religions

value: christianity

value: cultural policy

value: art


dc.contributor.author

value: Gusarova, Ekaterina V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gusarova E. V. Material testimonies of the history of diplomatic relations between the Russian Empire and Ethiopia in the St. Petersburg collections. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 207–214.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Relations between Russian Empire and Ethiopia have a long-lasting history.
They became much more active in the last quarter of 19th century, when the
international situation has changed and became tense. During this period the
vast territories of northeastern part of African continent transformed in a kind
of scene of international plans realization of World Empires and their colonial
interests. Ethiopia managed to avoid colonial occupation of its territories.
Consequently, it was again isolated from the external world. Having no support
from abroad and being in hard conditions Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik
II (1889–1913) looked towards the Russian Empire, close to Ethiopia in the
matters of the Christian Orthodox faith.

dc.subject

value: History of Ethiopia

value: Menelik II

value: Nikolas II

value: Ethiopian embassy

value: medals and orders

value: Ethiopian manuscripts

value: Ethiopian Church

dc.type

value: Article


title: Our Contemporary

dc.contributor.author

value: Kolesnikov, Alexandr A.

dc.description.abstract

value: Our Contemporary

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University


dc.contributor.author

value: Savateev, Anatoly D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Savateev A. D. Muslim prophets-revolutionaries in Sub-Saharan Africa: prophetic movements in the history of the continent. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 80–129.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the article, the phenomenon of mimicries to Muhammad the Prophet by African
religious leaders of XVIII–XX centuries is investigated. It is noted that the
paedagogical component played the leading role in the formation and evolution
of the prophetic movements. The society was being reformed both political (the
Muridiyya Sufi order) and military ways (different jihadist movements).

dc.subject

value: The Islamic prophets

value: prophets-revolutionaries

value: Sub-Saharan Africa

value: prophetic movements


dc.contributor.author

value: Kravchenko, Svetlana L.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kravchenko S. V. Evolution of terminology in the Amharic language. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 167–182.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the present article several aspects of development of the terminology of the
Amharic language in recent decades are discussed. The period of drastic alterations
in the life of the Ethiopian society is characterized by the emergence and
rapid development of terminological units used to describe new phenomena
and concepts. The activation of prefixal and suffixal formation methods of terminological
units plays an important role in the enrichment of the terminology
of the modern Amharic language. Great amount of complex words is formed
based on original Amharic vocabulary by Amharic word formation models as
well as on the basis of loanwords.

dc.subject

value: amharic language

value: terminology

value: word formation

value: affixation

value: loanwords


dc.contributor.author

value: Gerasimov, Igor V.

value: Alferov, Daniil A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gerasimov I. V., Alferov D. A. Jibal Nuba: traditions of the past and difficulties of the new stage. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 130–143.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the tribal groups inhabiting the
Jibal Nuba region in Kordofan, the history of the spread of Islam in the region,
the evolution of relations between local and Arab tribes and the current state
of relations between the political forces of the Nuba and the authorities of the
Republic of Sudan.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Sudan

value: Nuba Mountains

value: Arab tribes

value: sufi brotherhoods

value: Kordofan

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Guzev, Viktor G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Guzev V. G. About some exotic features of Turkic languages («Turkic miracles»). Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 231–245.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the grammar of modern Turkish language; on the basis
of the modern Turkish language are considered structural features of Turkic
languages, which determine the specificity of all the Turkic languages; Turkic
languages from the position of General linguistics; attracted for research in the
Turkic material developments linguists naturalhow.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University


dc.contributor.author

value: Telitsin, Nikolay N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Telitsin N. N. Writing of the Turkic people in the Ancient and Early Middle ages: main systems. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 215–230.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article reviews examples of the Old Turkic writings from the 6th until the
15th century, i.e. since the inception of Turkic (Runic) writing until the adoption
of Arabic graphics. The impact of ethno-cultural and ethno-confessional
factors on the emergence and development of Old Turkic (Old Uyghur) writing
is discussed.

dc.subject

value: Turkic writing

value: Uyghur writing

value: Runic writing


dc.contributor.author

value: Zheltov, Alexander Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zheltov A. Yu. About some typological characteristics of Number in Niger-Congo languages. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 154–166.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The category of Number is often considered as rather simple comparing to such
categories as case or nominal classification. However, a serious analysis of the
morphosyntactic characteristics of the category shows that Number is an interesting
and diverse category. The Niger-Congo languages demonstrate a great
variety in the morphosyntactic characteristics of Number. At the first glance,
the number in many languages refers to two types: a uniform marking of the
number only in the plural (Mande — similar to English), the distinction of the
singular by gender / class (Bantu — similar to Russian). However, the number
in Mande and Bantu is fundamentally different from the number in English
and Russian and refers to another typological category. Two more typological
varieties in expression of number are demonstrated in the article: a special plural form for the names of people and pets (nyong, Adamawa), a kind of “split”
under the influence of animacy hierarchy, and marking of number only in adjectives
in attributive and predicative constructions without marking a number
on a noun (Maya).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: the category of number

value: typology

value: Niger-Congo languages

value: Bantu

value: Mande

value: Adamawa


dc.contributor.author

value: Frantsouzov, Sergej A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Frantsouzov S. A. Jerusalem Inscription of Yoḥannəs IV, Emperor of Ethiopia. Digest of World Politics, vol. 10, ed. by T. S. Nemchinova, St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg State University Press, 2020, pp. 194–206.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article contains the first publication of the text and commented translation
of an inscription in the Gə‘əz language engraved in AD 1890–1891 over the
entrance to the oratory of the Residence of the Archbishop of the Ethiopian
Church in Jerusalem, which is situated in the Old City, near the 8th station of
the Via Dolorosa. A considerable moneyed assistance of the Ethiopian community
in the Holy City by the second great integrator of Ethiopia in the Modern
Times, the Emperor Yoḥannəs IV, which is commemorated in the inscription, proved to be reflected also in his correspondence with local monks enclosed to
a chronicle of him.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Ethiopian Christian State

value: Emperor of Ethiopia Yoḥannəs IV

value: Jerusalem

value: Ethiopian community in the Holy Land

value: epigraphic documentation in the Gə‘əz language

dc.title

value: Article


title: КОНСТИТУЦИОННЫЕ ОГРАНИЧЕНИЯ ВРЕМЕННОГО ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ ПОЛОЖЕНИЙ МЕЖДУНАРОДНОГО ДОГОВОРА, ПРЕДУСМАТРИВАЮЩИХ ПЕРЕДАЧУ СПОРОВ В ИНВЕСТИЦИОННЫЙ АРБИТРАЖ

dc.contributor.author

value: Белов, Сергей

dc.description.abstract

value:
Решение Апелляционного суда Гааги от 18.02.2020, оставившее в
силе решение Арбитражного трибунала по делу «ЮКОСа» по поводу
его юрисдикции, вызвало многочисленные обсуждения самых разнообразных
вопросов, затронутых в обоих решениях. При рассмотрении
инвестиционного спора в международном арбитраже, а также при
проверке национальными судами Нидерландов законности и обоснованности
арбитражного решения по вопросу его юрисдикции дело не
ограничивалось применением международного права, в частности
нормами Договора к Энергетической хартии (ДЭХ). Поскольку возможно
временное применение лишь тех положений ДЭХ, которые не
противоречат внутригосударственному праву участников Договора,
вопрос юрисдикции международного инвестиционного арбитража на
основе ДЭХ фактически был увязан с вопросом о допустимости временного
применения норм ДЭХ по российскому праву. Анализ, проведенный
в настоящей статье, показывает, что этот вопрос внутреннего
права мог исследоваться и самим арбитражем, и нидерландскими судами
только как вопрос факта, а не как вопрос права, т.е. арбитраж и
суд были лишены права самостоятельно толковать и применять внутригосударственное
право другой страны. Нормы российского права
включают положения Конституции и законодательных актов, которые
развивают ее положения, в отношении распределения между
органами законодательной и исполнительной власти полномочий по
принятию решений о временном применении договора, признающего
юрисдикцию международного инвестиционного арбитража. Принцип
разделения властей и другие нормы не предоставляют полномочие
по принятию такого решения органам исполнительной власти, в том
числе Правительству РФ, особенно с учетом того, что такое решение
имеет характер акта суверенной воли государства.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: ИГ Закон

dc.subject

value: ДЭХ

value: международный инвестиционный арбитраж

value: дело "ЮКОСа"

value: национальное и международное право

value: разделение властей

value: полномочия по подписанию международных договоров

value: временное применение международных договоров

value: признание юрисдикции инвестиционного арбитража

filename: Конст огр врем прим норм об инвестарбитраже.pdf


dc.contributor.author

value: Zinovyeva, Nadezhda A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zinovyeva N. A. Game streams and let’s play: Perspectives of a sociological analysis. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2020, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 460–475.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article provides an overview of research devoted to the popular practice of watching game
streams and let’s play. The goal is to outline the “points of growth” for sociological analytics
of the new field. Streams and let’s play videos are divided according to the criterion of online
and offline communication: streams are created and shown synchronously online, and let’s
play videos are recorded and edited offline. Today, both of these kinds of videos are integrated
into the computer game industry, and the emergence of comments for the public date back to
television shows. Based on the research results, it is possible to speak about the social structure
of streams and let’s play videos — the leading role of the gamer or commentator and the
community that is developing around his channel. Although the text of a computer game is
the basis for comments, it still does not cover the entire topic of communication between a
streamer/let’s play creator and the audience. Analysts think that computer game commenting
is a form of resistance to the direct consumption of a computer game. The comment content
often reflects not only the gaming experience, but the current agenda — politics, economics,
and popular culture. Thus, the most popular streamers/let’s play creators become opinion
leaders, their status is similar to that of other media celebrities who are at the center of a parasocial
relationship. Viewers of game streams/let’s play videos form online communities with
common interests, skills, and knowledge. Immersion in one information environment, understanding
of its language and other symbols strengthens the feeling of belonging to a group of
“friends”. The author’s contribution consists in the systematization of the research experience
on the problems of social aspects of commenting on computer games and in substantiating the
sociological approach to this practice as a space for the life of new teams.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The report study was funded by RFBR according to the research project no. 20-011-00625А “The
development of computer game projects in sociological researches”.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 13; Issue 4

value: computer games

value: streams

value: let’s play

value: online communities


dc.contributor.author

value: Medyanik, Olga V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Medyanik O. V. The effect of financial anxiety on the insurance behavior of Russians in the context of the 2019-nCoV Pandemic. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2020, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 354–373.

dc.description.abstract

value:
In the context of the economic and political uncertainty associated with the 2019-nCoV pandemic,
it is necessary to determine the socio-psychological factors involved in the transformation
of the behavior of insurance consumers under the influence of a biogenic threat. This
study measures financial anxiety and its impact on the insurance behavior of Russian citizens.
The correlation, comparative, and regression analyses of the financial anxiety of Russian
citizens cover three stages of observation: before the start of the 2019 nCoV pandemic (“FA
up to 19 nCoV; N = 766), during the period of quarantine measures announced in Russia in
March 2020 (“FA 19-nCoV-1”; N = 856), and after the relaxation of quarantine measures at the
end of April 2020 (“FA 19-nCoV-2”; N = 963). Psychological analysis data were obtained from
the online survey “Financial anxiety (in the context of insurance)”. The questionnaire is psychometrically
reliable and easy to use. It includes five measurement scales: MR1 — Physical
manifestations of financial incentive anxiety, MR2 — With money shortages and financial uncertainty,
MR3 — The value of insurance coverage, MP4 — Financial Confidence, and MR5 —
Perception of insurance and investment risks. It was found that Russian citizens consider it
important to have insurance coverage for a “rainy day”, and they showed confidence in the insurance
market during the biogenic crisis. However, unfortunately, during the 19-nCoV-1 and
19-nCoV-2 periods, Russian citizens did not feel financially secure, unlike in the period before
19-nCoV. Women showed high scores for physical manifestations of financial anxiety and low
financial confidence in the future, in contrast to men, regardless of the observation period.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was prepared in the course of research within the framework of the initiative grant of
St. Petersburg State University no. 106-16838.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: financial anxiety

value: insurance behavior

value: economic security of the person

value: financial confidence after COVID-19

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Beloedova, Anna V.

value: Kozhemyakin, Evgeny A.

value: Tyazhlov, Yan I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Beloedova, A. V., Kozhemyakin, E. A., Tyazhlov, Y. I. (2020). Impact of verbal comment on interpretation of visual message: Multimodal approach. Media Linguistics, 7 (4), 445–461.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper discusses several advantages of multimodal approach to the analysis of nature and
specifics of media audience’s reception of texts. The authors base their ideas on the principally
multimodal nature of media communication, which reflects in the way the recipients interpret
texts. Thus, various factors impact on the interpretation of the initialized text. Moreover, such
factors predominately include other semiotic resources that are not formally affiliated with
the basic text. In the research, the hypothesis was about the impact of verbal comments on
interpretation of visual objects by recipients. According to this goal, the authors selected two
groups of respondents — a control and an experimental one, which were offered a photograph
and were asked to describe it verbally in a free manner. The experimental group of respondents
was offered the same photograph with motivating verbal comment, including the general
information about the origins and topics of the photograph. The authors compared the
results of the both groups descriptions by matching verbalized categories of representation,
individual evaluations of the photograph and “the syntax” of verbal description of the visual
media text. The research results proved the general supposition: the multimodal approach,
being aimed at finding, describing and explicating the meaning effects of semiotic ensembles,
contributes to understanding the features of interpretation of visual objects under the influence
of other semiotic (here — verbal) resources. Thus, the results show that the interpretation
of visual objects is motivated by the verbal comment: it topicalizes and contextualizes the
visual reception and interpretation of the basic message. In the conclusion, the authors define
the perspectives both of the research and the multimodal approach to media texts study.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was supported by the Belgorod State National Research University (grant from the
National Research University “BelSU” “Media Education: Theory and Practice, Challenges and Prospects”).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: media text

value: multimodal approach

value: semiotic ensemble

value: visual components of text

value: verbal descriptions


title: Social attitudes of young Petersburgers

dc.contributor.author

value: Sikevich, Zinaida V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Sikevich Z. V. Social attitudes of young Petersburgers. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2020, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 374–392.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents an empirical analysis of social expectations and attitudes of the modern
young generation using the example of St. Petersburg. The study of this phenomenon is based
on three studies conducted under the author’s supervision in 1996, 2011 and 2019. The article
is based on data from the 2019 study — 153 people. (Saint Petersburg, age group 18–29 years,
quota sample by gender, all respondents are of Russian nationality). The questionnaire was
compiled using the author’s methods, in particular, the method of symbolic associations with
subsequent content analysis of verbal constructs. In the body of the article, the dynamics of
changes in the social attitudes of young people is demonstrated based on empirical research
data. The change affected the perception of the basic concepts of national identity, such as
“Russia”, the “Russian state” and “Russian power”. While there is almost no dynamics in the
attitude to Russia as a Homeland, there are significant changes in the opinions towards the
state and power. In relation to the government, there was an increase in protest moods, which
was found during the content analysis of symbolic associations in the 2019 study compared to
the 1996 and 2011 studies. In the historical consciousness of young people there is a positive
dynamic of ideas about the pre-revolutionary and Soviet period against the background of the
lack of dynamics of ideas about modern Russian society. When comparing “Soviet society”
and “modern society”, changes in symbolic associations were recorded in the direction of increasing
the number of associations related to human relationships and reducing the number
of political associations. The article presents empirical data on the content of the national idea
expressed by young people. Illustrative material for the article includes tables and histograms.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The article was prepared by the RFBR. Grant no 19-011-00219 “A model of interrelation between
online and offline ethnicity”.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Sociology;Volume 13; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: social mood

value: social expectation

value: national identity

value: generation

value: relationships

value: national idea

value: state

value: symbolic association

value: content analysis

dc.title

value: Social attitudes of young Petersburgers


dc.contributor.author

value: Ivanova, Mariia M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ivanova M. M. Problems and prospects for the development of digital technologies in social work with young people. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Sociology, 2020, vol. 13, issue 4, pp. 429–442.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The global use of information and communication technologies encourages the development
and implementation of new digital methods in social work with young people. Digital innovations
are becoming not only a source of youth empowerment but also an information resource that helps to reduce the distance between the needs of young people and the institution
of social work. The article discusses the current state and prospects of social work
with young people in the era of the digital society. The research focuses on reviewing existing
digital technologies with young people, determining the limitations of using information and
communication technologies in the social sphere, identifying the actual risks of digitalization
in social work with young people, and determining the degree of involvement of young people
in digital social work. The design of the study is based on the case study method for digitalization
processes in non-profit organizations with a social orientation in St. Petersburg, including
methods of semi-structured expert interviews (N = 11), focus groups (N = 4) and document
analysis. The study showed an active process of youth mobilization in the activities of socially
oriented non-profit organizations as the creator of a digital project. The analysis of NGO’s
activities demonstrated the difficulty of transposing quantitative indicators for evaluating the
effectiveness of information and communication technologies in social work with young people
into socio-psychological indicators. The author concludes that the key task of successful
implementation of digital technologies in social work with young people is the need for interdisciplinary
interaction and cross-sectoral cooperation, involvement of social enterprises to
participate in the development of digital social projects, and training of professionals in social
services in the implementation of digital practices.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The research was conducted in Saint Petersburg University with the support of the Russian Science
Foundation, the project no. 19-18-00246 “Challenges of the transformation of welfare state in Russia:
institutional changes, social investment, digitalization of social services”.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: digitization

value: youth

value: social work

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Pilgun, Maria A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Pilgun, M. A. (2020). Semantic representation and perception of network aggression: Urban digital communication. Media Linguistics, 7 (4), 462–489.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents the results of a study of digital content reflecting conflicting urban communications
related to road construction in Moscow. The empirical base of the study was
data from social networks, microblogs, blogs, messengers, forums, reviews, and videos dedicated
to the construction of transport interchange hubs (TPU). Date of material collection:
1.08.19 00:00 — 30.09.19 23:59. We used a multimodal approach to analyze the content of
social media using neural network technologies, text analysis, content analysis, sentimental
analysis, and psycholinguistic techniques. As a result of the research, the analysis of residents’
perception of the implementation of these construction projects was carried out, as well as
social stress in the construction areas was identified, and the risks of conflicts with the population
of Moscow were assessed when planning and conducting construction works. The
analysis showed that five objects (TPU Varshavskaya, TPU Dmitrovskaya, TPU Nekrasovka,
TPU Pyatnitskoe shosse, TPU Ryazan) do not have risks during implementation, the content
differs in the absence of aggression and social tension. TPU Nagatinskaya is characterized by
an average degree of social stress. A high degree of social tension is caused by the projects of
TPU Michurinsky Prospekt and TPU Khovrino. Thus, the analysis allowed us to predict the
absence of conflicts with the population in the implementation of the projects of TPU Varshavskaya,
TPU Dmitrovskaya, TPU Nekrasovka, TPU Pyatnitskoe highway, TPU Ryazan.
The construction of TPU Nagatinskaya and TPU Khovrino causes social tension, but conflict
is expected only in the virtual environment. The content of the TPU Michurinsky Prospekt should be defined as a conflict-prone digital zone with a high degree of social stress, and the
escalation of conflict between residents and city authorities, builders, both in the online and
offline space should be predicted.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work was carried out with partial financial support from the Russian Foundation for Basic
Research (project no. 19-012-00295 A).

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 4

dc.subject

value: digital aggression

value: neural network technologies

value: conflicts


dc.contributor.author

value: Ivanova, Irina N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Ivanova, I. (2020). Pragmatic functions of interrogatives in media texts. Media Linguistics, 7 (4), 501–515.

dc.description.abstract

value:
A number of approaches to media texts tend to apply an interactive model to communication,
and the texts are seen are intrinsically dialogic, relying on the receivers’ subjective interpretation
of meaning and activation of intertextual relations. In addition, media texts are
increasingly used as material for linguistic analysis with the aim to reveal how their linguistic
potential is utilized by journalists to convey messages and ideas, and influence the audience.
The paper discusses the pragmatic functions of interrogatives and the way they are realized
in media text, more specifically in newspaper articles’ headlines, leads and bodies excerpted
from British and American online media over a period of two months. The analysis is mapped
against previous research of interrogatives in the field of pragmatics and medialinguistics. The
main findings show that interrogatives in headlines realize a range of pragmatic roles when
used on their own or as part of paratactic or hypotactic complexes. These roles are closely dependent
on their syntactic and semantic features and can range from attracting and focusing
readers’ attention, to urging readers to think about issues, look for certain types of answers
in the text, or think of their own answers or reactions. Headlines can be expanded or clarified
in the sub-headings, lead and main body of the article. In the main body, interrogatives
help to structure and authenticate writer’s dialogue with the audience, making the narrative
or argumentation more emphatic, and soliciting active commitment to issues, feedback and
empathy from the audience. Furthermore, some topics of high public interest and importance
might lead to an increase in the number of questions in media texts. Further research of larger
and more varied thematically material might throw light on the way different topics affect the
frequency and distribution of pragmatic roles of interrogatives in media texts.

dc.subject

value: pragmatic functions

value: interrogatives

value: headlines

value: media texts