dc.contributor.author

value: Suleimanova, R. N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Suleimanova R. N. ‘Life in Evacuation: Leningraders in Evacuation in Bashkiria during the Great Patriotic War’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 39–52.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article describes the evacuation of civilians from Leningrad and the Leningrad region to Bashkiria
during the Great Patriotic War, with special focus on children’s institutions that arrived in the republic. Documentary
materials reveal what measures were taken and how assistance was rendered by local authorities and population:
provision of living quarters, distribution of clothes, shoes, food, support for health, employment, etc. This
indicates difficulties encountered and unresolved issues. These materials also show the positive and negative
sides of the temporary stay in the republic of Leningrad, in the context of emergency wartime conditions. In general,
their reception and accommodation, the provision of necessary social assistance, solutions to pressing issues
of employment, enrolling children in preschools and schools, providing medical assistance, etc., all took place
under favorable conditions. However, there were negative cases in dealing with housing issues, employment for
evacuees, allocating of food, providing health care, especially for children and children’s institutions, and even
more so for orphans. Thanks to this large-scale unprecedented operation, millions of Soviet citizens, agencies,
institutions, and industrial enterprises saved the lives of citizens, and everything was done for the successful
conclusion of the war.

dc.subject

value: Great Patriotic War

value: evacuation

value: population

value: children

value: Leningrad

value: region

value: help


dc.contributor.author

value: Avdashkin, A. A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Avdashkin A. A. ‘The Chinese in the Southern Urals in the 1920s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 103–118.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article explores Chinese migrants in the Southern Urals in the 1920s. At this historical stage, Chinese
migration to the USSR was not regulated by requests of factories and coal mines for cheap labor, as was the
case in tsarist Russia. Chinese migrants came to the Soviet Union to earn money, engage in trade in part in the
social and cooperative movement, and study at Soviet universities. Prerequisites for the emergence of a stable
Chinese community, including in southern regions of the Urals, were born. However, the complication of relations
between the USSR and China and conflict over the CER in 1929 worsened the situation of the Soviet Chinese
and led to a reduction of further migration. For several decades, the formation and development of the Chinese
diaspora was stopped. Based on archival documents first identified and put into circulation, the approximate
sociocultural appearance of the Chinese in the South Urals is reconstructed. These materials make it possible
to get an idea of such important characteristics as: total number, distribution in urban and rural areas, gender,
age, place of birth, migration, marital status, occupation, change of residence and work, military service, level
of education, and participation in public life. The article describes a number of details in the biography of the
Chinese in the Southern Urals and shows features of migration waves of the late imperial and early Soviet periods
of Russian history.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: diaspora

value: Сhinese

value: migrants

value: migration

value: ethnic history

value: Urals

value: Southern Urals

value: Urals region

dc.type

value: Article

format: Adobe PDF


dc.contributor.author

value: Valiev, Ruslan Z.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Valiev R.Z. New studies of paradox of strength and ductility in nanomaterials. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Mathematics. Mechanics. Astronomy, 2020, vol. 7 (65), issue 1, pp. 112–127.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Crystalline materials can be superstrong or ductile, but they rarely exhibit both of these
properties at the same time. This is due to the physical nature of their plastic deformation,
which is determined by the mobility of dislocations   linear defects of the crystal
lattice   in the grain/crystallite interior. This is also true for nanostructured materials
with very small grain sizes in the nanometric range. At the same time, in recent years, a
number of original approaches have been developed and proposed to achieve high strength
and ductility of nanomaterials, particularly, processed by severe plastic deformation (SPD)
techniques. The paper below presents a brief overview of these approaches as well as their
physico-mechanical principles put forward as of today.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
This work is supported by St. Petersburg State University (аctivity 3, id 26130576), Russian Foundation
for Basic Research (grant No. 20-03–00614 А).

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Mathematics. Mechanics. Astronomy;Volume 7 (65); Issue 1

dc.subject

value: nanostructured materials

value: paradox of strength and ductility

value: severe plastic deformation

value: deformation mechanisms


dc.contributor.author

value: Gordina, E. D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Gordina E. D. ‘Financial Situation of Orphanages in the Nizhny Novgorod (Gorky) Region in the Second Half of the 1940s and early 1950s’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 217–228.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The struggle against children’s homelessness and organizing the work of orphanages after World
War II had extremely important social value. The number of orphanages in the city of Gorkii doubled during the
1940s, and in 1948 there were 19 budgetary and 6 departmental orphanages. There were 102 orphanages in the
Gorky oblast in 1946. Material conditions for accommodating pupils in orphanages were difficult, and so boards
of trustees were established and patrons were attached to the orphanages. Using documentary sources from
the State Socio-political Archive in the Nizhny Novgorod oblast, this article describes the complex of problems
at orphanages in the post-war period. Materials from inspections of orphanages create a general image of children’s
lives. The purpose of inspections was to identify problems and assistance to the orphanages, to promote
the experiences of the best orphanages, and to control patronage work and boards of trustees. The problem of
overpopulation in orphanages was solved in several ways. The first was children who had parents to their homes.
However, this was not always possible, as many parents might be sick or disabled. Another strategy was employing
children 14 years or older and giving them accommodations in enterprise hostels, although enterprise
directors did not always agree to accept children. There is not enough documentary material on the organization
of supply and food in orphanages in the second half of the 1940s, and data both of city and oblast orphanages at
the beginning of the 1950s are sporadic.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Soviet society

value: orphanage

value: pupils

value: Gorky region

value: board of trustees

value: material conditions

value: biological and social orphanhood

value: Great Patriotic War


dc.contributor.author

value: Boiko, I. V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Boiko I. V. ‘Economic Preconditions of the Revolutionary Situation in Russia in 1917 (as seen by British and American Sovietologists)’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 8–19.

dc.description.abstract

value:
At the beginning of the 20th century, substantial economic problems accumulating in Russian society
brought the country to profound political transformations. Industrialization began at the turn of the century and
required substantial financial resources from expanded grain exports, an important export for foreign markets.
However, low labor productivity in the Russian agricultural sector, along with unsuccessful reforms and a drastically diminished rural population due to urban migration, temporary harvest failures, and high taxes, squeezed
the life of agrarians. Consequently, the food supply in the national economy and foreign markets encountered a
harsh challenge. Despite the urgent need to modernize agricultural production, the main aim of Russian industrialization
embraced coal production, metallurgy, and transportation, especially railroad construction. Significant
dependence on foreign supplies of equipment and tools reduced the rate of Russian economic independence
and became one main constraint on economic modernization. Another problem was substantial state financial
support for developing industrial and transportation systems, with the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad
as one of the most financially consuming, contributing to the state budget deficit and corruption. The First World
War revealed substantial economic distortions, especially enormous dependence on foreign aid and low productivity.
Rapidly spreading economic chaos brought the country to profound political transformations.

dc.subject

value: agrarian economy

value: foreign trade

value: foreign investments

value: industrialization

value: productivity of labor

value: Trans-Siberian Railroad

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Hass J. K.

value: Lomagin, N. A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Hass J. K., Lomagin N. A. ‘Making Peace with War: Adaptation and the Soviet Political Economy in the Blockade of Leningrad’, Modern History of Russia, vol. 10, no. 1, 2020, pp. 53–69.

dc.description.abstract

value:
War demands the capacity of state elites and officials, and institutions, to adapt to challenges. One
constant refrain in Western accounts was the inability of the Soviet command economy to adapt—yet that command
economy contributed to survival and eventual victory. To what extent could and did economic actors and
institutions adapt to new circumstances, versus following tried-and-true policies of the 1930s? In this article, we
use the case of Leningrad in late 1941 and 1942, when the Blockade provided severe challenges and became
more than a fleeting military event. One of the most important challenge (if not the most important) was the supply
and distribution of food to maintain the operation of the city and military production. The massive death toll
revealed the degree of the challenge, the force of the German siege, and the lack of sufficient preparation beforehand.
Yet the regime did implement innovations and adaptations in obtaining and provisioning. We focus on one
set of formal policies: the streamlining of food distribution and the expansion of podsobnoe khoziaistvo (successes),
and the possibility of using fish (a failure). These policies were grounded in existing institutional templates and
knowledge; however, fishing policies revealed contradictions between civilian and military actors. More radical
innovations would require informality; but the Soviet regime could adapt.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Modern History of Russia;Volume 10; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: blockade

value: Leningrad

value: World War II

value: political economy

value: command economy

value: rationing


dc.contributor.author

value: Mal’kov, Veniamin M.

value: Mal’kova, Yuliya V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mal’kov V.M., Mal’kova Yu.V. Investigation of the large deformations of composite plane with interface crack loaded by uniform pressure. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Mathematics. Mechanics. Astronomy, 2020, vol. 7 (65), issue 1, pp. 141–153.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The analytical solution to a nonlinear problem of elasticity for the composite plane formed
by connection of two half-planes from different materials with an interface crack is obtained.
The elastic properties of half-planes are modeled by semi-linear harmonic material. External
loading is uniform pressure, which is orthogonal to the deformed surfaces of a crack coasts,
the stresses at infinity are absent. For the solution to a nonlinear plane problem methods
of the theory of the complex variable functions are used. An existence of critical values of
pressure at the coasts of a crack which excess conducts to loss of stability of a material
and to large post-critical displacements, deformations and stresses in a vicinity of a crack
is established. The critical pressures have the order of the shear modules of the materials
and are really possible for low-modules rubber-like materials (elastomers). For the rigid
materials with the large module of shear, in particular metals, the critical pressures really
are not achieved. The formulas for disclosing of the crack coasts depending on value of
pressure and parameters of materials are obtained, the plots of displacements of the crack
surfaces for different values of pressure are presented. On the base of a common solution the
asymptotic expansions are constructed for nominal (Piola) and Cauchy stresses in vicinities
of a crack ends. The nominal stresses have the root singularities, the Cauchy stresses have
no singularities at the tips of crack.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Mathematics. Mechanics. Astronomy;Volume 7 (65); Issue 1

value: nonlinear plane problem

value: composite plane

value: interface crack

value: semi-linear material

value: complex-variable methods


dc.contributor.author

value: Zegzhda, Sergey A.

value: Petrova, Victoriya I.

value: Yushkov, Mikhail P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Zegzhda S.A., Petrova V. I., Yushkov M.P. Application of a special form of differential equations to the study of motion of a loaded Stewart platform. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Mathematics. Mechanics. Astronomy, 2020, vol. 7 (65), issue 1, pp. 128–140.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper is concerned with motions of a loaded Stewart platform. The motion equations
are composed using a special form of differential equations (motion equations are derived
in redundant coordinates). This form is also used to derive first-order vector Lagrange
equations involving differentiation with respect to the radius vector of the system center
of mass, the unit vectors of the principal central inertia axes of a motion body and with
respect to these derivatives. These vectors define the position of the rigid body in space.
As abstract holonomic constraint imposed on the vectors describing the motion of the rigid
body, one considers the invariableness of the lengths of unit vectors and their orthogonality.
We discuss one engineering effect manifested in the behavior of a Steward platform in an
equilibrium state (“parasitic oscillations”). This effect is one of the root causes for the
system to move away from an unstable equilibrium position. A similar instability is also
present in standard vertical oscillations of a Stewart platform. A simplest mechanism of
appearance of instability of such vertical motions of a platform is revealed. To guarantee
a stable motion, it is proposed introduce the classical feedbacks. Numerical solutions of
the differential equations thus obtained are in complete accord with the numerical results
obtained in the solution of the motion equations composed using the of center mass motion
theorems and taking into account results on the variation of the kinetic moment as the
system moves about the center of mass.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: This work is supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (grant No. 19.01.00208-а).

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Stewart platform

value: dynamic simulation bench

value: special form of motion equations

value: feedbacks

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Musaev, Makhach A.

value: Shikhaliev, Shamil Sh.

value: Shekhmagomedov, Magomed G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Musaev M. A., Shikhaliev Sh. Sh., Shekhmagomedov M. G. Tombstones of the 13th — 18th Centuries from the Cemeteries of the Village Khadagi: Description, Typology and Epigraphy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 52–65.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The village of Khadagi is a small settlement of historical Kaytag (Khaydaq), located at the
crossroads of the oldest tracks connecting the north and the south, the coast of the Caspian
Sea and the mountains. This circumstance seems to explain the extreme diversity of tombstones
in the Khadagi village and its vicinity, which is comprised of various cultural traditions.
This fact greatly distinguishes it from the neighboring mountain areas, where for centuries
there has been continuity in burial traditions as well as in the form, epigraphy and decoration
of tombstones. The article describes the most notable tombstones of the Khadagiburial
grounds: gravestone complexes consisting of horizontal tombstones with vertical stelas adjacent
to them; horizontal sarcophagus-like tombstones; a burial complex consisting of a vertical
tombstone and an adjoining vertical stela; vertical stelas of various shapes, including anthropomorphous
ones. The paper provides texts of the epitaphs and their translation into Russian.
Due consideration was also given to features of the writing style, methods of engraving and
ornamentation of the monuments. Some of the monuments described in the article are dated
in writing, more specifically by the following dates: A. H. 753 (1352/53); A. H. 868 (1463/64); A. H. 1050 (1640/41); A. H. 1210 (1795/96). This fact will play a crucial role in dating typologically
similar (in forms, epigraphy, ornamentation) tombstones of the region, and will contribute
to uncovering cultural ties. The following method of dating the Khadagi stelas has been
used: some of the stelas are associated with certain periods of history due to their typological
similarity with already known and dated monuments of the region.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Arabic epigraphy

value: Dagestan

value: Kaytag

value: Khaydaq

value: necropolistics

value: Islamic art

dc.title

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title: Types of addressee in media discourse

dc.contributor.author

value: Prom, Natalya A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Prom, N. A. (2020). Types of addressee in media discourse. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 95– 103.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents the study of the addressee of modern media discourse. The author considers
the communication model of information interaction between people, which is dominant
in digital media. This model is characterized by the activity of the audience, for which the media world often becomes the only reality. This caused a blurring of the media discourse
boundaries, as a result of which the verbal reaction of the addressee, previously observed
mainly in everyday communication, goes into the media discourse. The segmentation of the
target field proposed in the article, which includes all participants in the media discourse,
takes into account the intention of the participants in communication. Cognitive intention
determines the addressee’s role and communicative intention realizes the author’s potential.
Interactivity does not imply a clear separation between the addressee and addresser, which is
observed in natural communication. Communicative intention is inherent in the author of
the message. Being implemented in media discourse, communicative intention provides the
author with the status of the subject of constructing media reality and is one of the important
parameters of the segmentation of the addressee field. Depending on the communicative
intention, two types of addressees are distinguished in the address field, i.e. repeaters and
non-repeaters. Repeaters are involved in the construction of the media reality. Professional
and non-professional repeaters, as well as institutional entities, stand out in this segment. The
first ones are journalists who are recipients of objective reality and recipients of media reality
and transmit information further to the addressee field. Unprofessional repeaters are citizen
journalists that create their own content and interpret previous massages. The third subgroup
includes social groups that have gained access to a mass audience and are interested in saturating
the mass consciousness with the “right” news. The intension of non-translators does not
imply their verbal reactivity in the media discourse. In this segment of the address field, there
have been selected positive recipients that are configured for a productive perception of media
content in order to obtain certain information and negative recipients with their prejudice that
inhibits the selection of facts at the stage of perception and, therefore, the adaptation of the
world picture to a changing reality.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: media discourse

value: addressee

value: intention

value: factualization

value: media reality

value: Types of addressee in media discourse


dc.contributor.author

value: Avramova, Valentina N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Avramova, V. N. (2020). Reception image of Russia in Bulgarian media. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 61–68.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article deals with the interstate relations between Russia and Bulgaria, reflected in the modern
Bulgarian media. The article deals with the topics that affect the historical relations between
Bulgaria and Russia, namely the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878, the The article deals with
the interstate relations between Russia and Bulgaria, reflected in modern Bulgarian media. The
article analyzes the topics that affect the historical relations between Bulgaria and Russia, namely
the Russian-Turkish war of 1877–1878, the liberation of Bulgaria from fascism at the end of
World War II and the socialist development of Bulgaria in the period 1944–1989. Attention is
drawn to the division of civil society into Russophiles and Russophobes and their interpretation
and attitude to the mentioned historical events, which found a place in the media. The authors’
materials are examined, which have a polar attitude to the interpretation of Russian-Bulgarian
relations. The most striking cases of a negative attitude are given. The reasons for the negative
assessment on the pages of such newspapers are closely related to the different interpretations
of Bulgarian history and its relationship with Russia over the centuries. The stylistic aspect of
the empirical material is considered, the stylistic methods used by the authors to express their
attitude to the subject of speech are highlighted. Social and political practice proves that the attitude
to Russia is dictated by ideological rather than pragmatic attitudes. Analysis of the material
illustrates that several newspapers have a sharply negative attitude towards Russia and the Russians.
In the linguistic aspect, these newspapers use invective vocabulary and, in general, they are
characterized by the creation of the image of the occupier and the enemy in the face of Russia.
Such an attitude is in sync with the actions of Russia’s enemies on a European and global scale.
However, sociological studies and mass media practice in modern Bulgaria indicate that in the
public space the image of Russia remains close to Bulgarians.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

value: Russian-Bulgarian historical ties

value: Russophile

value: Russophobia

value: image of Russia

value: mediatopia

dc.type

value: Article


title: In memoriam of V. V. Kovalev

dc.identifier.citation

value: In memoriam of V. V. Kovalev. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 4–6.

dc.description.abstract

value: In memoriam of V. V. Kovalev

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Volume 36; Issue 1


dc.contributor.author

value: Redkin, Oleg I.

value: Bernikova, Olga A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Redkin O. I., Bernikova O. A. Prospects of the Development of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Digital Age. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 24–34.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper considers the key trends and prospects of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the context
of information globalization of society. The dynamics of qualitative changes in the humanities
in general and Arabic Studies in particular is traced with the reference to its historical context.
The study analyses the compliance of the applied research methods with the challenges of the
modern time on the example of a number of scholar areas such as dialectology, description of
arabographic manuscripts and application of digital technologies in education. It also suggests
solutions aimed at optimizing and increase the efficiency of research processes through the
use of digital technologies. The development of interdisciplinary studies is discussed in the
historical perspective; besides that, it provides specific examples of current researches of this
kind as well as trends of the development in the humanities are identified. Special attention is
paid to the changes of educational paradigm, meaning both the evolution of digital competence
of students and the application of digital resources, including e-learning. The SPbU experience
is presented as an example of successful interdisciplinary projects, and, namely, the results of
joint projects implemented by Arabists and mathematicians. When specifying the development
prospects for the Arabic studies the authors highlight the importance of the optimal balance of
the traditional classical approach and innovative solutions for scholar and educational tasks.
The authors also underline the significance of an interdisciplinary approaches and digital
methods, which open new opportunities to conduct scholar researches and make it possible
to face the challenges that are brought along by socio-political changes in society on the stage
of its transition to the information-driven development.

dc.language.iso

value: en

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Arabic studies

value: interdisciplinarity

value: information and computer technologies

value: e-learning

value: dialectology

value: manuscripts


dc.contributor.author

value: Igbokwe, Clement Chimezie

dc.identifier.citation

value: Igbokwe C. Ch. Nigeria-China Relations: Impact on Power and Development in Nigeria. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 141–151.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Nigeria no doubt is one of China’s largest markets in Africa. The negative influence Chinese
interest in the Nigerian economy has on her energy sector and on development generally
is alarming and the rural areas are mostly affected. Rural development is a sine qua non
of sustainable national development. Nigerian markets are flooded with Chinese products
ranging from generators to rechargeable lamps which are mostly needed to power industries
and also generate electricity. Dependency theory provided the theoretical construct for this
paper. It was observed that these products such as rechargeable lamps and generating sets
may be a welcomed development to cushion the effect of epileptic power supply in the urban
centres and lack of electricity in the rural areas but the spillover effects on the Nigerian
economy cannot be overemphasised. The paper also discovered the unfortunate situation of
how contracts are awarded to Chinese firms in regards to the energy sector. The question
which must be critically examined is can a bone be given to a dog for safe keeping? Based
on these findings, the paper recommends that the federal government should genuinely and
aggressively pursue the issue of rural development especially in terms of rural electrification.

dc.subject

value: relations

value: rural development

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Sagna, Karim

dc.identifier.citation

value: Karim Sagna. Brikama Jali Kunda: Griot of Yesterday and Today. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 113–122.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Serving as educators, genealogists, historians, musicians, and storytellers, griots play a fundamental
role in Mandinka society. Following Mandinka tradition, Jaliba Kouyaté (or simply
Jaliba, as he is commonly known), the celebrated griot from Brikama who is at the center of
this study, is a well-known guardian of Mandinka cultural heritage in Gambia and Senegal
(Senegambia). This griot-composer who is also a kora virtuoso and the lead vocalist for his
Koumaré Band, shines not only within the music scene in Senegambia, but also in other influential
Mandinka areas such as Guinea Bissau. Since the 1980s his art has stood out due to
its combination of classic and contemporary kora, the Mandinka twenty-one string harp-lute,
and its emphasis on the education and awakening of consciousness of Senegambians. Whether
with noble genres or their reinvention in various musical forms, Jaliba Kouyaté continues to
renew the art of the Mandinka griot without losing sight of his primary mission: to contribute
to the enhancement of the individual and collective development of Senegambians who are his
patrons, or jatiyo. This paper explores jaliya — the art of griot — in the work of Jaliba. In addition
to examining the directions and techniques of his music and his use of musical poetry
and dialogue to describe contemporary events, it analyzes his capacity to create worlds that
reconstruct the Mandinka culture and civilization and to evoke through his kora new pages
of Mandinka history.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: Mandinka

value: Senegambia

value: griot

value: oral tradition


title: Preface

dc.identifier.citation

value: Preface. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 4-6.

dc.description.abstract

value: Preface

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 7; Issue 1


dc.contributor.author

value: Steblyanskaya, Alina N.

value: Zhen, Wang

value: Denisov, Artem R.

value: Bragina, Zinaida V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Steblyanskaya A. N., Zhen Wang, Denisov A. R., Bragina Z. V. (2020). Company sustainable growth as the result of interaction between finance, energy, environmental and social factors (in case of JSC “Gazprom”). St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 134–160.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Financial and sustainable growth policies of companies often contradict each other. In this
article we analyze possibilities for overcoming this problem by investigating sustainability of
financial growth of the largest Russian natural gas company, Gazprom. Unlike traditional interpretations,
we consider company sustainability to result from the interaction and interconnection
between the financial, energy, environmental, and social subsystems (F-E-Env-S). We
analyze the relationship between subsystem indicators using the Higgins Sustainable Growth
Index (SGR) and the Sustainable Growth Index (SGSI). Research shows that Gazprom’s sustainable
growth system is stable, but to avoid destabilization, we propose ways to prevent the
development of barriers to their sustainable growth. The article presents an approach that
uses Shannon’s negentropy to improve discrimination of models of a sustainable data coverage
analysis (DEA) system. DEA efficiency is first calculated for all possible subsets of variables
and analyzed using Shannon’s entropy theory to calculate the degree of importance of
each subset in Gazprom’s sustainable growth system. Then we combine obtained performance values and degree of importance to obtain a common performance indicator (CRS), which
can significantly improve the discrimination of sustainable growth models. To visualize the
transformation of the stability of the system, it is advisable to use the negentropy index. The
following factors influence the SGSI level: production, energy saving, environmental rating,
environmental footprint, reduction of air pollutant emissions, reduction of wastewater discharges
to surface water bodies, environmental expenditures, personnel costs, social expenses,
financial leverage, self-financing ratio, and EBITDA.

dc.language.iso

value: en

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Volume 36; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: sustainable growth

value: Higgins sustainable growth rate

value: Sustainable Growth System methodology

value: social-energy-environmental factors affecting on sustainable growth

value: Data Envelopment Analysis

value: Shannon’s entropy


dc.contributor.author

value: Rodionova, Oxana P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Rodionova O. P. Themes and Images in Liu Zhenyun’s Novel “Strange Bedfellows”. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 66–87.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper examines themes and images in the novel by Chinese writer Liu Zhenyun (b. 1958)
“Strange Bedfellows” (2017), which on the one hand is an attempt to comprehend the interpersonal
relationships and human existence in the era of technical progress, and, on the
other, follows the tradition of spiritual quests in Chinese and world literature. The themes
and images of the novel highlight a number of problems of modern Chinese society related to
the cultural and ethnopsychological features of the Chinese nation. The fundamental theme
of Liu Zhenyun’s new novel is the national character of the Chinese. Among Chinese writers,
who brilliantly explored the subject, the contributions of Lu Xun (1881–1936), Lao She
(1899–1966) and Lin Yutang (1895–1976) are the most significant. In the novel “Strange Bedfellows”
Liu Zhenyun continues to ridicule the vices of his contemporaries. A distinctive feature
of his work is the presence of an invisible, but ubiquitous crowd of Internet onlookers. The characters of the novel “Strange Bedfellows” are infected with a thirst for benefits. Shrewdness,
mercantilism and deception run the show. Liu Zhenyun gives these traits to heroes of all social
strata. There are no boundaries between positive and negative characters in his works.
Besides, the writer considers the problem of corruption of the people and the authorities. On
the one hand, it is revealed through the topics outlined above, and on the other — through the
theme of the fight against corruption and luxurious lifestyle. The author makes it clear that the
good intentions of the leadership to eradicate the phenomena of moral decay do not so much
awaken good intentions in people, but rather trigger the mechanism of revenge. The system of
snitching undermines the foundations of human nature and as a consequence, Liu Zhenyun
addresses the problem of communication among the people. Reflecting on the challenges of
the digital era and the prospects of Internet reality, Liu Zhenyun paints a picture of the consequences
of moral disorientation of compatriots. Having inherited the literary tradition laid
down by outstanding writers of the 20th century and developing the themes of his previous
novels, the writer comes to the conclusion that new technologies aggravates the vices of the
national character, which in the presence of the omnipresent virtual crowd provoke a herd
mentality.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Liu Zhenyun

value: “Strange Bedfellows”

value: national character

value: Chinese literature

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Shestakova, Eleonora G.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Shestakova E. G. (2020). Culinary media text in the context the problems of media linguistics: Statement and substantiation of the main tasks. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 118–141.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article poses and substantiates several important problems related to media linguistics
and culinary media text. It is proven that media linguistics at the present stage of development of media communications should certainly turn to the study of culinary media text. As the
study illustrated, this is due to a complex of reasons. Firstly, it is the rapid and multidirectional
development of culinary media text in the media space. Secondly, it is the dominance of the
Anglo-Saxon scientific tradition in the formation of the conceptual-categorical apparatus, approaches
and methodology for the study of culinary media text. Thirdly, by the fact that a
culinary media text imperceptibly, but powerfully manages social and everyday desires, goals,
dreams, actions and orientations of a person immersed in the plexus of economic, ideological,
social, everyday, media communication. Both man and society are addressed in their specific
cultural language, appealing to the help of rhetorical figures, codes, signs, techniques
to the system of backgrounds, knowledge funds, emotional-sensory sensations and audience
memory. In connection with this state of affairs, the proposed article is staged. The goals and
objectives are due to the fact that culinary media text is a kind of iceberg of modern media
communications; it is what a researcher should be guided by. It must be taken into consideration
that only at first encounter does it appear to be one of the varieties of a relatively
simple, genre, stylistically, discursive, rhetorically uncomplicated text from the point of view
of a communicative situation. However, the understanding and research of culinary media
text should initially involve an encounter with a complex, multidimensional, and provocative,
referentially voluminous media statement. Inherent in it is a long, stable, strong social, collective,
national, historical, cultural, everyday memory and diverse opportunities for influencing
a person and society, which, at first glance, are hidden behind a simple, pretty, unpretentious
everyday phenomenon. In this regard, one more problematic field is clearly revealed: the formation
and justification of a single conceptual-categorical apparatus of media linguistics for
determining the phenomena associated with culinary media text.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: media linguistics

value: media text

value: culinary media text

value: media communications


dc.contributor.author

value: Kochergin, Dmitry A.

value: Pokrovskaia, Natalia V.

value: Dostov, Viktor L.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kochergin D. A., Pokrovskaia N. V., Dostov V. L. (2020) Tax regulation of virtual currencies circulation: Foreign countries experience and prospects for Russia. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 49–76.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This paper explores tax regulation of virtual currencies (VC) as a new class of digital assets.
The relevance of the topic is due to wide development in the world of virtual currency operations
in the absence of a unified interpretation of virtual currencies and in the absence of
generally accepted regulation of digital assets. The research aims to identify economic and
legal interpretations of virtual currency and to determine taxation of virtual currencies in foreign
countries and drafting recommendations on taxation of virtual currencies transactions
in Russia. Based on a study of tax regulation of virtual currencies in Singapore, UK, USA,
Japan, and Germany, interpretations of virtual currencies are determined and their tax consequences
are disclosed. We conclude that in countries analyzed, the interpretations of virtual
currencies differ not only at the national level, but also at the level of regulatory authorities.
The study did not find a correlation between taxation of virtual currencies and regulation
of VC in monetary systems. In most countries, incomes from virtual currencies are subject
to corporate taxes and the burden of taxation is defined by the domestic corporate taxation
approach. The authors conclude that in Russia, implementation of best global practices should
be complemented by specifics of domestic direct and indirect taxation. The paper suggests
that incomes from virtual currencies be subject to corporate income tax but exempted from
personal income tax. Transactions using virtual currencies should be exempted from VAT but
without necessarily recognizing virtual currencies as official mean of payment.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Volume 36; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: virtual currencies

value: cryptocurrencies

value: crypto-assets

value: digital financial assets

value: tax regulation

value: virtual currency taxation

value: cryptocurrency taxation

value: digital financial assets taxation


dc.contributor.author

value: Salem, Marwa M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Salem M. M. The Role of Bureaucratic Politics in Egypt’s Africa Policies under Mubarak. Part Two. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 123–140.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The decision-making process in Egypt during the rule of President Hosni Mubarak was dominated
by the president and a very small core group comprised mainly of advisers whom he
appointed and dismissed. Towards the end of his rule, Mubarak was no longer capable of
resuming his duties effectively. Therefore, several issues were left to be handled by the relevant
ministry. It became possible for some parts of the bureaucracy to make a significant impact on
foreign policy, particularly on topics not of interest to the ruling elite. The Nile Waters issue is
one of the most important manifestations of the dynamics of Egypt’s foreign policy decisionmaking
process under Mubarak at this stage. The analysis explores the role of institutions in
water policy making, aiming to draw attention to the dominant role of the Ministry of Water
Resources during the Cooperative Framework Agreement talks compared to other institutions,
such as the foreign ministry. Also it examines the phenomenon of ‘bureaucratic rivalry’
that prevailed at that time, while demonstrating that the Egyptian delegation faced great difficulties
during the talks. Thus, the argument remains that the bureaucratic institution, despite
its subordinate role, is partly responsible for Egypt’s foreign policy unhappy ending under
Mubarak.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: decision-making process

value: bureaucratic politics

value: African politics

value: Egypt’s Africa policies

value: Egyptian foreign ministry

value: President Mubarak

value: Nile Waters issue

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Molchanov, Nikolay N.

value: Rybakova, Yulia V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Molchanov N. N., Rybakova Yu. V. (2020) Customer-oriented innovations: Analysis of development practices (the case of North-West Russian regional companies). St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 77–94.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article describes the main stages in the development of methods for joint value creation
for product and technological innovations, including: external ventures, open innovations and
their support tools, and the current transition from open- to client-oriented innovations and
their development and financing tools, including crowd-sourcing and crowd-funding. The
use of client-oriented innovations leads to the transformation of companies’ business models.
Involving buyers in creation and co-production becomes a key factor in this process. First, it
ensures rapid adaptation to clients’ ever-changing needs. Second, sustainable and direct B2C
partnerships enhance a company’s competitive position and efficiency. This article presents
results of a field study on the practical application of joint venture creation tools in Russian
innovation-oriented medium and large companies located in the North-West region. Representativeness
of the survey is ensured through coverage of various sectors of the economy
and businesses. The survey was conducted twice, in 2014 and 2017, which allowed a dynamic
analysis. The study concludes that Russian innovation-oriented companies do not make sufficient
use of target tools for creating joint value in the development of incremental innovations.
At the same time, characteristics of innovation-oriented companies that influence the
application of joint value creation methods were identified, including: novelty of innovations
developed by the firm, company size, nature of the relationship with suppliers, etc. National
innovation-oriented companies were given recommendations for using the methods of quality
function deployment to increase the competitiveness of the developed innovations. It has
been recommended to use CRM systems more actively for communicating with consumers.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Volume 36; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: product and technological innovations

value: customer-oriented innovations

value: concept of joint value creation

value: co-creation

value: co-production


dc.contributor.author

value: Lobanov, Mikhail M.

value: Glinkina, Svetlana P.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Lobanov M. M., Glinkina S. P. (2020) Varieties of capitalist relations in foreign emerging market countries: The problems of typology and research methodology. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 7–26.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Until the end of the 20th century, studies on causes and consequences of the emergence of
cross-country differences in the organization of capitalist society mainly relied on experiences
of developed countries. The current trend in the evolution of theories of comparative capitalism
is a shift in the research focus to states with emerging markets as characterized by a variety
of types of institutional complementarity. One key issue is the validity of adapting the “varieties of capitalism” binary theory designed for developed countries (liberal and coordinated
market economies in this framework) to analyze capitalist relations in states of the periphery
and semi-periphery of world economy. This paper examines methodological problems
of explaining processes of cross-country institutional divergence, with a focus on emerging
market countries. The authors pay special attention to types of capitalism in post-socialist
countries, distinguishing four directions of comparative analysis based on assumptions about
the universality of the dichotomy of the VoC approach or on its “metamorphism,” “hybridization”
of traditional capitalist models, and inconsistency with realities of development in
former socialist states. Within each of the selected approaches to the typology of capitalist
relations in European and Asian post-socialist countries, the characteristics of their respective
basic models are compared (for example, “dependent” and “patrimonial capitalism,” “embedded
neoliberalism,, “neocorporatism,” “neoliberal capitalism,” etc.). In addition, the authors
conduct a comparative analysis of types of capitalism that are differentiated for developing
countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America (in particular, “hierarchical market economies”).
It is noteworthy that the accumulation of theoretical and practical knowledge in comparative
capitalism is increasingly dependent on the expansion of its geographical coverage on
account of Asian countries. In this paper we distinguish several approaches to the formation
of Asian capitalist societies: the spread of “state capitalism,” the emergence of an Asian “hybrid
capitalism” (a combination of local and incorporated Western institutional norms), and
the development of divergent forms of capitalism bounded by national borders. A promising
research direction (which we call a multi-scale approach in comparative capitalism) is the differentiation
of subnational models of capitalist relations, especially in countries characterized
by significant spatial heterogeneity.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Volume 36; Issue 1

value: comparative capitalism

value: varieties of capitalism

value: institutional complementarity

value: liberal

value: coordinated and mixed market economies

value: dependent market economies

value: embedded neoliberalism

value: neocorporatism

value: patrimonial capitalism

value: hybrid capitalism

value: state capitalism


dc.contributor.author

value: Cherepanov, Aleksandr S.

value: Khazanov, Oleg V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Cherepanov A. S., Khazanov O. V. Comparative Analysis of the Views of M. Laitman and P. Polonsky on Jewish History. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 4–23.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article was performed a comparative analysis of the historical views of M. Laitman and
P. Polonsky on Jewish history. The main purpose of the article is to reveal the characteristic
features of the modern religious-mystical view of history. The common features of the biographies
of thinkers and the general ideological doctrine their historical views are the basis for
the comparative analysis. The Laitman’s and Polonsky’s approaches to Kabbalah determine
the originality of historical views of thinkers. The Kabbalah of Rabbi Ashlag is the basis of
approach of Laitman. The central concept of Ashlag’s Kabbalah is antithesis “giving/influencing
— receiving”. It is “altruism — egoism” in Kabbalah of Laitman (or “the path of the Light”
and “the path of suffering” in his historical concept). World history is described as the development
of mankind determined by the growth of egoism. The history of ancient Jews (history
of Kabbalistic development) is an alternative way of development of mankind. The Kabbalah
of Rabbi Kook is the basis of approach of Polonsky. The central idea of Kook’s Kabbalah is dialog.
In views of Polonsky Jewish history is presented as a dialog between God and the people.
For example, the idea of the dialogue is manifested in views of Polonsky on the history of
Zionism and on the history the emergence of State of Israel. The views of thinkers on Jewish
chosenness and on the role of religion and tradition in the fate of the Jews are compared.The
authors conclude that historical views of Polonsky are closer to the scientific approach to Jewish
history and the Jewish tradition that the historical views of Laitman. Polonsky forms the
image of history, in which there is a connection between the Jewish tradition and modernity.
Laitman forms an alternative history. The main idea of Laitman’s historical concept are to
argue the historical role of Kabbalah and to induce Jews and mankind to develop on the basis
of the Kabbalah of Laitman.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 1

value: Laitman

value: Polonsky

value: historical views

value: kabbalah

value: religious historicism

value: Jewish history

value: national myth

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Surikova, Tatyana I.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Surikova, T. I. (2020). Demotivator in media discourse: Boundaries and properties of the genre. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 29–50.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Demotivator is considered as a new network media genre, involving in its orbit advertising,
logos, political caricature on the basis of common genre characteristics and the same stylistic
dominant — ironic modality. The media properties of demotivator are analyzed: utilitarianism,
topicality, polycode, intertextuality, inclusion in the actual media discourse and social
evaluation. This text is secondary to the corpus of media texts. The latter is seen as a discourse,
the lower tier, the context, the reaction to which becomes a demotivator: thus the audience of
the media reacts to the current agenda of the media Implicating one actual ideology of the media
discourse, the demotivator expresses its assessment by the society. Regardless of the material
medium, the demotivator is a modular text with the properties arising from this quality.
First of all, it is laconism, which is achieved in the image by visualization of the main details
of the media narrative, stereotype or frame; intertextuality, the predominant implicitness, and
in the verbal part of its compliance with the principles of the newspaper headline: brevity,
aphorism, brightness, simplicity, the ability to implicate the theme and problem of the text.
The stylistic dominant of the genre is an ironic comprehension of reality; expressive means are
a linguistic and visual game, often based on a metaphor of the bodily, biological and linguistic
bottom. The author compares the traditional point of view regarding demotivator as a genre
of network creativity of Internet users and the results of the study, in particular, prove that the
genre remains polycode, even if it presents only the visual or only the verbal part, since in both
cases there are cognitive parallels in the encoding of information.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: demotivator

value: media

value: evaluation

value: polycode

value: narrative

value: frame

value: culture code

value: associative relations

value: visualization

value: text navigation

dc.title

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dc.contributor.author

value: Averin, Artyom S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Averin, A. S. (2020). Popular legal discourse of English language mass media: From criminal news to legal websites. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 104–117.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The author analyzes popular legal discourse in the English language mass media and pays
attention to its essential features and specific language. It is significant nowadays to conduct
language studies in the field of Internet communication due to the ongoing process of digitalization
of all aspects of human and social life. In the course of the research three types of English
language legal TV programs are described: court room talk show, journalist investigation,
criminal and police documentaries. The author analyzes several episodes of the most typical shows of every type. It is discovered that they all do not contain popular legal discourse and
are aimed at entertaining the audience (rather than informing). The shows have legal matters
as the subject and they are easily understood by ordinary lay people, but it is not correct to
call them explanatory. Most of the shows contain semi — legal and legal information, which
can be practically useful. The author also examines English language legal discourse on the
Internet to compare it with the shows mentioned earlier. He focuses on the most visited websites
and assesses explanatory texts on the topic of landlord — tenant relationship. The article
contains examples of two texts on the topic. The first one is from a private legal firm`s website
(USA), the second was taken from the official Victoria state legal aid website (Australia). A
number of popular legal discourse features are explored and several specific language features
are described. The author makes a number of conclusions about the essence and language
characteristics of legal TV shows and website texts.

dc.subject

value: discourse

value: legal discourse

value: discoursology

value: mass comminication

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Fedorova, Elena A.

value: Musienko, Svetlana O.

value: Fedorov, Fedor Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Fedorova E. A., Musienko S. O., Fedorov F. Yu. (2020). Analysis of the external factors influence on the forecasting of bankruptcy of Russian companies. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 117–133.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article analyzes factors influencing bankruptcies of Russian companies. The increase in
the number of relevant cases since 2014, the beginning of which was associated with the unfolding
of another financial crisis in the country that provoked a deterioration in a number of macroeconomic indicators, raises the question of establishing the dependence of bankruptcies
of Russian companies on certain external factors. Based on the experience of foreign studies,
in which the importance of external factors was repeatedly proved in bankruptcy prediction
models, a set of variables was formed that should be included to increase predictive ability.
Using an empirical base that includes 716 construction companies (340 bankruptcies),
702 manufacturing companies (339 bankruptcies), 713 trading companies (334 bankruptcies),
using the binary choice models, bankruptcy prediction models were constructed, including
two variable blocks: internal and external factors. External factors affecting bankruptcies
of Russian companies include GDP growth, key rate, rate/increase in US dollar / euro rate,
consumer price index, growth in MICEX index, and unemployment rate. The inclusion of
variables characterizing external factors into the model significantly increased the explanatory
capacity of the model compared to models based only on internal factors. The results can be
used by companies to improve accuracy of forecasting bankruptcy probabilities, taking into
account the macroeconomic context. In addition, the results of the study can be used by public
authorities. Since the regulation of some of these external factors lies at the heart of the country’s
monetary policy, the state has the ability to influence not only macroeconomic processes,
but also the health of Russian companies.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Volume 36; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: forecasting of bankruptcy

value: external factors

value: state policy

value: insolvency of companies


dc.contributor.author

value: Kovalev, Vitaly V.

value: Drachevsky, Ilya S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kovalev Vit. V., Drachevskiy I. S. (2020) Dividend policy as a factor for managing company value: Comparing trends in emerging markets. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 95–116.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Stock markets, which are a kind of catalyst for the level of development and dynamics of
national and regional economies, have attracted the attention of researchers and practitioners,
especially in emerging markets. The gradual transformation of emerging to developed
market in terms of basic parameters cannot, by definition, be standardized and homogeneous
from a regional aspect. The subject of this article is the formulation and testing of hypotheses
about the influence of various dividend policy options on the value of oil and gas
companies in emerging markets. In particular, we compare two estimates: (a) actual value of
the company according to market data; and (b) theoretical (intrinsic) value of the company
calculated on the basis of forecast data on systematic dividend payments using the simulation
method (Monte Carlo method). The identification of statistically significant relationships between
these estimates allows us to build a real mechanism for managing the company’s value
in the context of the Value-Based Management (VBM) model. The logic and methodology of
modeling and assessing the intrinsic value of the company, substantiated by the authors, was
tested on actual publicly reported data of the largest listed companies in the oil and gas sector
in a number of emerging markets in various regions of the world. The choice of sector was determined
by particularities of the development of these companies, in particular the existence
and certain continuity of the dividend policy. In developed markets, modeling business value
in conjunction with dividend payments has been studied since the mid 1970s. The specifics of
emerging markets (including the Russian case) are such that in fact only in recent years it has
become possible to conduct research aimed at identifying the characteristics of the dividend
policy of companies represented in these markets. Until recently, a relatively small history of dividend payments did not allow the construction of more or less reasonable hypotheses about
trends and features. Moreover, results obtained were largely insignificant from the standpoint
of statistical methods (an extremely small amount of data). It was not necessary to talk about
a certain continuity of the dividend policy in the context of a rather stochastic procedure for
accruing dividends at an early stage of public business in emerging markets. The situation has
begun to change in recent years. The authors of this article substantiate the assumption that
the existence of a successive dividend policy is an indispensable condition for the transition of
the emerging stock market to the developed category.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.subject

value: emerging markets

value: Intrinsic (fundamental) value

value: company value

value: equity

value: market capitalization

value: CAPM

value: dividend policy

value: VBM

value: ROE

value: Monte Carlo method


title: Expressing Deixis in Guinean Pular

dc.contributor.author

value: Kosogorova, Maria A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kosogorova M. A. Expressing Deixis in Guinean Pular. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 35–51.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The paper presents a study of the main means of expressing deixis in Pular, a language of
Guinea (< fula < Atlantic < Niger-Congo). All deixis types are consequently reviewed. Firstly,
temporal deixis, which uses mainly lexical devices, apart from one retrospective affix. Secondly,
spatial deixis, which is coded by a proximal / medial / distal set of adverbs and the same
retrospective affix. Thirdly, the personal deixis system is marked by inclusive and exclusive
plural pronouns in the paradigm. Also, the signature characteristics of discourse deixis in Pular
are listed. Lastly, the domain of social deixis is reviewed, including lexical means, such as a
choice of nouns and predicates in reference and vocation, and grammatical means, including
a choice of noun class in pronouns. The system of demonstratives is presented separately as
it is marginal for several types of deixis, and the system of definitive is also looked at as it is a marginal part of the demonstrative system. Both systems each have one physical embodiment,
but if we accept the lack of this embodiment as a zero marker and the existence of a
third, lexical grade of the system, then it becomes picturesquely concordant with a proximal
/ medial / distal spatial system, and the concordance of demonstrative and spatial domains is
considered common in many languages.

dc.description.sponsorship

value: This study was supported by the Russian Science Foundation, research project No. 17-78-20071.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Pular

value: deixis

value: retrospective

value: inclusive

value: honorifics

value: definitive

value: demonstrative

dc.title

value: Expressing Deixis in Guinean Pular

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kutsenkov, Petr A.

value: Bocary, Guindo

value: Mamoudou, Kassambara

value: Zavyalova, Olga Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kutsenkov P. A., Guindo B., Kassambara M., Zavyalova O. Y. The Periodization of History in the Oral Historical Traditions of Dogon and Manding. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 100–112.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is based on an analysis of the literature and the data obtained during fieldwork in
the Republic of Guinea and the Republic of Mali in 1999, 2012, 2014 and 2015–2019. Today,
oral historical legends are poorly known and insufficiently evaluated as a source of historical
information. Thanks to the fieldwork on the Bandiagara Highlands, the oral historical legends
from the Semari village, from the Tintan village, and three versions of the oral historical legend
of the Ende village were obtained. It was on the basis of the studying these legends, as well
as materials collected in Guinea, that an attempt was made to describe how the Dogons and
Manding peoples themselves present their history as well as explain the periodization of their
oral history. The authors, two of whom themselves are carriers of the described traditions,
come to the conclusion that the periodization of history in oral historical stories among the
Dogon and the neighboring Manding peoples is approximately the same and as a rule consists
of three periods. The first, “prehistoric” stage contains only the name of the group that inhabited
a given territory before the arrival of the ancestor of the given group. The second stage (the
history of the departure of this group from the places of its initial settlement) is more detailed.
As a rule, one can find there mention of the names of all members of the group of first settlers
and their genealogies. The third stage, the time of existence of this group in the village founded
by it, is often described even in the most precise details. Occasionally people know not only
the names of all the chiefs of the village, but also the dates of their rule.

dc.subject

value: Guinea

value: Mali

value: Dogon

value: Manding

value: oral historical legends


dc.contributor.author

value: Mishlanov, Valerii A.

value: Chuganskaya, Anfisa A.

value: Smirnov, Ivan V.

value: Suvorova, Margarita I.

value: Kuruzov, Ilya A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mishlanov, V. A., Chuganskaya, A. A., Smirnov, I. V., Suvorova, M. I., Kuruzov I. A. (2020). Developing methods for behavior scenario analysis (on the material of instructional texts). Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 16–28.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article discusses the modeling of behavioral scenarios and methods for their extraction
from texts published in social media. The authors proceed from the basic (in modern cognitive
science) position that the intentional aspect of a person’s behavior is reflected in his speech
activity. This gives reason to extract scenarios from the texts generated to carry out some
activity. The choice of instructive texts is determined by the fact that their genre, content and
communicative intentions of their authors most explicitly represent the program of human
behavior. In this article we propose several methods for automatic construction of behavior
scenarios, as well as a scenario model in the form of a frame. This model can be used in the
system for automatic extraction of scenarios from texts and their further implementation. We
describe an experiment on automatic scenario identification in texts and its results. The experiment
includes text segmentation after which each segment is associated with a particular
step of a scenario. Text segmentation involves dividing a text into semantic units, selecting the
most important of them, which express (by their lexical meaning and form) incentive modality,
and finding some details to these units. In psychological terms, this means that we extract
those segments that contain description of some goals and particular actions that lead to their
achievement. Reconstruction of the scenario in this case can be represented as automatic extraction
of goals, actors, actions and conditions from selected segments. The result of text
segmentation achieves a fairly high F-measure.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
Работа выполнена при частичной поддержке РФФИ (гранты № 17-07-00651 «Разработка моделей и методов конструирования сценариев поведения на основе анализа текстов» и № 18-29-22027
«Персональные когнитивные ассистенты, сопровождающие деятельность человека в информационном пространстве»).

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 1

value: behavior scenarios

value: instructional texts

value: social media

value: scenario model


dc.contributor.author

value: Koval, Alexandra G.

value: Trofimenko, Olga Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Koval A. G., Trofimenko O. Yu. (2020) Theoretical concepts of trade policy development and analysis: Еvolution and modern challenges in the context of the international trading system transformation. St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies, vol. 36, iss. 1, pp. 27–48.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The study of the trade policy concepts within a framework of hyperglobalization and global
regulation system transformation requires new theoretical and methodological approaches.
On the one hand, trade policy design and implementation is closely linked to a wide range
of issues from e-commerce to gender inequality. On the other hand, the newest trade theory
focuses on studying the companies’ export activities, their participation in global value chains
and their trade costs. In addition, research methodology for various quantitative methods has
grown significantly. An increasing number of papers deal with the analysis of specific trade
policy instruments. However, despite the expanding number of studies on international trade
and trade policy in the economic, political and legal fields, the interdisciplinary approach for
a deeper understanding of the impact of specific measures on the countries socio-economic
development has not yet been developed. The paper presents an integrative review of studies
in leading foreign and Russian journals on international trade, as well as a comparative analysis
of the identified research areas.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: St Petersburg University Journal of Economic Studies;Volume 36; Issue 1

value: trade policy

value: international trade

value: multilateral trading system

value: theories of international trade

value: protectionism

value: free trade

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Korol’kova, Anna S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Korol’kova, A. S. (2020). Ways to convey a negative pragmatic assessment of the conceptual sphere of a “healthy lifestyle” in the blogosphere. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 83–94.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is devoted to the identification of linguistic ways of representation of negative assessment
in the conceptual and semantic sphere of “healthy lifestyle”. The aim of the study is attitude of the subject of speech-blogger to specific components of this sphere. The Internet
discourse seems to be the widest communicative and pragmatic space, which provides a rich
material for the study of the axiological space of language. As a multifunctional communication
channel and a special socio-cultural and communicative environment, it determines the
special use of language tools in dynamically developing media genres. The material of the
analysis is the blogosphere. 160 texts of users of the blog platform “LiveJournal” (“LiveJournal”)
for 2016–2019 were analyzed. The pragmatic attitude of the blogger is the desire to Express
his thoughts, evaluative attitude to various phenomena in order to get a response in the
form of comments from readers. Evaluation is an important category of pragmalinguistics and
is considered through discourse analysis. A certain value significance of the objects of reality
for the subject of speech reflect the units of discourse. Various ways of representation of a negative
assessment in such units (words, phrases or whole statements) are established. The first
group includes creative names of people who lead a healthy lifestyle, as well as createmes that
reflect a specific model of behavior and views of adherents of this lifestyle. The second group
of ways to convey a subjective assessment in a negative way are common language lexical and
morphological means, which include adjectival characteristics of persons leading a healthy
lifestyle, and verbal predicates, calling them typical actions. All the established methods are
United by the pragmatic intention of the subject to strengthen the impact on the reader, causing
negative emotions to the conceptualized object by destroying stereotypes.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: internet discourse

value: blogosphere

value: concept

value: healthy lifestyle

value: negative evaluation

value: createme


dc.contributor.author

value: Kuznetsova, Yuliya M.

value: Kuruzov, Ilya A.

value: Smirnov, Ivan V.

value: Stankevich, Maxim A.

value: Starostina, Elena V.

value: Chudova, Natalia V.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kuznetsova, Y. M., Kuruzov, I. A., Smirnov, I. V., Stankevich, M. А., Starostina, E. V., Chudova, N. V. (2020). Textual manifestations of social network user frustration. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 4–15.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The work is devoted to the identification of differentiating textual signs of frustration as a
reaction to subjective inability to satisfy a need. The linguistic realization of frustration in
the texts of network communication is considered as emotive speech and is a useful tool for
diagnosing emotional well-being both at the individual and at the group level. The data of a
psycholinguistic empirical study carried out using the methods of artificial intelligence are
presented. Texts of 100 social networks users were analyzed: posts and comments had been
written in different emotional states — while calm and in frustration. Texts were processed
using a linguistic analyzer that can automatically detect 177 text parameters. Clustering on
the basis of changes caused by frustration in the measured text characteristics revealed the
existence of two clusters of users. The first cluster encompasses people whose texts, under the
influence of frustration, reveal an increase in the proportion of singular past tense verbs, 1st
person verbs, and 1st person pronouns, the frequency of “pronouns-nouns,” the coefficient of
action objectification (number of verbs relative to the number of nouns) and the number of
punctuation marks relative to the number of words. The second cluster includes people whose
texts reveal an increase in the frequency of nouns and words in the semantic role of predicate,
and for the average word length, but a decrease for indicators from the first cluster. It is concluded
that there are two linguistic patterns of frustration response: the “story about one’s own
actions” and the “story about the case circumstances.”

dc.description.sponsorship

value: The article was prepared with partial financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), project No. 17-29-02247.

dc.subject

value: frustration

value: social networks

value: text mining

value: clustering

value: linguistic markers


dc.contributor.author

value: Khapizov, Shakhban M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Khapizov Sh. M. Ali al-Baghdadi. Study of Biography and Poetry of a Dagestani Medieval Scientist. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2020, vol. 12, issue 1, pp. 88–99.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article explores the life and literary creativity of the medieval Dagestani scientist — Ali b.
Muhammad al-Baghdadi (Bagdadilav), known as a specialist in Islamic law, Tassavuf, poetry
and grammar of the Persian language. The subject of our research was the origin, the major
events of the scientist’s life, as well as his literary heritage in the Avar language. Evidence suggests
that al-Baghdadi may have Ottoman origin. In particular, an analysis of the work of al-
Baghdadi speaks of this. Being a native of Iraq, Ottoman was his mother tongue, not Arabic.
Arriving at the end of the first quarter of the 17th century in Dagestan, he continued his studies
here. He studied in the villages of Highland Dagestan (Kudali and Ruguja). It can be argued
that he was a follower of the Sufi Tarikat Khalwatiyya, who received permission to mentor
from Shaykh Davud al-Kudali. Until now, researchers have been interested in the Arabic and
Turkic works of al-Baghdadi. The author was able to find four poems of al-Baghdadi in the
Avar language in manuscripts from the 17th century. The article presents the full text of four
poetic texts in Russian and their facsimiles. Three of them are written in the instructive genre
of poetry (Zukhdiya), and the fourth is an elegy (Marsiya). This piece of poetry is dedicated
to five dead scientists from the village of Ruguja. The manuscripts, in which these poems are
revealed, were rewritten by his friends, scientists — Shaban al-Ubudi and Muhammad al-Iri.
The author discovered that al-Baghdadi was interested in the biography of a famous Sufi poet
Nasimi (14 c.), who belonged to the extreme Shiite sect of the Hurufi. Despite this, the author
himself strictly adhered to the Sunni Islam’s Shafi mazhab. Moreover, he is the author of a legal
essay on the Shafiit mazhab. Its content excludes the possibility of al-Baghdadi’s belonging to
the Hurufi sect.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 12; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: Dagestan

value: Sufism

value: poetry

value: Islamic law

value: epigraphy

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Kolesnikova, Nataliya L.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Kolesnikova, N. L. (2020). Communicative strategies in Theresa May’s discourse practice. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 69–82.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article studies Theresa May’s communication activities during the Brexit process and the
communicative strategies she uses. The author analyses her speeches at conservative party
congresses, addresses to the nation, participation in parliamentary debates, official letters, as
well as mass media publications on the dynamics of the negotiation process between the British
government and the EU negotiators. The communicative strategies T. May employs in her
activities are analyzed to reveal a correlation between the success and failure of each communicative
act. The changes in the character of communicative strategies are studied as far as
the attitude of British establishment and general public to changes in the government’s Brexit
policy. The analysis of the communicative strategies used in implementing her Brexit policy
both internally and externally makes it possible to reveal the factors facilitating or preventing
the success of a communicative act. For the purpose of a complex pragmatic analysis of the
communicative acts, both oral and written messages of the participants as well as the addressees’
responses to them are analyzed semiotically. The communicative strategies T. May used
within the country, in most cases, did not match the pragmatic context and resulted in failure
while the strategies used in negotiating with the EU were adequate to the pragmatic intentions
of both parties and resulted in signing a Brexit deal. Besides, failure in her communication
within Great Britain is due to the dissonance between the internal and external communicative
practices utilized by T. May that prevented the parliament from approving the deal with
the EU and successfully achieving strategic goals of the government, i.e. orderly Brexit and
preserving the unity of the conservative party.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Media Linguistics;Volume 7; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: communicative strategies

value: communicative activity

value: communicative act

value: strategic communication

value: pragmatic factor


dc.contributor.author

value: Burno-Kaliszuk, Karolina

dc.identifier.citation

value: Burno-Kaliszuk, K. (2020). Tabloidization of court proceedings’ reports on gossip websites. Media Linguistics, 7 (1), 51–60.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article is an attempt to analyze the phenomenon of tabloidization of court proceedings’
reports on gossip websites — websites whose constitutive features are, among others, the scandalization
and dramatization of disseminated messages. Using media reports about the accusations
and court case pending against Kevin Spacey, which were made available on TMZ.com
(United States) and Pudelek.pl (Poland), an attempt was made to determine how media workers
present crimes related to their judicial conduct and how such representations can affect the
perception of justice by recipients. The base of considerations was the social constructivism
and framing theory. As a result of research, it was discovered that: (1) gossip websites’ editorial
teams use the interpretative frame of the cruel world to cover criminal matters, including the
narratives of an absolutely evil attacker and innocent victim, which enables the creation of a
dramatic, and at the same time extremely attractive to recipients, opposition; (2) crime-related
texts on gossip websites are closer to commentaries and assessments of the presented crimes
than to actual reporting on court proceedings; (3) typical editorial measures used to build
tension in the gossip materials about court proceedings are to report only those stages of the
proceedings that can be provided with emotional comments, constant recalling of negative
information about the crime that arose before the trial, the use of flashy and unambiguously
negative headlines, and reminders of the highest penalty for the described act; (4) geographical
proximity of the described events or the represented media market do not affect the manner
in which gossip websites cover court proceedings.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

value: tabloidization

value: gossip journalism

value: celebrities

value: violence


dc.contributor.author

value: Khoroshilov, Dmitry A.

value: Mashkov, Dmitry S.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Khoroshilov D. A., Mashkov D. S. “Grounded theory” as a method of psychological mapping of social situations. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 18–32.

dc.description.abstract

value:
This article, of a methodological genre, substantiates the qualitative approach to the study of
social situations. Acceptance of contextuality in cognition and action, the study of dynamic
relationships of the individual and environment, objective and subjective measurements of
their interaction in everyday life, the formation of the concept of man as a situation (L. Ya.
Ginsburg) — modern psychology does not have tools for the realization of these theoretical
aspirations in research practices. It is proposed to use one of the classical methods of qualitative
analysis ‘Grounded theory’, familiar to sociologists and to a lesser extent psychologists.
The following types of Grounded theory stand out: first generation (positivist) and second
generation (postmodern). In reality, A. Clarke’s version of qualitative analysis turns into semantic
mapping situations that closely resembles the Russian tradition of social cognition, which always takes into account the role of perception, categorization and interpretation of
situations by their immediate participants as members of various communities and groups
(G. M. Andreeva, N. V. Grishina). The article demonstrates the procedures for constructing situational
maps: theoretical sampling, inductive-deductive (abductive) strategy of data analysis,
constant comparative analysis, memo writing, and coding. The main steps and techniques of
the method are illustrated by the results of the empirical study of magical practices (clairvoyance,
astrology, palmistry, fortune telling) in the modern metropolis. Qualitative analysis of
ten in-depth interviews with representatives from “magic professions” working in one of the
esoteric centers of Moscow, allows for the creation of a semantic map of the marginal situation
of their social activity. The article concludes that qualitative research methodology is ‘sensitive’
to the context and it can be considered as the most convenient tool for studying social situations.
The specific method of Grounded theory, initially developed in sociology, is the answer
to the quest of modern psychology, whose theoretical innovations to a large extent unexpectedly
defined empirical research.

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 10; Issue 1

value: qualitative methods in psychology

value: Grounded theory

value: situational approach

value: personality and situation

value: situational map

dc.type

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Brovkina, Julia A.

value: Bazarov, Tachir Yu.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Brovkina Ju. A., Bazarov T. Yu. Socio-psychological research of Russian business leaders’ value preferences. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 73–91.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article presents the results of a study of leaders’ value orientations. This study is the first
stage of scientific research, which aims to assess the leadership potential of Russian entrepreneurship
and draw conclusions about the personnel readiness of Russian business for the
transition to a digital society. The mechanism for assessing leadership potential is established
on a situational-role leadership model based on Kurt Levin’s field theory. During interviews
with entrepreneurs and top managers of large companies, four basic situations in the business
environment were identified, which correspond to four fundamental leadership styles.
For each leadership style, hypotheses were formulated regarding the set of value orientations
characteristic of a given leadership style. An empirical study of the value preferences of representatives
of Russian business was carried out in 2018. A total of 117 respondents took part
in the study. The survey was conducted online using the Google Forms service. The data collected
was subjected to correlation analysis (Pearson method) and hierarchical cluster analysis
(Ward method). In general, the results of the study confirmed hypotheses about the existence
of stable correlations of basic value orientations that determine the profiles of distinguished
leadership styles. The number of some identified parameter groups is small (in particular,
the number of the group that has common characteristics of the innovative leadership style
profile is 5 people, comprising 4 % of the number of respondents), which may indicate an insufficiently
accurate determination of the set of value orientations that describe this particular
leadership style and the imbalance of the questionnaire itself, as well as the absence among
respondents of the business elite of respondents who adhere to this leadership style. In the future, we plan to expand the research sample by conducting surveys of leaders in the NGO and
social business segments, as well as conducting the second stage of the study, which includes
comprehensive testing to determine the leadership style and selective in-depth interviews
with respondents in order to verify the correlation between the identified leadership style and
environment in which they carry out their activities.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.subject

value: Russian elite

value: values

value: leadership

value: digital economics


dc.contributor.author

value: Manichev, Sergey A.

value: Lepekhin, Nikolay N.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Manichev S. A., Lepekhin N. N. Proactive safety management and proactive behavior of personnel as resources of Resilience Engineering. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 33–45.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article substantiates the relevance of ensuring the technosphere safety of socio-technical
systems based on proactive management and proactive working behavior. The development
of ideas about the role of the human factor in solving the problem of integrated adaptive safety
of socio-technical systems is described. Modern organizations should be able to adapt to work
in an unpredictable social, political and climatic environment, with the likelihood of an unforeseen
resonant combination of technical, climatic and humanitarian threats, possessing the
capabilities of a comprehensive adaptive system. As a result, the role of the human factor as
an active element of the sociotechnical system is increasing. The comparative characteristics
of the concepts of classical Safety management systems (SMS), High Reliable Organization
(HRO) and Resilience Engineering (RE) are given in terms of the possibilities for ensuring the
safety of social and technical systems in a dynamic technosphere environment. Safety management
systems (Safety-I) try to prevent future incidents based on past events, which does
not reflect the dynamics of changes in the external and internal environment. High Reliable
Organizations create excessive control loops and additional resources, which results in the loss
of effectiveness of most organizations, and at the same time does not provide absolute safety.
Resilience Engineering (Safety-II) relies on the normal variability of activity processes as a
potential for proactive safety. Analysis of the role of the human factor suggests the need for
the implementation of proactive safety management to prevent the occurrence of dangerous
resonant states in the system. The proactive working behavior of personnel ensures the adaptation
of functions to changing conditions of the external and internal environment of the organization and the anticipation of dangerous resonant variability of working activity. The
synthesis of the traditional approach to safety (Safety-I) and Safety-II, based on the introduction
of resilience engineering, allows for the prevention of dangerous resonant deviations in
activity, while maintaining the necessary level of productivity and quality.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by Russian Foundation for Humanities, project “Proactive behavior in
modern work design”, no. 19-013-00947.

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: technosphere safety

value: resilience engineering

value: Safety-II

value: proactive safety management

value: anticipation

value: proactive working behavior


dc.contributor.author

value: Martsinkovskaya, Tatyana D.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Martsinkovskaya T. D. The psychological concept of S. L. Rubinstein in the context of the ideas of I. V. Goethe and V. I. Vernadsky. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 7–17.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The article examines the similarities and differences in the concepts of S. L. Rubinstein,
I. V. Goethe and V. I. Vernadsky. At the center of the comparative interdisciplinary analysis
are the ideas of the opponent and the reference circles and the cognitive style of scientists and
artist. The theory of a reference circle is introduced, a circle of people whose ideas stimulated the development of concepts of other scientists and artists. The influence of Leonardo da Vinci
on S. L. Rubinstein, I. V. Goethe and V. I. Vernadsky is illustrated. Attention is given to the fact
that the various hypostases of Leonardo’s work became a reference for the various searches
of Rubinstein, Goethe and Vernadsky, for the formation of new areas of the science of color,
nature and technology, the spiritual essence of man. The significance of the works of K. Levin
and existential psychology for S. L. Rubinstein, as well as his concept of the inner world of
man, his exosphere is explored. The connections of reference circles and the cognitive style
of scientists are revealed. The pantheism of I. V. Goethe became the basis of his approach to
the harmonious unity of rational and intuitive knowledge, nature and culture, combining science
and art. The complementarity, compensatory, and non- harmonious unity of intuition
and logic, science and art is characteristic for S. L. Rubinstein and V. I. Vernadsky. At the same
time, activity or action becomes the leading one for Goethe and Rubinstein. For I. V. Goethe,
first of all, it is the action aimed at rebuilding the world and for S. L. Rubinstein it is the unity
of external and internal activity and the priority of internal activity in a person’s restructuring
of his spiritual world. The analysis of the specifics of the social situation in the life of all three
creators reveal similarities, which partially determined the peculiarities of their cognitive style
and attitude to science and art. If science becomes the basis of self-development and selfrealization,
then art is an incentive for self-understanding, self-designing and construction of
one’s own spiritual world.

dc.description.sponsorship

value:
The study was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation in the framework of research
project No. 19-18-00516.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 10; Issue 1

dc.subject

value: reference circle

value: cognitive style

value: social situation

value: nature and culture

dc.title

value: Article


dc.contributor.author

value: Schjetne, Eva Birgitta Carlsdotter

value: Melnikova, Nadezhda M.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Schjetne E. B. C., Melnikova N. M. Community work in the North — merging economy and psychology. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 46–60.

dc.description.abstract

value:
The main topic of this article is a presentation of, and reflections upon contributions from the
field of Psychology, System Theory, Community Work and Family Therapy in community development
projects The projects have been realised through the University of the Arctic, a cooperative
network of universities, colleges and other organisations committed to higher education
and research in the north. The project partners in those projects are North Eastern Federate
University, named after M. K. Ammosov, Institute of Finance and Economics and Development
Psychological Aid Centre, Yakutsk, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Russian Federation and
Finnmark University College, Alta, Norway. Nadezdha Melnikova and Eva Carlsdotter Schjetne
have developed a working model based on three methodological perspectives, Community and
Cultural Psychology, System Theory and Humanistic Psychology. In the systemic approach to
psychosocial strain and problems the salutogenetic and resilience perspectives are emphasised.
The article pays great attention to building an atmosphere of trust, establishing communication
between residents by discussion methods, teaching communication based on a subject-subject
model, and Virginia Satir’s approach to communication; recognition of the unique experience
of the population; taking into account the ethnocultural component. The active role of rural
women in business development is revealed. The importance of Family Therapy is also being
discussed. The role of psychologists in the implementation of interdisciplinary projects is shown.
The importance of the psychologist’s humanistic orientation in creating a developing situation
is also described. The necessity of moving away from the role of an expert is shown.

dc.language.iso

value: en

dc.publisher

value: St Petersburg State University

dc.subject

value: community development

value: communication

value: cultural psychology

value: system theory

value: humanistic psychology

value: family therapy


dc.contributor.author

value: Mironenko, Irina A.

value: Rafikova, Veronika A.

dc.identifier.citation

value: Mironenko I. A., Rafikova V. A. Concerning the history of comparative psychology in Russia. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Psychology, 2020, vol. 10, issue 1, pp. 61–72.

dc.description.abstract

value:
Psychology in the USSR was developing in relative isolation from international science. A
substantial amount of research done by Soviet psychologists has remained unknown to the
international scientific community, this especially concerns work performed since the 1930s.
Scientists who worked during the first decades of Soviet rule had received their education
in the pre-Soviet period. They knew foreign languages, and, for the most part, studied and
completed internships in Europe, particularly in Germany. New generations that grew up under
Soviet rule, in accordance with the Iron Curtain policy, were denied the opportunity to
participate in international discourse. The development of Russian psychology in the war and
post-war period led to the formation of a specific conceptual system, which is still a serious
obstacle to the integration of the achievements of Russian science, since it requires not only
language translation, but also hermeneutics. Nevertheless, there were original developments,
mainly in the area of fundamental research connected with biological sciences, which still can
contribute to international psychology. Such is the case with comparative psychology. This
article dwells upon the history of research in comparative psychology in Russia; it expounds
upon the specific character of the approach rooted in Russian science, and highlights the life
and works of a number of prominent representatives of the Soviet school in comparative psychology
(Ladygina-Kots, Fabri, Tikh) as well as research in the field executed by Pavlov.

dc.language.iso

value: ru

dc.relation.ispartofseries

value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Psychology;Volume 10; Issue 1

value: historical development of comparative psychology

value: evolutionary psychology

value: anthropogenesis

value: human phylogenesis and ontogenesis

value: Activity Theory

value: psychology in Russia