FOCUS ON RUSSIA
The Wiping Out of History: What Is Left of the Revolutionary Myth?
L. Gudkov, N. Zorkaya
State Assignments for Scientific Work
A. Gusev, A. Ladny, Ye. Beloklokov, M. Yurevich
POST-SOVIET SOCIETIES
Between the State and the Nation: Dilemmas of Identity Politics in Post-Soviet Societies
I. Semenenko, V. Lapkin, A. Bardin, V. Pantin
ESSAYS
Ethics and Its Place in Philosophy
A. Guseynov
The Russian Multi-Party System: The Cradle of Civil Society or the Grave of Imperial Statehood?
P. Marchenya
The Soviet Atomic Project: Ingredients of Success
E. Artemov
Russia and “the Others” as Perceived by Russian Conservatives
A. Teslya
The Destinies of Meta-Criticism in the Era of Mega-Crisis
O. Osovsky
BOOK REVIEW
How the Academic Elite Was Formed
(Reviewed book: A. Ye. Ivanov. Scientific Dignity in the Russian Empire in the 18th-Early 20th Centuries. Attestation of University Professors and Lecturers. Moscow, 2016)
I. Rozental
ACADEMIC LIFE