FOCUS ON RUSSIA

“Liberals” vs. “Democrats”: Ideational Trajectories of Russia’s Post-Communist Transformation
V. Gel’man

Typical Views, Attitudes and Self-Identifications in Principal Strata of Today’s Russian Society
N. Tikhonova

Jews in Contemporary Russia: Assimilation and Dissimilation
A. Levinson

ESSAYS

Crisis of the Union State of Russia and Belarus
A. Suzdaltsev

The Stalin Prizes of Architect Ivan Zholtovsky (1940-1953)
O. Shurygina

Leo Tolstoy and Non-Resistance to Evil by Violence: The History and Critique of the “Innocent Victim” Argument
K. Troitskiy

The Logic of Ivan Goncharov’s Creative Work: Stating the Problem
V. Melnik

“Nestor of Slavic Studies”: 125th Birth Anniversary of Dmitry Chizhevsky
E. Zadorozhnyuk

BOOK REVIEWS

Russia-XXI: A View from the Near Abroad Book Review: Askar Nursha. Putin’s Russia: Geopolitical Revenge or Aggressive Defense? Almaty: Gerona, 2018
A. Lukin

ACADEMIC LIFE

Academic Journals