Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426701
V. Podoroga
{"title":"The second screen: S. M. Eisenstein and the cinema of violence","authors":"V. Podoroga","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426701","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426701","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This story is as old as the hills: a father, mother, and son. With Mama Qeaning towards her in search of shelter and care, longing for a caress). With Papa (abandoned, melancholic, standing apart at some distance from him, though holding onto his hand). Now all together: detached, estranged, different, and at the same time so alike, as if united by common suffering: a family scene of early childhood. And finally — the last photo — a kind of emblematic witness to the art of domineering as practised by Father: on the settee, the boy, dressed as a miniature Lord Fontleroy — Papa's ideal come true. Notice the easy grace of the pose, which could have altered in a split second were it not for the mirror, hidden, yet clearly there. The gaze of self-inspection is that which affords (or ought to) naturalness and ease to the pose of the newly made little lord.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115610472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426706
B. Dubin
{"title":"The symbolics of the border in post-Soviet political mythology","authors":"B. Dubin","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426706","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract According to a recent poll conducted by VTsIOM, only a quarter of Russians ‘consider themselves Europeans’, with approximately 55% claiming that they ‘never’ felt they belonged to the history and culture of Europe. The remaining 20% had difficulty in answering the question. The poll also showed that for an absolute majority of Russians questioned, neither the largest countries of the West, nor the industrialised countries of the East, let alone Islamic states, offered an attractive pattern of development. Approximately 60% think that Russia has ‘its own special way’.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"260 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122149735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426704
Gennady Bordiugov
{"title":"The emergence of national histories in post-Soviet society","authors":"Gennady Bordiugov","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426704","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426704","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the collapse of the USSR and the formation of new states, the notion of national identity has begun to occupy a central place as a tool for claiming political sovereignty. The quest for legitimacy has, as one might expect, solicited much reexamination of the past. But in the flood of national histories written over the past decade, it is sadly —though understandably — rare to find an analysis of the Soviet political and socio-cultural system which is free of emotional bias, whether it be hysterical outrage at a nation's suffering, or undue silence over the pain it may have inflicted on others.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122379525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426700
Helena Petrovskaya
{"title":"Technical arts and reality: The status of the referent in photography and cinema","authors":"Helena Petrovskaya","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426700","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426700","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is quite obvious that both photography and cinema have a strong documentary effect, making for an intimate contact with reality. Of course, most films are deliberately and overtly fictitious, yet at the same time they have a verisimilitude of the highest degree, which has to do with the very nature of representation on screen. What is less obvious, however, is that the two media are linked to time, and this affects the nature of human perception. It is this connection with time in photography and cinema which we will be examining here, both to delineate distinctions, and to bring out similarities between them. Hopefully, this will result in a better understanding of the essence of both arts which are so much a part of our daily lives.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127514597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426946
{"title":"Talking philosophy: An interview with Alexander Ivanov","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426946","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426946","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Logos: You remember that, at one of the recent Soros conferences in Saint Petersburg, you spoke of the illusions which “guided” you when you started out on your publishing business. Could you tell us a bit more about these “illusions”?","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133624250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426712
G. Batygin
{"title":"The invisible border: Grant support and restructuring the scientific community in Russia","authors":"G. Batygin","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426712","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract These notes are based on two sources. The first is published, or publicly disseminated data on research and publication projects supported by various Russian scientific foundations. According to one, admittedly approximate, estimate, there are no less than 150 foundations which give grants for scientific research. The trouble is — and here we should be careful with the terms we use — the vast majority of these are ‘nontransparent’. By this I mean that it is virtually impossible to determine which researchers they give money to, or, indeed, how much. For the sake of convenience, let's call these funds «self-referenced’ and leave it at that. However, that said, it is the case, that only very few of the leading institutions in the ‘open market’ for grants in the social sciences are ‘transparent’.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117311078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426703
V. Malakhov
{"title":"Is philosophy in Russian possible?","authors":"V. Malakhov","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426703","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426703","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It seems obvious that under Stalin nothing worthy of the name ‘philosophy’ could ever exist. The XX Congress of the CPSU (1956) which marked the beginning — with Khrushchev's blessing — of efforts to rid Leninism of Stalinism, was also a fresh starting point for philosophical thinking. But, for sure, young people hungry for knowledge didn't stop there, and very soon started to filter Marxism out of Leninism. In the late fifties, the Moscow Methodological Circle, the ‘MMC’ so called, was formed. To begin with, the Circle concentrated exclusively on the works of Marx. It did so, not just because the texts were readily available (besides Marx himself, there were also the works of his ‘predecessors’ — Hegel, Adam Smith and the French socialists of the first half of the nineteenth century), but largely because they incited independent thinking among young philosophers. The works of Marx - namely, the first volume of Capital, critique of Hegel's philosophy of the law (and later, the Economic and philosophical papers of 1844 which were translated into Russian in 1961) were a real eye opener for this generation, which had grown up with Party documents as the only form of spiritual manna. However, loyalty to Marx quickly gave way to the discovery of new masters. Some discovered Hegel, others, Kant, or Husserl. Others still developed an interest in the philosophy of science, while still yet another group took up Marx's critique of society using it to undermine his understanding of history.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127208436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426709
Katia Dmitrieva
{"title":"Academic publishing, Russian Style: Why Ivan Ivanovich won't stop quibbling with Ivan Nikiforovich","authors":"Katia Dmitrieva","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426709","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It was, initially, my intention to describe the preparation of academic editions in post-Soviet Russia, using the new Gogol complete works and correspondence of which I am one of the editors, as an example of the necessary steps involved. But, to quote one of Gogol's heroes, ‘a story happene~ to this story’. The number of incidents which hampered work on the first volume not only gave the whole process a dramatic colouring, but the context of the ‘story’ broadened, opening out on to two main subplots: life in Russian academlc institutes, and the fate of academic editions more generally.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125853418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Intellectual NewsPub Date : 2001-09-01DOI: 10.1080/15615324.2001.10426710
A. Nemzer
{"title":"The remarkable decade: Russian prose in the nineties","authors":"A. Nemzer","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426710","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract At the dawn of a new century — and millennium — the magic of numbers is especially attractive. It goes without saying that, over the past century, developments in Russian belles-lettres have been anything but normal; the role played by ‘extra-literary’ factors has been fundamental. Repeated catastrophes inflicted on the historical-literary sphere have considerably impoverished our understanding of the recent past, leaving us either victims of ignorance, or host to exaggerated mythmaking. Moreover, I would argue that the attraction of the new millennium, on the one hand, and the current mode of looking back to the fate of Russian literature over the entire century on the other, has resulted in a new ‘blind spot’ in literary criticism, namely an absence of discussion about prose writing during the past decade.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2001-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127278700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}