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{"title":"Marketing Science: Gains and losses","authors":"L. Kozlova","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426711","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426711","url":null,"abstract":"Problems of institutional reform, lack of means, arbitrary distribution of grants for research projects, conflict of interest, and even intrigue emerge as phenomena which, if they have not succeeded in thwarting scientific activity altogether, have left their mark on post-Soviet scientific production. This section focuses on the paraphernalia of academic life, addressing the more 'tangible', external factors, such as policy making and money, besides those scientific 'trends' of Western origin which have, undeniably, influenced current developments in research, education and the academic book market. Gennady Batygin and Larissa Kozlova are both sociologists at the Academy of Sciences, and engaged as teachers in other institutions as well. Gennady, who specialises in the methodology of sociology, is Professor at several universities; Larissa teaches as docent at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Moscow Academy of Architecture. Gennady heads a research team working on a history of social science and the intellectual community during the Soviet Regime. His approach combines oral history and extensive use of archive sources. In 1994, thanks to the backing of a George Soros 'start up fund', he launched the Journal of Sociology, and, despite recurrent financial difficulties since the initial funds were depleted, continues to edit the journal, which comes out two to three times a year. As a member of Gennady's research team, Larissa's contributions to the projects focuses primarily on the academic community active in the 1920s and 30s. She has written extensively on the elite 'Red Professoriate' Institute (founded in the early twenties to redesign the profile of social science, and of those destined to teach it). She also brings her background in philosophy to bear on related topics, such as the sociology of knowledge and the history of social science more generally. . The two essays here on grant support and the book market complement each other in their accounts of the shift from an academic system based on the distribution of status to one based on competition. Applying for grants is quite novel for Russians, requiring a special mindset which is alien to many who were brought up to believe in the inviolability of intellectual status. Now they have reason to doubt this as contemporary material insecurity compels them to develop new skills those of filling out grant application forms. It is, says Gennady Batygin, a special art (which he humorously likens to an ode, sonnet or madrigal) requiring considerable inventiveness, as well as an intuitive grasp of what he calls the 'grant mode of life'. Separated from the larger post-soviet 'social space' and enclosed within an invisible border, this 'grant mode of life' has contaminated the academic mind. While some have developed 'anti-bodies' rejecting the insidious ploys required to win awards, others have mastered the art thoroughly, knowing when, where and how to differentiate between the 'what' of science a","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"26 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":"133463650","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}

{"title":"The social science trade (1990–2000): Bibliographical notes","authors":"L. Kozlov","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426713","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Literature permeates every part of intellectual life in Russia. In the 1980s, an average home library had about three hundred books, most of which were the collected works of Russian classics and ‘progressive’ foreign writers. For sure, literature, art and the social sciences did not mirror our world; rather their purpose was to help compensate for our drab existence. Thus, social knowledge was all about amateur theorising. ‘Elevated’ art, together with social sciences literature, targeted a mass audience and, in so doing, became, as it were, ‘public’ forms of knowledge.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"113 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":"124694898","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}

{"title":"Academic diary","authors":"O. Vainshtein","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426947","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426947","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract 12 OCTOBER 1999: Communicating via e-mail is a special genre. It is a softer medium than that of telephone calls or of full-length old-fashioned letters. You can also attach a picture or an entire book to a message. Initially it was closer to the nineteenth-century ‘notes’ genre or those French ‘blue papers’ which used to be sent by pneumatic-dispatch. Except that, nowadays, a reply arrives in three minutes.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"18 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":"121282678","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}

{"title":"L'Invention du quotidien par les Formalistes russes","authors":"S. Zenkin","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426699","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426699","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract L'étude systématique de la vie quotidienne, dont la découvene en tant qu'une réalité humaine de premier imponance semble constituer l'un des enjeux de la modernité, fut fondée dans les années vingt par les Formalistes russes. On a tendance quelquefois à réduire leur travail théorique à l'élaboration d'une poétique immanente; or l'évolution intrinsèque de l'école, en même temps que sa situation socio-politique, finirent par amener les Formalistes à transcender le cadre de cette discipline pour tenter une saisie méthodologique du horstexte quotidien, désigné par le mot russe byt.","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":"134187118","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}

{"title":"The West comes to Russia: The George Soros translation project","authors":"I. Savelyeva","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426715","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1996 George Soros launched his translation project — an ambitious, massive scheme to translate some five hundred monographs reflecting fundamental research in the human and social sciences. Advice sought from leading scholars and intellectuals determined its scope and design. The project itself was carried out thanks to a network of hundreds of translators, academic editors and publishers. During its first four years of existence, 130 books have been published, and another three hundred or more are in the final stages of preparation.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"134 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":"121512144","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}

{"title":"Images of Russia in history textbooks: A gender approach","authors":"G. Zvereva","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426705","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426705","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It is a well-known fact that historical explanation is informed by certain conventions or approaches which change over time. But, together with this, it is quite usual for the historian to draw on assumptions used every day as part of a wider intellectual discourse. A case in point is the question of Russian national identity, which, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, has become both a major topic of debate among intellectuals and also a project for historical research.","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":"114801009","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}

{"title":"Is the science of religions possible in present day Russia?","authors":"N. Shaburov","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426708","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426708","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Nowadays it is fashionable to attack the science of religions. Members of the clergy object that it is little more than ‘scientific atheism’, and advise that no instruction in the subject be offered when courses in theology are available. Self-styled agnostics, on the other hand (who actually have a tendency to confuse science of religions with theology), argue that no religious instruction whatsoever should be given at secular educational establishments.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"21 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":"122045442","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}

{"title":"Promoting cultural patrimony: France versus Germany","authors":"Katia Dmitrieva, F. Nethercott","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426943","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426943","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The role played by the West in aiding the process of democratisation through generous subsidies has been especially important in the cultural sphere, in particular for creative arts, as well as the humanities and social sciences properly speaking. One of the first countries to seize the opportunity presented by glasnost was France. In 1989, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, together with the French Embassy in Moscow, launched the ‘Pushkin programme’, and in July 1991 — just as the Soviet Union was in its final hours — the Chancellery for the group of Paris universities signed an agreement with the Rector of Moscow State University to set up the College Universitaire Fran~ais. Described in the French press as an achievement no less than ‘revolutionary, the creation of a network of French faculties in Moscow and the provinces not only seemed to privilege France's cultural role in the new Russia (phrases such as ‘cultural mission’, ‘cultural benefactor’ abounded in the press), it also brought to a successful conclusion ambitions once nurtured by Voltaire and Diderot to convince Catherine the Great of the pertinence of a French style education for Russian youth. At that time, however, Catherine was less inclined to implant a French educational institution on Russian soil and opted-instead for the German school model — a choice which ultimately dictated the pattern of development in Russia's secondary and higher educational structure throughout the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"3 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":"123934071","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}

{"title":"Presentations: The new dictionary of contemporary Western philosophy","authors":"V. Malakhov","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426944","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426944","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract It will seem highly improbable to a western reader that a philosophical dictionary with a print-run of 150,000 copies could sell out almost immediately. Well, this is exactly what happened to Contemporary Western philosophy, an encyclopaedic dictionary I edited, together with my colleague, Vladimir Filatov, in 1991. By 1993, it had become a rare collector's item. Granted, we were barely out of ‘Soviet rule’ when philosophy past and present was empowered to guide and instruct. At that time, major print-runs in philosophy were quite normal, and should not be interpreted as a sign of success. Indeed, if anything, the figures betoken an implicit compromise with the exaggerated demands of the ‘highest readership in the world’, as it was boasted. According to one anecdote, in the early sixties when a new edition of Kant's collected works was in preparation, a survey was carried out to find out how many potential buyers there might be. The number of requests exceeded 250,000. In the end, however, only 22,000 copies were printed, a figure which falls well behind the print-run for, say, the Plato Complete works (40,000) or Hobbes (31,000).","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"39 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":"129037743","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}

{"title":"The State of the Art","authors":"J. Perdigao","doi":"10.1080/15615324.2001.10426702","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15615324.2001.10426702","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":360014,"journal":{"name":"Intellectual News","volume":"2013 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":"130862442","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}