DICTUM ET FACTUM

СЛОВО И ДЕЛО

Andrey Fursov

“Normal Science” Versus “Analiytics” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

The article is an introduction into the series of book reviews. The books under review are devoted to the problems of the

network structure “the Fourth Reich”. This problem usually is left out by conventional scholarship. The article analyses

the specificity of conventional (“profane-professor type”) scholarship, or “normal science”, as Th. Kuhn used to call it, the

phenomenon of “scientific tribes” and its main agents. It also fixes the limits of “normal science” and its heuristic poverty

in social research and counterposes it to a newly formed epistemological field — that of “analytics”. It is precisely this field

which becomes today a locus standi and field of employment for most fundamental and acute research. That is why the works

in this field are chosen for further review.

Key words:

conventional science, analitic, paradigm, “scientific tribe”, “100% falsified great scholars”, analytics, profane-professor-type

scholarship, Fourth reich

 

THEATRUM MUNDI

МИРОВАЯ АРЕНА

Emil Dabagyan

Hugo Chavez Had Never Lost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

General elections of October 2012 became the last ones in the political career of Hugo Chavez, a prominent politician of

Venezuela and one of the most charismatic leaders of Latin America. His opponent was a centrist politician Enrique Capriles

Radonski, who lost the campaign. The present study analyzes the causes of the Chavez’s victory, the character of his political

course and the heredity, which was left by H. Chavez in the political tradition of Latin America.

Key words:

Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, general elections of 2012, opposition, Latin America, the left turn, political populism, left

movement, Bolivarian socialism

 

Piotr Yakovlev

A Fracture of the Spanish Crisis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

The subject of the study are the causes of the economic crisis in Spain, its character and perspectives. Though the country

fall into the deep recession, in the strategically it have a good chance to broke the tendency and to renew its economic

growth. The principal clusters of the growth will development of tourism, infrastructure projects, modern technologies and

international economic connections (with the countries of the Latin America, first of all). Spanish has good potentialities

in these spheres.

Key words:

Spain, European Union, Eurozone, economic crisis, unemployment, international trade, perspectives of the economic

growth

PRO ET CONTRA

ЗА И ПРОТИВ

The First Session of the Intellectual Club of “Svobodnaya Mysl”

60 Years Without Stalin. His Experience and Value for Modern Russia . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

The first session of the Intellectual Club of “Svobodnaya Mysl” was dedicated to discuss the phenomenon of Iosif

Stalin. Some prominent writers and scholars in the field of humanities, who took part in the session (Svyatoslav

Rybas, Mikhail Veller, Andrey Fursov, Mikhail Delyagin, Jury Boldyrev and some others), emphasized the fact, that the

phenomenon was very complicated and can’t be described only by the black colors. The social, political and economic

system, constructed by him, stood the test of the World War II and gave an important stimulus to the development

of the Soviet Union.

Key worlds:

Stalin, Stalinism, World War II, the Great Patriotic War of the USSR, modernization, industrialization, mass repressions,

political myth

AD LITTERAM

БУКВАЛЬНО

Sergey Batchikov

The Metaphysics of Stalin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

The article is dedicated to the analysis of the Stalin phenomenon in the contemporary Russia. Only 20 years ago the most part of

Soviet people was sure, that Stalin couldn’t be evaluated as a great national politician, by now the situation is very different. The

author thinks, that the explanation of this case is a specific of “the metaphysics of Stalin”, i.e. his conception of the Present and

ant the Future of Russia. This conception was successfully tested by the World War II and proved its effectiveness.

Key words:

Stalin, metaphysics, modernization, industrialization, World War II, Soviet people

PRO MEMORIA

ДЛЯ ПАМЯТИ

Sergey Nazariya

“…We can quickly occupy Bessarabia” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

The beginning of Romanian intervention to Bessarabia evaluated by contemporaries and modern scholars. The article is dedicated

to the analysis of opinions about the occupation of Bessarabia by Romania in 1918, expressed by contemporaries and modern

scholars. The author emphasize the fact, that it was an act of Romanian aggression, directed to its ex-ally, i.e. Russia. On the whole,

the “Bessarabian problem” reflected positions of different subjects of international policy in the last period of the World War I.

Key words:

Moldova, Bessarabia, Bessarabian problem, World War I, Russia, Romania, Bolsheviks, Entente, Germany

STATUS RERUM

ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ ДЕЛ

Arseny Zamostyanov

Mirages and Lighthouses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

The author tries to show that the Western democracy doesn’t correspond to the traditions and traditional ideals of Russia.

To approve his opinion he suggests many arguments from the fields of history and formal logic.

Key words:

democracy, parlamentarism, plurality of political parties, democratic freedom, Soviet Communist Party (CPSU), perestroika,

the destruction of the USSR, civil society, demagogy, populism

 

Vladimir Petukhov

Democracy and Participation: New Challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

The subject of the study is a phenomenon of the political participation development in contemporary Russia. Though the

2000th years were the period of stagnation of political activity, now we see the new growth. The specialty of the process

is a development of “singular demand” movements, which stimulates a social activity in general and, in the same time,

influences to the formation of the new generation of political leaders.

Key words:

Russia, democracy, civil society, social protest, private interests, group interests, democratic process

QUO VADIS?

КАМО ГРЯДЕШИ? КУДА ИДЕШЬ?

Elena Mareeva

“Looser” Apostle Paul . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149

Author of the essay discuss a problem of a misbalance between the spiritual and material aspects of the life of modern society.

She states an absolute victory of the bourgeois axiology, because from its point of seeing apostle Paul was a looser, who didn’t

receive a place of state functionary, didn’t have a good job and never had a family and children. The author explains the

misbalance by the crisis of humanities and by the existent social reality. She is sure, that the axiological misbalance can’t be

eliminated without a sensible change in the life of contemporary society.

Key words:

philosophy, apostle Paul, J. Ortega y Gasset, bourgeois, crisis of spirituality, pragmatic philosophy

ARS LONGA

ИСКУССТВО ВЕЧНО

Ella Zadorozhnyuk

The East, the West and the Slavonic Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158

The article is dedicated to the conception of the Slavonic problem, formulated by Fedor Tyutchev, the great Russian poet and

the prominent diplomat of the 19th century. The author determine this conception as a kind of conservative utopia, but in

the same time she emphasize, that some of Tyutchev’s ideas can have an eternal importance.

Key words:

Russia, Slavonic peoples, Fedor Tyutchev, international policy of the 19th century, pan Slavism, Slavonic Federation

MARGINALIA

ЗАМЕТКИ НА ПОЛЯХ

Karen Brutents

About the Old and the New Global Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175

The study contains the new interpretation of some old and new global problem. The author emphasizes, that the fact of

sharpening of the old global problems (like the economic distance between the poor South and the rich North and the

disproportionate demographic growth of the Third World) must be added by effects of the new ones. The first new global

problem is the political apathy of the citizens, which undermines the base of democratic systems in the contemporary World.

The second one is worsening of the moral and spiritual atmosphere in a general sense, which is a direct menace to the future

of the mankind.

Key words:

global world, old global problems, controversies between the North and the South, demographic problems, the moral and

spiritual atmosphere, deformation of the civil values.

 

Piotr Alexandrov-Derkachenko

Belorussia: a Change of Written History Begins… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191

Studies in history in Belorussia for last twenty years were out of “phobias” in speaking about its common history with Russia

until 1991. But the coming of the new generation of scholars and inevitable future changes in political system can turn the

development of national historiography.

Key words:

history of Belorussia, disintegration of the USSR, building of nation, post Soviet space, nationally orientated history,

colonialism, occupation.

EX LIBRIS

ИЗ КНИГ

Grigory Morozov, Georgiy Alekseev

The Eye that Never Sleeps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211

The review describes the book, written by Michael Stolleis, who is the prominent German historian of law; now he

works as a director of the Institute for European Legal History of the Max Plank Society (Max-Plank-Institut f r euro -

p ische Rechtsgeschichte) (Germany). The theme of his book is the symbols of law. M. Stolleis suggests, that an eye of law is

the best symbol of the juridical profession. The reviewers join this point of seeing, give an excellent estimate to the study and

suggest some arguments, which corroborate the conception of M. Stolleis.

Key words:

legal history, symbols of law, eye of law, philosophy of law, European law, the Max Plank Society, Russian law

 

Oleg Aurov

Near the Distant Shore… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

The book written by Irina Zhalnina-Vasilkioti contain the full information about the Russian necropolis in Greece. The first

Russian graves appeared there in the 18th cen., in the period of Russian Turkish war; and the last belong to the time of the

World War II. The most part of buried persons were emigrant from Russia after the Civil war (1918—1920). Russian were

buried in different cemeteries in Athens, Saloniki etc. Now we know the most of their names and places of burring.

Key words:

Russia, Greece, emigration, necropolis, Russian military cemetery, Athens, Piraeus, Saloniki, Civil war in Russia, World War I,

World War II, Olga queen of the Hellenes