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В статье на основе документально подтверждённой статистики сделана попытка показать реальные масштабы политических репрессий в СССР за всю историю его существования, но основное внимание уделено периоду 1930-1953 гг. В ней ведётся острая полемика с авторами, оперирующими не документами, а «интуитивной» и «оценочной» статистикой (как правило, недостоверной и многократно преувеличенной). ; In this article, on the basis of strictly documented statistics data, the author attempts to reveal the real extends of political repressions in the USSR for the whole period of its existence. The main attention is paid to the period since 1930 through 1953. The author argues with those of his colleagues, who prefer to base their studies not on the documents, but on the intuitive and estimated statistics, which is, as a rule, unreliable and way too exaggerated.

Рассмотрены публичные слушания как одна из форм реализации непосредственной демократии на муниципальном уровне на примере Барнаула. Проанализированы статистические данные публичных слушаний, проведенных с 2007 г. по август 2011 г. Выявлена тенденция, связанная с тем, что, начиная с 2010 г. и по настоящий момент население все чаще становится инициатором публичных слушаний. Даны рекомендации по улучшению работы данного института народовластия. ; The article is devoted to the problem of public hearings as a form of direct democracy in Barnaul. The author analyzes the statistics of hearings, which held in period from 2007 to august, 2011. The article shows the trend that from 2010 till now population more and more often become to be the initiator of public hearings. The author gives some recommendations to improve this democratic institution.

Статья посвящена аномии в российском обществе, находящемся в длительном состоянии трансформации. Автор акцентирует свое внимание на комплексе предпосылок и условий, которые обусловили расцвет девиантности в России, среди них историко-политические, цивилизационные, экономические, политико-структурные, государственно-управленческие, экологические, нравственно-правовые, духовно-культурные, социально-психологические и др. В качестве специфических стимуляторов расширения проявлений девиантного поведения выделяются средства массовой информации. ; This article is dedicated to the anomia in Russian society, staying in the longtime state of transformation. The author considers the extension of deviancy in Russia to be caused by certain complex of factors and conditions, among them historical, civilizational, economical, political, administerial, ecological, moral, legalistical, cultural and spiritual, social and psychological ones. The author supposes mass media to be the specific inciter for expansion of deviant behavior.

Данная статья посвящена исследованию терминологии, используемой в правовом регулировании преобразования как самостоятельной формы реорганизации юридических лиц. Автор критически анализирует положения действующего законодательства Российской Федерации, регулирующие общественные отношения в данной области, выявляет существенные признаки правового явления преобразования, делает собственные выводы и вносит конкретные предложения по совершенствованию российского гражданского законодательства. ; This article is concerned with the research of terminology in the legal regulation of company reconstruction as an independent form of corporate restructuring. The author gives a critical analysis of those provisions of the RF applicable legislation, which regulate the social relations in this sphere. The author reveals dominant features of the legal phenomena of company reconstruction, draws his own conclusions and also puts forward specific proposals related to the improvement of the RF civil legislation.

This paper deals with the notion of virtual memory in Bergson?s philosophy,
with special regard to the question of the independence of memory and the
complex intertwining of spiritual recollections with perception. Attention is
devoted to the Bergsonian analysis of the actualization of virtual contents.
The author also confronts the Bergsonian notion of unconscious with that of
Freud?s. It seems that the notion of virtual memory is relevant not only from
a psychological or an epistemological perspective, but it has also some
consequences with regard to practical philosophy. An excursus is devoted to
the Deleuzien interpretation of virtuality. At the end of the paper the
author discusses the immanent tensions within the Bergsonian concept of
virtual memory from the aspect of temporal verticality, the impossible
localization of virtuality and freedom.

In this article the author argues that Nietzsche?s critique of morality is
based on his metaphysics in which the notion of will to power conceived in
the spirit of the Greek concept of physis plays a key role. He demonstrates
that the revaluation of all values as overcoming of Platonist-Christian
nihilism is aimed at the affirmation of ?living in accordance with nature?,
whereby nature is understood just as physis. He also shows why, for
Nietzsche, pretension to universality and objectivity of the dominant value
system is not justified. Finally, the author points to the difficulties of
Nietzsche?s (inverse) Platonism and concludes that the failure of modernity
to justify morality imposes the task of examining the possibilities of
rehabilitation of Aristotle?s practical philosophy.

"This note casts skepticism over various hypothesis formulated by Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) in reaching the conclusion that institutions cause economic development. The author has identified four major issues in the study. It lacks adequate econometric specification and relies only on, what the author termed, destiny variables. Secondly, the historical record does not support the author's theory that mortality rate determine Europeans strategy for institutions they intended to develop in the host country; thirdly, given current living standards and disease ridden environment in low and middle income countries, the claim that disease environment of early 19th century was neutral to economic development seems farfetched; finally, assuming that initial institutions caused present institutions put in question the developmental efforts of past half century and thus is more than a sweeping generalization." (author's abstract)

The article discusses the problem of investment attraction of Russian economy
in the period of transition to the market conditions of economy. The author
emphasizes that the attraction is hard to achieve because of natural
conditions (primarily climatic) and that this should not be connected with
political and other factors because this is an economic problem. After
indicating that competition cannot be directly connected with the quality of
goods, the author stresses the key hypothesis which states that in the
conditions of the free world market the level of production cost of almost
every Russian company is higher than average, which is why it is not
attractive for investments. He terms this claim the ?bitter theorem? and
proves is through the acts of natural, primarily climatic factors.

The paper reviews recent literature on trust in urban and regional planning from engineering planning, sociological, economic and psychoanalytic perspectives using the author's training and experiences as a backdrop. It discusses the various approaches of defining trust in the planning context and discusses four categories of trust proposed by Swain and Tait (2007). According to the author, the importance of leaders and leadership on trust is ignored in most current theories. Based on Freud's model on groups the author proposes that leaders and significant "external objects" are central to trust and critical to successful planning. Following the group model, supported by psychoanalytic literature, the paper proposes a new way of looking at trust, how it develops and how it can be adapted and incorporated in the planning processes.

In this article, the author shares her experiences as a doctoral student at the Unsettling Feminism(s) conference in Chicago. She argues that this unconference forced her to question how the academy conceives of "academic conferences" as venues of student–professional development. From the perspective of a racialized woman, an immigrant, a scholar, and a person with a disability, such professional gatherings that honor social workers' and researchers' multiple identities and offer valued spaces for marginalized stories to be told and heard can be personally and professionally transformative. The author uses the metaphor of an elephant in the room to argue that even though it may be unsettling, the academy must be willing to risk uncomfortable dialogues to advance social work education, practice, and research and to enhance students' intellectual creativity.

This study presents a new explanation to a puzzle regarding the reluctance of the Japan Socialist Party (JSP) to moderate its hard-liner Marxist platform. The author does so by focusing on the preferences and strategies of individual JSP members, in contrast to previous studies that treat the party as a unitary actor. The author shows that Japan's electoral system created a unique environment in which the electoral prospects for some JSP incumbents would be seriously jeopardized if their party increased its popular support. The analysis demonstrates that the degree of security JSP politicians had in retaining their own seats was a significant determinant in their attitudes toward a proposed policy moderation plan that was considered during a critical period in the early 1960s that could have increased support for the party.

This paper is about a British military tradition with a Chinese connection. It has taken the author several years of research to dispel the myth that has long shrouded the true origins of a regimental tradition of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment of the British Army. This tradition is of a pair of eyes, known as the "Chinese Eyes," painted on the bows or turrets of British tanks from World War I to the present day. As such, the "Chinese Eyes" can be regarded as intangible heritage expressed on the tangible hardware of the British Army. Using the research methodology for architectural conservation, the author attempts to rediscover obscure historical evidence, using it to chronologically reconstruct the events leading to the creation of this tradition. ; postprint

This essay examines two novels by Dominican American author Julia Alvarez, How the García Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies. By undertaking a transnational feminist reading practice, the author explicates the novels' critique of the political constructions of the Latin American Third World as "deprived" and "depraved." Alvarez's work traces how these representations have been constitutive of a North American liberal feminist imaginary, limiting its conception of the forms of feminist agency available to women in the Americas as well as the liberal social rebellion and "development" of the woman of color in the United States. Ultimately, the two novels uncover the imperial history between the United States and the Dominican Republic that (neo)liberal linkages otherwise obscure.

This paper examines the insurgency in Nepal (1996-2008) from a military theoretical point of view. It looks at the insurgency from André Beaufre's exterior/interior framework, which is modified to match postmodern conflicts. Simultaneously the importance of the political is underlined. The author critically examines the relevance of the Maoist label the movement and insurgency have received. He claims that the insurgency became a hybrid consisting of Chinese, Latin American, and Leninist thoughts wrapped in pragmatic/revisionists and nationalist ideas. The author also suggests that the ability of insurgents - or counter-insurgents - to combine the effects of the exterior and interior is more likely to constitute the key centre of gravity of a conflict than any single political, economic, or military factor. (Small Wars and Insurgencies/ FUB 2011)

Анализируются проблемы разграничения предметной юрисдикции специализированных судов, ранее действующее законодательство о судоустройстве и модель судоустройства по судебной реформе 2010 г. Обращается внимание на определение понятий "судебная юрисдикция", "судебная компетенция", "подсудность", "подведомственность", делается попытка их разграничения. Рассмотрены принципы разграничения предметной юрисдикции специализированных судов и конструкция "коллизия юрисдикций специализированных судов". ; The author analyses problems of differentiation of subject jurisdiction of specialized courts, taking into account previous legislation on judiciary and judicial model according to judicial reform of 2010. Attention is pall to definition of such concepts as "judicial jurisdiction", "judicial competence", "cognizance", "justifiability" an attempt, of their differen-tation is made. The author presents principles of differentiation of the subject jurisdiction of specialized courts and gives definition of "collisions of jurisdictions of specialized courts".