Authors present an overview and analysis of publications the Soviet post-Soviet periods historiography school everyday life. The authors note that in period, a significant part scientific work focuses on determining leading role party field education, promotion advanced pedagogical experience teaching as well solving practical problems public education. In 1990-ies general education life become...

C O N TE N TS Urals, which are enjoying a return to economic growth and are once again attracting manual workers [1]. The population of Moscow, where much of the country’s wealth is concentrated, is also growing fast. However, the decrease in Siberia and the Far East is especially acute. The region of Magadan has lost more than 200,000 of the 386,000 inhabitants that it counted in 1989. In the ...

Ukraine experienced two very acute demographic crises during the Soviet era: the 1933 famine and the Second World War. While different estimates of total losses have been produced previously, we have tried here to distinguish the specific impact of the crises on mortality from their impact on fertility and migration. Taking into account all existing sources of registered data and estimates, a p...

In 1939 N.I. Ermolaeva published the results of an experiment which repeated parts of Mendel's classical experiments. On the basis of her experiment she concluded that Mendel's principle that self-pollination of hybrid plants gave rise to segregation proportions 3:1 was false. The great probability theorist A.N. Kolmogorov reviewed Ermolaeva's data using a test, now referred to as Kolmogorov's,...

In the early 1990s, as the Soviet system disintegrated and the three worlds of the post World War II era collapsed into one world, in political and corporate rhetoric this was the triumph not just of America and its allies, but of modern capitalism. This new world order was global and globalization was the driver of change. The selfassuredness of this narrative of change contrasted sharply with...

Phages are viruses that infect the bacteria and causes bacterial cell lysis [1]. They are “programmed” to terminate one or a few kinds of different strains of bacteria. Phages are widespread in nature and can appear naturally in food and in the human body (for example in the intestines). Phages can efficiently destroy bacteria which have built up resistance over time to antibiotics and which ca...

1 In his book, Men From Earth , Buzz Aldrin provides a broad overview of space history leading up to his moon landing on Apollo 11. The book begins with the launch of the first V-2 rocket by Werhner von Braun’s German rocket team at Peenemunde and progresses systematically through both the American and Soviet space missions. In contrast to many of the astronaut autobiographies, Aldrin’s book is...

A recent re-examination of finds from Soviet-era excavations in Dzhetyasar, Kazakhstan, has identified the remains two wooden objects as stringed instruments. Dating to fourth century AD, one bears a strikingly close resemblance lyre Western Europe, including instrument Mound 1 at Sutton Hoo: Hoo lyre.

t seems clear that Russia’s attempts at democratization and Westernization will not meet the expectations of Russia’s democratic reformers. As happened in previous eras of Westernization, only some elements of Western liberal democracy have taken root in Russian soil, the most important of them being competitive elections. Other fundamental elements of liberalism have not only failed to flouris...

In April 2007, the First Internet War began. Owing to the relocation of a World War II-era Soviet war memorial in Estonia, angry protestors, primarily of Russian descent, engaged in a month-long series of coordinated online attacks on Estonia's Internet infrastructure that disabled it for several days. We analyze this real-world event from a social psychological perspective. Specifically, we re...