The period of the “socialist project” occupied biggest part 20th century. Hugescale social experiments have greatly shaped present-day city’s appearance. second half century evidenced an unprecedented volume housing and industrial technologies in house construction design. Most us, today’s citizens, live neighborhoods houses built during socialist era.Belgrade Split, Sverdlovsk, Sevastopol, Mag...

The article is a review of the famous book by Robert Michels (1876-1936) published in 1911 but only recently translated into Russian, Political Parties. A Sociological Study Oligarchical Tendencies Modern Democracy (Moscow: Publishing House “Delo”, 2022. 448 p.). This its first translation from German Russian I. Ivakina under scientific editorship D. Karasev. Based on analysis main ideas relate...

This article assesses the impact of post-neoliberal governments on level capital controls in 17 Latin American countries for period between 1995 and 2017. Contrary to administrations led by other left-of-center parties, especially ones affiliated Socialist International, I contend that São Paulo Forum, opted reregulate flows three main reasons: increasing macroeconomic policy autonomy, favoring...

This present study draws findings on possible ways of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) in economic and other “non-economic” organizations. The research analyzed (1) conflicts organizations, (2) methods conflict resolution, (3) actors who support the management management, (4) trust between parties, (5) knowledge ADR, (6) additional – Hungarian sector-specific circumstances. There is no such...

Four models of "socialism" are current in Latin America today: Chilean social democracy, Cuban revolutionary socialism, socialism as self-management, and the illdefined "twenty-first century socialism" espoused by Hugo Chávez. The best known theorist of "twenty-first century socialism" is Heinz Dieterich who believes that computers will make it possible to realize a utopian vision that failed i...

With the fall of the Socialist block in 1989, the Cuban national economy collapsed, followed by a severe scarcity in gasoline, materials and especially food. Of Alamar, a New Town socialist housing project under construction in East Havana, only the areas dedicated to dwelling were finished, leaving the neighbourhood without a defined public space or economic centre. Due to the limited transpor...

In formerly socialist societies the state has dominated sites like museums viewed as critical for producing a national past, but in the case of the Russian Federation these same institutions often are being utilized now to critically examine the past. For many in the emerging market economy of the Russian Federation, formerly state-dominated sites like museums have become important economic res...