This thesis addresses the paradox of capitalist market reform being introduced by a politically undefeated communist state in China. It does so by developing an historical account of the Chinese polity’s relationship with the modern world. Chapter one offers a critique of existing explanations; these tend to focus narrowly on the immediate circumstances surrounding the decision to reform and th...

O objetivo do artigo é excursionar pela construção conceito de putinismo para designar um fenômeno populista característico regime político Vladimir Putin na Rússia pós-soviética. Partindo contexto histórico e da emergência liderança política Putin, apresentamos uma revisão literatura sobre o putinismo, interpretado a partir três espectros: como nova ideologia (Applebaum, 2013), novo stalinismo...

In his likening of Shakespeare's Hamlet to a sponge which absorbs all the problems our time[i], Polish poet, critic, and Professor Literature Jan Cott implies that will continue be contemporary no matter what time has passed. The timelessness play derives in first place from its liability re-interpretation re-contextualization different political social circles by virtue humanitarian, existenti...

It is impossible to understand the peculiarities of domestic penitentiary system during later Stalinism and its influence on Soviet society without considering processes that took place in Gulag at time, clarifying interests interaction actors these processes. Between second half 1940s first 1950s, USSR’s witnessed a confrontation between criminal groups unprecedented terms scale number victims...

The article is an overview of a prominent scientific event — Second Russian Congress Aesthetics (Yekaterinburg, July 2021). paper assesses the state aesthetics as and educational discipline throughout its history Soviet post-Soviet periods. highlights four stages aesthetics. first stage, 1930s, received following K. Clark, nomination “return aesthetics”, which was associated with general conser...