Xin Liu Submitted for the degree of Dphil International Relations Origins of Peasant Socialism in China The International Relations of China’s Modern Revolution More than six decades after its occurrence, China’s ‘peasant revolution’ of 1949 remains an enigma. According to classical Marxism, peasants are passive ‘objects of history’ who must be transformed into industrial workers before they ca...

В статье на примере определенного этапа жизни диссидента Александра Есенина-Вольпина исследуется тема ссылки в Караганду позднесталинский период истории СССР. Рассматривается азиатскую часть СССР людей, осужденных ранее по 58 УК РСФСР, а затем признанных «социально-опасными элементами», которая фоне изучения множества форм принудительных миграций остается малоисследованной, что связано с индиви...

Economy is not one "natural" thing; it is always plural and socially constructed. Polanyi tought us that it was a mistake to see the economy as independent from society, as a selfregulating market. He insisted on the presence of different economic principles (market, redistribution, reciprocity) in concrete human economies. As for Mauss, he taught us that progress does not lie in seeking to rep...

Salvador Allende Gossens was born in 1908 and died in the coup against his government on 11 September 1973. He was four times candidate for the Presidency—unsuccessfully in 1952, 1958, 1964, and finally successfully in 1970. He qualified as a medical doctor in 1932 but from his student days he was also active in politics, helping to found Chile’s Socialist Party in the same year as his graduati...

YAKOV RAPOPORT, The doctors'plot, transl. Natina Perova and Raissa Bobrova, London, Fourth Estate, 1991, pp. xii, 280, illus., £17.95 (1-872180-13-2). On 13 January 1953, the astounded citizens of the USSR heard a massive "criminal conspiracy" denounced. Prominent Soviet physicians had conspired to kill the leaders of the country by medical means. A round of arrests followed involving high-rank...

IN November 1998 we lost one of the most important cot completed his mathematics degree at the École Normale Superieure in Paris (Nagylaki 1989). Malécot scientists of this century, Gustave Malécot. He was, in the best sense of the words, a great man. His contributold me how he had spent 2 years reading and mastering (no doubt in rigorous mathematical detail) Fisher’s artitions to science and m...

The growing interest in public sociologies marks an increasing gap between the ethos of sociologists and social, political, and economic tendencies in the wider society. Public sociology aims to enrich public debate about moral and political issues by infusing them with sociological theory and research. It has to be distinguished from policy, professional, and critical sociologies. Together the...

S for University Faculty for Life Conference June 1 & 2, 2012 BYU Law School The Case for After-Birth Abortion in the Journal of Medical Ethics: A Critique Francis J. Beckwith, MJS, PhD Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies (Department of Philosophy) Resident Scholar (Institute for the Studies of Religion) Baylor University In February 2012 the prestigious Journal of Medical Ethics p...