POLIS Contents № 4 - 1994

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Sorokin K.E. Russia and the Play of Geopolitical Interests in the Great Ocean Area

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FROM A POLITICAL SCIENTIST'S VIEWPOINT

Vite O.T. Centrism in Russian Politics (Alignment of Forces Within and Without the State Duma)

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Kolosov V.A., Krindach A.D. Russia and the Former Union Republics: the New Frontier

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Ilyin M.V. Political Discourse: Words and Meanings. Polity. Republic. Constitution. Fatherland

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RUSSIA TODAY

Klyamkin I.M. The Soviet and the Western: Is Synthesis Possible?

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Gordon L.A., Pliskevich N.P. The Furcations and Traps of a Transition Period

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Starikov Ye.N. The Social Structure of Transition Society: Essay of an "Inventory"

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VERSION

Sedov L.A. The Place of Russian Culture among World Cultures

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Pashinsky V.M. The Cyclical Phenomenon in Russia's History (A View from the Positions of Social Ecology)

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DOSSIER

Extraction. Forms of Political Statements in Election Campaigning

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NOTES

Prozorov Yu.B. Parties in Transition Societies (Latin American Experience)

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ARMY AND SOCIETY

A Round Table, Dudnik V.M., Blagovolin S.V., Zolotaryov P.S., Gareyev M.A., Shaposhnikov Ye.I., Bel’kov O.A., Arbatov A.G., Khalosha B.M., Kalyadin A.N., Berezovsky N.Yu., Amel’ko N.N., Kuklina I.N., Tatarnikov V.M., Ivanov P.L. National Interests of Russia and Her Military Policy (A Session of the "Army and Society" Round Table): V.M. Dudnik, S.E. Blagovolin, P.S. Zolotaryov, M.A. Gareyev, Ye.I. Shaposhnikov, O.A. Belkov, A.G. Arbatov, B.M. Khalosha, A.N. Kalyadin, N.Yu. Berezov

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