POLIS Contents № 6 - 1994

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Kandel P.Ye. Nationalism and the Modernization Problem in the Post-Totalitarian World

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Akhiyezer A.S. Socio-Cultural Prognostication Regarding Russia: Macro- and Microanalytical Levels

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Bratkiewicz J. Smutas in Russia: an Essay of Evaluation and Prognostication

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FROM A POLITICAL SCIENTIST'S VIEWPOINT

Badovsky D.V. Transformation of Political Elite in Russia - from "an Organization of Professional Revolutionaries" to "the Power Party"

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Afanasyev M.N. Regional Ruling Elites: Changes in the Mechanism of Functioning

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Farukshin M.Kh. Political Elite of Tatarstan: Challenges of the Time and Difficulties of Adaptation

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Shveytzer V.Ya. Experiences of Western Social Democracy as Applied to Russia

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Ilyin M.V. Words and Meanings: Community - Communication

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RUSSIA TODAY

Klyamkin I.M., Lapkin V.V. Differentiation of Orientations in Russian Society: Factors of Influence

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Kolosov V.A., Krindach A.D. Tendencies of Post-Soviet Development of Mass Consciousness and Political Culture of Russia's South

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ART OF THE POSSIBLE

Lysenko V.N. Parliamentarism and the Formation of Political Establishment in Russia

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DIMENSIONS OF CUITURE

Shcherbinin A.I. The Political World as It Exists in Time and in Space

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Ashmarin I.I. Unity or. Still, Continuity?

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Review. Political Power of TV: Reality of a Myth?

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DOSSIER

McFaul M. Understanding Russia's 1993 Parliamentary Elections (II)

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NOTES

Yegorov V.K. The Russian Political Sciense Conference

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