POLIS Contents № 1 - 1999

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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ARTICLES

Torkunov A.V. Professionalism in Politics as an Educational Task

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Diamond L. Is the Third Wave Over?

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Mezhuyev B.V. The Modelling of the Notion: "National Interest" (With Russia's "Far Eastern" Policy of the Late 19th to Early 20th Century as Example)

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Busygina I.M. On the Condition of the German Nation (The Territorial Factor in National Self-Consciousness of the Germans)

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SOCIUM AND POWER

Sergeyev V.M., Bel'ayev A.V., Biryukov N.I., Gusev L.Yu. Formation of Parliamentary Parties in Russia (The State Duma in 1994 to 1997)

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UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY: RUSSIA OF THE REGIONS AND THE ELITES

Yelizarov V.P. The Elitist Theory of Democracy and the Contemporary Russian Political Process

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Gelman V.Ya. Elite Settlement and Limits of Democratization: the Case of Nizhegorodskaya Oblast (Nizhniy Novgorod Region)

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Borisov S.V. The Nowaday Political Regime in Nizhegorodskaya Oblast (Nizhniy Novgorod Region): the Formation in 1990s

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DIMENSIONS OF POLITICAL CULTURE

Shcherbinin A.I. ...The Print in Your ABC Book..., or The Elements of Totalitarian Indoctrination

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Barsukova S.Yu. The Private and the Public: Dialectics of Disposition

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DOSSIER

Klimov I.A. Protest Movement: Mutual Dependence of the Sides' Strategies

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Bakun L.A. Groups in Politics (To the History of the Evolution of American Theories)

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Mis'urov D.A. Political Symbolics: between Ideology and Political Publicity

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RETROACTIVE COMMUNICATION

Musikhin G.I. The Contradiction of Authority and Tradition within the World Outlook of German and Russian Conservatives

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