POLIS Contents ¹ 5 - 2000



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.4

FEDERALISM: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL MODEL OF RESEARCH
King P. Classifying Federationsp.6
Trifonov A.G., Mezhuyev B.V. Rule of Provinces by Governors-General in the Russian System of Territorial Government (Essay of Historical Reminiscence)p.19
Kamensky A.B. A View of the History of Russian Territorial Government Systemp.27
Zubov A.B. Unitarianism or Federalism (To the Question of Future Organization of Russia’s State Expanse)p.32
Kaspe S.I. To Construct a Federation — Renovatio Imperii as a Method of Social Engineeringp.55
Mommen A. Putin’s Bid for Power: the End of Russia’s Federalism?p.70
Makarychev A.S. The Federalism of the Epoch of Globalism: the Challenges for the Russia of Regionsp.81
Zamyatin D.N., Zamyatina N.Yu. Dimensions of Russia’s Federalismp.98
Busygina I.M. German Federalism: History, Present Condition, Potential of Reformingp.110

SOCIUM AND POWER
Klyamkin I.M., Timofeyev L.M. The Shadow Way of Life (A Sociological Self-Portrait of Post-Soviet Society)p.121

INTERPRETATIONS
Kostyuk K.N. Orthodox Fundamentalismp.133
Bachinin V.A. Authority and Crime in Dostoyevsky’s Political Criminologyp.155
Nikitina A.G. Historism of a Socio-Political Phenomenon (Relation of Sociology and Historiography in the Light of the Historism Problem)p.167

DOSSIER
Lukanin D.V. The Amsterdam Treaty: a New Stage of the Institutional Reform of the EUp.178

REVIEW OF BOOKS
Information. Newly Published Books on Political Sciencep.186