POLIS Contents ¹ 6 - 2000



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issuep.5

PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS: GLOBALIZATION AS MEGATREND OF DEVELOPMENT
Neklessa A.I. Ordo Quadro: Advent of Post-Modern Worldp.6
Inozemtzev V.L. Technological Progress and Social Polarization in the 21st Centuryp.28
Lebedeva M.M. The Formation of a New Political Structure of the World and Russia’s Place in Itp.40

RUSSIA TODAY
Bashkirova Ye.I. Transformation of the Values of Russian Societyp.51
Klimova S.G., Yakusheva T.V. Politicians’ Images in Russians’ Accountsp.66
Myagkov A.Yu. The Effect of Prestige Names in Sociological Surveysp.82

“POLIS” — “POLITYCHNA DUMKA” — “OSTEUROPA”
Schnaider-Deters W. To the Concretization of the “Big Europe” Conceptp.93
Plyays Ya.A. Russia and Europe: What We Need Each Other for (On the Overcoming of a Civilizational Cleavage)p.100
Dergachev A. The Ukrainian-Russian Relations: European and Eurasian Contextp.110
Simon G. Russia and Ukraine Ten Years after the Downfall of the Communist Regimep.122
Bily O. The Real Ukrainian State after 1945p.127
Kotelnikov V.S. In Search of National Interests: State Building in Ukraine in the Context of World Experiencep.136

REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT
Galkin A.A. Corporatism as Form of Relations between State and Society: Limits and Dangersp.147
Kuznetzova Ye.S., Inozemtzev V.L. New Dilemmas of the Old Worldp.159

LIFE IN SCIENCE
Smirnov V.V., Gaman-Golutvina O.V., Peregudov S.P., Irkhin Yu.V., Discussion. The 18th World Congress of the International Association of Political Sciencep.166
Information. “The management of Russia’s regional economic development”. An International Conferencep.177

REVIEW OF BOOKS
Information. Newly Published Books on Political Sciencep.178