POLIS Contents ¹ 1 - 2006



PRESENTING THIS ISSUE
Editorial Introduction. In Search of New Russian Styles (Fifteen Years of the Polis Journal and of Our Country’s Political Science)p.5

THEME OF THE ISSUE: RUSSIAN STYLE
Pivovarov Yu.S. Russian Power and Public Policy (A Historian’s Notes about the Reasons of Unsuccess of the Democratic Transit)p.12
Glebova I.I. Political Culture of Modern Russia: Images of the New Russian Power and the Social Splitsp.33
Kazantzev A.A. Three Scenarios of a “Coloured” Revolution in Russia (Modelling the Net Dynamics of the Russian Polity)p.45
Sokolov M.M. The Russian National Unity: Analysis of the Political Style of a Radical-Nationalist Organizationp.67

INTERPRETATIONS
Tkachyov D.Sh. Particular Features of the Functioning of Institutions and Social Nets on the Post-Soviet Expansep.78
Zaznayev O.I. Typology of Forms of Government: Rectification of Mistakesp.92
Kot V.S. Conceptualization of Political Communityp.104

THESAURUS
Brinkman von A. Unauthoritative Laws (To the Psychology of Russian Executive Power) (Foreword by I.L. Belenky)p.110

HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT
Kara-Murza A.A. The First Sovietologist among the Russian Emigration: Semyon Osipovich Portugeysp.122
Smirnov V.V., Ilyin M.V., Vorobyov D.M., Burlatzky F.M., Tumanov V.A., Galkin A.A., Kholodkovsky K.G., Yegorov V.K., Peregudov S.P., Nikitin A.I., Alekseyeva T.A., Levin I.B. Political Science in Russia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Materials of a Scholarly Seminar)p.141

RETROACTIVE COMMUNICATION
Lapkin V.V., Pantin V.I. Conception of Evolutionary Complication of the World Political System (A View from Russia)p.157
Zaytzeva T.I. In Defence of Russian Liberalismp.175

BIBLIO-REVIEW
Fadeyeva L.A. Matrix of Memory, Politics and Place (On Cultures of Public Memory as Constituent Part of Political Cultures)p.183