POLIS Contents № 5 - 2007

PRESENTING THIS ISSUE

Editorial Introduction. Presenting This Issue

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THEME OF THE ISSUE: RUSSIA FACING... ELECTIONS or DRAMATIC CHOICE?

Anokhina N.V., Meleshkina Ye.Yu. The Proportional Electoral System and Dangers of Presidentialism: the Russian Case

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Dmitriyenko A.A. Attitude of the Pre-Revolutionary Peasantry toward the State Duma (With the Vyatskaya Province as Example)

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SOCIUM AND POWER IN RUSSIA

Pivovarov Yu.S. The Sources and the Essence of the Russian Revolution

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Ivanov A.F., Ustimenko S.V. Autocratic Democracy: Dualistic Character of the Russian State System

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Podyachev K.V. The Institution of Citizens’ Addresses to Government Bodies and Transformation of the Russian Political System: Possibilities of Emergence of a New Channel of Political Influence

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VIRTUAL WORKSHOP: NEW SPACES OF POLITICS AND METHODS OF THEIR STUDY

Pavlov A.V., Sidorkin S.A. “The Simpsons” as Phenomenon of Ideology and Policy

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Nikiforov A.A. Revolution as Subject of Theoretical Treatment: the Sub-Discipline’s Progress and Dilemmas

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PROBLEMS AND JUDGMENTS

Pantin V.I. Russia’s Political Self-Determination in the Modern World: the Main Factors, Tendencies, Prospects

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Pasynkova V.V. “Successor Parties”, Trade Unions and the State in Russia and in Countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Modelling of the Relationships

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Artyushkin V.F. Regional Conflicts and the Process of Price Formation in the World Oil Market

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IDEAS FOR FURTHER CULTIVATION

Ilyin M.V. Conceptual Homonymy: Constitutions and Regimes. Generations of Constitutions

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LIFE IN SCIENCE

Plyays Ya.A. Political Parties Construction in Russia: Analysis of Dissertation Researches by Russian Political Scientists

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REFLECTING ON MATTERS IN PRINT

Malinova O.Yu. Social Inequality in the Mirror of Public Policy

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Semenenko I.S. How the Impossible Proves Possible: a Glance at the Perestroika Taken Twenty Years Later

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Yurchenko V.M. The South of Russia as the Object of Complex Socio-Political Analysis

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