Yes, indeed, to the World War - says historian Alexander Etkind In the fall of 2023, in the first lines of information tapes - only war. Russia continues to bomb Ukraine, Azerbaijan “took” Karabakh. Hamas has invaded Israel, Israel inflicts massive blows to the gas sector. In Niger and Gabon, there are military coups. In Taiwan, they are preparing for an armed confrontation with China. Can all these conflicts transform into a world war?

Alexander Etkind The publishing house "New Literary Review" represents the book of the historian of culture and literary critic Alexander Etkind. "Interpretation of travel. Russia and America in injuries and intertexts. " The cultural dialogue between Russia and America has lasted centuries, despite all historical obstacles. The writers and philosophers of both countries carefully monitored the political, social and artistic experiments of each other.

Illustration: Atouurov / midjourney The British-American publishing house Polity has published (in English) a new book by a famous historian and culturologist, professor of Central-European University in Vienna (and the author of Republic ) Alexander Etkinda “Russia Against Modernity” ( Russia Against Modernity ). Putin’s war is a special operation against the present.

Historian Alexander Etkind argues with the political scientist and columnist "Cold" Grigory Voice On September 12, the text of the political scientist Grigory Vilosov “ loyalty is not a vice ” was released in the “cold”, in which he explained why confidence in power among Russians and even identification with it is not something dangerous, but rather, even the other way around. Historian Alexander Etkind does not agree with this, and that's why.

What happened to the Russian Empire? It broke up at the end of the imperialist war. What happened to the Soviet Union? It broke up at the end of the Cold War. What will happen to the Russian Federation? The answer seems obvious, but will upset many. So Russian patriotism is arranged that even those who do not sympathize with the Kremlin regime are not ready to recognize the imperial character of the current Russian statehood.

Corridor or serpentine? Dialogue about the book of Daron Ajemoglu and James Robinson “The narrow corridor. States, society and the fate of freedom " Illustration from the Ellis Herstenberg-based on Alice in the Beast Gorodalse (1915) The Library of Congress, Wikimedia Commons The works of the famous economists Daron Ajemoglu and James Robinson always cause disputes.

Fire on the DEEPWATER HORIZON oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico, 2010 Photo: archive.defense.gov Once the era called themselves beautiful words: revival, enlightenment, modern. After 1968, something changed and a “post-” particle entered the circulation. People began to talk about postmodern, post -industrialization and even post -truth: new times determined themselves in comparison with those when modernity or truth was available.

Ferdinand Like. Viking raid (1906) Why was there no parliament in any of the seven kingdoms? What is the similarity and the difference between the sparrow and Savonarola? What is the theory of taxation followed by Daineris? And what would the modern psychologist say about incest in the Lannisters family? The St. Petersburg economist and journalist Dmitry Travin can ask the reader unusual questions. Moreover, he gives them clear and fascinating - and, of course, controversial - answers.

Alexander Etkind The reconciliation of whips. Illustration from V. Dahl’s book “Study of Skoptic heresy”, 1844 The publishing house "New Literary Review" is published by the book of the famous historian of culture, professor at the University of Cambridge Alexander Etkind "Hlyst: sects, literature and revolution." It is dedicated to discourse about Russian sects in Russia of the turn of the century.

A bas -relief with the image of a sheaf of wheat. Photo: Deagostini / Getty images In his new book, Anthropologist James Scott - probably the most influential anthropologist of the modern world - speaks of the origin of the state. What was needed in order for nomadic people who own only fire and stone, could settle on the ground and eat its fruits? Swamp and city The first cities arose in marshly soils and flooding meadows of Mesopotamia about six thousand years ago.

From the editor. We are publishing a transcript of a speech by Alexander Etkind , professor of Russian literature and cultural history at the University of Cambridge, which took place on December 10, 2012 at the Higher School of Economics with the support of the National Democrat club. * * * Alexander Etkind: It’s great to give a lecture when such a large audience is almost full. I'm not spoiled by large student gatherings.

I studied at the Leningrad school. On the walls hung the pink map of the USSR and the gray portraits of members of the Politburo. Slowly, hopelessly the seventies began. I don’t know which school Hasan Huseynov studied at, but I find out in his book an experience common to our generation, and I appreciate his way to pass this experience, which is forgotten too quickly. The subject of this book is nostalgia for the Soviet empire.

Olga Chepurnaya, Alexander Etkind [1] INSTRUMENTALIZATION OF DEATH. LESSONS IN ANTI-ALCOHOL THERAPY Beginning in the 1950s, Soviet doctors practiced a special method of treating alcohol addiction, called implantation, or “filing.” The drugs used for this procedure were synthesized in the West, but gained popularity in Russia. To this day, this method is widely used both in clinics (public and private) and by individually practicing narcologists.

Alexander Etkind 1917 was a milestone moment not only for the historical process, but also for scientific study. However, the attention of historians and literary critics in recent decades, as it were, diverges on both sides of him: there is a priority to study either more old times, or less long ago, up to the present. What did the 1917 revolution mean for contemporaries and what was it in cultural memory?

Revolutions only appear as points on the axis of history. In fact, the historical time between the beginning and the end of revolutions is extraordinary in intensity and indefinite in duration. If the beginning of a revolutionary explosion can be localized in historical memory, the end is usually blurred in time, causing fierce controversy among historians.