The author is a Professor of Philosophy at St Petersburg State University. In this book, the author examines the evolution of the understanding of politics in the new Russia. He explores the concepts of the state and human rights, nation and nationalism, class, morality and politics and more.

Original title: Defeat in the West

Full title: Poslednie zashchitniki monarkhii: Fraktsiia pravykh IV Gosudarstvennoi dumy v gody Pervoi mirovoi voiny

A serious research of the last year of Dostoevsky's life. It sheds light on the drama of his life, death and the mystery of his departure.

Having won a two-third majority in Parliament at the 2010 elections, the Hungarian political party Fidesz removed many of the institutional obstacles of exerting power. Just like the party, the state itself was placed under the control of a single individual, who since then has applied the techniques used within his party to enforce submission and obedience onto society as a whole. In a new...

The collapse of the USSR led to the creation of 15 new states. Shortly thereafter, the Commonwealth of Independent States was created. Having had their infrastructure tied together not only during the Soviet era, but before that, there was a natural reason to continue trade and other relations. The sudden freedom from the USSR also gave rise to a desire to seek new partnerships. The author...

The monograph examines the challenges and problems in the modernization of the post-Soviet economic sphere on three different levels: national, regional and global.