2026. Volume 19. Issue 2

Editor-in-Chief’s Column

Russia of the 20th century in the prism of musical art: the 1940s – Dmitry Shostakovich

• A. I. Demchenko

National History

The monumental panel “Energy to the People” as a symbol of the construction of the Stalingrad Hydroelectric Power Station

• V. S. Bykov

New materials on the history of constructing the Tobolsk Theological Seminary building on Chukman Cape in Tobolsk in the early 19th century

• N. P. Turova
• P. G. Danilov

Women and war: obstetric and gynecological care in the Chkalov region in 1941-1945

• N. A. Degtyareva

Division commander N. D. Tomin’s jubilee in 1987: the crisis of Soviet memory politics during Perestroika

• A. L. Avdeenko

Activities of the Voronezh Provincial Emergency Commission in the framework of the fight against banditry during the Civil War (1917-1922)

• K. S. Bobrinev

Population mortality in the cities of the Krasnoyarsk Krai during the epidemiological transition (1950s)

• A. A. Ruban

Religious tourism in the Russian Empire of the 19th – early 20th century: structure, geography, and socio-economic significance of pilgrimage practices

• D. A. Khakimov

Evolution of the legal foundations of administrative-territorial management of the Russian Empire’s frontier regions in the first half of the 19th century (the case of the Orenburg region)

• E. V. Abakumov

The penitentiary system of Soviet Russia in 1918-1922: theory and practice (based on materials from the Tambov Province)

• A. Y. Viazinkin
• N. A. Kozhuhov

The specifics of the relationship between the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the communist parties of the former Soviet republics (1991-1995)

• G. A. Mayorov

The 1790 storming of Izmail by A. V. Suvorov: contradictions in estimates of the garrison’s size and Turkish losses

• S. N. Osipovsky

Activities of the Stalingrad Istpart under the leadership of G. T. Gavrilov (1925-1928): new directions of work and ideological challenges

• A. A. Kamyshanov

The activity of peat enterprises and their importance during the Great Patriotic War (based on the materials of the Vladimir and Ivanovo regions)

• I. S. Tryakhov

General History

The impact of the 1902 Education Act in Great Britain on the partisanization of county council elections

• E. O. Naumenkova

British liberal J. S. Mill on Russia’s withdrawal from the Paris Treaty of 1856

• S. A. Zotov

Early Egyptian small-scale art in the context of the formation of the calendar-astronomical system

• A. V. Mironova

Historiography, Source Study and Historical Research Methods

Imprints of the seals of Dagestan Arabic-language epistolary sources of the 19th and early 20th centuries

• Z. A. Magomedova

Social and Political Philosophy

The value-semantic crisis of the digital era: boundaries of contemporary philosophical paradigms

• N. A. Zubkov
• A. V. Kryukov

Modern elitology in the context of value-semantic priorities of state cultural policy in the Russian Federation

• V. V. Stetsenko

The role and prospects of digital higher education in contemporary Russian society

• G. V. Valeeva

Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Culture

The dialectics of the ideal in the concepts of Evald Vasilyevich Ilyenkov and David Izrailevich Dubrovsky: towards constructing an anthropological concept of the sovereign cognitive system

• E. V. Bolshakov

Features of M. K. Mamardashvili’s style of thinking: the responsive-epigraphological technique of thought

• Y. Y. Petryk

Female archetypes in Russian folk tales: social models of behavior

• I. V. Rudakova

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

Eldership and junior eldership (mladostarchestvo) in modern Russia: theological criteria for distinction and pastoral ways of overcoming

• P. S. Beldyugin

The nature of pride according to F. M. Dostoevsky: a philosophical view on certain Christian aspects of the novel “Demons”

• N. M. Markova

Ethics

The image of Prometheus in the context of trans- and posthumanist thought: ethical aspects

• I. B. Kazakova
• E. V. Safonova

Theory and history of Culture and Art

Compositional forms of modern dance: features of the construction of a choreographic text in modern jazz, contemporary, and contact improvisation

• S. S. Gribov

The dynamics of pop-song culture in the second half of the 20th and the first quarter of the 21st century

• T. A. Filanovskaya

The semiotics of the face in Ingmar Bergman’s film language

• A. A. Khabarov

Evolution of instrumental theater in European and Belarusian musical art of the 20th – first quarter of the 21st century

• O. V. Romanyuk

The Chinese folk dance “Yingge” in the city of Puning: lineage of succession, cultural symbols, and overseas dissemination

• Manfei Zhang

Arts

Background to the opening of the first music college in Tobolsk (1919): the role of exiles, amateur musicians, and the Tobolsk branch of the Imperial Russian Musical Society

• T. Y. Moiseenko
• O. V. Saitbatalova
• A. N. Fischer

Dramaturgy and style in the opera “I Believe” by the Far Eastern composer Alexander Novikov: on the issue of implementing the Russian national principle

• T. V. Leskova

Book Reviews

“Return of the Gods” and mythopoetics as the cultural program of Romanticism: Ware O. Return of the Gods. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025: Book review

• D. A. Belyaev

Shchelchkov A. A., Filatov G. A. Salazar’s Portugal: The History of Europe’s Longest Dictatorship. Moscow: Kuchkovo Pole Publishing House, 2024. 400 p.: Book review

• A. E. Smirnitsky

The Conceptosphere of Contemporary Culture and Art / edited by N. I. Voronina, Dr in Philosophy, Prof., and I. L. Sirotina, Dr in Philosophy, Prof. Saransk: National Research Mordovia State University, 2025. 180 p.: Book review

• M. V. Loginova