2025. Volume 18. Issue 2

Editor-in-Chief’s Column

Russia of the 20th century in the prism of musical art in the 1900s – Sergei Rachmaninoff

• A. I. Demchenko

National History

The Chita Institute of Public Education (1921-1923): personnel challenges and organization of the educational process

• V. V. Reznikov

The Nikolo-Pestrovsky local committee for the wounded: experience of a private initiative to assist soldiers during the First World War

• S. N. Egorov

The problem of the formation and development of the system of sanatorium and resort institutions of the USSR in the mid-1940s – 1991 in Soviet historiography

• R. S. Zakharchenko

Features of preaching and catechization for women: the experience of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing in the second half of the 19th – early 20th centuries

• M. A. Vladimirova

Reflection of the war in the cultural heritage of postwar generations (based on materials from the Buryat Radio Committee’s Broadcasts about the Great Patriotic War)

• B. B. Shagdarova
• A. V. Damdinov

The history of research on the rock art of Transbaikalia in 2000-2024: a brief overview

• O. Y. Yachmenev

Restoration of voting rights in the villages of Priazovye at the turn of the 1920s–1930s

• A. P. Maxim

Atrocities committed by the Whites during the Civil War in the territory of Voronezh Province as a decisive factor in their defeat

• N. A. Alexanyan

Crisis phenomena in the housing sector in the Far East: features of construction development in the Khabarovsk and Primorsky Territories during the perestroika years

• D. A. Guk

Creative associations of Soviet variety art during the Cultural Revolution (a historiography)

• V. N. Roldugina

The Ainu and their place in the history of 1855-1875 Russian-Japanese relations in pre-revolutionary historiography

• V. S. Murzin

The Battle of Kulikovo in the 21st century: between science, myth, and the educational program

• D. S. Borovkov

General History

The role of the United States agency for international development in U.S. public diplomacy in West Africa

• A. A. Krupina

Media communications in Italian fascism as a means of achieving public consensus

• E. N. Yakutina

The chronotope of the Ancient World

• A. I. Demchenko

The formation of the historical-ideological component in the education system of the Khorezm region of Uzbekistan in 1924-1929

• B. B. Kenjaev
• O. N. Naumenko

The search for a secular religion to achieve the nationalization of the masses in early 20th-century Italy

• E. N. Yakutina

Historiography, Source Study and Historical Research Methods

The history of urban passenger electric transport in the RSFSR during the Great Patriotic War: a concise overview of post-soviet historiography

• A. V. Gorshenin

Ontology and Epistemology

The phenomenon of uncertainty: philosophical and scientific problems of comprehension

• P. V. Opolev

Ontologically significant landmarks in aesthetic research within contemporary philosophical discourse

• D. I. Rumbina

Social and Political Philosophy

From K. Marx to S. Žižek: the concept of ideology in Marxist thought of the 19th and 20th centuries

• P. D. Romanova

Spiritual crisis as a threat to the security of society: lessons from history

• O. N. Zhirnov
• A. E. Komlev

Post-anarchism between political and philosophical anarchy

• D. B. Polyakov

Communication code in the space of power relations

• A. Y. Kvas

The problem of spiritual security in modern Russia: social and moral aspects

• Y. V. Kokareva
• N. V. Mironova

The value of slowing down in the axiology of Russian downshifting

• A. V. Gribova
• E. K. Netzel

The language of tragedy in the works of S. Goldhill and R. Seaford

• A. S. Drozdenko

Models of rationality and their role in explaining post-industrial social processes

• N. A. Butenko

Alienation in the USSR: a historical and philosophical analysis

• A. A. Zholmukhambetov

Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Culture

Visual narrative as a way of constituting historical eventfulness

• A. A. Eldarion

The influence of artificial intelligence on the human cognitive sphere in the context of value-based and worldview analysis

• V. D. Emelyanenko

Prolegomena to the concept of cultural and civilizational praxis (philosophical and cultural analysis)

• F. R. Imamverdiev

The categories “goodness” and “beauty” in the space of post-secular culture

• V. I. Miller

Moral ambivalence of the antihero and the phenomenon of the recipient’s “mixed feelings”

• Y. V. Lobanova
• A. A. Mironov

Socio-philosophical dimension of digital culture

• O. A. Grimov

Civilization-state: research methodology, essence, main features (philosophical and cultural analysis)

• R. A. Burkhanov

Theory and history of Culture and Art

The problem of the evolution of visual language in the development of artificial intelligence and modern design: from abstract forms to photorealistic images

• A. A. Gladkov
• I. I. Orlov

Characteristic architectural features of the preserved merchant churches of Yaroslavl of the 17th century

• Y. S. Artamonov
• D. A. Kharina
• S. M. Khlopov

Cultural influence of parish clergy on the indigenous peoples of the Volga region (second half of the 19th – early 20th century)

• I. G. Kisnyashkin

Maslenitsa (Pancake Day) as a component of Russian identity (based on survey data from 2010-2023)

• D. E. Krapchunov
• E. V. Gill
• O. Y. Timonina

Arts

Scientific prerequisites for studying the rhapsody genre in instrumental music of the 19th-20th centuries

• M. G. Shakiryanova

From munajat to lullaby: genre transfunction in Tatar musical folklore

• G. F. Yunusova

S. S. Akhunov's "The Seasons" cycle as a representative of the composer's creative style

• A. N. Fischer
• L. A. Karelina

Small architectural forms as a reflection of national identity and the image of the city of Pavlodar

• M. V. Serbina

“Ural Chronicles”: mythological and historical motifs in Dmitry Geller’s animated film “Alyoshenka”

• A. Y. Zaitsev

The problem of studying the ideological and artistic programs of traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of the syncretic spiritual and artistic apprehension of the unified Dao

• Eang Vang

The artistic language of fairy tale interpretation in the book graphics of Vladimir Avdeev and Eduard Gorokhovsky: from symbolic image to narrative interpretation

• N. A. Kabakovich

Foreign tours of ballet troupes in China in 1958-1966 as harbingers of the "Cultural Revolution": as reflected in the pages of "Rénmín Rìbào" (People's Daily)

• Mingman Sun

Visual language of the space race: a semiotic analysis of the identity of US and USSR missions

• N. E. Kustov

Book Reviews

Ovsyannikov Yu. M. The Great Architects of St. Petersburg. Trezzini. Rastrelli. Rossi. Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya, 2023. 639 p.: Book review

• D. M. Nartymov

Kronstadt is under siege. 1941-1945. St. Petersburg: OSTROV Publishing House, LLC, 2024. 194 p.: Book review

• A. E. Smirnitsky