2026. Volume 19. Issue 1

Editor-in-Chief’s Column

Russia of the 20th century through the prism of musical art: the 1930s – Sergei Prokofiev

• A. I. Demchenko

National History

Main activities of engineering and technical workers at Lower Volga enterprises in the sphere of industrial recovery and development, 1943 – early 1950s

• D. I. Lozin

Information on paganism in “The Tale of Igor’s Campaign”

• A. N. Polyakov

Tobolsk province in the programs of the Literacy Committee of the Imperial Free Economic Society

• N. I. Zagorodnyuk

A historical and comparative analysis of the noble projects of 1730 and the state reform projects of N. I. Panin

• V. Y. Zakharov
• S. S. Akhmedova

A heating structure from the first half of the 18th century in the Tobolsk posad

• P. G. Danilov

Female labor in the Kazan Governorate in the late 19th century (based on the 1897 First General Census of the Population)

• Y. V. Mironova

Causes and methods for overcoming academic failure in schools of the Krasnoyarsk region during the Great Patriotic War

• L. E. Mezit
• D. T. Bondarenko

Banking and Tatar entrepreneurship in the late 19th and early 20th century (based on the Volga-Ural region)

• R. R. Salikhov
• L. R. Gabdrafikova

The Arzamas Alexander Nevsky Society of Banner-Bearers: organizational formation and initial activities (1903-1904)

• N. V. Khoreva

Mass physical culture movement in the USSR: problems of management and organization in 1945-1953

• E. A. Kalinina

Ensuring Far Eastern railway security and countering espionage by gendarmerie police departments during the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905

• K. D. Osipov

The influence of the socio-political activities of trade unions of the Krasnoyarsk Territory on the socio-economic development of the city of Krasnoyarsk (1948-1956)

• A. V. Seleznev

The Orel landed nobility in the early years of the 1861 emancipation reform implementation

• A. V. Shendygaeva
• D. I. Shendygaev

General History

New socialist cities of the First Five-Year Plan of the People’s Republic of China (1953-1957): adaptation of Soviet urban planning experience

• M. A. Kuratchenko

The 1705 military campaign in the Netherlands. The War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714)

• A. V. Kutischev

Constantinople’s “topography of mercy” in Anthony of Novgorod’s “The Pilgrim’s Book” and its reception in Rus (13th-15th centuries)

• N. V. Ozhirelyev

Historiography, Source Study and Historical Research Methods

Dynamics of representation and the problem of interpreting the topic “Rus’s Horde Dependence” in modern Russian history textbooks: a historiographical analysis

• I. N. Skripkin
• D. A. Belyaev
• P. A. Shkurat

Theoretical and methodological foundations for studying the development of thinking in border spaces in historical retrospect: the case of the Roman-Iranian frontier (1st century BC – early 7th century AD)

• E. V. Chashchin
• K. D. Kamyshev

Personnel records as a source for studying the role of the national factor in the history of the Latvian Conservatory (1919-1941)

• A. D. Malnach

Assessment of the Czechoslovak Corps’ actions in Russia in the correspondence of the NKID RSFSR (1918-1920)

• A. N. Valiakhmetov

Studying the peasant worldview through folklore analysis in Russian historiography

• D. A. Akimcev

Historiography of the influence of postmodernist ideological and artistic programs on the development trends of contemporary fine art

• A. G. Trushechkina
• I. I. Orlov

Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology

Marriage ties of the residents of Nizhnie Yuri Village in the Malopurginsky district of Udmurtia in the 18th century and from the second half of the 19th to the early 20th century

• V. S. Churakov

Ontology and Epistemology

The ontology of information as a process of becoming: metastability, individuation, and transduction in Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy

• V. A. Moskvitin

Social and Political Philosophy

The сoncept of “neoliberalism” in the reflection of modern educational policy: a philosophical analysis

• A. Y. Tylik

The issue of ideology and its critic in the post-structuralist tradition

• P. D. Romanova

Social philosophy in the digital age

• D. V. Melnichuk
• A. V. Ryazanov

Social reality as the ontological basis of the correlation between ethics, morality, and law: from anthropocentric objectification to cybernetic intersubjectivity

• E. V. Bolshakov

Immortality that exists

• V. E. Kuleshov

Philosophical Anthropology, Philosophy of Culture

The mythologem of Scythianism in Russian culture at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries

• O. A. Chulkov

The excess of the human as the limit of algorithmic rationality

• A. A. Trunov

Hope and despair as metamodernist existentials (based on Alexander Krasovitsky’s poetry)

• V. V. Popova

Destructiveness in education: from institutional to anthropological

• A. D. Fofanova

Immanuel Kant on human health and vital force

• N. N. Gordienko

Between archetype and simulacrum: myth, ideology and political populism

• A. A. Trunov

Philosophy of Religion and Religious Studies

The liturgical mode of religious life: phenomenology of sacred experience in ritual practice

• U. P. Belyaeva

Anthropological foundations of Firmianus Lactantius’s doctrine of free will

• A. R. Antonyan

Fritz Mauthner’s agnostic mysticism: the problem of rationality

• Y. G. Matushanskaya

Aesthetics

The mechanisms of interaction between the aesthetics of Chinese ethnic minority cultures and mass aesthetic consciousness in the digital age

• Hongrong Xiang

Theory and history of Culture and Art

Art as the body of philosophy: the problem of expression from a transdisciplinary perspective

• M. V. Loginova

A cognitive model of practical immortality based on American cinema discourse (1982-2013)

• V. N. Alesenkova

Advertising design and symbolic consumption

• V. O. Pigulevskiy
• L. A. Mirskaya

The ballet “La Laitière Suisse” (“The Swiss Milkmaid”), a failed performance with a 150-year history: from Gaetano Gioja to Pierre Lacotte

• O. A. Fedorchenko

Arts

Genre of the sonatas for cello and piano in the style field of impressionism

• O. N. Gudozhnikova

Ney Rosauro’s Concerto for Timpani and Orchestra: peculiarities of stylistic interactions

• A. M. Ponkina
• G. V. Sokolov

The image of the ballerina T. P. Karsavina in St. Petersburg criticism of the Silver Age (commemorating the 140th anniversary of her birth)

• N. N. Zozulina
• E. A. Kulikova

R. Leoncavallo’s opera “La Bohème” as an example of a verist interpretation of H. Murger’s novel “Scenes from the Life of Bohemia”

• N. Y. Kireyeva
• Xu Duo

New forms of contemporary film posters in the multimedia space

• A. E. Zaitsev
• N. I. Barsukova

Applied aesthetics constructs as a problem of environmental design

• N. I. Barsukova

Musical-scenic embodiment of the leading male characters in the operas “Rusalka” by A. Dargomyzhsky and “Rusalka” by A. Dvořák

• D. V. Kostarev
• N. V. Korchagina

Russian hyperpop music as a postmodern phenomenon

• Y. V. Antipova

Theatricality of Russian folk dance

• A. A. Gusenkova

Folk art crafts of the Leningrad region and professional art: potential for interaction within the contemporary cultural paradigm

• M. N. Mitina

The opera “The Children of Rosenthal” by Vladimir Sorokin and Leonid Desyatnikov: deconstruction of the genre

• I. V. Polozova
• A. Y. Popova

Design concepts for the decorative schemes of the first Leningrad Metro station interiors in the 1950s

• T. V. Kovaleva
• N. I. Barsukova
• R. V. Voitov

Narrative-thematic painting in the work of Siberian “severe style” artists

• E. A. Maltseva

Book Reviews

Demchenko A. I. Semantic Concepts of the World Artistic Heritage: monograph. Moscow: Nauka, 2021. 616 p.: Book review

• N. Y. Kireyeva

Proceedings of the International Scientific Forum: Dialogue of Arts and Art Paradigms. Articles. Essays. Materials / ed. by A. I. Demchenko. Saratov: Saratov L. V. Sobinov State Conservatoire, 2026. Vol. 82-87: Book review

• N. V. Tishchenko

Khlevnyuk O. V. Stalin. The Life of a Leader: A Biography. Moscow: AST Publishing House: CORPUS, 2024. 464 p.: Book review

• A. E. Smirnitsky

Kochkurkina S. I., Petrova M. I. Kurkijoki: Archaeology, History, Culture. Petrozavodsk: KarRC RAS, 2025. 166 p. ill.: Book review

• T. V. Pashkova