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

The fight against dilapidated and derelict housing in Tatarstan during the crisis in 1993-1995: initial results and problems in implementation

• A. R. Valeev

The activities of the Penza Local Administration of the Russian Red Cross Society during World War I

• S. N. Egorov

From information warfare to neutrality: the transformation of anti-British propaganda in the Russian official press on the eve of 1812 (based on Severnaia Pochta, or the New St. Petersburg Gazette)

• V. V. Kalendarova
• A. A. Meschenina

On the construction of a new building of the Smolensk Theological Seminary in the last third of the 19th century

• A. F. Gavrilenkov

The status of the “lishentsy” during the New Economic Policy period, 1925-1928 (based on materials from the Penza Governorate)

• S. A. Zhgut

Soviet female pilot heroines of the 1930s through the lens of mass propaganda

• D. S. Chernyshova

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

Margaret Humphreys: from social worker to puppet of British reconciliation policy (1980s-2010s)

• N. V. Khoreva
• O. V. Yablonskaya
• A. A. Pronina

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

Oswald Spengler and the philosophy of life in Russian humanitarian thought

• A. A. Kirkin

Ontology and Epistemology

Dialectics of ontognoseological essentialism

• A. N. Ognev

The problem of the unity of the transcendent and the immanent as the basis of the mutual influence of Hermeticism and Christianity on the threshold of the genesis of early modern science

• M. I. Philatova

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

The Russian national idea: main features

• M. V. Zhulkov

“The postmodernist challenge” in history: cognitive grounds for methodological failure

• E. V. Papchenko
• V. S. Nazarova

“Real ethics” of artificial intelligence and the problem of moral escapism

• M. A. Dedyulina

The crisis of socio‑political forecasting in the context of the digital rupture: the infrastructural‑algorithmic horizon of expectations

• Y. A. Alikov

Representations of the past as a form of social knowledge: the politics of memory and the identity crisis

• A. A. Mamedov

Educational and research networks as a component of the new digital infrastructure

• N. A. Zhelyabina

The transformation of the anthropological ideal in Russian education: historical stages and challenges of the digital era

• A. V. Lapteva

Digital deviantology: key problems and promising directions

• S. I. Chudinov
• O. S. Soina

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

Philosophical and anthropological features of posthumanism: complexity as a strategy for the decentralization of the human

• P. V. Opolev

Suggestion, counter-suggestion, and the algorithms of digital ideological domination

• A. A. Trunov

Legal conflict as an anthropological and cultural phenomenon: the dialectics of human legal being

• E. V. Bolshakov
• A. A. Panov

The Middle Ages as a cultural phenomenon in the understanding of V. S. Solovyov and V. G. Vasilievsky

• D. O. Smirnov

Social and cultural foundations of the metaphysics of morals

• M. A. Pushkareva
• E. Y. Bikmetov

Philosophy of Science and Technology

Transformation of the criteria of scientific objectivity in humanistic knowledge: post-nonclassical foundations and discursive strategies

• V. A. Moskvitin

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

Concepts of the secular in the radical theology of the 1960s: G. Vahanian and T. Altizer

• I. O. Myazin

Objective facts and subjective meanings in Jacques Waardenburg’s neo-phenomenology of religion

• R. F. Yarullin

Aesthetics

Aestheticization of the ugly and the semantic self-determination of the individual

• A. I. Timofeev
• V. V. Kuznetsova
• A. I. Peshkov

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

Direction of silence and affect management: from theatrical pause to the imprinting of reality in solemn events

• O. V. Ryzhankova

The formation of pianist Mikhail Zaidentreger (student years at the Moscow Conservatory, 1932-1938)

• A. T. Petrenko

Tatiana Smirnova, a student at the Imperial Drama School (1827-1838)

• O. A. Fedorchenko

A stage interpretation of traditional Chinese costumes in B. Sheng and D. H. Hwang’s opera “Dream of the Red Chamber”

• Yue Zheng

The protective doll as a simulacrum of Russian tradition

• D. E. Krapchunov

Principles of the typology of the artistic interpretation of the book in contemporary art

• S. V. Belolyubskaya

The paintings of the Louis XIV Room in the museum of the Central School of Drawing of Baron Stieglitz: interpretation of the allegorical program

• A. N. Kislitsyna
• A. A. Dmitrieva
• A. S. Ergina

Non-figurative art of the early Russian avant-garde as reflected in domestic criticism (1910s-1980s)

• M. V. Dronik

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

The evolution of the principles of “defamiliarization” in children’s illustration (1920s-2020s)

• O. A. Alexeeva

The railway theme in sculpture

• E. A. Maltseva

Images of Persia in the “Kämpfer Album”

• D. O. Martynova

The piano part as a “second voice” in G. V. Sviridov’s vocal cycle “My Father Is a Peasant” to verses by S. Yesenin: features of ensemble interaction

• S. V. Rudneva

Architecture of sound: features of polyphony in the Latin masses of Thomas Tallis during the Renaissance

• E. V. Svirskaya

The performing school as a phenomenon of artistic communication: developing a theoretical and methodological concept

• E. S. Vinogradova

Art-brut photography: approaches to analysis and classification

• A. A. Suvorova

Synthesis of the arts in sacred space: a case study of the Church of the Presentation of the Lord in the Danilov Monastery, Moscow

• N. N. Tretyakov

The fantasy genre in the Early Baroque: a case study of the works of J. Sweelinck, J. Pachelbel, and D. Buxtehude

• V. A. Kramer

“Siciliana and Burlesque” by A. Casella in the context of the history of genre development

• A. G. Meshcheryakova
• N. Y. Kireyeva

Architect A. V. Sivkov’s lecture at the Leningrad Inspectorate for the Protection of Monuments: the translation of pre-revolutionary restoration experience in the post-war period

• O. A. Lyubeznikov

Repertoire strategies of Russian-Chinese concert projects of the 21st century (based on works for symphony orchestra and string instruments)

• Xiaoyuan Ма
• E. V. Remeika

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

The line of demarcation of personhood: artificial intelligence and the anthropological boundaries of the subject: Boyle J. The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood. The MIT Press, 2024: Book review

• U. P. Belyaeva