A Scholars’ Guide to Humanities and Social Sciences in the Soviet Union: The Academy of Sciences of the USSR and the Academies of Sciences of the Union Republics. Edited by Blair A. Ruble and Mark H. Teeter. American Council of Learned Societies, Soviet Academy of Sciences, Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1985. 310 pp.

1987 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-130
Author(s):  
Stephan M. Horak
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
American Council ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Ethnicity and Anthropology in the Soviet Union

1977 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernest Gellner
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Social Anthropology ◽  
The West ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Interaction History ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Revolution

InThePastDecade, a minor revolution has taken place within Soviet Anthropology. ‘Ethnography’ is one of the recognised disciplines in the Soviet academic world, and corresponds roughly to what in the West is called social anthropology. This revolution has as yet been barely noticed by outside observers (1). Its leader is Yulian Bromley, a very Russian scholar with a very English surname, Director of the Institute of Ethnography of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. The revolution consists of making ethnography into the studies of ethnos-es, or, in current Western academic jargon, into the study of ethnicity—in other words the study of the phenomena of national feeling, identity, and interaction. History is about chaps, geography is about maps, and ethnography is about ethnoses. What else ? The revolution is supported by arguments weightier than mere verbal suggestiveness; but by way of persuasive consideration, etymology is also invoked.

Bandali Al-Jawzi's Min Tārīkh Al-Harakāt al-Fikriyyat Fi'l-Islām: The First Marxist Interpretation of Islam

1985 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Sonn
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
Recent Exposure ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
History Of ◽  
Intellectual Movements ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Marxist Interpretation

Bandali al-Jawzi (1871–1943) has been regaining popularity recently, particularly among his native Palestinians and Muslim nationalists of his adopted home, the Soviet Union. In 1977, for instance, the Union of Palestinian Journalists and Writers, in cooperation with the Oriental Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, commemorated Jawzi as an outstanding Palestinian author. At that time a collection of various of his articles on the Arabic language and history was published in Beirut, as well as an edition of his only book, Min Tārīkh al-Harakāt al-Fikriyyat fi'l-Islām (The History of Intellectual Movements in Islam), first published in 1928. It is this recent exposure which was to take its rightful place in Islamic intellectual history.

Philosophy In The Soviet Union

Philosophy ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 38 (143) ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Eugene kamenka
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Soviet Philosophy ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
And Linguistics

Soviet philosophy has no great reputation in the Western philosophical world. Physicists, mathematicians, geographers and geomorphologists, medical scientists and men working in certain branches of history and linguistics have found it profitable to follow the researches of their Soviet counterparts; philosophers have not. Academician Mitin, it is true, told the Soviet Academy of Sciences early in 1943 that ’philosophy has been raised to an unparalleled level in the Soviet Union, making the U.S.S.R. a country of high philosophical culture. Many problems which are being argued by outstanding philosophers abroad have been solved here on the basis of dialectical materialism.”1 To most non-Communists, Mitin's claim

Anatomy of a Public Campaign: “Academician Luzin's Case” in Soviet Political History

Slavic Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksey E. Levin
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Mass Media Campaign ◽  
Media Campaign ◽  
Full Member ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Public Campaign ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In October 1985, when I first began research on the case of Academician Luzin, rumors had surfaced in the Soviet Union that new official regulations would require scientific articles containing no classified information to be published in Soviet journals before they could be cleared for publication abroad. The rumors were true. The effect of these new regulations clearly resembled the campaign against the mathematician Nikolai Nikolaevich Luzin, which had taken place fifty years before. Luzin was the victim of the first Soviet mass media campaign against such publication. The case against him appears to be an insignificant moment in the witch-hunting mania of the 1930s, since the propaganda was apparently aimed only at one full member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and his alleged misconduct.

scholarly journals Maximum Dissemination: A possible model for society journals in the humanities and social sciences to support "Open" while retaining their subscription revenue

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Dove
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
The Other ◽  
Unauthorized Access ◽  
American Council ◽  
Learned Societies ◽  
Humanities And Social Sciences ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

It is well recognized that one of the hardest problems in the Open Access arena is how to ‘flip’ the flagship society journals in the humanities and social sciences. Their revenue from a flagship journal is critical to the scholarly society. On the one hand, it is true that the paywall which guards the subscription system from unauthorized access is marginalizing whole categories of scholars and learners. On the other hand, “flipping”to an APC based model simply marginalizes some of the same people and institutions on the authorship side. Various endowment or subsidy models of flipping create the idea of Samaritans and “freeloaders” which bring into question their sustainability. I propose re-thinking the relationship between publisher and author. The publisher should act as the experts in dissemination and should take on the responsibility of maximizing the dissemination of the author’s work by providing the author’s accepted manuscript (AAM) to an appropriate repository and taking down the paywall. When requests for an article come to the publisher instead of presenting non-subscribers with a paywall, they instead direct the request to the repository in which the AAM has been archived. This walk-through of Maximum Dissemination is followed by: A statement from Princeton’s Professor Stanley Katz, president emeritus of the American Council of Learned Societies A youtube video by Associate Professor of Sociology Smith Radhakrishnan which is attached to this submission, is available at http://youtu.be/sPO66vuTFJ0.

Soviet Domestic Policy in the Postwar World

1946 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-89
Author(s):  
John N. Hazard
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Soviet Policy ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Soviet Academy ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Democratic State ◽  
New Type ◽  
Internal Policy ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Analysis of the position of the Soviet Union in the postwar world may logically begin with internal policy. Lenin himself invited this approach when he wrote: “There is no more erroneous nor harmful idea than the separation of foreign and internal policy.”It is audacious for an outsider to predict the future course of Soviet policy. Too many factors which only Soviet leaders can know enter into the decisions. Nevertheless, we Americans are about to enter a period in which the Soviet Union will play a major rôle. Our situation demands that we know our neighbor, and this paper is directed to that end. It will discuss the various aspects of outstanding importance from which internal policy is formulated.Political Theory. Soviet statesmen have retained their basic thinking as to the character of the Soviet state. Commissar Vyshinsky twice restated it publicly during the war itself. In 1942, he told the Soviet Academy of Sciences that “the Soviet State, as a state of the proletarian dictatorship, must be a new type of democratic state for the proletariat and the propertyless, in general, and a new kind of dictatorship against the bourgeoisie.”

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