title: Can Russia be grasped with the mind?
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metadata.value: Dvornichenko, Andrey Yurievich
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T13:45:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-05-18T13:45:07Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Dvornichenko A. Yu. Can Russia be grasped with the mind? Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 1, pp. 201–214.
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.115
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/6373
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The book criticized in this article is devoted to a very important and topical subject: the interaction
  between the young Russian political science and the old Russian historical scholar. The authors want
  to “return political science to history” and this intention one can only welcome. But the author of this
  review was extremely surprised when he found the idea that for a better understanding of the current
  political situation there is no need to immerse yourself in history. In the opinion of the reviewer, this
  is a big mistake that prevents understanding modern Russian history and explaining it to readers. But
  this error is a result of poor knowledge of Russian history and a mistaken attitude to historiography,
  which is used very selectively. The analysis of all the provisions made by the authors has not allowed
  the author of the review to agree with any of these provisions. This applies primarily to the interpretation
  of “self-government” in Russia. Then to the understanding of the role of the so-called clan system
  whose concept the authors took from a Western scholar. The authors were unable to demonstrate the
  existence of it in modern Russia. Their idea about the identity of modern Russian political regime with
  the regimes in Taiwan or Pakistan is amusing because the reviewer is sure that the West is West, East
  is East, and Russia is Russia. The authors do not understand this, and therefore their predictions and
  advices in connection with the future of Russia “hang in the air”. On this background, the last Chapter
  in which the authors still want to appeal to history in search of answers to the challenges of modernity
  looks quite curious. Since it is in contradiction with the authors’ previous statements, and as already
  noted, they do not want to know the history, their excursions into history thus do not go beyond banal
  and trivial findings. Final reviewer’s conclusion is: A. Lukin and P. Lukin are unable to “return politics
  to the history” or, in other words, they are unable to enrich the political scholar with great historical
  knowledge. Refs 11.
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metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: A. V. Lukin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: P. V. Lukin
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political science
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political culture
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: history
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historiography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical myth
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: electoral-clan system
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: state-clan
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: democracy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: polyarchy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Can Russia be grasped with the mind?
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metadata.value: Article
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