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Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research is an open-access international journal since 2023 published by the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies (IERES) in cooperation with the Centre for Independent Social Research (founder and in 2009–2023 official publisher of the journal). Laboratorium comes out three times a year and publishes materials based on empirical qualita
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Vol. 14 No. 3 (2022)

Published: 27.01.2023

Lead editor: Veronika Davidov

Articles

Green Nationalism in a Resource-Based State: Environmental Agenda and National Identity in Russian Regions

Svetlana Tulaeva, Yaroslav Snarski
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Page 4-33
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“Neighborhoodness” of Urban Services as a Dimension of Spatial Segregation

Aleksandra Nenko, Elena Nedoseka, Marina Kurilova
Abstract 186 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 149
Page 34-58
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“Intellectual” Leisure Activity and “Simple” Entertainment: Preferences in Art as System of Signals

Nadezhda Sokolova
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Page 59-86
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Repressions and Emancipations of Socialist Legality: Industrial Comrades’ Courts during First Five-Year Plans

Maria Starun
Abstract 165 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 115
Page 87-118
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An Alternative Model for the Operationalization of Discourse Theory of Laclau and Mouffe

Peter Bakumov
Abstract 191 | PDF Downloads 161
Page 119-134
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Review Articles

How Are “Bad Guys” Possible? The Agency-Structure Gap in Russian Foreign Policy Analysis

Hayk Smbatyan
Abstract 308 | PDF Downloads 160
Page 135-147
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Book Reviews

Tal Elmaliach. Hakibbutz Ha’artzi, Mapam, and the Demise of the Israeli Labor Movement. Translated from the Hebrew by Haim Watzman. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2020

Chad Alan Goldberg
Abstract 126 | PDF Downloads 52
Page 148-150
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Aileen Friesen. Colonizing Russia’s Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019

Zuzanna Bogumił
Abstract 93 | PDF Downloads 49
Page 151-154
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Ann Komaromi. Soviet Samizdat: Imagining a New Society. Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint on Cornell University Press, 2022

Barbara Martin
Abstract 153 | PDF Downloads 44
Page 155-158
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Stephen Lovell. How Russia Learned to Talk: A History of Public Speaking in the Stenographic Age, 1860–1930. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020

Tatiana Borisova
Abstract 85 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 60
Page 159-163
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Vadim Radaev and Zoya Kotelnikova, eds. The Ambivalence of Power in the Twenty-First Century Economy: Cases from Russia and Beyond. London: UCL Press, 2022

Nikita Nam
Abstract 112 | PDF Downloads 65
Page 164-167
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Ol'ga Brednikova i Sergei Abashin, red. "Zhit' v dvukh mirakh": Pereosmyslyaya transnatsionalizm i translokal'nost'. Sbornik statei. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2020

Nona Shahnazaryan
Abstract 114 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 71
Page 168-173
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Authors

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Page 174-175
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List of Article Manuscript Reviewers, 2022

List of Article Manuscript Reviewers, 2022

Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research
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