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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) at George Washington University in cooperation with the Centre for Independent Social Research (founder and in 2009–2023 official publisher of the journal). Laboratorium publishes materials in Russian and English.


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Vol. 16 No. 3 (2024): Reconceptualizing Academic Freedom: Inside and Outside Perspectives

Published: 04.03.2025

Guest edited by
Dmitry Dubrovskiy and Lidia Yatluk

Introduction

Reconceptualizing Academic Freedom: Inside and Outside Perspectives

Lidia Yatluk, Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Abstract 162 | PDF Downloads 90
Page 4-8
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Articles

Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Views on Academic Freedom in Russian Universities

Elizaveta Belkina
Abstract 155 | PDF Downloads 76
Page 9-26
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Censorship, Denunciations, and Silence Mode in Russian Academia: Informal Intimidation and Direct Pressure on Scholars

Ksenia Fedosova, Tatiana Kuksa
Abstract 215 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 18
Page 27-54
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Ideological Production of Knowledge in Late and Post-Soviet Sociological Doctoral Dissertations: A Comparative Study of Two Academies

Ivan Kislenko
Abstract 216 | PDF Downloads 107
Page 55-83
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Review Articles

Social Sciences and Academic Freedom

Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Abstract 127 | PDF Downloads 83
Page 84-98
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Essays

Beyond the University System: Low-Cost Research, Low-Cost Researchers, Low-Cost Freedom

Alexander Osipov
Abstract 167 | PDF Downloads 73
Page 99-115
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Book Reviews

Bruce Grant and Lale Yalçın-Heckmann, eds. Caucasus Paradigms: Anthropologies, Histories and the Making of a World Area. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2007

Nona Shahnazaryan
Abstract 127 | PDF Downloads 39
Page 116-119
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Ayang Utriza Yakin and Louis-Léon Christians, eds. Rethinking Halal: Genealogy, Current Trends, and New Interpretations. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2021

Ilia Krapivin
Abstract 72 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 48
Page 120-124
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Julie Deschepper, Antony Kalashnikov, and Federica Rossi, eds. Time and Material Culture: Rethinking Soviet Temporalities. Abington, UK: Routledge, 2024

Aleksandr Fokin
Abstract 79 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 29
Page 125-130
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Denis Skopin. Photography and Political Repressions in Stalin’s Russia: Defacing the Enemy. New York: Routledge, 2022

Julia Zelikova
Abstract 94 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 43
Page 131-137
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Alessandro Iandolo. Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955–1968. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022

Derya Bozat
Abstract 68 | PDF Downloads 56
Page 138-141
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Konstantin Godunov. "Krasnaia Paskha": Prazdnovanie godovshchiny Oktiabria i politicheskaia kul'tura Grazhdanskoi voiny. Saint Petersburg, Russia: EUSPb Press, 2023

Rauf Shumyakov
Abstract 89 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 64
Page 142-146
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Elena Vishlenkova and Andreas Renner, eds. Istoriia meditsiny i meditsinskoi geografii v Rossiiskoi imperii. Kollektivnaia monografiia. Moscow: Shiko, 2021

Maria Pirogovskaya
Abstract 91 | PDF Downloads 41
Page 147-150
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Tatiana Zachar Podolinská. Marian Devotion among the Roma in Slovakia: A Post-Modern Religious Response to Marginality. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

Ekaterina Kolycheva
Abstract 63 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 28
Page 151-156
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Henry Reichman. Understanding Academic Freedom. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021

Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Abstract 78 | PDF Downloads 39
Page 157-160
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Daniel Gordon. What Is Academic Freedom? A Century of Debate, 1915–Present. London: Routledge, 2022

Valeria Vollmer
Abstract 124 | PDF Downloads 44
Page 161-164
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Shai M. Dromi and Samuel D. Stabler. Moral Minefields: How Sociologists Debate Good Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023

Irina Prus
Abstract 101 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 31
Page 165-168
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Authors

Abstract 160 | PDF Downloads 29 PDF (Русский) Downloads 31
Page 169-172
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List of Article Manuscript Reviewers, 2024

List of Article Manuscript Reviewers, 2024

Laboratorium Russian Review of Social Research
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