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Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research is an open-access international journal that publishes materials in Russian and English.


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Current Issue

Vol. 17 No. 3 (2025)

Published: 25.12.2025


Articles

Working with Affects and Emotions in Media Echoes of the 1990s: Nostalgia and Ressentiment in Post-Perestroika Russia

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Elena Rozhdestvenskaya, Olga Simonova
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“Even Though We Are ‘Moto’, We Are Still ‘Tourists’”: An Assemblage of a Soviet Engineer’s Journey in the Late USSR

Anna Agapova
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Page 32-63
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“There’s a Fundamental Difference Between a Butterfly and a Caterpillar”: Metaphors of Self-Transformation in Personal Growth Narratives

Maria Kucheryavaya, Anastasia Lukina
Abstract 403 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 242
Page 64-97
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“Masculine Domination” in Nonprofessional Women’s Writing (Based on Russian-Language Fanfiction)

Marina Kashina, Anna Zaitseva, Aleksandra Gvelesiani
Abstract 401 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 293
Page 98-122
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Escape of Young Russians to Kazakhstan: Political Views and Relations with the Host Society and State

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Marina Perglová
Abstract 461 | PDF Downloads 273
Page 123-145
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Care Economy: Central Asian Caregivers in the Russian Labor Market

Ekaterina Demintseva
Abstract 405 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 155
Page 146-169
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Memory of the War and Support for the War: Narratives of Participants in the Search for Unburied Soldiers in Russia

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Iskender Yasaveev
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Page 170-195
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Book Reviews

Gleb J. Albert. The Charisma of World Revolution: Revolutionary Internationalism in Early Soviet Society, 1917–1927. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2023

Boris Kolonitskii
Abstract 277 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 189
Page 196-204
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Toms Ķencis, Simon J. Bronner, and Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, eds. Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands: Socialist in Form, National in Content. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2024

Nikolay Mitrokhin
Abstract 275 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 511
Page 205-212
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Jamil Hasanli. Sovetskii Azerbaidzhan: Ot ottepeli k zamorozkam (1959–1969). Moscow: ROSSPEN, 2020

Roman Iordosopol
Abstract 256 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 126
Page 213-217
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Anna Safronova. Blesk i nishcheta rossiiskoi kooperatsii: Kak narod priuchali k sovremennosti. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2025

Daniil Yastrebov
Abstract 280 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 129
Page 218-222
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Timon Beyes. Organizing Color: Toward a Chromatics of the Social. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024

Artem Petrov
Abstract 267 | PDF Downloads 109
Page 223-227
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Laur Vallikivi. Words and Silences: Nenets Reindeer Herders and Russian Evangelical Missionaries in the Post-Soviet Arctic. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2024

Julia Zelikova
Abstract 230 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 119
Page 228-235
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Jeremy Morris, Andrei Semenov, and Regina Smyth, eds. Varieties of Russian Activism: State-Society Contestation in Everyday Life. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2023

Karine Clément
Abstract 300 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 126
Page 236-240
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Guillaume Sauvé. Poterpevshie pobedu: Sovetskie liberaly i krakh demokratii v Rossii (1987–1993 gody). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2025

Vyacheslav Fisyukov
Abstract 296 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 176
Page 241-247
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Andrea Lanoux, Kelly Herold, and Olga Bukhina. 2024. Proshchanie s kommunizmom: Detskaia i podrostkovaia literatura v sovremennoi Rossii (1991–2017). Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2024

Bella Ostromooukhova
Abstract 293 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 96
Page 248-251
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Anna Schwenck. Flexible Authoritarianism: Cultivating Ambitions and Loyalty in Russia. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024

Olga Malinova
Abstract 292 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 147
Page 252-257
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Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield. How Russians Understand the New Russia: Consolidation and Contestation. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025

Mikhail Turchenko
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Authors

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List of Article Manuscript Reviewers, 2025

List of Article Manuscript Reviewers, 2025

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