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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. 1 (2025)

Published: 15.05.2025

Lead editor: Anna Paretskaya

Articles

How Do Ordinary Citizens Experience Polarization Under an Authoritarian Regime? A Qualitative Study of Affects and Preferences in Postinvasion Russian Society

Vladislav Siiutkin
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Page 4-26
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Euromaidan as a Key Factor in the Transformation of the Ukrainian National Narrative and Social Perception of Ideological Innovations

Tatiana Pashkovskaya
Abstract 61 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 23
Page 27-57
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Plagiarism as a Multiple Object: Practices of Student Papers Assessment in Moscow Universities

Maxim Malkov, Daniil Alekseev
Abstract 150 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 71
Page 58-92
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Resourcified Bodies: Women Miners’ Narratives of Limits, Resistance, and Creativity

Anna Varfolomeeva
Abstract 53 | PDF Downloads 24
Page 93-115
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“For the Forest, for the Water, and for Our Nature”: Scenarios and Features of (De)Politicization of the Environmental Agenda in Russian Regions

Svetlana Tulaeva, Ekaterina Semushkina
Abstract 49 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 23
Page 116-146
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Social Foundations of Explanatory Models in Oocyte Donation

Irina Polyakova, Anastasia Shvetsova, Elvira Symanyuk
Abstract 38 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 18
Page 147-175
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Review Articles

There Is No Such Thing as Natural Disasters: Key Approaches in Social Studies of Disasters

Alexandra Barmina, Fedor Veselov, Alisa Alieva, Arsenii Verkeev
Abstract 69 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 28
Page 176-215
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Essays

Sound Maps and Their Antinomies: From Listening Subject to Audible Objects

Maksim Zhiganov
Abstract 37 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 15
Page 216-239
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Book Reviews

Immo Rebitschek and Aaron B. Retish, eds. Social Control Under Stalin and Khrushchev: The Phantom of a Well-Ordered State. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023

Benjamin Tromly
Abstract 52 | PDF Downloads 17
Page 240-243
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Elena Kochetkova. The Green Power of Socialism: Wood, Forest, and the Making of Soviet Industrially Embedded Ecology. Cambridge, МА: MIT Press, 2024

Anna Sokolova
Abstract 61 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 22
Page 244-249
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Robert Edelman. Moskovskii "Spartak": Istoriia narodnoi komandy v strane rabochikh. Saint Petersburg, Russia: Izdatel'stvo Evropeiskogo universiteta v Sankt-Peterburge, 2025

Denis Baranov
Abstract 52 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 13
Page 250-255
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Tomila V. Lankina. The Estate Origins of Democracy in Russia: From Imperial Bourgeoisie to Post-Communist Middle Class. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Sofia Tchouikina
Abstract 38 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 13
Page 256-260
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Irina Sandomirskaja. Past discontinuous: Fragmenty restavratsii. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022

Stefania Ivanova
Abstract 35 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 14
Page 261-265
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Katie L. Stewart. Legitimating Nationalism: Political Identity in Russia’s Ethnic Republics. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2024

Jules Sergei Fediunin
Abstract 45 | PDF Downloads 19
Page 266-269
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Elisabeth Schimpfössl. Bezumno bogatye russkie: Ot oligarkhov k novoi burzhuazii. Moscow: Individuum, 2022

Maria Sakaeva
Abstract 37 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 17
Page 270-274
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Alan Barenberg. Ot goroda GULAGa k monogorodu: Prinuditel'yi trud i ego nasledie v Vorkute. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2024

Mikhail Nakonechnyi
Abstract 44 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 15
Page 275-279
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Authors

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Page 280-287
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