About the Journal
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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Current Issue
Vol. 15 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 14.11.2023
Lead editor: Anna Paretskaya
Articles
Between Awareness and Illegality: Youth Cultures of Substance Use in Saint Petersburg
Abstract 93 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 70
Page 4-26
The “Rouge” Is Too Rogue: Power Worlds in Women’s Penal Colonies of Russia and Kazakhstan
Abstract 109 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 62
Page 27-56
Review Articles
Night-Time Economy, Alcohol, and Entertainment in a Big City: Revitalization Strategies, Spaces of Conflict, and Night-Time Subjects in the Research on the Urban Night
Abstract 184 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 164
Page 57-92
Discussion
Post-Soviet Studies: Crisis of Concepts, Conventions, and Compromises
Abstract 257 | PDF Downloads 290
Page 93-114
Book Reviews
Barbara Alpern Engel. Marriage, Household and Home in Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to Vladimir Putin. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022
Abstract 70 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 21
Page 115-118
Mark Solovey and Christian Dayé, eds. Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021
Abstract 64 | PDF Downloads 23
Page 119-122
Igor' Ponosov. Iskusstvo i gorod: Graffiti, ulichnoe iskusstvo, aktivizm. Moscow: Iupiter-Impeks, 2021
Abstract 75 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 24
Page 123-127
Margarita M. Balmaceda. Russian Energy Chains: The Remaking of Technopolitics from Siberia to Ukraine to the European Union. New York: Columbia University Press, 2021
Abstract 51 | PDF Downloads 10
Page 128-132
James Mark, Artemy M. Kalinovsky, and Steffi Marung, eds. Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2020
Abstract 133 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 26
Page 133-137
Susanne A. Wengle. Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2022
Abstract 69 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 22
Page 138-142
Dmitriy Gromov. AUE: Kriminalizatsiia molodezhi i moral'naia panika. Moscow: Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, 2022
Abstract 46 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 18
Page 143-146
Larissa Zakharova. De Moscou aux terres les plus lointaines: Communications, politique et société en URSS. Paris: Éditions de l’EHESS, 2020
Abstract 38 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 10
Page 147-150
Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz. Autistic Intelligence: Interaction, Individuality, and the Challenges of Diagnosis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022
Abstract 38 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 9
Page 151-155
Shelly Volsche. Voluntarily Childfree: Identity and Kinship in the United States. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2019
Abstract 46 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 36
Page 156-161