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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 281 | PDF Downloads 197
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Articles

Exploring Undergraduate Students’ Views on Academic Freedom in Russian Universities

Elizaveta Belkina
Abstract 227 | PDF Downloads 168
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 372 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 144
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 327 | PDF Downloads 211
Page 55-83
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Review Articles

Social Sciences and Academic Freedom

Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Abstract 189 | PDF Downloads 167
Page 84-98
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Essays

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

Alexander Osipov
Abstract 234 | PDF Downloads 135
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 173 | PDF Downloads 112
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 140 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 124
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 136 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 105
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 150 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 124
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 122 | PDF Downloads 125
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 142 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 145
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 142 | PDF Downloads 105
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 112 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 93
Page 151-156
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Henry Reichman. Understanding Academic Freedom. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021

Dmitry Dubrovskiy
Abstract 128 | PDF Downloads 102
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 171 | PDF Downloads 129
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 167 | PDF (Русский) Downloads 105
Page 165-168
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Authors

Abstract 207 | PDF Downloads 93 PDF (Русский) Downloads 47
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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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