Ühest Juri Lotmani retsensioonist ja nõukogude aja entsüklopeediatest / Some Notes on One Review by Juri Lotman and Encyclopedias of The Soviet Period

Constant demand for new naval and commercial vessels has created special conditions for the Government-owned Soviet shipbuilding industry, which practically has not been affected b...

Abstract The Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans (Guidelines) advises older adults to be as active as possible. Yet, despite the well documented benefits of physical a...

The Soviet Union in World War II is the story of several wars. When World War II started, the Soviet Union was effectively an ally of Nazi Germany in a relatively conventional Euro...

Ethics played an important role for Yu.M. Lotman when he judged some phenomenon of art or the personality of the creator. He thought filmmaker S.M. Eisenstein was a brilliant avant...

Jurij (or Yuri) Lotman (b. 1922–d. 1993) was a Russian semiotician and cofounder of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics. A Russian philologist by education, his interests ranged f...

Abstract The essay provides a brief analysis of correspondence between two scholars whose heritage forms the basis of contemporary Tartu semiotics-Jakob von Uexküll ...

Less than three months after the founding of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in October 1949, Mao Zedong, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), arrived in Moscow ...

The most lasting legacy of the Soviet experience, more so than institutions that persist in the Russian Federation today or the mentalities of citizens of post-Soviet states, was i...