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... ‘independence-induced euphoria’ faded, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian power groups had to tackle the problem of civil society formation and the development of a political regime based on democratic procedures. In these countries the processes of elite recruitment were largely affected by the factor of ethic homogeneity of the social structure. This article analyses the process of elite group formation in the Baltics through the lens of the ethnic factor. By applying the ethnopolitical approach,...

To identify the structure of network ties within Polish political elites; to study the features of network ties formation and the impact that both primary and labour socialisation periods and diaspora characteristics have on this process; to describe the structural features of the resultant network structures over different ...

... place at the end of the First World War. Although the revolutionary events in Russia attract greater attention, the German revolution of November 1918 is of no less interest. In this article, I set out to highlight the situation of the German ruling elite on the eve of the war. The absence of bright personalities among the country's political estab­lishment, on the one hand, and the lack of unity among the German elite, on the other, were the major causes of the bankruptcy of the Kaiser’s Germany....

The authors consider the structure of the Latvian political elite in 1993—2014 and analyse the major network parameters. The roles of key network actors and their changes over the study period are examined 1. Dogan М., Higley J. Elites, Crises, and the Origins of Regimes. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers,...

The paper focuses on Königsberg’s elites faced with fast changes in the 19th century. The city’s old merchant families were up against increasing competition from new actors – industrialists and bankers – trying to take advantage of the former. The author examines changes in the ...

Different political elite groups of post-communist Lithuania offer different accounts of the Soviet past. Even twenty years later, after the collapse of communism Lithuanian politicians (with the exception of certain conservative anti-nostalgic leaders allied with some populists) ...

... orientation toward the federal agenda, on the contrary, often leads to a decline in reputational indicators. The proposed methodology for analyzing media discourse can serve as a tool for assessing the effectiveness of communication strategies of regional elites. The study emphasizes the importance of a balanced approach that takes into account the specific characteristics of territories in shaping the public image of political au­thority. Lavrikova A.A., Teteruk D.S. political media discourse,...

... East Prussia to the Kapp Putsch of 1920, which aimed to overthrow the legitimate government of the Weimar Republic. Unlike most other German territories, the putschists in East Prussia were supported by many representatives of the regional political elite and bureaucracy. The article attempts to explain the reasons for this anomaly and to identify the consequences of the support for the putsch by part of the local political actors on the further development of the province. The article concludes ...

This article describes different aspects of the everyday life of the German military elite during World War I. The author stresses the effect of protracted hostilities on professional high-ranking officers in view of their age, special social standards, and family relations. Special attention is paid to a new little-studied area of research....

The article deals with the Constitution of the Republic of Lithuania as a result of inter-elite struggles in post-Soviet period of different power groups. 1. Estonian Human Development Report. Baltic Way(s) of Human Development: Twenty Years On. 2010/2011. Eesti Koostöö Kogu. Tallinn. 2011. 2. Geddes B. Initiation of New Democratic Institutions in Eastern Europe and Latin America // A. Lijphart & C.H. Waisman (eds.). Institutional Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America...

The article analyses expert influence on decision making process. The author argues that high uncertainty increases political elite’s attention to experts under the conditions of democratic transit. The case of the Kaliningrad exclave is taken as an example. 1.  Абрамов В.   Н. Калининградская область: социально-политические ...

... perspective of the development of Russian-Estonian relations and factors affecting the probability of each scenario. It is shown that any change in the role of Estonia in Russian foreign policy depends not only on the specific actions of the Estonian elite, for example their readiness to change their position on the participation of Russian-speaking population in the democratic decision-making process or the evaluation of controversial events of the past, but also on the meaning that will be attached ...

The article explores the biography of Professor Paul Henry Gerber (1863-1919), a bright representative of the intellectual elite of Königsberg at the turn of the 19th-20th centuries. A native of the capital of the German province East Prussia, he was an outstanding otorhino­lar­yngologist, a lecturer at the University of Königsberg, as well as an original poet and pub­li­cist....

... democratic state. They ignore the peculiari­ties of the Middle East country, do not support ‘mestechkovy’ culture of the Russian street and disagree to prioritize the Jewish traditions. The cultural discrepancy does not match the divergence between elite and mass culture. Akhapkina, Ya. E., 2015. Peculiarities of the sentence structure in bilinguals’ texts. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Trudy Instituta lingvisticheskikh issledovanii [Acta Linguis­tica Petropolitana. Transactions of ...

... other technical means. The article explores the process of integrating poetic texts into urban space using the example of the Netherlands, Belgium, Russia, Spain and countries of Latin America. Urban poetry contributes to overcoming the linearity and elitism of the poetic text, shifting the emphasis from verbal to the visual or performative component of the text, and strengthening the function of the addressee. As a result, poetry acquires an applied character. The city becomes an instrument of mediated ...

The article deals with the dynamic interaction of events and narratives. As a result of this interaction, stable links ‘events-narratives’ appear; they influence the formation and transformation of social and cultural processes in society. Event-narrative links form the basis of the system of norms and values of society. The corpus of ‘event-narrative’ links creates be­havioural patterns, serves as a motivator for members of society, a cause and reason for ac­tions and an initiator of terraced events...

... In N. J. Smelser and P. B. Baltes, eds. International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Oxford: Elsevier Science Ltd. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/B0-08-043076-7/01802-7 [Accessed 10 October 2020]. Cowan, B., 2004. An Open Elite: The Peculiarities of Connoisseurship in Early Modern England. Modern Intellectual History, 1(2), pp. 151—183. Crane, G. R., 1995. Perseus Digital Library. Available at: https://www . perseus. tufts. edu/hopper/ [Accessed 10 October 2020]. Deane-Cox,...

... of the 1920s—1930s. In: N. A. Gur'yanova, ed. K istorii russkogo futurizma: vospominaniya i dokumenty [Towards the History of Russian Futurism: Me­mo­ries and Documents]. Мoscow, pp. 7—29 (in Russ.). In'shakova, E. Yu., 2001. On the verge of Elite and Mass Cultures (Towards Un­derstanding the “game space” of the Russian avant-garde). Obshchestvennye nauki i sovremennost' [Social Sciences and Contemporary World], 1, pp. 162—174 (in Russ.). Iser, W., 1989. Towards a Literary Anthrolopogy....

.... 32. Powierski J. Najdawniejsze nazwy etniczne z terenu Prus i niektórych obszarzów sąsednich // Komunikaty Mazursko-Warmińskie. Olsztyn, 1965. Z. 88.S. 174—179. 33. Skvortsov K. N. The Formation of a Sambian-Natangian culture patrimonial elite in the Roman period in the context of the amber trade // Archaeologia Baltica.Klaipeda, 2012. Vol. 18. P. 167—191. 34. Werner J. Archäologische Zeugnisse für merowingische Handel in Ostpreussen// Germania, Berlin, 1933. Jahrh. 17. H. 4. S....

1. Dreifelds J. Latvia in Transition. Cambridge, 1996. 2. Political Representation and participation in Transitional Democracies: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania / Loftsson E., Choe Y., eds. Sodertoerns hoegskola, 2003. 3. Rozenvalds J. Latvia After Twelve Years of Renewed Independence: the Search for Normality // Latvijas Universitātes Raksti. 663. sēj. Rīga, 2004.

... p. 85—98. 55. Kojkol J. 2001 (b), Wartosci a wychowanie w personalistycznej wizji edukacji Sergiusza Hessena [Values and education in Sergey Hessen’s personalistic vision of education] // Elitaryzm. Mistrz w edukacji / pod red. M. Szczepanskiej [Elitism. Master in education / ed. M. Szczepanska]. Slupsk, p. 19—29. 56. Kojkol J. 2009, Posthistoryczne traktowanie wartosci: B. Nawroczynski — S. Hessen — H. Elzenberg [Post-historical treatment values: B. Nawroczynski — S. Hessen — H. Elzenberg] ...

... “death of the subject” (Foucault). After Handke’s essays on Yugoslavia had been published in the Sueddeutsche Zeitung in 1996, where he supported the Serbs, he became persona non grata not only in Kosovo and Sarajevo, but also among the intellectual elite of the West. Therefore, the Nobel Prize came as a complete surprise for the author and sparked a furious protest from the world’s leading media giants. One of the conclusions of the article, based on a hermeneutic study of Handke’s works, reflects ...

... identifying intertextual links between these text while the analysis establishes the dialogic nature of the texts on a conceptual level and they are united by the motifs of Feast and Love. The feasting narrative in Plato’s dialogue is a celebration of the elite, described in the traditions of ethics and philosophy of antiquity. The characters of “The feast” are historical figures, their friendly conversation demonstrates the search for truth, love is understood as a desire for beauty and for eternity....

... traces not only the process of changing the dominant position of the doctrine of Ottomanism in the circles of Ottoman intellectuals, but also the transition to a position of sympathy for the ideas of Turkism on the part of some of the late Ottoman power elites. In addition, the author explains the prerequisites for such a transition. The issue of the influence of the change and development of political and legal doctrines of Ottomanism, Pan-Islamism and Pan-Turkism not only on late Ottoman society, but ...

The article traces the history of one of the oldest elite educational institutions in Königsberg — the Löbenicht Real Gymnasium, which was attended by engineers, bankers, architects, administrators and others famous in Königsberg and beyond. The evolution of the status of the gymnasium is traced, ...

... relations are considered. The state and dynamics of the export of educational services in the context of “soft power” in Russian foreign policy are determined. The author emphasizes the importance of education export as a way to influence political elites and societies, and also comes to the conclusion about the importance of improving the quality of education as an export product of Russia in order to increase its value at the international level, and accordingly, improve the image of Russia as ...

... previously believed. As demonstrated in the research, the army has transformed from a guarantor of stability into a source of threats to national security. Furthermore, a ‘deep state’ has emerged in Sudan since independence in 1956. The military elite maintained complete control over the country for an extended period, acting solely in their interests, which inevitably impacted the socioeconomic situation in Sudan. The current events in the country are not an ethno-confessional conflict but a ...

... the dialogue between the authorities and society. Particular attention is paid to the impact of social networks on the quality of political communication. The characteristic features of the position of ordinary users and representatives of political elites in the communication process are singled out and described. As a research task, the authors identified the main characteristics of political communication in the Internet space of Poland. The article analyzes the views of Polish researchers of ...

... right-wing radical ideologies on political processes in South America. Right-wing radicalism has a long history of presence in the political reality of South American states. Having gone a long way from the usual ideas and concepts of the continental elites to the organization of right-wing radical political forces, right-wing ideologemes have become entrenched in the public consciousness of the societies of South American countries. We relied on a synthesized approach to the "ideologeme" ...

... international-political status. The conclusion is substantiated that among the hindering factors are the weakness of the national economy and domestic political instability, while among the promoting factors are the presence of political will from a consolidated ruling elite and social demand for the integration proposal. The author concludes that there are two fundamentally possible scenarios for the institutional development of the Union: a) deepening integration; b) expanding the integration space through the advancement ...

... elements with essen­tially differ­ent institutional matrices, there becomes possible a transplan­ta­tional dysfunc­tion of institutions, which in turn can initiate a crisis, capa­ble, in case of a malfunctioning political system and disunited elites, of trig­gering a social col­lapse and (if there are interested «poles of power») the total di­sintegration of the society. The subsequent entry of its part into another social system constitutes one of the options of passing through a bifurcation ...

The article is devoted to the phenomenon of a money surrogate, introduced in the form of a bitcoin, a popular cryptocurrency. The purpose of the research is to study the influence of the price-per-unit value of the cryptocurrency on the indicator of the market capitalization of the bitcoin cryptocurrency through correlation-regression analysis. As a result of the research, the author becomes the first to prove the direct dependence of the mentioned indicators, namely, a strong relationship between...

This article examines scientific approaches to scenario planning and analyses the algorithm of business development scenarios. The authors summarise a vast array of information. An analysis of external and internal environment of the fishing industry is carried out and the problems of regional industry development are identified and systematised. Based on a strategic analysis of the regional fishing industry, different development scenarios are formulated and possible strategic decisions considered...