A New Model of International Cooperation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities

... transition. There is a firmly entrenched division of functions that is reproduced time and again, consolidating the lame-duck status of Russian social scientists and specialists in the humanities. What is more, in the majority of cases, the involvement of Russian social scientists in international research projects was limited to a specific area of Western regional studies (what is traditionally called “Sovietology”). Meanwhile, “Sovietology” was, and to a great degree remains, an “intellectual ghetto” with its archaic methodology, ever-present politicization of scientific research, and very specific traditions. “Sovietology” has always ...