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Parental monitoring is recognised as one of the most important family factors that are associated with rule-breaking behaviour. The objective of this paper is to determine the nature of correlations between parental monitoring and its key components (parents' knowledge, child disclosure, parental solicitation and parental control) and rule-breaking behaviour. Additionally, the prediction of the rule-breaking behaviour by parental monitoring variables, age and gender will be considered. The sample included 507 secondary school students from Belgrade, aged 15 to 18. The data on rule-breaking behaviour were collected through ASEBA YSR/11-18, and on parental monitoring via the Parental monitoring scale. The most important conclusions are the following: the strongest negative correlations are found between parental knowledge and child disclosure with rule-breaking behaviour; child disclosure is the most important source of parental knowledge; the variables of parental monitoring, gender and age explained 31.4% of the variance of rule-breaking behaviour; finally, parental control and age, unlike other variables, did not predict rule-breaking behaviour. Given that parents mostly know how children spend their free time only if the children tell this to them, it is recommended that the prevention programme of rule-breaking behaviour should be oriented towards the improvement of parent-child relationships instead of focusing on parental control and supervision. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper explores the ways in which mathematics and science teachers in one primary school perceive innovations in teaching that they implemented during in-service training. We started from the recent findings pointing to the prevailing perceptions of obstacles and an anxious and antagonistic attitude of teachers towards innovations. Hence, the aim of our research was to see whether we would obtain similar findings with the teachers who attended a training course for implementing innovations within the Trefoil project. Research participants were seven teachers. We analysed their conversations, which took place during the meetings of the expert council, about the experiences with implementing innovations. The results have shown that the teachers had the perception that innovations ensured higher quality knowledge and additionally motivated students. Still, the predominant narratives were those about the obstacles referring to the lack of time, difficulties in developing teaching activities and grading system, restrictions in the curriculum, as well as the lack of readiness and cooperation on the part of students and parents. A novelty compared to the previous studies was that we cannot speak about typical reactions. Instead, teachers' attitude towards innovations changed depending on whether the experiences were positive or they encountered problems in their implementation. The recommendations for the practice of in-service teacher training and further research are provided in the final part. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper discusses the theatrical and performative poetry project Citizen Poet created by Dmitrii Bykov, Andrei Vasil’ev and Mikhail Efremov. This project satirically reflects Russia as it was in the turbulent years 2011–2012. In particular, it deals with the Russian protest movements known as the “Snow revolution”. The essay analyses the reasons for the project’s popularity against the background of the relevant history of the genre of Russian parody. Bykov’s mocking poetical satire is analysed with a view to existing scholarship focusing on parody and irony, including Russian stiob . The Russian literary canon emerges as an important issue in this respect. The complex views expressed in the various performed texts of Citizen Poet lead us into a debate of Dmitrii Bykov’s poetical attitudes and opinions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper considers sex and gender issues underlying Mikhail Kuzmin’s longer poem ‘The Trout Breaks the Ice’. In the Russian literary canon, Kuzmin has not obtained the high status he deserves because his openly gay writings are not acceptable either under homophobic Soviet law or by today’s official anti-LGBT Russian mindset. Interestingly, despite the poet’s notorious reputation, the homosexual core of ‘The Trout’ has been consistently ignored in most critical analyses. Nor has the other side of Kuzmin’s homosexuality, his misogynism – also an important part of ‘The Trout’ – been discussed so far. Dissolved in rich intertextuality, symbols and rhetoric, it is responsible for the ambivalent portrayal of the heroine. She is a Psyche who patronizes the love between the two male protagonists but also a femme fatale who drives one of them, who becomes her lover, to death. Women were avenged later, in Anna Akhmatova’s ‘Poem without a Hero’, a tribute to her 1920s romance with Ol’ga Glebova-Sudeikina, which was inspired literarily by a rivalry with Kuzmin, especially his ‘Trout’. The poetess’ inherent Lesbian agenda led to a covert reworking of Kuzmin’s gay poetics, which was programmatically open about homosexual love being more rewarding and less tragic than heterosexual love. As the ‘Poem’s hidden real message has been ignored even by scholars for fear of diminishing Akhmatova’s reputation, ‘The Poem’ succeeded in eclipsing Kuzmin’s more genuine and artistically daring portrayal of bisexual triangular love that flourished in the Silver Age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The goal of this paper is to scrutinize how the phenomenon of digital poetry is related to the culture of late capitalism and how reification transforms the semantics of the digital poetry genre. The performed analysis reveals that reification of lyrical discourse is a distinctive feature of digital poetry, thus, there is the influence of the culture of late capitalism on the semantics of this poetic genre. Reification as a semantic dimension of digital poetry is characterized by such textual symptoms as alienation, irrationality, dystopia, serialization, simplification, spectacularity, the aestheticization of consumption as well as the dominant role of the political rather than the poetic. Digital poetry is analyzed from the perspective of discursive practices (the digital environment) as well as social practices (the practices symptomatic of late capitalism). Finally, possible counter-practices aimed at overcoming lyrical discourse reification are taken into consideration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We will show in this paper how turning to the idea of data visualization reduces epistemological potential of digital visualization in the humanities, and how new visual technologies change practices of work with visualizations. We will show also how using multidisciplinary approach, the order and methodology of knowledge production can be changed through visualization technologies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The subject of this article is in-game photography, which exists as a part of our lifestyle for some time already, but struggles to become recognized as an independent form of art. Classic photography in its time managed to establish itself as a new type of art that is equal to painting and sculpture. As for in-game photography, the situation is much more complicated. If the goal of an ordinary photo is to capture the ordinary world, as something that can only be seen with a camera lens, then what is the purpose of an in-game photo if it can exist there only within the framework of some new, man-made world, inside a video game? Nowadays, there is only a small amount of research devoted to such a genre of art as in-game photography. I am trying to correct that problem by analyzing the in-game photography, its connection to its classical predecessor, and formulating the central idea of that genre. I also will try to build an approximate way of in-game photography development as a form of art in the future, using the scheme of how culture is developing and formed by human minds. I will compare it to already known forms of perceiving in-game photography as an art and provide some ways of how humanity will perceive media art in the nearest future by describing already known in-game photography studies, various genres of in-game photography, and art contests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to present László Dezső's achievements in the field of Ukrainian linguistics and historical dialectology as well as to show the importance of his research in the development of Ukrainian studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

One of the topical problems of modern grammar is the qualification of doublesyntactic connection. Its nature conforms to none of the features of syntactic connection on the axis of closeness/openness. The problem of the particularity of this syntactic phenomenon appeared in the early twentieth century but it is still not resolved. The purpose of this paper is to clarify the conditions for the birth of the idea of double-syntactic connection and to review the evolution of this phenomenon in Ukrainian and Russian scholarly works. As the analysis demonstrates, the double-syntactic connection does not determine a single phenomenon but it includes a set of phenomena. It is a type that combines different varieties of syntactic connection according to their common features, such as three-member-construction and the complex realization of the syntactic connection. Various linguists have interpreted the patterns of the establishment of that phenomenon and the forms of its realization in different ways. The prospective of our study is to define grammatical markers of the double-syntactic connection and to describe the structure of the constructions in which it appears. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper studies the presentation of Belarusian and Ukrainian biblical similes in dictionaries as well as their use by native speakers. Some of the examples are supplied with etymological commentaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the comparative analysis of Slavic similes that characterize sound sleep as a part of the linguistic image of the Slavic world. Through the analysis of the figurative structure of similes, the authors demonstrate a great variety of models describing sound sleep in Slavic similes as well as the distinctive and similar ways of expressing the main meanings of similes in different languages. They also demonstrate the semantic differentiation of similes created by the model used in the comparison. Finally, the authors describe several national or cultural specific features of similes in various Slavic languages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents examples of special-purpose banking language items which illustrate word formation processes in present-day Russian used in the sphere of banking in order to compress meaning, i.e. univerbation as well as abbreviation. As a rule, these particular phenomena are considered one of the manifestations of the principle of linguistic economy. The orientation towards linguistic economy provides a stimulus for multiplying the number of new lexical items in banking language, which can be related to technical terms and professional slang. The productivity of word formation processes used in order to compress meaning can also be linked to the needs of adjusting written and oral communication to the world standards in the sphere of Russian banking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is devoted to the corpus-based study of Russian adjectives шаткий 'wobbly, unstable, shaky' and зыбкий 'unsteady, shaky' in the context of Russian poetry. The comprehensive research shows that the similarity of these lexemes has only surface features. The symmetry of the two adjectives is discussed: they are synonymous practically in all the meanings they have but this semantic area has a lot of differences. The following differences are revealed: the adjective шаткий is used in its direct meaning more frequently than зыбкий, while the adjective зыбкий is used more frequently in metaphoric contexts. It is necessary to study how the hidden component of the meaning takes place in the "naive mind". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Constructions with depictive attributes representing a special kind of secondary predication have been the object of recent discussions within the formal and constructional frameworks. One of the key issues in understanding this phenomenon and the variants of its realization in various languages is the identification of its prototypical model. The present paper shows that in Bulgarian, the core construction with the subject-oriented depictive secondary predicate contains the verb of controlled action as the main predicate and a non-finite form of the verb of uncontrolled action. In this way, the search of the prototypical model is related to the feature "controllability/uncontrollability of action" discerned in the semantics of both main and secondary predication. Based on the suggested parameter, the other variety of the construction in question, the one with the object-oriented depictive secondary predicate, has a different organization not only in the syntactic but also in the semantic aspect. It is demonstrated that different semantic varieties of constructions with the depictive secondary predicate have different translations in Russian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates the poetics of the everyday as a common thread between Derzhavin and Pasternak. It shows how Pasternak revives Derzhavin's tradition of poeticizing everyday life and the material world. I discuss the everyday in three aspects: visibility of the everyday, feasting and everyday as a refuge. Contemplation, feasting, household form the semantic field of the primitive, based on the instincts of existence. These instincts protect and lead the individual in everyday experience. Pleasure from the everyday, an abundance of household objects and feasting are transformed into an aesthetic pleasure and spiritual food. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is devoted to the influence that the experience of emigration had on the poetics of Khodasevich's book European Night ( Evropeiskaia noch' ). Till the spring of 1925 Khodasevich thought that he had the possibility to return to the Soviet Union. This state of mind determined the pragmatic meaning of the poems that Khodasevich wrote in the period between 1922 and 1925, i.e. the time in which he emigrated to Europe and yet did not feel himself a “real” emigrant. These poems are characterized by a satirical orientation as well as by a radical rejection of emigration. On the other hand, the texts that were written between 1925 and 1927 (when Khodasevich formed his self-identification as an emigrant) radically changed the pragmatics of European Night : In this way it becomes a book expressing a deep existential despair. This inner crisis includes the Russian space as well as the space of emigration. In our study we also analyse the way in which Khodasevich mitigates the satirical orientation of the first version of the book. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper considers the philosophical aspects of repetition in Gennadii Aigi's poetic texts. The author concludes that repetition in Aigi's works is of a non-numerical nature. Unlike the quantitative parameters of repetition, their non-numerical ability to correspond to the entire poetic text is of major importance. In this regard, repetition manifests itself as a structure that reminds a fractal. The cornerstone of Aigi's repetitions is a cyclic model of time that is impossible to describe in terms of evolution and memory. Repetitions accumulate nothing: topics and ideas do not grow from each other, but rather grow into each other forming the general poetic unity. Repetitions in Aigi's poetry constitute a non-communicative phenomenon that is not associated with imitation and mimesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes an inquiry into the work of Aigi as a religious poet and mystic of the metaphysical mould, manifesting in his poetic experience an attitude of attaining the essence of being. In his works, Aigi advocates for Poetry in its original sense – as a sacrament. He understands the poetic word as the Word the Creator (St. John's Logos ), adhering to the logos principle and believing that silence can only be created by the Word. The paper discusses some issues of poetology, semiotics and linguistics, relevant for the interpretation of Aigi's poetry and its place in linguistic poetics and philosophy of creativity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper examines the interconnection of such notions as 'real politics' and 'the political', 'friend' and 'enemy'. In order to clarify the meaning of 'the political', the author turns to the modern theories of the legitimacy of political power. The author analyzes the notion of 'political struggle' in the context of the general idea of struggle. The problem of political consent is considered as opposed to the political struggle. Addressing the phenomenon of speech the author analyzes both the key features and contradictions of 'militant speeches'. Analyzing the crisis of the Kantian ideal of "Perpetual peace", the author discusses the most important aspects of modern wars: the merging of the war with terror, state terrorism, cyberwarfare. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Based on a semantic study of Russian verbs relating to computer interface, this paper explores structural metaphors of computer discourse organizing the perception of the computer and the Internet as well as forming its linguistic image. Four metaphors are discussed: 1. Computer is a special world; 2. Computer is a mechanism; 3. Computer is a book (library); 4. Computer is a living being. These metaphors are shown to function both independently and in interplay within the same text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to show how communal apartments were perceived by many authors of Russian songs. The analysis of these texts proves that communal apartments clearly characterize Soviet everyday life. Communal apartments can be called a Soviet microcosm, a non-idealized portrayal of Soviet society in miniature that represents the invasion of individual life. Communal apartments were Stalin’s institute of social control. The forms of communal life left significant imprints on the mentality of Soviet people, causing their moral deformation. The analyzed songs express memories of Soviet citizens. Communal apartments are shown: 1) as a manifestation of negative features of collective mentality; 2) as a model of common life with justice, peace, and social equality; 3) as a place of forced communication with neighbours. The songs of communal apartments became part of collective memory and they affect the representation of listeners, forming their image of Soviet everyday life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the derivation capability of verbs motivated by substantives with the word-formation meaning ‘to work with a tool, named by a word-forming noun’ with suffix -yea-1-юва- in the Ukrainian language. The author claims that the typical word-forming paradigm is formed of three word-formation zones: substantive, adjective, and verbal. Within each zone, a continuum of word-forming derivatives is distinguished, a set of word-forming devices for their realizations is determined, and the abilities of some of them to express addi­tional lexical meanings are traced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study focuses on a single Russian verb вскричать. This verb was the object of statistical analysis of lexical vocabulary changes in 19th-century Russian prose by A. Shaikevich (2013). His paper presents the results of the analysis of small historical corpora. The size of the corpus is about 25 million words. Shaikevich’s statistical data have shown that this verb had almost disappeared by the end of the 19th century. In our study, the analysis of the historical and modern usage of the verb вскричать was done with the help of the large Russian National Corpus (230 million words), and all the examples were taken from 19th- and 20th-century texts. Our analysis has shown that this verb was very frequent in the language of some writers (e.g. F. Dostoyevsky), while L. Tolstoy did not use it at all. In the 20th century, the verb вскричать became quite frequent again for numerous writers. In recent times, poets and journalists have also used it as a marked stylistic device. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the issue of using Latin and “Slavensky” (Russian and Church Slavonic) languages in the primary' ecclesiastical education in the 18th century. By the 1740s, seminary education in Latin had established itself in Russia. But primary teaching of reading and writing in Russian and Church Slavonic remained traditional until the end of the 18th century, regardless of where the teaching was taking place: at home or at a Russian school at a seminary. The Russian schools were organised for teaching illiterate or semiliterate child­ren. But by the end of the 18th century, several seminaries attempted to reorganise them into ecclesiastical schools where Russian would be the only language of instruction. Junior classes at seminaries were fully focused on teaching Latin, however, Latin was by no means a complete replacement for Russian. The main method of instruction was translation, and the administra­tions of many seminaries demanded attention to the quality of students’ translations into Rus­sian. Therefore, Russian and Latin were functionally distributed in primary education. Only the Church Slavonic language was practically excluded from teaching after the primary courses of reading and church singing, and it preconditioned its conservation as a language used only for church services and led to the extinction of the hybrid form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The paper explores the tight relation between “art” and “immortality” in Boris Pasternak's author's ideology on the basis of a newly found letter to his second wife Zinaida Nikolaevna Neigauz, written in the beginning of 1931. This letter, preserved only in a copy, sheds new light upon one of the most important points of the author's ideology. In this document, Pasternak explains his views on the unacceptability of suicide. The letter is closely related to his autobiographical work Safe Conduct , the final part of which was written soon after the suicide of Vladimir Maiakovskii. It is possible to draw a line from the letter to the novel Doctor Zhivago . The ends of two protagonists' lives, Iurii Zhivago and his antipode Pavel Antipov-Strelnikov, are compared. The main protagonist dies, leaving behind his poetry. For Pasternak, it is the way of continuation, “life after death”, and the symbol of creative immortality of a poet. On the contrary, Antipov committed suicide, an end consistent with his life position. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The topic of patient safety has received much attention in recent years. There are a number of areas in which the subject of patient safety impacts respiratory care practice. This paper focuses on articles published in 2014 related to pressure injury, handoffs, protocols and multidisciplinary teams, perioperative obstructive sleep apnea, and readmissions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Significant social and political shifts cause basic changes in a language culture such as the abolition of old models of writing, speaking, and the establishment of a new model of language usage, which leads to the emergence of puristic reaction to language processes. This paper examines various manifestations of purism in the metadiscourse on modern Russian language and analyzes how they overlap with the purism in the Soviet language policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper touches upon the description of the phraseological units which are currently used in the sphere of sports in present-day Russian. Such units have their origin both in sports slang and in mass media language. On the other hand, such units have not only a high level of expressivity but nowadays they are often used as picturesque and metaphoric means in other discourses, e.g. political, social, economic, and in everyday communication. This type of sports idioms now constitutes a special section in the general phraseological base of Russian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper makes a comparative analysis of fixed similes with the component Jesus Christ and its synonyms, their representation in dictionaries, and their usage by native speakers. As a result, the author reveals biblical structural semantic universale as well as set comparisons with national peculiarities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper discusses the question what influence the category of limitativity has on the category of verbal aspect. From this point of view, the author focuses on the semantic types of aspectual pairs, and verbs of delimitative manner of action are analyzed in this respect as well. In conclusion, the author also touches upon the aspectual model of clusters which has received special emphasis in L. Janda's research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In recent years, foreign language testing has gained in significance with the advent of The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (2001) (CEFR), a European language document which set comparable standards for learning, teaching and assessing foreign languages. The CEFR was used to set the research aim of this paper -- testing grammar at level B2. The main aim of the research was to determine grammatical competence at level B2 and additional aims included: (a) determining which particular areas of grammar need to be learned by students at level B2, (b) formulating grammatical descriptors for each individual area of grammar, (c) determining the test's threshold level which would fulfil the criteria for grammatical competence at level B2, and (d) determining the extent to which students have mastered the given areas. The pre-testing was followed by the main testing on the sample of 164 students in two secondary schools. The results indicated that the quantity and quality of grammatical competence was lower than expected: 47% of the population failed to fulfil the basic level of grammatical competence. The causes may be attributed to the factors of a subjective and objective nature. Level B2 is demanding qualitatively as well as quantitatively, regarding both the formal and the functional complexity and scope of language use, which requires intensive language production, high levels of motivation and sound working habits in order to master the given grammatical structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The pedagogical literature suggests that teachers often motivate students to get involved in class activities and to adhere to work instructions by using power-based procedures and hence jeopardise the sense of autonomy in students. The paper points to the necessity of re-examining the contextual and interpersonal factors that determine teachers' behaviour in the classroom. We provide an overview of the results of relevant research studies in the field in order to gain an insight into and establish the correlates of teachers' controlling style towards students from the perspective of the self-determination theory. Previous studies have shown that teachers who are exposed to pressure at work tend to transfer this pressure to their students by applying controlling procedures. The link between the feeling of pressure and teachers' controlling style arises indirectly via teachers' work motivation and the sense of fulfilment of their basic needs in school. Teachers will most likely be intrinsically motivated for school work if they think that a wider social context and other persons in their work environment support the fulfilment of their need for autonomy. The concluding part emphasises the necessity of planning education policies and future studies in this area, along with presenting the possibilities and strategies for creating the conditions to support work motivation of autonomous teachers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The mixed methods research, as a new type of research, is discussed in the context of re-examining the relation between the two approaches, i.e. the possibility of not opposing, but connecting, combining and integrating them within research. The possibility to use such grounding in research as well could be quite important for pedagogy since the nature of the examined phenomena in this field is such that the majority has both quantitative and qualitative aspects. In order to explain the essence of a mixed methods research, the paper analyses its characteristics, first of all, what elements are combined, what is the nature of the relation between the combined elements and why they are combined, as well as its advantages and difficulties in application. The essential thing in a mixed methods research is the fact that combining refers to the research process as a whole, including the ontological and epistemological assumptions it is based on, which implies that the elements that are combined are understood rather broadly. The advantages and difficulties in application are considered in the context of the discussion of the possibility to combine all research elements, neutralise the limitations of quantitative and qualitative research methodology, implement the complex combining procedures etc. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emil Medtner is important to Russian culture not only as a theorist of Symbolism, but also as a patient and friend of Carl Gustav Jung and one of the first Russian supporters of psychoanalysis. Here Medtner as a person is of particular interest. Complex and morbid, even in its most extreme expressions his personality reflects the spirit of the Silver Age. The first part of the present paper traces patterns in Medtner's private life as manifested in a series of love triangles. The second part briefly analyzes a dream about two sisters which Medtner discussed with both Freud and Jung and which demonstrates the specific features of his split psyche. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The equality (equal treatment of men and women) vs. difference (special treatment of women as potential mothers) debate has accompanied women's struggle for inclusion. It resurrected itself in the social laboratory of transition to capitalism in the post-socialist region, where the social contract changed drastically. Special treatment and welfare provisions, as well as gender and class relations, are being reconsidered and negotiated. By treating transition to capitalism as a real-life casestudy, this paper bespeaks a broader orientation to provide a model for understanding the "equality vs. difference" conundrum, and to demonstrate how equality and difference are bound with the capitalist or socialist contract. Debates of gender can displace those of class and serve to express class concerns to argue for or against capitalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at the analysis of some key ideas of Etienne Balibar. They enable considering emancipation as a realization of the idea of "equaliberty". The author connects Karl Marx's ideas with the theoretical frame of the Enlightenment and explicates them in the contemporary context, namely claiming the priority of social values in solving different problems related to the EU building process. The Greek economic crisis that put into question ideological foundations and political prospects of the united Europe may serve a practical domain of the approach mentioned. The aporia of liberty and equity seems to be unsolvable within the framework of the "classical" liberalism, which tends to solve urgent problems solely and exclusively by means of the "economic growth" and the "economic recovery". The ethical universals of Balibar represent a productive alternative way to solve a paradoxical contradiction of the liberty and the equity (and therefore the contradiction of liberal and social values). The suggested solution might be regarded as a supplementary mechanism of the European integration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The identification of the causes and major traits as well as trajectories of unsuccessful developmental states becomes highly relevant in contemporary ideologically laden debates among social scientists who have been grappling with the dichotomy "developmentalism vs neo-liberalism" for several decades. It allows getting an adequate understanding of the gist of contemporary sociological and political- economic discourse on development models, transformations of modernity and its features on the post-Soviet space. Thus, looking at the experience of unsuccessful developmental states is no less important than analyzing success stories. Academic literature discussed in the paper allows us to emphasize the first factor of the successful developmental state - a capable and autonomous bureaucracy which is at the same time embedded into the society. The Soviet bureaucracy was isolated from the society; Indian, Brazilian and Irish bureaucracies have been relatively weak and thus not very effective and adequate while tackling the challenges that these states have faced. However, historical examples of successful diffusion of technological innovation and institutional models suggest the possibility of building of the developmental state in non-Asian civilizational and non-authoritarian political contexts. Achieving this goal is possible only if the ruling establishment experiences a "shock therapy" threatening its privileged position in a society, cultivation of competent and capable bureaucracy, as well as the formation of the rational voters, capable of long-term calculation of their interests. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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