Alexander Nikulin
Biographic Data
| ID | 96356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Nikulin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikulin |
| SIGNATURE | NIKULIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7623-7985 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Parental Yards of Andrey Platonov’s Juvenile Sea: Cosmogony of the Economy of Socialism
The article is an attempt to analyze socio-economic ideas of emergence and development of the economy of socialism, found in the Andrey Platonov’s Juvenile Sea, where the history of creation and development of a large agricultural enterprise in the arid plains of the South-East of the USSR is represented in artistic form. It is shown that by placing in the center of his narrative the orthodox model of progressive evolution of Soviet enterprises f…
Theory of “small deeds” as a populist practice of the middle class
The article is a review of the book by V.V. Zverev Essays on the Intellectual Heritage of Ya.V. Abramov (Moscow: RUDN University Press, 2024. 157 p.). Although, as the author argues, an extensive and fundamental book on the life and work of Yakov Vasilyevich Abramov (1858-1906), a remarkable Russian publicist and ideologist of the moderate populist movement, has not yet been written, the monograph under review is a valuable, historically and soci…
Some (relatively) new conceptual ‘frames’ supplementing the study of human capital in rural sociology
The article continues the authors’ thoughts about the necessary conceptual frameworks that would help rural sociology provide more reliable insights and data in the study of such a relatively new (in the conceptual-analytical perspective) social phenomenon as rural human capital. In the previous article, we presented a brief overview of such half-forgotten but still relevant theoretical foundations of rural sociology as agricultural economics, th…
The Historical Sociology of Rural-Urban Development by James Scott: Against Simplifications
This article is a critical analysis of the historical and sociological works of the American political anthropologist J. S. Scott (1936–2024). His works were largely related to the study of the contradictions of social development between the city and the village. This topic is presented especially deeply and comprehensively in Scott's monographs of his late intellectual period: ‘From the Point of View of the State’ (1998), ‘The Art of Being Ungo…
Our Strategy Was Based on the Principle of Doing What Was Profitable
Pavel Zyryanov: Community, State, Personality in the Russian History
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Oligarchy and leader are twin brothers
The article is a review of the famous book by Robert Michels (1876-1936) published in 1911 but only recently translated into Russian, Political Parties. A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy (Moscow: Publishing House “Delo”, 2022. 448 p.). This is its first translation from German into Russian by I. Ivakina under the scientific editorship of D. Karasev. Based on the analysis of the main ideas of the book related …
Two and a half undeservedly forgotten conceptual foundations of rural sociology
Although Russian society is strongly connected with the countryside and has deep ‘rural roots’, agrarian issues have always been somewhat marginal in the national scientific tradition, mainly in its social-scientific branch. Today the situation seems to change due to at least two globally urgent issues - sustainable food-security patterns (agricultural production) and rural social/human capital - which increase both theoretical and practical inte…
Utopias of Alexander Bogdanov and Alexander Chayanov: The Choice of Rural-Urban Development and Its Consequences for Rural Human Capital and Social Differentiation
A science-based conversation about the current state of rural areas, prospects for rural human capital and trends in rural differentiation is impossible without the conceptual approaches and futuristic projects of great Russian agrarian scientists.The article presents an attempt of comparing such ideas of two outstanding social thinkers of the early 20th century -Alexander Bogdanov and Alexander Chayanov, focusing on their utopias as representing…
Introduction. Special Issue - Differentiation in Contemporary Rural Societies
Man in Search of Eco-Community
Peripherization of the old-developed Russian regions
The article is a review of the book Old-Developed Regions in the Sociogeographic Space of Russia: History and Contemporaneity prepared by a team of authors under the scientific editorship of T.G. Nefedova and A.V. Starikov (Moscow: Association of Scientific Publications KMK, 2021. 379 p.). The book is the result of the long-term research project “Development of the old-developed areas under the social-economic polarization and shrinkage of the de…
James Scott and Alexander Chayanov: From the peasantry through revolutions, to the states, and anarchies
The author conducts a systematic comparative analysis of the scientific worldviews and key research ideas of the American political anthropologist James Scott and the Russian agrarian economist Alexander Chayanov, to show their similar interests in the study of peasant revolutions, state systems, and anarchist ideas. Based on the identified similarities and differences in the milestones of their intellectual biographies, the author compares Scott…
Humanitarian Populism
Review of: Ely C. (2022) Russian Populism: A History, Bloomsbury Publishing. 254 p. Citation: Nikulin A., Trotsuk I. (2022)
Encyclopedias as tools of modernization: Stalinist versions of agrarian knowledge
The article considers directions of the agrarian modernization as presented in the four editions of the Soviet agricultural encyclopedia from the mid-1920s to the mid-1950s. On the basis of some historical examples and theoretical concepts, the author explains the scientific, ideological and political significance of encyclopedias in the formation of social knowledge and ideology; shows how during the Stalinist period, the Soviet agricultural enc…
“All Generations of My Family… Have Been Involved in Global Agrarian Transformations”
The Narodniks and Power: Terror and Will
Book Review: Mikhail Gefter, Antologija narodnichestva [Anthology of Narodnichestvo] (Saint Petersburg: Nestor-Istoria, 2020) (in Russian)
The fragility of Russia’s agricultural production and implications for food security
Russia has experienced a remarkable agricultural recovery during the past 20 years. Yet, food production is heavily concentrated in the top five and top ten regions. Russia’s agricultural recovery is narrow because leading regions account for a disproportional percentage of output. That narrowness fosters fragility, which suggests that a downturn in production among main producers may cause a spike in food insecurity. Second tier regions are not …
Rural Development Through Culture
Agricultural cooperation in the Northern Non-Black-Earth Region: Formal and informal practices
Based on the review of the research on the relationship between cooperation and self-organization in the rural development of Russia and other countries, and also taking into account the recent trends in the international cooperative movement, the authors present the results of the sociological research conducted in 2005-2008, and then in 2018-2019 in nine rural areas of five subjects of the Russian Federation: Leningrad, Vologda, Novgorod, Arkha…
Teodor Shanin in Textbooks, Monographs and Essays: Reviewing the Scholar’s Major Works
This review describes and analyzes the main scientific works of the remarkable BritishRussian sociologist Teodor Shanin (1930–2020). The suggestion is to divide Shanin’s rich intellectual heritage into three main genres: anthologies, monographs, and essays. The review begins with the genre of anthologies, understood in the broadest sense of the word: from a collection of modern scientific articles to collections of excerpts from classical works. …
Teodor Shanin (29.10.1930 — 04.02.2020)
Ушел из жизни Теодор Шанин -выдающийся социолог, профессор Манчестерского университета, основатель и президент Московской высшей школы социальных и экономических наук.Шанин родился в буржуазной семье города Вильно.В 1941 году из-за советских репрессий мальчиком он вместе с семьей оказался сначала в ссылке в Сибири, потом в Средней Азии.Юность Теодора Шанина проходила сперва в сионистском движении Польши, затем добровольцем сражался в войне за соз…
“The Question of Ethics should be at the Core of Everything . . .”: Interview with Teodor Shanin
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Teodor Shanin: “Let’s stand on the Side of the Light against the Forces of Darkness”
The conversation between Boris Doktorov and Alexander Nikulin is devoted to the discussion of the intelligent and existential heritage of the British and Russian sociologist Teodor Shanin (10.29.1930 – 02.04.2020), who passed away this year on the eve of his 90th birthday. Particular attention in the conversation is paid to the ethical basis of Shanin’s intellectual and social activities. On examples from the biography of Teodor Shanin, from chil…
Teodor Shanin’s scientific legacy: Genres and models for understanding social worlds
The authors systematize the scientific legacy of Teodor Shanin in a brief review of three groups of the key, scientific works of this outstanding Israeli-British sociologist (10.29.1930–02.04.2020). This summary emphasizes Shanin's amazing ability to create original explanatory models for social sciences. His diverse and multifaceted intellectual legacy can be divided into three main genres: monographs, anthologies/textbooks, and essays. Shanin w…
Quiet Food Sovereignty’ as Food Sovereignty without a Movement? Insights from Post-socialist Russia
What does food sovereignty look like in settings where rural social movements are weak or non-existent, such as in countries with post-socialist, semi-authoritarian regimes? Focusing on Russia, we present a divergent form of food sovereignty. Building on the concept of ‘quiet sustainability’, we present a dispersed, muted, but clearly bottom-up variant we term ‘quiet food sovereignty’. In the latter, the role of the very productive smallholdings …
Corporate social responsibility, coexistence and contestation: Large farms’ changing responsibilities vis-à-vis rural households in Russia
This article investigates the regionally varied changes in social support and responsibilities of large-scale farms vis-à-vis household plot holders and their rural communities in post-Soviet Russia. Ongoing marketisation puts pressure on the Soviet-inherited symbiosis between large farms and household plots. We observe that large farms’ shift to Anglophone-style, explicit Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) hides declining support for villager…
Gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy
This article analyzes gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy. Continuation of unequal gendered roles in Russia’s rural informal economy suggests that tradition and custom remain strong. Gender differentials in time spent tending the household garden remain significant, as is the distribution of household tasks into gendered roles in ways that effect professional advancement for women. Land ownership is the domain of men, and women a…
The Russian Variant of Food Security
Russia’s political leaders have a different understanding of food security than traditional usage. The traditional usage of the term food security refers to access, availability, and nutritional aspects of food. According to the conventional application of food security, the vast majority of the Russian population is not food insecure by traditional measures. The Russian variant of food security connects food trade to national security. The Russi…
The importance of strong regional leadership in Russia: The Belgorod Miracle in agriculture
Belgorod oblast is a highly successful region in Russia. The economic successes in Belgorod stem from the dynamic leadership is provided by Yevgeny Savchenko for the past 24 years. Savchenko supports agroholdings and industrial agriculture, while also adopting policies that foster the growth of small-forms of farming and organic farming. Savchenko’s agrarian policies have led to the so-called Belgorod Miracle. The Belgorod experience shows that d…
James Scott and Alexander Chayanov: From the peasantry through revolutions, to the states, and anarchies
The author conducts a systematic comparative analysis of the scientific worldviews and key research ideas of the American political anthropologist James Scott and the Russian agrarian economist Alexander Chayanov, to show their similar interests in the study of peasant revolutions, state systems, and anarchist ideas. Based on the identified similarities and differences in the milestones of their intellectual biographies, the author compares Scott…
Pitirim Sorokin’s contribution to rural sociology: Russian, European and American milestones of a scientific career
The whole of Pitirim Sorokin’s fascinating and difficult scientific life led to his fundamental works on urban–rural relationships being expressed in the terms ‘rural–urban continuum’ and ‘rurbanism’. However, only a few special studies have been devoted to different aspects of his biography and scientific interests. The legacy of Sorokin as a rural sociologist has not yet become a subject of special studies in Russian social science. This contri…
Utopian visions of contemporary rural-urban Russia
Rural Russia is undergoing changes in its agrarian economy and in its social and economic structure more generally in ways that differ greatly across the country’s numerous regions. This is due to both internal transformations of the last decades of post-Soviet transition and external causes related to processes of globalisation. The most visible of these changes is the growing concentration of large-scale agribusiness landholdings. This concentr…
"Third International Colloquium "Global governance/politics, climate justice & agrarian/social justice: Linkages and Challenges
Russia’s tilt to Asia and implications for agriculture in the Far East
As part of Russia’s strategic tilt to Asia, Russian policymakers hope to increase food exports to the Asia-Pacific region. This article analyzes prospects for increasing Russia’s penetration of Asian food markets by surveying initiatives to increase local food production in the Far East and efforts to attract investment into agriculture. Obstacles to increased market penetration are examined, including contradictory policy goals.Keywords: Russian…
Oligarchoz as a Successor of Postkolkhoz
Oligarchoz as a Successor of Postkolkhoz
Naive Wisdom of Tatyana Zaslavskaya
This is an extensive memorial obituary for prominent Russian sociologist Tatyana Ivanovna Zaslavskaya (1927-2013). The brief chronicle of her academic career and the list of Zaslavasky's major scientific works are supplemented with some existential reconstructions of the major events in her life, of which Zaslavskaya also paid great attention to in her autobiographical memories. A brief chronicle of her scientific career includes her studies at t…
Soviet ideological and political conflicts and scientific heritage of T.I. Zaslavskaya
The article analysis the history of the Soviet social and political conflicts through several economic and sociological research of Academician T.I. Zaslavskaya. This problems are associated with the comparison the level of development the rural economy the USSR and the USA in the early 1960s: analysis the causes the slowdown economic growth in the period of stagnation in the early 1980s and the problems of rural and urban settlement and migratio…
Gender inequality in Russia's rural formal economy
Gender inequality in Russia's rural formal economy is examined using quantitative and qualitative data. Rural women continue to be underrepresented in farm managerial positions, and gendered income differences remain the norm. Rural women are underrepresented because they continue to have responsibility for most of the housework and child care. The traditional division of labor inside the household continues to dominate, thereby affecting women's…
Public Opinion Surveys from Democratic Retrospective and Perspective
Review: Lekcii po istorii izuchenija obshhestvennogo mnenija: USA i Russia [Lectures on the History of Public Opinion Studies: USA and Russia] by Boris Doktorov (Ekaterinburg: URFU, 2013) (in Russian)
Russia’s tilt to Asia and implications for agriculture in the Far East
As part of Russia’s strategic tilt to Asia, Russian policymakers hope to increase food exports to the Asia-Pacific region. This article analyzes prospects for increasing Russia’s penetration of Asian food markets by surveying initiatives to increase local food production in the Far East and efforts to attract investment into agriculture. Obstacles to increased market penetration are examined, including contradictory policy goals.Keywords: Russian…
Quiet Food Sovereignty’ as Food Sovereignty without a Movement? Insights from Post-socialist Russia
What does food sovereignty look like in settings where rural social movements are weak or non-existent, such as in countries with post-socialist, semi-authoritarian regimes? Focusing on Russia, we present a divergent form of food sovereignty. Building on the concept of ‘quiet sustainability’, we present a dispersed, muted, but clearly bottom-up variant we term ‘quiet food sovereignty’. In the latter, the role of the very productive smallholdings …
The Russian Variant of Food Security
Russia’s political leaders have a different understanding of food security than traditional usage. The traditional usage of the term food security refers to access, availability, and nutritional aspects of food. According to the conventional application of food security, the vast majority of the Russian population is not food insecure by traditional measures. The Russian variant of food security connects food trade to national security. The Russi…
Utopian visions of contemporary rural-urban Russia
Rural Russia is undergoing changes in its agrarian economy and in its social and economic structure more generally in ways that differ greatly across the country’s numerous regions. This is due to both internal transformations of the last decades of post-Soviet transition and external causes related to processes of globalisation. The most visible of these changes is the growing concentration of large-scale agribusiness landholdings. This concentr…
"Third International Colloquium "Global governance/politics, climate justice & agrarian/social justice: Linkages and Challenges
The importance of strong regional leadership in Russia: The Belgorod Miracle in agriculture
Belgorod oblast is a highly successful region in Russia. The economic successes in Belgorod stem from the dynamic leadership is provided by Yevgeny Savchenko for the past 24 years. Savchenko supports agroholdings and industrial agriculture, while also adopting policies that foster the growth of small-forms of farming and organic farming. Savchenko’s agrarian policies have led to the so-called Belgorod Miracle. The Belgorod experience shows that d…
Gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy
This article analyzes gender inequality in Russia’s rural informal economy. Continuation of unequal gendered roles in Russia’s rural informal economy suggests that tradition and custom remain strong. Gender differentials in time spent tending the household garden remain significant, as is the distribution of household tasks into gendered roles in ways that effect professional advancement for women. Land ownership is the domain of men, and women a…
Chayanovian utopian visions: Looking for the balance under the crises of optima intensification
Russia, Poland, and China: Models of Post-Socialist Rural Development. Round Table
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Agro-Brics, Agrarian World, and Rural-Urban Russia
13-16 октября 2017 года в Москве в Академии народного хозяйства и государственной службы при Президенте Российской Федерации состоялся крупнейший международный аграрный форум -«Инициативы БРИКС в аграрных исследованиях: Новый экстрактивизм, крестьянство и социальная динамика, перспективы и дискуссии», в котором приняли участие более 150 аграрников из 30 стран мира.Это была уже пятая по счету конференция такого рода, самая масштабная и представите…
I Am Grateful to Fate for Pushing Me on the Path of Agrarian Studies
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Russia
By 1991, the situation in the Soviet Union was characterized by the undermined confidence in the authorities, which rapidly aggravated, as their inability to cope with the economic, social and national problems became increasingly apparent. Privatization process began in 1992, after the liberalization of prices, i.e. in the conditions of inflation and price leaps, with the so-called small privatization, that is, the privatization of trade and ser…
Informal economy of rural households: Restructuring of family networks and strategies
This chapter is based on the materials of the budget analysis of 34 village families in two settlements – stanitsa Privolnaya (Krasnodar region) and Povolgie village Danilovka (the Saratov region). Despite some regional and social differences, both the Kuban and the Saratov cases have demonstrated an equally significant role of non-formal economy in the rural communities of modern Russia. Both cases have also demonstrated a surprising flexibility…
Dreams of the Russian Revolution in the Utopias of Alexander Chayanov and Andrei Platonov
The Russian Revolution is the central theme of both A. Chayanov’s novel The Journey of My Brother Alexei to the Land of Peasant Utopia and A. Platonov’s novel Chevengur. The author of this article compares the chronicles and images of the Revolution in the biographies of Chayanov and Platonov as well as the main characters, genres, plots, and structures of the two utopian novels, and questions the very understanding of the history of the Russian …
Pitirim Sorokin’s contribution to rural sociology: Russian, European and American milestones of a scientific career
The whole of Pitirim Sorokin’s fascinating and difficult scientific life led to his fundamental works on urban–rural relationships being expressed in the terms ‘rural–urban continuum’ and ‘rurbanism’. However, only a few special studies have been devoted to different aspects of his biography and scientific interests. The legacy of Sorokin as a rural sociologist has not yet become a subject of special studies in Russian social science. This contri…
"Round Table "Organization-Production School in the Russian Agrarian-Economic Thought: History and the Present Time
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"Round Table "The 100th Anniversary of the Academician Alexander Alexandrovich Nikonov (1918-1995)
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Ideology and Philosophy of the Successful Regional Development in Contemporary Russia: The Belgorod Case
The article considers economic successes of the Belgorod region as significantly determined by the governor Yevgeny Savchenko' agrarian policies, which compensate for the region's small size and modest human capital. In 2017, the authors published an article describing economic policies and social programs of regional authorities; now the authors focus on the leadership by Yevgeny Savchenko, and his rather paradoxical personal and management view…
Chayanov’s sociology of art. [Rew.] Chayanov A.V. Selected Art Heritage. Moscow: Izdatelskiy dom TONCHU publ., 2018
A.V. Chayanov was primarily an agrarian economist, but he also possessed encyclopedic interests and knowledge and wrote a series of articles on the history of art, which reflect his peculiar sociology of art. This article is a review of the collection of works which include articles written by this outstanding social thinker. The author considers that Chayanov’s articles on the history of collecting artwork in Moscow and on the history of West-Eu…
“My Constant Desire Is to Establish Relations Between the Cultures of France and Russia …”
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