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

... 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 ...